About September 12
September 12, 2025 is the 255th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 110 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 158 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 12
- 1609 –Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
- 1683 –Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna – several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
- 1848 –Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
- 1874 –The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
- 1897 –Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi.
- 1919 –Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party.
- 1930 –Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower’s XI against the Australians.
- 1940 –An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.
- 1943 –World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
- 1952 –Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
- 1964 –Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
- 1966 –Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA’s Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)
- 1974 –Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, ‘Messiah’of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
- 1992 –Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path’s leadership fell as well.
- 1992 –NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
- 1994 –Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House’s south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
- 2003 –In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
- 2003 –The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
- 2005 –Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny’s Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
- 2007 –Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
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