About September 12
September 12, 2024 is the 256th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 110 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 139 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 12
- 372 –Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Xiaowudi, age 10, succeeds his father Jin Jianwendi as Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
- 1848 –Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
- 1885 –Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional football.
- 1890 –Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
- 1897 –Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi.
- 1906 –The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
- 1938 –Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- 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.
- 1959 –Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
- 1959 –The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
- 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)
- 1979 –Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
- 1988 –Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
- 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.
- 1999 –Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
- 2003 –In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
- 2008 –The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
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