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
- 1213 –Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
- 1609 –Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
- 1874 –The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
- 1890 –Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
- 1906 –The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
- 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.
- 1933 –Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
- 1940 –Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.
- 1961 –The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
- 1970 –Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
- 1974 –Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
- 1977 –South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.
- 1983 –The USSR vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
- 1984 –Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 246, previously set by Herb Score in 1954. Gooden’s 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
- 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 –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.
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