September 12

Monday 12, 2005:

Blackouts across Los Angeles, California lasting throughout the afternoon and into the evening.

Friday 12, 2003:

The United Nations lifted 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.

Tuesday 12, 1944:

The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities.

Sunday 12, 1943:

Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest by German commando Otto Skorzeny

Saturday 12, 1846:

Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.