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.

Wednesday 12, 2001:

NATO Article V of the NATO agreement is invoked for the first time in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States of America.

Monday 12, 1994:

Frank Eugene Corder crashes a Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.

Saturday 12, 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.

Wednesday 12, 1990:

The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification.

Monday 12, 1983:

A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, was robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros .

Friday 12, 1980:

Military coup in Turkey

Wednesday 12, 1979:

Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.

Monday 12, 1977:

South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.

Thursday 12, 1974:

Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.

Wednesday 12, 1962:

President John F. Kennedy declares the USA will get a man on the moon, and bring him back, by the end of the decade.

Saturday 12, 1959:

Bonanza premiers. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.

Thursday 12, 1957:

NORAD begins operations.

Saturday 12, 1953:

John F. Kennedy marries Jackie Bouvier.

Friday 12, 1947:

The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath

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, 1942:

RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks.

Thursday 12, 1940:

The Hercules Munitions Plant in Kenvil, New Jersey explodes, killing 55 people.

Monday 12, 1938:

Adolf Hitler demands autonomy for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

Tuesday 12, 1933:

Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.

Friday 12, 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.

Friday 12, 1890:

Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.

Sunday 12, 1847:

Mexican-American War: The Battle of Chapultepec begins. U.S. Army deserters in the Saint Patrick's Battalion who fought alongside the Mexican army are hanged en masse for treason by the order of General Winfield Scott.

Saturday 12, 1846:

Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.

Monday 12, 1814:

Battle of North Point: An American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.

Sunday 12, 1683:

Several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.

Saturday 12, 1609:

Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River.

Thursday 12, 1213:

Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester defeats Peter II of Aragon, the king of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.

Saturday 12, -490:

but see 12 August; origin of the marathon long-distance race (attributed to Pheidippides)

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