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Events on the 12th of September in history

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12 Sep 0372 Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Xiaowudi, age 10, succeeds his father Jin Jianwendi as Emperor of the Eastern Jin dynasty.
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12 Sep 0490 Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies, defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.
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12 Sep 0490 -BC- Athenians defeat 2nd Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon
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12 Sep 1015 Henry I becomes Earl of Leuven
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12 Sep 1185 Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos brutally put to death in Constantinople.
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12 Sep 1213 Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
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12 Sep 1217 French Prince Louis and English King Henry III sign peace treaty
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12 Sep 1229 The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
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12 Sep 1309 The First Siege of Gibraltar takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada resulting in a Castilian victory.
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12 Sep 1396 Crusaders under Earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis
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12 Sep 1543 Treaty of Venlo: Duke Willem of Gulik and Emperor Charles V
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12 Sep 1556 Emperor Charles resigns, his brother Ferdinand van Austria takes over
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12 Sep 1609 Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
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12 Sep 1609 Henry Hudson discovers Hudson River
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12 Sep 1624 1st submarine tested (London)
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12 Sep 1635 Sweden and Poland sign ceasefire Treaty of Stuhmsdorf
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12 Sep 1639 Viceroy Thomas Wentworth sails back to England
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12 Sep 1649 Drogheda, Ireland falls to Puritan troops; inhabitants massacred
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12 Sep 1673 Prince Willem III occupies Naarden
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12 Sep 1683 Turkish troops attacks Vienna overthrows by Polish King Sobieski
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12 Sep 1683 Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna – several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
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12 Sep 1695 New York Jews petition Governor Dongan for religious liberties
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12 Sep 1703 Emperor Leopold I ends contacts on Spanish heritage
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12 Sep 1703 English army under Archduke Charles of Austria lands in Portugal
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12 Sep 1722 Russian troops occupy Baku and Derbent on Persia
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12 Sep 1733 Polish Landowners select Stanislaw Lesczynski King
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12 Sep 1745 Duke of Toscane chosen German Emperor Frans I Stefanus
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12 Sep 1751 Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto
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12 Sep 1758 Charles Messier observes the Crab Nebula & begins catalog
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12 Sep 1776 Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission
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12 Sep 1787 Black Masons form 1st lodge
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12 Sep 1814 Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
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12 Sep 1814 Battle of North Point fought near Baltimore during War of 1812
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12 Sep 1840 Composer Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck
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12 Sep 1846 Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
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12 Sep 1847 Mexican–American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
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12 Sep 1848 Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
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12 Sep 1857 423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain, South Carolina
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12 Sep 1857 The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush.
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12 Sep 1857 423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC
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12 Sep 1862 Battle of Harpers Ferry, Virginia
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12 Sep 1867 2nd synagogue in Curacao, Emanu-El of Willemstad, inaugurated
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12 Sep 1876 King Leopold II opens Congo-conference
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12 Sep 1878 Cleopatra Needle installed in London
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12 Sep 1882 Belgian King Leopold II receives Pierre de Brazza
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12 Sep 1885 Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional Association football.
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12 Sep 1885 Highest score (35) recorded in any 1st-class soccer match is set
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12 Sep 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Greek Interpreter" (BG)
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12 Sep 1888 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Greek Interpreter" (BG)
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12 Sep 1890 Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
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12 Sep 1895 Defender (US) beats Valkyrie III (Engld) in 10th America's Cup
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12 Sep 1897 Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi.
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12 Sep 1901 Arabs attack Gedara Palestine
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12 Sep 1906 The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
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12 Sep 1907 Lusitania arrives in NYC after 5 day crossing of Atlantic (record)
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12 Sep 1908 Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier
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12 Sep 1910 Gustav Mahlers 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians
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12 Sep 1910 Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter)
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12 Sep 1912 Dutch Olympian Committee forms (NOC)
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12 Sep 1914 Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager
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12 Sep 1918 During WW I, US forces launch an attack on German-occupied St Mihiel
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12 Sep 1919 Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers' Party (later the Nazi Party).
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12 Sep 1920 7th Olympic games close in Antwerp Belgium
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12 Sep 1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4)
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12 Sep 1923 Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Company
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12 Sep 1923 Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
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12 Sep 1925 20th Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (5-0)
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12 Sep 1928 Katharine Hepburn's NY stage debut in "Night Hostess"
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12 Sep 1930 In cricket 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.
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12 Sep 1931 51st US Mens Tennis: H E Vines beats George M Lott Jr (79 63 97 75)
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12 Sep 1932 Brooklyn Dodger Johnny Frederick hits his record 6th pinch hit HR
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12 Sep 1932 German government of Papen falls / Reichstag dissolved
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12 Sep 1933 Alejandro Lerroux forms new Spanish government
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12 Sep 1933 Dutch parliament accepts ban on uniforms
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12 Sep 1933 Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
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12 Sep 1934 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against USSR
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12 Sep 1934 Baltic Pact signed by Lithuania, Estonia & Latvia
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12 Sep 1935 55th US Mens Tennis: Wilmer L Allison beats Sidney B Wood (62 62 63)
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12 Sep 1935 Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph
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12 Sep 1936 50th US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (46 63 62)
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12 Sep 1936 56th US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J Donald Budge (26 62 86 16 108)
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12 Sep 1938 Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
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12 Sep 1938 Adolph Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech
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12 Sep 1940 4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings
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12 Sep 1940 Italian troops enter Egypt
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12 Sep 1940 Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
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12 Sep 1940 An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.
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12 Sep 1940 49 die & 200 injured when Hercules Powder Co plant explodes (NJ)
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12 Sep 1941 1st German ship in WW2 captured by US ship (Busko)
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12 Sep 1942 Free-Poland and Belgium asks Pope to condemn Nazi-war crimes
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12 Sep 1942 World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
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12 Sep 1942 World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field on Guadalcanal are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army forces.
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12 Sep 1943 Free French lands on Corsica
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12 Sep 1943 German paratroopers, on orders of Adolf Hitler, seize former Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government
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12 Sep 1943 Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Mussolini at Gran Sasso
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12 Sep 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.
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12 Sep 1944 Noorbeek and Mheer freed
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12 Sep 1944 US Army troops entered Germany for 1st time
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12 Sep 1944 World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.
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12 Sep 1946 Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels
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12 Sep 1947 Pirate Ralph Kiner hits his record 8th HR in 4 games
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12 Sep 1948 Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah's death.
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12 Sep 1949 Theodor Heuss elected 1st President / Conrad Adenauer 1st Prime Minister of German FR
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12 Sep 1950 Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants
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12 Sep 1952 Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
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12 Sep 1953 "Carnival in Flanders" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 6 performances
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12 Sep 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers, clinch NL pennant earlier than any other team
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12 Sep 1953 Nikita Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of the USSR Communist Party
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12 Sep 1953 Sen John F Kennedy, 36, marries Jacqueline Bouvier, 24
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12 Sep 1953 U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
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12 Sep 1953 Jacqueline Bouvier marries John F Kennedy
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12 Sep 1954 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open
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12 Sep 1954 White Sox win 90th game, 1st time they win this many since 1920
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12 Sep 1954 WLBZ TV channel 2 in Bangor, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting
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12 Sep 1954 Indians sweep Yanks at Municipal Stadium; largest AL crowd (86,563)
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12 Sep 1955 KNTV TV channel 11 in San Jose, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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12 Sep 1956 Black students enter & are barred from Clay Ky elementary school
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12 Sep 1957 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus visits US
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12 Sep 1958 US Supreme Court orders Little Rock Ark high school to integrate
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12 Sep 1958 Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
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12 Sep 1959 Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
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12 Sep 1959 The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
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12 Sep 1959 "Bonanza" premiers
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12 Sep 1959 Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on the Moon
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12 Sep 1961 The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
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12 Sep 1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m
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12 Sep 1962 Washington Senator Tom Cheney strikes out record 21 Orioles in 16 inn game
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12 Sep 1963 WHYY TV channel 12 in Wilmington, DE (PBS) begins broadcasting
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12 Sep 1964 Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
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12 Sep 1964 1st football game at Shea Stadium, Jets defeat Denver 30-6
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12 Sep 1964 Ralph Boston of the US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4
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12 Sep 1964 Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage
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12 Sep 1965 79th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats Billie Jean King (86 75)
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12 Sep 1965 85th US Mens Tennis: Manuel Santana beats Cliff Drysdale (62 79 75 61)
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12 Sep 1965 Manuel Santana wins US Tennis Open
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12 Sep 1965 Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open
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12 Sep 1965 WCEE TV channel 23 in Rockford, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
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12 Sep 1965 17th annual Emmy Awards
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12 Sep 1965 Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida & Louisiana kills 75
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12 Sep 1966 "Monkees" premieres on NBC-TV
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12 Sep 1966 Gemini XI (Charles Conrad & R Gordon) launched for 71-hour flight
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12 Sep 1966 KPNE TV channel 9 in North Platte, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
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12 Sep 1966 Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Michigan begins teaching
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12 Sep 1966 WCES TV channel 20 in Wrens, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
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12 Sep 1966 WUSF TV channel 16 in Tampa-St Petersburg, Florida (PBS) 1st broadcast
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12 Sep 1966 Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)
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12 Sep 1966 "The Monkees," premier on NBC
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12 Sep 1966 Gemini XI launched for 71-hour flight
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12 Sep 1968 Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact
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12 Sep 1970 1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport
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12 Sep 1970 Luna 16 Launch (Moon Sample Return)
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12 Sep 1970 Phyllis Ann George (Texas), 21, crowned 43rd Miss America 1971
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12 Sep 1970 Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for 1st time at Heathrow airport
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12 Sep 1970 US LSD Professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail
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12 Sep 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings: Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
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12 Sep 1970 USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility
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12 Sep 1971 85th US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Rosemary Casals (64 76)
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12 Sep 1971 91st US Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Jan Kodes (36 63 62 76)
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12 Sep 1972 Ciod War: Icelandic gunboats sink 2 British trawlers in North Sea
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12 Sep 1972 Lord Michael Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as head of Olympics
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12 Sep 1973 2 bettors win the largest US Daily Double ($19,909.60 in Detroit)
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12 Sep 1974 Jeff "Skunk" Baxter joins Doobie Brothers
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12 Sep 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.
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12 Sep 1974 Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
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12 Sep 1974 Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day)
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12 Sep 1976 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
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12 Sep 1976 White Sox Minnie Minoso, 53, is oldest to get a hit in majors
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12 Sep 1976 Seattle Seahawks play 1st regular-season game (St L 30, Sea 24)
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12 Sep 1976 White Sox Minnie Minoso at age 53 hits a single
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12 Sep 1977 South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.
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12 Sep 1978 Fidel Castro visits Addis Abba
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12 Sep 1978 Situation comedy "Taxi" premieres on ABC television
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12 Sep 1979 Carl Yastrzemski, is 15th to get 3,000 hits
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12 Sep 1979 Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die and $23 million damage
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12 Sep 1979 Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
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12 Sep 1979 Indiana Pacers cut Ann Meyers, 1st woman on an NBA club
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12 Sep 1979 Pietro Mennea of Italy sets the 200m record (19.72) in Mexico City
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12 Sep 1979 Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski gets his 3,000th hit off Yankee Jim Beattie
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12 Sep 1980 Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey
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12 Sep 1980 Military coup in Turkey.
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12 Sep 1981 95th US Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats M Navratilova (16 76 76)
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12 Sep 1981 Elizabeth Ward (Arkansas), 20, crowned 54th Miss America 1982
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12 Sep 1981 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
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12 Sep 1981 Red Sox rookie Bob Ojeda no-hits Yanks for 8 innings before Rick Cerone and Dave Winfield lead off 9th with back-to-back doubles
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12 Sep 1982 102nd US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 62 46 64)
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12 Sep 1982 Gerard Nijboer (2:15:16) and Rosa Mota (2:36:04) win marathon
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12 Sep 1982 Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
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12 Sep 1983 A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
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12 Sep 1983 The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
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12 Sep 1983 Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes
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12 Sep 1983 Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million
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12 Sep 1983 USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane
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12 Sep 1984 Cyndi Lauper sings "She-Bop" on Tonight Show
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12 Sep 1984 Ethiopia forms Socialist Republic
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12 Sep 1984 New York Met Dwight Goodin sets rookie strike out record at 251
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12 Sep 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.
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12 Sep 1984 Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident
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12 Sep 1985 Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds
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12 Sep 1986 Twins fire manager Ray Miller and replace him with coach Tom Kelly
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12 Sep 1986 240.49 million shares traded in the NY Stock Exchange
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12 Sep 1986 US professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped & held hostage in Beirut
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12 Sep 1987 101st US Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (76 61)
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12 Sep 1987 Ethiopia adopts constitution
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12 Sep 1987 Vince Coleman steals his 100th base for 3rd straight year
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12 Sep 1988 Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
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12 Sep 1988 1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card
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12 Sep 1988 Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica
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12 Sep 1990 "Les Miserables, " opens at Cirkus Theater, Stockholm
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12 Sep 1990 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
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12 Sep 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 reunification.
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12 Sep 1990 US, England, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing the 2 Germanys to merge
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12 Sep 1991 Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) launched
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12 Sep 1992 106th US Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A Sanchez Vicario (63 63)
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12 Sep 1992 Hurricane Inuki pounds Hawaii
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12 Sep 1992 Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang in what is believed to be the longest match in US Open history (5hr 26min)
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12 Sep 1992 STS-47 (Endeavour 2) launches
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12 Sep 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.
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12 Sep 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.
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12 Sep 1993 113rd US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Cedric Pioline (64 64 63)
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12 Sep 1993 Donna Andrews wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
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12 Sep 1993 Junxia Cheek runs 3000 m ladies world record (8:12.29)
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12 Sep 1993 Paul Molitor at 37 is oldest to reach 100 RBIs for 1st time in career
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12 Sep 1993 STS-51 (Discovery) launches into orbit
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12 Sep 1994 Cessna crashes in White House front yard
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12 Sep 1994 Country singer George Jones undergoes triple bypass surgery
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12 Sep 1994 Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
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12 Sep 1997 New York Met John Olerud hits for the cycle
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12 Sep 1999 Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
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12 Sep 2001 Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
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12 Sep 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.
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12 Sep 2003 Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
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12 Sep 2005 Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
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12 Sep 2007 Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
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12 Sep 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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12 Sep 2011 The 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City opens to the public.
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12 Sep 2014 Oscar Pistorius is found guilty of the culpable homicide of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
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