The September 12th is the 255e Jour of the Année (256e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 110 days before the end of the year.

Events

Before JC

• 490 av. J-C: Athens beats Persians with the battles of Marathon (cf: August 12th because of the Calendar Julien, battles at the origin of the modern race of long distance (allotted to Philippides).

1 to 1900

• 1213 : Battle of Low wall between the “Cross ” of Simon de Monfort, 5th count de Leicester and the Cathares and their ally Pierre II of Aragon.

• 1226 : Avignon, besieged for three months by the troops of the King de France Louis VIII has capitulated. The king receives the tender of the Languedoc.
• 1229 : Guillaume I {{er}} of Aragon unloads with its army with Santa Ponça, Mallorque in order to conquer the island.
• 1297 : Treaty of the limits between Denis Ier of Portugal and Castille
• 1319: Gasbert de Valle or of the Valley is named bishop of Marseilles by the Pape Jean XXII.
• 1609 : Henry Hudson discovers the Rivière Hudson, which emerges with New York.
• 1683 : Battle of Vienna or Kahlenberg, the Othoman are pushed back in front of Vienna.
• 1789 : First publication of the Friendly of the people of Jean-Paul Marat.
• 1790 : Ratification of the Annexation of Avignon by the France.
• 1801 : The Tsar Alexandre I {{er}} appendix the Georgia with the Russia.
• 1802 : Napoleon Bonaparte appendix the Piedmont while prevailing itself of a referendum going up with 1799.
• 1812 : Battle of Moskova, gained by Napoleon.
• 1814 : Battle of North Not, an American detachment prevents the English from joining Baltimore at the time of the Guerre of 1812
• 1847: Beginning of the Battle of Chapultepec, during the américano-Mexican War. The deserters of the battalion Saint Patrick of the US Army who had joined the Mexicans, are hung in mass for treason, on the orders of the general Winfield Scott.
• 1867 : Firedamp explosion (accident of mine) making many deaths with Montceau-the-Mines.
• 1890 : Foundation of Salisbury, in Rhodesia.

XXe century

• 1914 : After a battles, which will have lasted six days, the French troops is victorious on the Marne and stops progression of the Germans.

• 1920: Enclose VII^ème Olympic Games of summer to Antwerp.
• 1938 : Adolf Hitler claims the fastening of the Sudètes (area of Czechoslovakia) to the Germany.
• 1940 :
• Discovered Cave of Lascaux.
• Arrived of the Mission Tizard at Washington
• 1942: VI^e armed with Friedrich Paulus begins the direct attack against Stalingrad. It is the beginning of almost 3 weeks of intense combat. The RMS Laconia , transporting Combined soldiers, Prisoner of war Italian and civilians is torpedoed and runs along the west coast of Africa.
• 1943 : The Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini, is released by the commando Nazi Otto Skorzeny.
• 1944 : Release of the Serbia by the continuous Yugoslav Army. Bajina Basta belongs to the released cities.
• 1953 : Jacqueline Herdsman wife the American senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Nikita Khrouchtchev is elected First secretary of PCUS
• 1957: Launching of the Command of the aerospace defense of North America (English NORAD)
• 1959: Launching of the Soviet space probe Luna 2, which will be the first with touching the lunar ground .
• 1962 :
• Charles de Gaulle announces a Référendum on the election of the president of the French République to the Vote for all.
• John F. Kennedy makes the speech We choose to go to the moon and promises to send a man on the Moon (and to bring back it healthy and except) within 10 years.
• the Beatles record Love Me C , them 45 turns.
• 1970 : black September, the king Hussein of Jordan order to its army to destroy the refugee camps Palestinian S, one counts several thousands of victims.
• 1971 : With alternate Barcelona (Spain), of Robert Crushed, Matador French.
• 1974 : The emperor of Ethiopia Hailé Sélassié Ier, “Messiah” of the Mouvement Rastafari is relieved by the Derg ue a military Junte. The Juventud Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
• 1977 : The black leader Steve Biko dies in a prison of Pretoria in South Africa at the 31 years age.
• 1979 : An eruption of the Etna, in Sicily (Italy), makes 12 dead. A Earthquake of magnitude 7.9 takes place in Indonesia.
• 1980 : The army seizes the capacity in Turkey.
• 1989 : Tadeusz Mazowiecki is the noncommunist first Polish Prime Minister since the Second world war. Leszek Balcerowicz becomes Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance.
• 1990 : Signature of the Treated of Moscow which regulates definitively the management of the Germany between the “Allies”, and opens the way with the reunification.
• 1992 : Arrest with the Peru of the chief of the luminous Path Abimaël Guzman by the special forces, shortly after the remainder of the command of the Luminous Path is stopped in its turn.

NASA, lance the Space shuttle Endeavor , which marks the 50e mission for the shuttle (code STS-47). On board, Mae Carol Jemison, is first black-American in space.

• 1997 : Fusion enters the two companies of French civil aviation Air France and Air Inter.

XXIe century

• 2001 : The Article V of the Charter of NATO is called upon for the first time in answer to the Attentats of September 11th, 2001 against the the United States.

• 2003 : The the United Nations agree to raise the sanctions imposed on the Libya, after the latter recognized its implication in the explosion of the flight n°103 of the Pan Am, in 1988 and agreed to compensate the families for the victims.
• 2005 : Israel completes its withdrawal of the Gaza Strip. Opening of the 5th amusement park of Disney: HongKong Disneyland Arises. A general power cut with Los Angeles affects million Californian.

Arts and culture

• 1581 : Michel de Montaigne, which is with Rome, learns that the jurats of Bordeaux named it mayor of their city. He prepares his return to Bordeaux by the shortest way to take his functions (end in 1585).

Births

• 1494 : François I {{er}}, future king of France, with Cognac.
• 1725 : Guillaume Nice the, French astronomer
• 1777: Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Zoologist and anatomist French († 1850).
• 1818
• Theodor Kullak, pianist, type-setter and professor of music Polish († March 1st 1882)
• Richard John Gattling, inventor of the machine-gun with 350 blows/minute.
• 1888 : Maurice Knight, actor and singer French († January 1st 1972).
• 1897 : Irene Joliot-Curie, French physician.
• 1921 : Stanisław Lem, author Polish († March 27th 2006)
• 1923: John Chambers, American make-up man of cinema.
• 1924 : Jean the Foal, French actor.
• 1931 : Ian Holm, British actor
• 1933: Mathé Altéry, French singer
• 1937: the writer Henri Lopès
• 1940: Roger Crouch, American astronaut
• 1942: Michel Drucker, presenter of television, French.
• 1944 : Barry White, American singer († 2003).
• 1945 : Milo Manara, Italian author of data base
• 1954: Jocelyne Béroard, singer of the musical group Kassav'
• 1961: Mylène Farmer, French singer.
• 1966 : Anousheh Ansari, spationaut and businesswoman Iran ienne
• 1979: Sergio Martínez, Spanish Matador .
• 1985 : Jonatan Cerrada, Singer

Death

• 1213 : Pierre II of Aragon to the Battle of Low wall.
• 1362 : Innocent VI, Pope.
• 1660 : Jacob Cats, poet and politician Dutch
• 1733: The type-setter and harpsichordist François Couperin die in 65 years in Paris in the general indifference.
• 1764 : Jean-Philippe Branch, French type-setter.
• 1819 : Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general which ordered the Prussian army against Napoleon i with the Bataille of Waterloo in 1815.
• 1824 : Louis Albert Guislain Bacler of Alba, general of empire (° October 21st 1761)
• 1829: Father Juan Ignacio Molina, priest Jesuit and Naturalist Chile in (° 1740).
• 1854 : Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Botanist and politician French (° 1776).
• 1874 : François Guizot, historian, politician and academician French (° 1787)
• 1941: Hans Spemann, Nobel Prize of medicine in 1935.
• 1961 : Carl Hermann, German crystallographer
• 1977: Steve Bantu Biko, militant South-African anti-apartheid (° December 18th 1946)
• 1986: Jacques Henri Lartigue, photographer French.
• 1992 : Anthony Perkins, American actor .
• 1993 : Raymond Burr, Canadian actor ;
• 1994
• Tom Ewell, American actor.
• Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut (° November 26th 1937)
• 1995: Jeremy Brett, British actor .
• 2003 : Johnny Cash, star of the country music, Nashville, Tennessee (° February 26th 1932).
• 2006 : Marc François, actor and director of Theater.

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Ailbe d' Emly or Albée (+ 525), bishop in Munster (Ireland).
• Autonomous of Sorès (+ towards 298), bishop martyr.
• Guy of Anderlecht (+ 1012), “the poor one of Anderlecht”.

Catholic saint of the day

• Apollinaire Free († 1622), Martyr.
• In the catholic liturgy, on September 12th is the Fête of the Saint Name of Marie.

See too

• September 12th in sport
• September 12th in the railroads

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