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This Date in History - September 12th
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* 1213 Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
* 1229 The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponηa, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
* 1609 Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
* 1683 Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
* 1814 Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
* 1846 Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
* 1847 Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
* 1848 Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
* 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 1315 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush.
* 1874 The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
* 1885 Arbroath 360 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional football.
* 1890 Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
* 1897 Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi
* 1906 The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
* 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)
* 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 Leσ Szilαrd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
* 1938 Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
* 1940 Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
* 1940 An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 Bata in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.
* 1948 Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death.
* 1952 Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
* 1958 Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
* 1959 Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.
* 1959 The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
* 1964 Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
* 1966 Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)
* 1970 Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
* 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.
* 1974 Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
* 1977 South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.
* 1979 Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
* 1980 Military coup in Turkey.
* 1983 A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
* 1983 The USSR vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
* 1988 Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatαn Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1992 Abimael Guzmαn, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.
* 1994 Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
* 1999 Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
* 2001 Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
* 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.
* 2003 In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
* 2005 Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
* 2007 Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
* 2008 The 2008 Chatsworth train collision between a Metrolink commuter train and a Pacific Union Freight Train kills 25 people.
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This Date in History - September 12th
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* 1213 Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
* 1229 The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponηa, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
* 1609 Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
* 1683 Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
* 1814 Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
* 1846 Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
* 1847 Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
* 1848 Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
* 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 1315 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush.
* 1874 The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
* 1885 Arbroath 360 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional football.
* 1890 Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
* 1897 Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi
* 1906 The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
* 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)
* 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 Leσ Szilαrd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
* 1938 Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
* 1940 Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
* 1940 An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 Bata in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.
* 1948 Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death.
* 1952 Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
* 1958 Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
* 1959 Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.
* 1959 The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
* 1964 Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
* 1966 Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)
* 1970 Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
* 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.
* 1974 Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
* 1977 South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.
* 1979 Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
* 1980 Military coup in Turkey.
* 1983 A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
* 1983 The USSR vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
* 1988 Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatαn Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1992 Abimael Guzmαn, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.
* 1994 Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
* 1999 Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
* 2001 Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
* 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.
* 2003 In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
* 2005 Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
* 2007 Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
* 2008 The 2008 Chatsworth train collision between a Metrolink commuter train and a Pacific Union Freight Train kills 25 people.
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