On this day in History - Sep 12

490 BC - Athens defeats Persia at the Battle of Marathon
352 CE - Maximinus van Trier dies. Bishop of Trier, saint.
0413 - Marcellinus of Carthage dies. Christian saint.
0530 - Papa Félix IV dies (b. 0526)
1213 - King Peter II of Aragon dies (b. 1174)
1213 - Peter II of Aragon, the king of Aragon, died at the Battle of Muret.
1297 - O Tratado de Alcanises define a fronteira entre Portugal e Castela.
1362 - Pope Innocent VI dies (b. 1282)
1449 - Lorenzo de Medici was born (d. 1492). Italian politician (d. 1492)
1494 - King François I of Valois-Angoulome. King of France (1515-47).
of France was born († 1547).
1502 - Cristóbal Colón llega a las costas de la actual Nicaragua.
1575 - Henry Hudson was born. Dutch explorer
1605 - William Dugdale was born (d. 1686). English antiquarian.
1609 - Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River
1612 - Tsar Vasili IV of Russia dies (b. 1552)
1642 - Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars dies (b. 1620). French conspirator
1665 - Jean Bolland dies (b. 1596). Flemish Jesuit writer.
1672 - Tanneguy Lefebvre dies (b. 1615). French classical scholar.
1683 - King Afonso VI of Portugal dies (b. 1643)
1683 - Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna - Several European armies joined forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
1688 - Ferdinand Brokoff was born (d. 1731). Czech sculptor.
1690 - Peter Dens was born (d. 1775). Belgian Catholic theologian.
1691 - John George III, Elector of Saxony dies (b. 1647)
1712 - Jan van der Heyden dies (b. 1637). Dutch painter.
1733 - François Couperin dies (b. 1668). French composer.
1764 - Jean-Philippe Rameau dies (b. 1683). French composer.
1789 - Franz Xaver Richter was born. German composer.
1806 - Christian Gotfried Thomas was born. German composer.
1812 - Richard Hoe was born (d. 1886). American inventor and industrialist.
1814 - Battle of North Point: An American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
1818 - Richard Gatling was born (d. 1903). American weapons inventor.
1831 - Álvares de Azevedo was born († 1852). Brazilian writer.
1836 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe dies (b. 1801). German writer.
1838 - Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur von Auwers was born. German astronomer.
1839 - Nascimento de Aristide Lôbo. Jornalista e político brasileiro.
1846 - Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
1858 - Fernand Khnopff was born. Belgian sculptor and painter
1847 - Battle of Chapultepec
1870 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow dies (b. 1836). American author.
1871 - Júlio Dinis (Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho) dies (b. 1839). Portuguese writer.
1876 - Auta de Souza was born. Brazilian poetess.
1880 - H. L. Mencken was born (d. 1956). American journalist and author.
1888 - Maurice Chevalier was born (d. 1972). French singer and actor.
1890 - Salisbury, Rhodesia is founded.
1891 - Don Pedro Albizu Campos was born (d. 1965). Advocate for Puerto Rican independence
1892 - Alfred A. Knopf was born (d. 1984). American publisher.
1894 - Vicente Celestino was born († 1968). Brazilian singer.
1897 - Irene Joliot-Curie was born (d. 1956). French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ,
1900 - Haskell Curry was born. American mathematicien.
1901 - Ben Blue was born (d. 1975). Canadian actor and comedian.
1902 - Margaret Hamilton was born (d. 1985). American actress.
1902 - Juscelino Kubitschek was born († 1976). Brazilian politician. President of Brazil (1956-1961).
1906 - Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. Composer.
1913 - Jesse Owens was born (d. 1980). American athlete. He was a four-gold medal winner at the 1936 Olympic games at Berlin.
1914 - Desmond Llewelyn was born (d. 1999). Welsh actor.
1915 - Frank McGee was born (d. 1974). American journalist.
1916 - Tony Bettenhausen was born (d. 1961). American race car driver.
1918 - George Reid dies (b. 1845). Fourth Prime Minister of Australia
1920 - 7th Olympic games close in Antwerp Belgium
1921 - Stanisław Lem was born. Polish writer.
1924 - Amílcar Cabral was born († 1973). One of the founders of PAIGC
1925 - 20th Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (5-0)
1927 - Sarah Frances Whiting dies (b. 1847). American physicist and astronomer.
1928 - Actress Katharine Hepburn (b.1907) made her stage debut in "The Czarina."
1930 - Wilfred Rhodes end his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians.
1931 - Sir Ian Holm was born. English actor
1931 - George Jones was born. American singer
1931 - Silvia Pinal was born. Mexican actress.
1931 - 51st U.S. Mens Tennis: H E Vines beats George M Lott, Jr. (7-9, 6-3, 9-7, 7-5)
1933 - Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
1934 - Glenn Davis was born. American athlete.
1935 - Geraldo Vandré was born. Brazilian musician.
1935 - 55th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wilmer L Allison beats Sidney B Wood (6-2, 6-2, 6-3)
1936 - 50th U.S. Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (4-6 6-3 6-2)
1936 - 56th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J Donald Budge (2-6, 6-2, 8-6, 1-6, 10-8)
1937 - George Chuvalo was born. Canadian boxer
1938 - Adolf Hitler demands autonomy for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia
1940 - Cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France
1940 - The Hercules Munitions Plant in Kenvil, New Jersey explodes, killing 55 people.
1940 - Mickey Lolich was born. Baseball player.
1941 - Hans Spemann dies (b. 1869). German physician. 1935 Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate.
1942 - Linda Gray was born. American actress (Sue Ellen Ewing-Dallas)
1942 - RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks.
1943 - Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest by German commando Otto Skorzeny
1943 - Maria Muldaur was born. American singer
1943 - Michael Ondaatje was born. Sri Lankan-born writer
1944 - Leonard Peltier was born. American activist
1944 - Nasce Leci Brandão. Sambista brasileira
1944 - Barry White was born ( † 2003). American singer.
1944 - The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Ustaša continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities.
1947 - Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath
1951 - Joe Pantoliano was born. American actor
1952 - Neil Peart was born. Canadian musician and author
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1953 - John F. Kennedy marries Jackie Bouvier
1953 - Hugo Schmeisser dies (b. 1884). German weapons designer.
1953 - Tânia Alves was born. Brazilian actress.
1954 - Peter Scolari was born. American actor
1956 - Ricky Rudd was born. American race car driver
1957 - Rachel Ward was born. English actress
1957 - NORAD began operations.
1957 - José Lins do Rego dies (b. 1901). Brazilian writer.
1958 - Wilfredo Benitez was born. American boxer
1959 - Bonanza premiers. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color
1962 - President John F. Kennedy declares the USA will get a man on the moon by the end of the decade
1963 - Amy Yasbeck was born. American actress
1964 - Álvaro Moreira dies. Brazilian writer.
1965 - 79th U.S. Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats Billie Jean King (8-6, 7-5)
1965 - 85th U.S. Mens Tennis: Manuel Santana beats Cliff Drysdale (6-2, 7-9, 7-5, 6-1)
1966 - Ben Folds was born. American musician.
1966 - Malu Mader was born. Brazilian actress.
1967 - Pat Listach was born. Baseball player
1968 - Tommy Armour dies (b. 1894). Scottish golfer.
1968 - Albania abandona el Pacto de Varsovia.
1971 - 85th U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Rosemary Casals (6-4, 7-6)
1971 - 91st U.S. Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Jan Kodes (3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-6)
1972 - William Boyd dies (b. 1895). American actor.
1972 - Two British trawlers sunk by Icelandic gunboats during the "cod war"
1972 - Portugal : Costa Gomes é chamado para exercer o cargo de chefe do Estado-Maior das Forças Armadas, em substituição do general Venâncio Deslandes.
1972 - Cady Cantrell, was born. Playmate, Apr, 1992
1973 - Paul Walker was born. American actor
1973 - Darren Campbell was born. British athlete
1974 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement , is deposed following a military coup by the Derg.
1976 - Steve Biko dies (b. 1946). South African anti-apartheid activist.
1978 - Decreto regional sanciona a Bandeira da Madeira
1978 - Ruben Studdard was born. American singer
1980 - Yao Ming was born. Chinese basketball player
1980 - Sean Burroughs was born. Baseball player
1980 - Military coup in Turkey
1980 - Kenan Evren substitui Ihsan Sabri Çaglayangil na presidência da Turquia
1981 - Eugenio Montale dies (b. 1896). Italian poet.
1981 - 95th U.S. Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats M Navratilova (1-6, 7-6, 7-6)
1981 - Elizabeth Ward (Arkansas), 20, crowned 54th Miss America 1982
1982 - 102nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4)
1982 - Gerard Nijboer (2:15:16) and Rosa Mota (2:36:04) win marathon in Stockholm.
1983 - A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut was robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros .
1984 - Ethiopia forms socialist republic
1985 - William Alwyn dies (b. 1905). English composer.
1985 - Laura Vernizzi was born. Italian gymnast.
1986 - Emmy Rossum was born. American actress and singer
1987 - 101st U.S. Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (7-6, 6-1)
1987 - Ethiopia adopts constitution
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.
1991 - Em Portugal é constituida a Fundação Mário Soares
1992 - 106th U.S. Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A Sanchez Vicario (6-3, 6-3)
1992 - Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang in what is believed to be the longest match in U.S. Open history (5hr 26min)
1992 - Mae Carol Jemison becomes the first African-American woman in space
1992 - Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, was captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.
1992 - Perú, capturan en Lima a Abimael Guzmán, fundador y líder de Sendero Luminoso.
1992 - Anthony Perkins dies (b. 1932). American actor (Psycho).
1993 - Willie Mosconi dies (b. 1913). American billiards player.
1993 - Raymond Burr dies (b. 1917). Canadian actor (Perry Mason).
1993 - 113rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Cedric Pioline (6-4, 6-4, 6-3)
1994 - Tom Ewell dies (b. 1909). American actor.
1994 - Boris Yegorov dies (b. 1937). Cosmonaut.
1994 - The Netscape web browser is released.
1994 - Frank Eugene Corder crashes a Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
1995 - Jeremy Brett dies at 59. English actor (Sherlock Holmes).
1996 - Eleazar de Carvalho dies (b. 1915). Brazilian conductor and composer
1996 - Ernesto Geisel dies (b. 1908). President of Brazil (1974-79)
1998 - In Albania Democratic Party leader Azem Hajdari (35) was assassinated.
1999 - Andre Agassi captured his second US Open title, dominating Todd Martin 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-7 (2-7), 6-3, 6-2.
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.
2002 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello é nomeado Alto Comissário das Nações Unidas para os Direitos Humanos
2002 - Peru ratifica o Protocolo de Kyoto
2003 - During the Ontario general election, 2003, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party issued a press release that called the leader of the Ontario Liberal Party an "Evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet".
2003 - The United Nations lifted sanctions against Libya after Libya agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. 2003 - Johnny Cash dies (b. 1932). American singer and guitarist.
2004 - Roger Federer wins US Open defeating Lleyton Hewitt
2005 - Hong Kong Disneyland is scheduled to open to the public in Hong Kong. The park will be the fifth Disneyland in the world.
2005 - Norwegian parliamentary election
National Day in Cape Verde
Defenders Day in Maryland (United States)