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What happend on 12. September in History
In our data base we found 365 events happened on 12. September:
• 372: Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Xiaowudi, age 10, succeeds his father Jin Jianwendi as Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. [category: Events]
• 1185: Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1118) [category: Deaths]
• 1213: Peter II of Aragon (b. 1174) [category: Deaths]
• 1213: Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret. [category: Events]
• 1229: The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island. [category: Events]
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• 1362: Pope Innocent VI (b. 1295) [category: Deaths]
• 1369: Blanche of Lancaster (b. 1345) [category: Deaths]
• 1492: Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (d. 1519) [category: Births]
• 1494: Francis I of France (d. 1547) [category: Births]
• 1500: Albert III, Duke of Saxony (b. 1443) [category: Deaths]
• 1605: William Dugdale, English antiquarian (d. 1686) [category: Births]
• 1609: Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen. [category: Events]
• 1612: Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552) [category: Deaths]
• 1642: Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (b. 1620) [category: Deaths]
• 1660: Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (b. 1577) [category: Deaths]
• 1665: Jean Bolland, Belgian priest and writer (b. 1596) [category: Deaths]
• 1672: Tanneguy Lefebvre, French scholar (b. 1615) [category: Deaths]
• 1683: Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643) [category: Deaths]
• 1683: Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna – several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire. [category: Events]
• 1688: Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731) [category: Births]
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• 1690: Peter Dens, Flemish theologian (d. 1775) [category: Births]
• 1691: John George III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1647) [category: Deaths]
• 1695: Jacob Abendana, Spanish scholar (b. 1630) [category: Deaths]
• 1712: Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter (b. 1637) [category: Deaths]
• 1725: Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792) [category: Births]
• 1736: Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (d. 1776) [category: Births]
• 1740: Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817) [category: Births]
• 1764: Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (b. 1683) [category: Deaths]
• 1768: Benjamin Carr, American composer, singer, teacher, and publisher (d. 1831) [category: Births]
• 1779: Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (b. 1711) [category: Deaths]
• 1797: Samuel Joseph May, American activist (d. 1871) [category: Births]
• 1810: Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker (b. 1740) [category: Deaths]
• 1812: Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian (d. 1878) [category: Births]
• 1812: Richard March Hoe, American inventor and industrialist, invented the Rotary printing press (d. 1886) [category: Births]
• 1814: Robert Ross, English army officer (b. 1766) [category: Deaths]
• 1814: Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812. [category: Events]
• 1818: Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor, invented the Gatling gun (d. 1903) [category: Births]
• 1818: Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1882) [category: Births]
• 1819: Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b. 1742) [category: Deaths]
• 1830: William Sprague, American politician, 27th Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1915) [category: Births]
• 1833: Charles Larkin, English reformer (b. 1775) [category: Deaths]
• 1836: Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright (b. 1801) [category: Deaths]
• 1837: Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1892) [category: Births]
• 1846: Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning. [category: Events]
• 1847: Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins. [category: Events]
• 1848: Switzerland becomes a Federal state. [category: Events]
• 1852: H. H. Asquith, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928) [category: Births]
• 1855: Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Quebec (d. 1920) [category: Births]
• 1856: Johann Heinrich Beck, American composer and conductor (d. 1924) [category: Births]
• 1857: Manuel Espinosa Batista, Colombian politician (d. 1919) [category: Births]
• 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 San Francisco Gold Rush. [category: Events]
• 1862: Carl Eytel, German-American painter (d. 1925) [category: Births]
• 1866: Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, English politician, 13th Governor General of Canada (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1869: Peter Mark Roget, English physician, theologian, and lexicographer (b. 1779) [category: Deaths]
• 1870: Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836) [category: Deaths]
• 1874: François Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1787) [category: Deaths]
• 1874: The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded. [category: Events]
• 1875: Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (d. 1926) [category: Births]
• 1880: H. L. Mencken, American journalist and author (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1885: Heinrich Hoffmann, German photographer (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1885: Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional football. [category: Events]
• 1888: Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1890: Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded. [category: Events]
• 1891: Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1891: Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican independence leader (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1892: Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf Inc. (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1894: Billy Gilbert, American actor and comedian (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1895: Freymóður Jóhannsson, Icelandic painter and composer (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1897: Grietje Jansen-Anker, Dutch super-centenarian (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1897: Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1897: Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi. [category: Events]
• 1898: Alma Moodie, Australian violinist (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1898: Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter and writer (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1898: Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1901: Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1901: Shmuel Horowitz, Russian-Israeli agronomist (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1902: Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian politician, 21st President of Brazil (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1903: Duncan Gillies, Australia politician, 14th Premier of Victoria (b. 1834) [category: Deaths]
• 1904: Lou Moore, American race car driver and owner (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1905: Linda Agostini, Australian murder victim (d. 1934) [category: Births]
• 1906: The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar. [category: Events]
• 1907: Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1907: Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian poet, journalist, and lawyer (b. 1837) [category: Deaths]
• 1909: Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 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) [category: Events]
• 1912: Pierre-Hector Coullie, French archbishop (b. 1829) [category: Deaths]
• 1913: Eiji Toyoda, Japanese businessman [category: Births]
• 1913: Jesse Owens, American sprinter (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1914: Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1914: Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1915: Billy Daniels, American singer and actor (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1915: Frank McGee, American journalist (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1916: Edward Binns, American actor (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1916: Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1917: Han Suyin, Chinese-English author (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1917: Pierre Sévigny, Canadian soldier, author, and politician (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1918: George Reid, Australian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845) [category: Deaths]
• 1919: Leonid Andreyev, Russian playwright and author (b. 1871) [category: Deaths]
• 1919: Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party. [category: Events]
• 1920: Irene Dailey, American actress (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1921: Stanisław Lem, Polish author (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1922: Ellen Demming, American actress (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1922: Jackson Mac Low, American poet, composer and playwright (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1922: Mark Rosenzweig, American psychologist (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1923: Jules Violle, French physicist (b. 1841) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: Stan Lopata, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1927: Freddie Jones, English actor [category: Births]
• 1927: Mathé Altéry, French soprano [category: Births]
• 1927: Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847) [category: Deaths]
• 1928: Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian-American basketball player and physician [category: Births]
• 1929: Harvey Schmidt, American composer [category: Births]
• 1929: Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865) [category: Deaths]
• 1930: Larry Austin, American composer [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1931: Bill McKinney, American actor (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1931: George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1931: Ian Holm, English actor [category: Births]
• 1932: Atli Dam, Faroese politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1933: Tatiana Doronina, Russian actress [category: Births]
• 1933: Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. [category: Events]
• 1934: Glenn Davis, American football player (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1934: Jaegwon Kim, South Korean-American philosopher [category: Births]
• 1937: George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer [category: Births]
• 1938: Claude Ruel, Canadian ice hockey coach [category: Births]
• 1938: Tatiana Troyanos, American soprano (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1938: Prince Arthur of Connaught (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. [category: Events]
• 1939: Henry Waxman, American politician [category: Births]
• 1939: Phillip Ramey, American composer and pianist [category: Births]
• 1940: Linda Gray, American actress [category: Births]
• 1940: Mickey Lolich, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1940: Patrick Mower, English actor [category: Births]
• 1940: Skip Hinnant, American actor [category: Births]
• 1940: Stephen J. Solarz, American politician (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1940: An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200. [category: Events]
• 1940: Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France. [category: Events]
• 1942: François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1942: Michel Drucker, French journalist [category: Births]
• 1942: Tomás Marco, Spanish composer [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1943: Maria Muldaur, American singer [category: Births]
• 1943: Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-Canadian author [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1944: Barry White, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1944: Colin Young, American singer (The Foundations) [category: Births]
• 1944: Fred Fay, American activist [category: Births]
• 1944: Leonard Peltier, American activist [category: Births]
• 1944: Vladimir Spivakov, Russian violinist and conductor [category: Births]
• 1944: William Stickney, American golfer (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1945: John Mauceri, American conductor [category: Births]
• 1945: Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Tony Bellamy, American Mexican-American singer-songwriter and musician (Redbone) (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1947: Bjørn Floberg, Norwegian actor [category: Births]
• 1948: Bruce Mahler, American actor [category: Births]
• 1948: Luis Lima, Argentinian tenor [category: Births]
• 1948: Max Walker, Australian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1948: Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death. [category: Events]
• 1949: Charles Burlingame, American pilot on American Airlines Flight 77 (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1949: Irina Rodnina, Russian figure skater [category: Births]
• 1950: Cynthia Myers, American model and actress (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1950: Gustav Brunner, Austrian engineer [category: Births]
• 1950: Marguerite Blais, Canadian journalist and politician [category: Births]
• 1950: Mike Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1951: Ali-Ollie Woodson, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and actor (The Temptations) (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1951: Bertie Ahern, Irish politician [category: Births]
• 1951: Gerald Stano, American serial killer (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1951: Joe Pantoliano, American actor [category: Births]
• 1951: Norm Dubé, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1951: Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby player (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1952: Gerry Beckley, American singer-songwriter and musician (America) [category: Births]
• 1952: Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, songwriter, producer, and author (Rush) [category: Births]
• 1952: Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia. [category: Events]
• 1953: Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1953: Lewis Stone, American actor (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1953: U.S. Representative John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island. [category: Events]
• 1954: Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1955: Peter Scolari, American actor [category: Births]
• 1956: Barry Andrews, English singer and pianist (XTC, Shriekback, and The League of Gentlemen) [category: Births]
• 1956: Brian Robertson, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Motörhead, and Wild Horses) [category: Births]
• 1956: Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, actor, and director (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1956: Ricky Rudd, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1956: Sam Brownback, American politician, 46th Governor of Kansas [category: Births]
• 1956: Walter Woon, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 7th Attorney-General of Singapore [category: Births]
• 1956: Hans Carossa, German author and poet (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Hans Zimmer, German composer and producer [category: Births]
• 1957: Rachel Ward, English actress [category: Births]
• 1958: Gregg Edelman, American actor [category: Births]
• 1958: Wilfredo Benitez, American boxer [category: Births]
• 1958: Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit. [category: Events]
• 1959: Scott Brown, American politician [category: Births]
• 1959: Sigmar Gabriel, German politician [category: Births]
• 1959: Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color. [category: Events]
• 1959: The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon. [category: Events]
• 1960: Stefanos Korkolis, Greek composer and pianist [category: Births]
• 1960: Dino Borgioli, Italian tenor (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: Kadim Al Sahir, Iraqi singer-songwriter and poet [category: Births]
• 1961: Mylène Farmer, French singer-songwriter and actress [category: Births]
• 1961: Carl Hermann, German physicist (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: The African and Malagasy Union is founded. [category: Events]
• 1962: Amy Yasbeck, American actress [category: Births]
• 1962: Dino Merlin, Bosnian singer-songwriter and producer [category: Births]
• 1962: Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (b.1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Spot Poles, American baseball player b. 1887 [category: Deaths]
• 1963: Paul Bellini, Canadian actor and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1964: Dieter Hecking, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1964: Simon Bowthorpe, English businessman [category: Births]
• 1964: Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park. [category: Events]
• 1965: Einstein Kristiansen, Norwegian cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1965: Vernon Maxwell, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1966: Ben Folds, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Ben Folds Five, The Bens, and Fear of Pop) [category: Births]
• 1966: Darren E. Burrows, American actor [category: Births]
• 1966: Vezio Sacratini, Italian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1966: Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions) [category: Events]
• 1967: Jason Statham, English actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Louis C.K., American comedian, actor, and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1967: Pat Listach, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1967: Vladimir Bartol, Slovene-Italian author (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Larry LaLonde, American guitarist and songwriter (Primus) [category: Births]
• 1968: Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1968: Richard Snell, South African cricketer [category: Births]
• 1968: Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: James Frey, American author [category: Births]
• 1969: Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer [category: Births]
• 1969: Ángel Cabrera, Argentine golfer [category: Births]
• 1970: Josh Hopkins, American actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Nathan Larson, American musician, composer, and author (Shudder To Think, Hot One, and A Camp) [category: Births]
• 1970: Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman. [category: Events]
• 1971: Ahn Jae-wook, South Korean actor, singer, and composer [category: Births]
• 1971: Walter Egan, American golfer (b. 1881) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Gideon Emery, English actor [category: Births]
• 1972: Sidney Souza, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1972: William Boyd, American actor (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Darren Campbell, English sprinter [category: Births]
• 1973: Ki-Jana Carter, American football player [category: Births]
• 1973: Martin Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1973: Paul Walker, American actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Caroline Aigle, French pilot (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1974: Jennifer Nettles, American singer-songwriter (Sugarland) [category: Births]
• 1974: Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1974: Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau. [category: Events]
• 1975: Luis Castillo, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1976: 2 Chainz, American rapper (Playaz Circle) [category: Births]
• 1976: Bizzy Bone, American rapper, (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Bone Brothers) [category: Births]
• 1976: Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: David Thompson, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Grant Denyer, Australian race car driver and journalist [category: Births]
• 1977: Idan Raichel, Israeli singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer [category: Births]
• 1977: James McCartney, English singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1977: Jeff Irwin, American musician, songwriter, and producer [category: Births]
• 1977: Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1977: Les Haylen, Australian politician and author (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Robert Lowell, American poet (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Steve Biko, South African activist (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody. [category: Events]
• 1978: Benjamin McKenzie, American actor [category: Births]
• 1978: Elisabetta Canalis, Italian model and actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Ruben Studdard, American singer and actor [category: Births]
• 1978: William Hudson, Australian engineer (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale. [category: Events]
• 1980: Fernando César de Souza, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Gus G, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (Firewind, Dream Evil, and Mystic Prophecy) [category: Births]
• 1980: Joe Loeffler, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Chevelle) [category: Births]
• 1980: Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1980: Kevin Sinfield, English rugby player [category: Births]
• 1980: Roda Antar, Lebanese footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Sean Burroughs, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Military coup in Turkey. [category: Events]
• 1981: Alan Arruda, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Hosea Chanchez, American actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Jennifer Hudson, American singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Marty Adams, Canadian actor and comedian [category: Births]
• 1981: Staciana Stitts, American swimmer [category: Births]
• 1981: Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Nana Ozaki, Japanese model [category: Births]
• 1982: Zoran Planinić, Croatian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Carly Smithson, Irish singer-songwriter and actress (We Are the Fallen) [category: Births]
• 1983: Clayton Richard, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Daniel Muir, American football player [category: Births]
• 1983: Rami Haikal, Jordanian guitarist (Bilocate) [category: Births]
• 1983: Sebastian Hofmann, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Sergio Parisse, Argentina-Italian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1983: Tom Geißler, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros. [category: Events]
• 1983: The USSR vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1. [category: Events]
• 1984: Nashat Akram, Iraqi footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: September, Swedish singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1985: Jonatan Cerrada, Belgian singer and actor [category: Births]
• 1986: Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter [category: Births]
• 1986: Emmy Rossum, American singer-songwriter and actress [category: Births]
• 1986: Joanne Jackson, English swimmer [category: Births]
• 1986: Yuto Nagatomo, Japanese footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Amanda Jenssen, Swedish singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1988: Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage. [category: Events]
• 1989: Andrew Luck, American football player [category: Births]
• 1989: Freddie Freeman, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1990: Athene Seyler, English actress (b. 1889) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1991: Scott Wootton, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Bruce Matthews, Canadian army officer and businessman (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1992: NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. [category: Events]
• 1993: Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Willie Mosconi, American pool player (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and astronaut (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Tom Ewell, American actor (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself. [category: Events]
• 1995: Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Yasutomo Nagai, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1965) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Colin Ford, American actor [category: Births]
• 1996: Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian military leader and politician, 29th President of Brazil (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Bill Quackenbush, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor. [category: Events]
• 2000: Konrad Kujau, German illustrator and forger (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed. [category: Events]
• 2003: Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Highwaymen) (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2004: Kenny Buttrey, American drummer (Barefoot Jerry and Area Code 615) (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. [category: Events]
• 2007: Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder. [category: Events]
• 2008: Bob Quinn, Australian footballer (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: David Foster Wallace, American author (b. 1962) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people. [category: Events]
• 2009: Jack Kramer, American tennis player (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Willy Ronis, French photographer (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Claude Chabrol, French director and screenwriter (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: The 9/11 Memorial Museum opens to the public. [category: Events]
• 2012: Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Russian poet (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Derek Jameson, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jimmy Andrews, Scottish footballer (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and scriptwriter (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Kame Nakamura, Japanese super-centenarian (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Radoslav Brzobohatý, Czech actor (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Rafał Piszcz, Polish canoe racer (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Sid Watkins, English surgeon (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Tom Sims, American skateboarder and snowboarder, founded Sims Snowboards (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Whobegotyou, Australian racehorse (b. 2005) [category: Deaths]
• 490_bc: 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. [category: Events]
• _: Ailbe of Emly [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Commemoration of the mass hanging of the Saint Patrick's Battalion. (Mexico) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Day of Conception (Russia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Defenders Day (Maryland) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest date on which Programmers' Day can fall, while September 13 is the latest, celebrated on the 256th day of the year. (Russia and programmers around the world) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Guy of Anderlecht [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Holy Name of Mary [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Laisrén mac Nad Froích [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Day (Cape Verde) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Sacerdos of Lyon [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: September 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]