12 September

The **12t o September** is the 255t day o the year (256t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 110 days bidin.

## Events

* 1609 - Henry Hudson splores the Hudson River.
* 1689 - Peter the Great taks absolute power in Roushie.
* 1848 - Swisserland becomes a federal state.
* 1857 - The ship "SS Central America" sinks aboot 160 mile east o Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, killin a total o 426 fowk. 
* 1885 - Arbroath F.C. defeats Bon Accord 36-0 in a record fitbaa scoreline.
* 1890 - Salisbury (nou Harare, caipital o Zimbabwe) is foondit.
* 1905 - Japanese battleship "Mikasa" sinks efter a muneetions splosion, killin 256 oot o the 935 men on baird.
* 1918 - Breetish passenger ship "Galway Castle" is torpedoed bi a German U-boat aff Land's End, Cornwall, killin 143 fowk.
* 1920 - The 1920 Simmer Olympics in Antwerp end.
* 1928 - A hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killin 1,200 fowk.
* 1940 - Discovery o cave pentins in the Lascaux, in the Sooth o Fraunce.
* 1940 - A splosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenil, New Jersey, Unitit States, kills 51 fowk an injures 200.
* 1944 - Warld War II: American troops enters Germany naur Trier.
* 1945 - German fitbaw team VfL Wolfsburg is foondit.
* 1949 - Theodor Heuss becomes the first Preses o the Federal Republic o Germany.
* 1953 - Waddin o John F. Kennedy an Jacqueline Bouvier.
* 1959 - Heinrich Lübke becomes the 2nt Preses o the Federal Republic o Germany.
* 1959 - The Soviet Union launches the *Luna 2* probe.
* 1964 - The Canyonlands Naitional Pairk in Utah, Unitit States, is creatit.
* 1966 - The Gemini 11 spacecraft is launched.
* 1974 - Haile Selassie is overthrown in Ethiopie.
* 1990 - The Faroe Islands defeat Austrick 1-0 in a surprise fitbaa result.
* 1990 - East Germany plays its last internaitional fitbaa match, defeatin Belgium 2-0.
* 1992 - Mae Jemison becomes the first black woman in space.
* 2005 - Hong Kong Disneyland Resort offeecially opens.
* 2007 - Scotland defeats Fraunce 1-0 away in a surprise fitbaa result, wi a goal bi James McFadden.
* 2011 - A gas pipeline splosion in Nairobi, Kenyae, kills ower 100 fowk.
* 2015 - Jeremy Corbyn becomes leader o the Labour Pairty in the Unitit Kinrick.
* 2015 - A splosion in Petlawad, Wastren Madhya Pradesh, Indie, kills 105 fowk.
* 2018 - The European Pairlament votes tae tak action against the richt-wing govrenment o Hungary ower concerns aboot human richts an rule o law in the kintra.

## Births

* 1492 - Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke o Urbino, Florentine statesman (d. 1519)
* 1494 - Keeng Francis I o Fraunce (d. 1547)
* 1811 - William Bell Scott, Scots airtist (d. 1890)
* 1852 - H. H. Asquith, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1928)
* 1861 - Robert Younger, Baron Blanesburgh, Scots barrister an juidge (d. 1946)
* 1871 - John Campbell, Scots fitbawer (d. 1947)
* 1888 - Maurice Chevalier, French actor an sangster (d. 1972)
* 1893 - Jimmy McStay, Scots fitbawer (d. 1974)
* 1897 - Irène Joliot-Curie, French pheesicist an chemist (d. 1956)
* 1902 - Juscelino Kubitschek, Preses o Brazil (d. 1976)
* 1913 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980)
* 1914 - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)
* 1921 - Stanislaw Lem, Pols writer (d. 2006)
* 1930 - Akira Suzuki, Japanese chemist
* 1931 - Silvia Pinal, Mexican actress
* 1931 - Sir Ian Holm, Inglis actor (d. 2020)
* 1932 - Atli Dam, Prime meenister o the Faroe Islands (d. 2005)
* 1940 - Joachim Frank, German-American biopheesicist, jynt 2017 Nobel laureate
* 1944 - Barry White, American sangster (d. 2003)
* 1949 - Irina Rodnina, Roushie feegur skeitcher an politeecian
* 1951 - Bertie Ahern, Erse Taoiseach
* 1957 - Hans Zimmer, German film componer
* 1959 - Sigmar Gabriel, German politeecian
* 1968 - Paul F. Tompkins, American actor an comedian
* 1969 - Graeme Connal, Scots curler
* 1973 - Paul Walker, American actor (d. 2013)
* 1980 - Yao Ming, Cheenese basketbaw player
* 1981 - Jennifer Hudson, American actress an sangster
* 1986 - Emmy Rossum, American actress
* 1986 - Yuto Nagatomo, Japanese fitbawer
* 1989 - Kieran Merrilees, Scots badminton player
* 1991 - Mike Towell, Scots boxer (d. 2016)
* 1994 - Mhairi Black, Scots politeecian
* 1994 - Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player

## Daiths
* 1362 - Pape Innocent VI (b. 1295)
* 1640 - William Alexander, 1st Yerl o Stirlin, Scots coortier an poet (b. 1567)
* 1764 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French componer (b. 1692)
* 1833 - Thomas Allan, Scots meeneralogist (b. 1777)
* 1854 - David Landsborough, Scots clergyman an naituralist (b. 1779)
* 1981 - Eugenio Montale, Italian writer (b. 1896)
* 1992 - Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)
* 2003 - Johnny Cash, American kintra sangster (b. 1932)
* 2009 - Norman Borlaug, American agronomist (b. 1914)
* 2010 - Claude Chabrol, French filmmaker (b. 1930)
* 2013 - Otto Sander, German actor (b. 1941)
* 2014 - Ian Paisley, Northren Erse politeecian an religious leader (b. 1926)
* 2018 - Rachid Taha, Algerie sangster an activist (b. 1958)

## Halidays
* Ethiopian New Year
* Naitional Day o Cape Verde