The 12t o September is the 255t day o the year (256t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 110 days bidin.
Events
1940 : Cave pentins in the Lascaux 1964 : Canyonlands Naitional Pairk 1966 : Gemini 11 launch1609 - 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
Joachim Frank Bertie Ahern Mhairi Black 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 chemist1931 - Silvia Pinal , Mexican actress1931 - 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 politeecian1951 - Bertie Ahern , Erse Taoiseach 1957 - Hans Zimmer , German film componer1959 - Sigmar Gabriel , German politeecian1968 - Paul F. Tompkins , American actor an comedian1969 - Graeme Connal , Scots curler1973 - Paul Walker , American actor (d. 2013 )1980 - Yao Ming , Cheenese basketbaw player1981 - Jennifer Hudson , American actress an sangster1986 - Emmy Rossum , American actress1986 - Yuto Nagatomo , Japanese fitbawer1989 - Kieran Merrilees , Scots badminton player1991 - Mike Towell , Scots boxer (d. 2016 )1994 - Mhairi Black , Scots politeecian1994 - 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 )
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