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Historical events on September 12

SEPTEMBER 12, 1995
Hurricane Ismael formed off the southwest coast of Mexico; it went on to kill over a hundred people in the country.
Hurricane Ismael was a weak, but deadly Pacific hurricane that killed over one hundred people in northern Mexico in September of the Read More
SEPTEMBER 12, 1977
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died after being beaten in police custody in Port Elizabeth.
Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to the early Read More
SEPTEMBER 12, 1942
RMS Laconia was sunk by a U-boat off the coast of West Africa, which then attempted to rescue the passengers as it was acting under the old prize rules.
RMS Laconia was a Cunard ocean liner, built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson as a successor of the 1911–1917 RMS Laconia. The Read More
SEPTEMBER 12, 1910
Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire and popularly known as the "Symphony of a Thousand", was first performed in Munich (1916 performers pictured).
Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as Read More
SEPTEMBER 12, 1942
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the Battle of Edson's Ridge in an effort to retake Henderson Field on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands from the Allies.
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all Read More
SEPTEMBER 12, 2008
A Metrolink train collided head-on with a freight train in Los Angeles, California, resulting in 25 deaths and 135 injuries; the Metrolink driver had passed through a red signal, having likely been distracted by text messaging.
Metrolink is a commuter rail system in Southern California, serving Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties, as well as Read More
SEPTEMBER 12, 1309
Reconquista: Castilian forces captured Gibraltar from the Emirate of Granada.
The Reconquista or the fall of al-Andalus was a series of military and cultural campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Read More
SEPTEMBER 12, 2003
Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.
Typhoon Maemi or, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Pogi, was the most powerful typhoon to strike South Korea since record-keeping Read More
SEPTEMBER 12, 1952
Three boys in Flatwoods, West Virginia, U.S., reported seeing a ten-foot-tall (3 m) monster in the woods while investigating a UFO.
Flatwoods is a town in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States, located approximately one mile from exit 67 of Interstate 79. (Image Credits)
SEPTEMBER 12, 1846
The English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (both pictured) married in secret to avoid their disapproving families before moving to Italy.
Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for Read More
SEPTEMBER 12, 1933
Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard conceived of the idea of the nuclear chain reaction while waiting for a traffic light in Bloomsbury, London.
Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-born physicist, biologist and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences. He Read More
SEPTEMBER 12, 1992
Aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, American Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to travel to space.
Space Shuttle Endeavour is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational Shuttle built. It embarked Read More
SEPTEMBER 12, 379
Yax Nuun Ahiin I took the throne as the ruler (ajaw) of the Mayan city of Tikal.
Yax Nuun Ahiin I, also known as Curl Snout and Curl Nose, was a 4th-century ruler of the Maya city of Tikal. Read More
SEPTEMBER 12, 1928
The Okeechobee hurricane first struck the island of Guadeloupe; eventually it reached the United States and caused over 4,000 deaths overall.
The Okeechobee hurricane of 1928, also known as the San Felipe Segundo hurricane and Florida's Forgotten Storm, was one of the deadliest Read More
SEPTEMBER 12, 1948
The People's Liberation Army launched the Liaoshen campaign, the first of the three major military campaigns during the late stage of the Chinese Civil War.
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). It Read More
SEPTEMBER 12, 1983
The clandestine Boricua Popular Army staged a bank robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, making off with $7 million in the largest cash theft in U.S. history at the time.
The Ejército Popular Boricua, also known as Los Macheteros, is a clandestine militant and insurgent organization based in Puerto Rico, with cells Read More
SEPTEMBER 12, 1962
In a speech at Rice Stadium in Houston, U.S. president John F. Kennedy reiterated an aspiration to land a man on the Moon before 1970.
Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, commonly known by the sentence in the middle of the speech "We choose Read More

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