What are the important events that happened on September 12? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 12: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 12 is the 256th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 110 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 30, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,768,320 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectapentacontahexagon’ day.
Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 139 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,283 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 12 Historical Events
- 1213 –Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.
- 1974 –Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
- 1980 –Military coup in Turkey.
- 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.
- 1992 –NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
- 2001 –Ansett Australia, Australia’s first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
Who were born on September 12?
- 1901 –Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (d. 1975)
- 1916 –Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961)
- 1950 –Cynthia Myers, American model
- 1952 –Gerry Beckley, American musician (America)
- 1971 –Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and composer
- 1972 –Sidney, Brazilian footballer
- 1973 –Darren Campbell, British athlete
- 1982 –Zoran Planinic, Croatian basketball player
- 1983 –Rami Haikal, Jordanian guitarist
- 1986 –Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
Who died on September 12?
- 1764 –Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (b. 1683)
- 1870 –Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836)
- 1907 –Ilia Chavchavadze, founding father of modern Georgia (b. 1837)
- 1918 –George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
- 1923 –Jules Violle, French physicist and inventor (b. 1841)
- 1929 –Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)
- 1938 –Prince Arthur of Connaught (b. 1883)
- 1953 –Lewis Stone, American character actor (b. 1879)
- 1967 –Vladimir Bartol, Slovene writer (b. 1903)
- 2009 –Jack Kramer, American tennis player (b. 1921)
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