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
- 1683 –Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna – several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
- 1885 –Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional football.
- 1930 –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.
- 1933 –Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
- 1940 –An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.
- 1959 –Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
- 1959 –The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
- 1961 –The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
- 1983 –A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
- 2005 –Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny’s Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
Who were born on September 12?
- 1797 –Samuel Joseph May, American abolitionist (d. 1871)
- 1931 –George Jones, American country music singer
- 1934 –Jaegwon Kim, Korean-born American philosopher
- 1939 –Phillip Ramey, American composer, pianist, and writer on music
- 1944 –Barry White, American singer (d. 2003)
- 1951 –Bertie Ahern, Irish politician
- 1951 –Joe Pantoliano, American actor
- 1973 –Darren Campbell, British athlete
- 1977 –Grant Denyer, Australian television personality and TV Host
- 1977 –Jeff Irwin, American musician
Who died on September 12?
- 1185 –Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1118)
- 1213 –King Peter II of Aragon (b. 1174)
- 1870 –Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836)
- 1919 –Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (b. 1871)
- 1953 –Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
- 1968 –Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b. 1894)
- 1970 –Ottilie Sutro, American duo-pianist with her sister Rose Sutro (b. 1872)
- 1990 –Athene Seyler, English actress and centenarian (b. 1889)
- 2000 –Konrad Kujau, German illustrator and forger of the Hitler Diaries (b. 1938)
- 2009 –Jack Kramer, American tennis player (b. 1921)
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