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This day in history: 12 September

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390 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 12 September.
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2021: Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 crashes short of the runway at Kazachinskoye Airport, killing four.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Ailbe (Elvis, Eilfyw) of Emly

Christian feast day: Blessed Thomas of Zumárraga

Christian feast day: Guy of Anderlecht

Christian feast day: John Henry Hobart (Episcopal Church (USA))

Christian feast day: Laisrén mac Nad Froích

Christian feast day: Sacerdos of Lyon

Christian feast day: September 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: The Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Commemoration of the mass hanging of the Saint Patrick's Battalion (Mexico)

Day of Conception (Russia)

Defenders Day (Maryland, United States)

Enkutatash falls on this day if it is a leap year. Celebrated on the first day of Mäskäräm. (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rastafari)

Events

2021Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 crashes short of the runway at Kazachinskoye Airport, killing four.

2014The Synagogue Church building collapse results in the deaths of 115 people and several injured, in the Church run by Nigeria's T. B. Joshua.

2013NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.

2012Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 crashes on approach to Palana Airport, killing 10 and injuring four.

2008The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.

2007Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder.

2007Two earthquakes measuring 8.4 and 7.9 on the Richter Scale hits the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing 25 people and injuring 161.

2005Israeli–Palestinian conflict: the Israeli disengagement from Gaza is completed, leaving some 2,530 homes demolished.

2003Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.

2003The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

2003Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.

2001Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.

1994Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West Wing. There were no other casualties.

1993NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51.

1992Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.

1992NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47, which marks 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 spacecraft, and Mark L

1991NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-48 to deploy the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.

1990The Red Cross organizations of mainland China and Taiwan sign the Kinmen Agreement on repatriation of illegal immigrants and criminal suspects after two days of talks in Kinmen, Fujian Province in response to the two tragedies in repatriati

1990The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.

1988Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.

1984Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by Herb Score with 246 in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.

1983A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.

1983The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.

1980Florida Commuter Airlines Flight 65 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off West End, Bahamas, killing 34 people.

1980The 43rd government of Turkey is overthrown in a coup d'état led by General Kenan Evren.

1977South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.

1974Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.

1970Dawson's Field hijackings: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Zarqa, Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.

1969Philippine Air Lines Flight 158 crashes in Antipolo, near Manila International Airport in the Philippines, killing 45 people.

1966Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions and Artemis II).

1962US President John F. Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.

1961Air France Flight 2005 crashes near Rabat–Salé Airport, in Rabat, Morocco, killing 77 people.

1961The African and Malagasy Union is founded.

1959Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color, is launched in the United States.

1959The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the Moon.

1958Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.

1953U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.

1944World War II: The liberation of Yugoslavia from Axis occupation continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities.

1943World War II: Benito Mussolini is rescued from house arrest by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.

1942World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army troops.

Born on this day

2001Ziaire Williams, American basketball player

1999Jerome Ford, American football player

1997Almida de Val, Swedish curler

1997Sydney Sweeney, American actress

1996Colin Ford, American actor

1995Steven Gardiner, Bahamian sprinter

1994Druski, American comedian and actor

1994Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player

1994Mohammed Asif, Indian sailor and researcher

1994RM, South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer

1993Kelsea Ballerini, American country pop singer

1992Alexia Fast, Canadian actress

1992Sviatlana Pirazhenka, Belarusian tennis player

1991Mike Towell, Scottish professional boxer (died 2016)

1991Scott Wootton, English footballer

1989Andrew Luck, American football player

1989Freddie Freeman, American-Canadian baseball player

1988Amanda Jenssen, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist

1988Guðmundur Ari Sigurjónsson, Icelandic politician

1986Alfie Allen, English actor

1986Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter

1986Emmy Rossum, American singer and actress

1986Joanne Jackson, English swimmer

1986Yuto Nagatomo, Japanese footballer

1984Chelsea Carey, Canadian curler

1984Nashat Akram, Iraqi footballer

1984Petra Marklund, Swedish singer

1983Carly Smithson, Irish singer-songwriter

1983Clayton Richard, American baseball player

1983Daniel Muir, American football player

1983Niels Tas, Belgian politician

1983Sergio Parisse, Argentinian-Italian rugby player

1983Tom Geißler, German footballer

1982Sal Rinauro, American wrestler

1982Zoran Planinić, Croatian basketball player

1981Jennifer Hudson, American singer and actress

1981Staciana Stitts, American swimmer

1980Fernando César de Souza, Brazilian footballer

1980Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player (died 2011)

1980Kevin Sinfield, English rugby player

Died on this day

2026George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer (born 1937)

2024Sitaram Yechury, Indian politician and leader of CPI(M) (born 1952)

2019Elsie Vartanian, American politician and director of the United States Women's Bureau (born 1930)

2019ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, Tongan politician and activist, Prime Minister of Tonga (born 1941)

2018Shen Chun-shan, Taiwanese academic (born 1932)

2017Allan MacEachen, Canadian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (born 1921)

2017Edith Windsor, American LGBT rights activist and technology manager at IBM (born 1929)

2015Claudia Card, American philosopher and academic (born 1940)

2014Atef Ebeid, Egyptian academic and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (born 1932)

2014Ian Paisley, Northern Irish evangelical pastor (Free Presbyterian Church) and politician, 2nd First Minister of Northern Ireland (born 1926)

2014Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (born 1939)

2014John Gustafson, English singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1942)

2013Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (born 1946)

2013Erich Loest, German author and screenwriter (born 1926)

2013Ray Dolby, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (born 1933)

2013Warren Giese, American football player, coach, and politician (born 1924)

2012Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Russian poet and author (born 1946)

2012Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and screenwriter (born 1938)

2012Tom Sims, American skateboarder and snowboarder, founded Sims Snowboards (born 1950)

2011Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (born 1985)

2010Claude Chabrol, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1930)

2010Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (born 1946)

2009Jack Kramer, American tennis player and sportscaster (born 1921)

2009Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)

2009Willy Ronis, French photographer and author (born 1910)

2008Bob Quinn, Australian footballer and coach (born 1915)

2008David Foster Wallace, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1962)

2007Bobby Byrd, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1934)

2005Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (born 1927)

2003Arthur Johnson, canoeist (born 1921)

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