Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 12
This is a list of selected September 12 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland -
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Gustav Mahler -
Süleyman Demirel
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1683 – Great Turkish War: Polish troops led by John III Sobieski (pictured) joined forces with a Habsburg army to defeat the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vienna. | refimprove |
| 1933 – Hungarian-American physicist Leó Szilárd conceived of the idea of the nuclear chain reaction while waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, London. | Need to verify date |
| 1942 – ''Laconia'' incident: A U-boat sank RMS Laconia with a torpedo off the coast of West Africa and attempted to rescue the passengers, which included some 80 civilians, 160 Polish and 268 British soldiers and about 1800 Italian POWs. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1977 – South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko was killed in police custody. | Tagged with {{prune}} |
| 1990 – The Two Plus Four Agreement was signed in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification. | Tagged with {{Onesource}} |
Eligible
- 1910 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 was first performed in Munich.
- 1940 – Four teenagers discovered the Lascaux caves near Montignac, in the Dordogne département of France, containing cave paintings that are estimated to be 17,300 years old.
- 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the Battle of Edson's Ridge in an effort to Henderson Field on Guadalcanal.
- 1974 – Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia was deposed by the Derg, a military junta.
- 1992 – Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Peruvian Maoist guerrilla organization Shining Path, was captured in Lima.
- 1983 – The clandestine group Boricua Popular Army staged a bank robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, US, making off with $7 million in the largest cash theft in U.S. history at the time.
September 12: Mid-Autumn Festival (Chinese calendar, 2011); National Day in Cape Verde
- 490 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Athenians and their Plataean allies turned back the first Persian invasion of Greece in the Battle of Marathon.
- 1609 – While sailing aboard the Halve Maen, Englishman Henry Hudson began his exploration of the Hudson River, laying the foundation for Dutch colonization of present-day New York.
- 1848 – Switzerland became a federal state with the adoption of a new constitution.
- 1980 – The Turkish Armed Forces ousted Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel and would rule the country for three years before democracy was restored.
- 1992 – Aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, American Mae Jemison (pictured) became the first black woman in space.
- 2007 – Former Philippine president Joseph Estrada was convicted of plunder and sentenced to reclusión perpetua.