About September 12
September 12, 2025 is the 255th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 110 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Virgo is the sun 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 158 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 12
- 1609 –Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
- 1814 –Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
- 1846 –Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
- 1874 –The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
- 1890 –Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
- 1897 –Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi.
- 1919 –Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party.
- 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.
- 1940 –An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
- 1948 –Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah’s death.
- 1958 –Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
- 1959 –Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
- 1964 –Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
- 1974 –Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
- 1974 –Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, ‘Messiah’of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
- 1977 –South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.
- 1999 –Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
- 2003 –The 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.
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