About September 12
September 12, 2024 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.
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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 139 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.
- 1848 –Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
- 1874 –The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
- 1890 –Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
- 1897 –Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi.
- 1906 –The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 1948 –Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah’s death.
- 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.
- 1964 –Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
- 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.
- 1980 –Military coup in Turkey.
- 1990 –The 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 re-unification.
- 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.
- 2007 –Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
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