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On this day September 12

2015


A series of explosions involving propane triggering nearby illegally stored mining detonators in the Indian town of Petlawad in the state of Madhya Pradesh(मध्य प्रदेश) kills at least 105 people with over 150 injured.

2014


Three-year-old William Tyrrell disappears in Kendall, New South Wales, Australia

2011


The 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City opens to the public.

2008


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

2007


Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder.

2003


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

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.

2001


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

1994


Frank 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.

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.

1992


NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked 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 spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.

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 reunification.

1988


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

1984


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

1983


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

1983


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

1980


Military coup in Turkey.

1977


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

1974


Juventude Africana Amílcar 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.

1970


Dawson's Field hijackings: Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.

1966


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

1962


President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

1961


The African and Malagasy Union is founded.

1959


Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.

1959


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

1958


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

1953


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

1952


Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.

1944


World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities.

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.

1942


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

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.

1940


An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.

1940


Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.

1938


Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

1933


Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.

1923


Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.

1919


Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers' Party (later the Nazi Party).

1915


French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.

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)

1906


The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.

1897


Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi.

1890


Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.

1885


Arbroath 36-0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional Association football.

1857


The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13-15 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush.

1848


Switzerland approves its 1st Constitution and becomes a Federal state.

1847


Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.

1846


Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.

1814


Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.

1683


Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna: Several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.

1634


A gunpowder factory explodes in Valletta, Malta, killing 22 people and damaging several buildings.

1609


Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.

1309


The First Siege of Gibraltar takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada resulting in a Castilian victory.

1229


Battle of Portopí: The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.

1213


Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.

1185


Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos brutally put to death in Constantinople.

372


Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Xiaowudi, age 10, succeeds his father Jin Jianwendi as Emperor of the Eastern Jin dynasty.

490 BC


Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies, defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.

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