Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 12

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  Flag of Cape Verde
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  Leó Szilárd
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  John III Sobieski
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  King Jan III Sobieski of Poland near Vienna
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  Gustav Mahler
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  Süleyman Demirel
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  Mae Jemison
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  Hinton St Mary Mosaic
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  Haile Selassie
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  Metrolink train wreck
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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning

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{{<!--If next year is a leap year-->#ifexpr:{{IsLeapYear| {{CURRENTYEAR}} +1}}|New Year's Day in the Coptic and the Ethiopian calendars (2026);}}	Coptic: refimprove; Ethiopian: no footnotes
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.	refimprove section
1683 – Great Turkish War: Polish troops led by [[John III Sobieski|Template:Nowrap Sobieski]] joined forces with a Habsburg army to defeat the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vienna.	refimprove section
1814 – War of 1812: Although the Maryland Militia lost the Battle of North Point, they delayed the British advance against Baltimore, buying time for the defense of the city.	refimprove
1848 – Switzerland became a federal state with the adoption of the Swiss Federal Constitution.	Lots of cn
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.	unreferenced section
1963 – The Roman Hinton St Mary Mosaic, containing a likely fourth-century depiction of Jesus, was discovered.	refimprove
1974 – Emperor [[Haile Selassie|Haile Template:Nowrap of Ethiopia]] was deposed by the Derg, a military junta.	refimprove section
1980 – The Turkish Armed Forces ousted prime minister Süleyman Demirel and ruled the country for three years before democracy was restored.	unreferenced section
1990 – The Two Plus Four Agreement was signed in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.	unreferenced section
1992 – Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Peruvian Maoist guerrilla organization Shining Path, was captured in Lima.	refimprove section
2007 – Former Philippine president Joseph Estrada was convicted of plunder and sentenced to reclusión perpetua.	unreferenced section, refimprove section
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher |b|1739|	Birthday not cited
Peter Scheemakers |d|1781	refimprove section
Philip Francis Thomas |b|1810|	Birthday uncited
George Reid |d|1918|	Prime Ministerial tenure is empty and has no sources
Bengt Feldreich|b|1925|	Birthday not cited
Johnny Cash |d|2003|	Too much uncited, deathdate uncited.
Atef Ebeid |d|2014	Only one sentence on being prime minister

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• 379 – Yax Nuun Ahiin I took the throne as the ruler (ajaw) of the Mayan city of Tikal.
• 1846 – The English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (both pictured) married in secret to avoid their disapproving families before moving to Italy.
• 1910 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire and popularly known as the "Symphony of a Thousand", was first performed in Munich (1916 performers pictured).
• 1928 – The Okeechobee hurricane first struck the island of Guadeloupe; eventually it reached the United States and caused over 4,000 deaths overall.
• 1933 – Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard conceived of the idea of the nuclear chain reaction while waiting for a traffic light in Bloomsbury, London.
• 1942 – RMS Laconia was sunk by a U-boat off the coast of West Africa, which then attempted to rescue the passengers as it was acting under the old prize rules.
• 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the Battle of Edson's Ridge in an effort to retake Henderson Field on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands from the Allies.
• 1948 – The People's Liberation Army launched the Liaoshen campaign, the first of the three major military campaigns during the late stage of the Chinese Civil War.
• 1952 – Three boys in Flatwoods, West Virginia, U.S., reported seeing a ten-foot-tall (3 m) monster in the woods while investigating a UFO.
• 1977 – South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died after being beaten in police custody in Port Elizabeth.
• 1983 – The clandestine Boricua Popular Army staged a bank robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, making off with Template:Nowrap in the largest cash theft in U.S. history at the time.
• 1992 – Aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, American Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to travel to space.
• 1995 – Hurricane Ismael formed off the southwest coast of Mexico; it went on to kill over a hundred people in the country.
• 2003 – Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.
• 2015 – An explosion involving illegally stored mining detonators in Petlawad, India, killed 104 people and injured more than 150 others.
• Born/died this day: | Parsley Peel |d|1795| Alice Ayres |b|1859| Carl Eytel |b|1862| Grace Macurdy |b|1866| Peter Mark Roget |b|1869| Fitz Hugh Ludlow |d|1870| Ion Agârbiceanu |b|1882| Irène Joliot-Curie |b|1897| Walter Woon|b|1956| Leslie Cheung |b|1956| Scott Brown |b|1959| Dino Merlin |b|1962| Tarana Burke |b|1973| Steve Biko |d|1977| Raymond Burr |d|1993|

Notes

• Battle of Baltimore appears on September 13, so Battle of North Point should not appear in the same year

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• 1309 – Reconquista: Castilian forces captured Gibraltar from the Emirate of Granada.
• 1885 – The Scottish Cup match between Arbroath and Bon Accord ended 36–0, which is still a world record for an unrigged professional association football match.
• 1962 – In a speech at Rice Stadium in Houston, U.S. president John F. Kennedy reiterated an aspiration to land a man on the Moon before 1970 (video featured).
• 2003 – The first public release of Steam, a distribution service for computer games, was made available for download.
• 2008 – A Metrolink train collided head-on with a freight train in Los Angeles, California, resulting in 25 deaths and 135 injuries; the Metrolink driver had passed through a red signal, having likely been distracted by text messaging.