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September 12, 2006 Pope Benedict XVI quotes a criticism of the Islamic faith leading to mass protests
September 12, 2005 Hong Kong Disneyland opens
September 12, 1997 New York Met John Olerud hits for the cycle
September 12, 1995 INXS' Michael Hutchence pleads guilty to punching a photographer
September 12, 1994 Cessna crashes in White House front yard
September 12, 1994 Country singer George Jones undergoes triple bypass surgery
September 12, 1994 Parti Quebecois wins parliamentary election
September 12, 1993 113rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Cedric Pioline (64 64 63)
September 12, 1993 Donna Andrews wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
September 12, 1993 Junxia Cheek runs 3000 m ladies world record (8:12.29)
September 12, 1993 Paul Molitor at 37 is oldest to reach 100 RBIs for 1st time in career
September 12, 1993 STS-51 (Discovery) launches into orbit
September 12, 1992 106th U.S. Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A Sanchez Vicario (63 63)
September 12, 1992 Hurricane Inuki pounds Hawaii
September 12, 1992 STS-47 (Endeavour 2) launches
September 12, 1992 Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang in what is believed to be the longest match in U.S. Open history (5hr 26min)
September 12, 1991 Nolan Ryan's 4-3 victory over Twins is his 312th career win
September 12, 1991 Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) launched
September 12, 1990 "Les Miserables," opens at Cirkus Theater, Stockholm
September 12, 1990 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
September 12, 1990 US, England, France, U.S.S.R., East and West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge
September 12, 1989 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
September 12, 1988 1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card
September 12, 1988 Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica
September 12, 1987 101st U.S. Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (76 61)
September 12, 1987 Ethiopia adopts constitution
September 12, 1987 Vince Coleman steals his 100th base for 3rd straight year
September 12, 1986 240.49 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
September 12, 1986 Twins fire manager Ray Miller and replace him with coach Tom Kelly
September 12, 1986 U.S. professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped and held hostage in Beirut
September 12, 1985 Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds
September 12, 1984 Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident
September 12, 1984 Cyndi Lauper sings "She-Bop" on Tonight Show
September 12, 1984 Ethiopia forms socialist republic
September 12, 1984 New York Met Dwight Goodin sets rookie strike out record at 251
September 12, 1983 Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes
September 12, 1983 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
September 12, 1983 Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million
September 12, 1983 U.S.S.R. vetoes United Nations resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane
September 12, 1982 102nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 62 46 64)
September 12, 1982 Gerard Nijboer (2:15:16) and Rosa Mota (2:36:04) win marathon
September 12, 1982 Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
September 12, 1981 95th U.S. Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats M Navratilova (16 76 76)
September 12, 1981 Elizabeth Ward (Arkansas), 20, crowned 54th Miss America 1982
September 12, 1981 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
September 12, 1981 Red Sox rookie Bob Ojeda no-hits Yanks for 8 innings before Rick Cerone and Dave Winfield lead off 9th with back-to-back doubles
September 12, 1980 Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey
September 12, 1979 Carl Yastrzemski, is 15th to get 3,000 hits
September 12, 1979 Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die and $23 million damage
September 12, 1979 Indiana Pacers cut Ann Meyers, 1st woman on an NBA club
September 12, 1978 Fidel Castro visits Addis Abba
September 12, 1978 Situation comedy "Taxi" premieres on ABC television
September 12, 1976 96th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 36 76 64)
September 12, 1976 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
September 12, 1976 Seattle Seahawks play 1st regular-season game (St. L 30, Sea 24)
September 12, 1976 White Sox Minnie Minoso, 53, is oldest to get a hit in majors
September 12, 1974 Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day)
September 12, 1974 Jeff "Skunk" Baxter joins Doobie Brothers
September 12, 1973 2 bettors win largest U.S. Daily Double ($19,909.60 in Detroit)
September 12, 1973 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
September 12, 1972 Lord Michael Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as head of Olympics
September 12, 1971 85th U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Rosemary Casals (64 76)
September 12, 1971 91st U.S. Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Jan Kodes (36 63 62 76)
September 12, 1970 1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport
September 12, 1970 Luna 16 Launch (Moon Sample Return)
September 12, 1970 Phyllis Ann George (Texas), 21, crowned 43rd Miss America 1971
September 12, 1970 Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for 1st time at Heathrow airport
September 12, 1970 U.S. LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail
September 12, 1970 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility
September 12, 1968 Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact
September 12, 1966 "Monkees" premieres on NBC-TV
September 12, 1966 Gemini XI (Charles Conrad and R Gordon) launched for 71-hour flight
September 12, 1966 KPNE TV channel 9 in North Platte, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
September 12, 1966 WCES TV channel 20 in Wrens, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
September 12, 1966 WUSF TV channel 16 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (PBS) 1st broadcast
September 12, 1966 Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich begins teaching
September 12, 1965 79th U.S. Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats Billie Jean King (86 75)
September 12, 1965 85th U.S. Mens Tennis: Manuel Santana beats Cliff Drysdale (62 79 75 61)
September 12, 1965 Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida and Louisiana kills 75
September 12, 1965 Manuel Santana wins U.S. Tennis Open
September 12, 1965 Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open
September 12, 1965 WCEE TV channel 23 in Rockford, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
September 12, 1964 1st football game at Shea Stadium, Jets defeat Denver 30-6
September 12, 1964 Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 27' 4 "
September 12, 1964 Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage
September 12, 1963 WHYY TV channel 12 in Wilmington, DE (PBS) begins broadcasting
September 12, 1962 Washington Senator Tom Cheney strikes out record 21 Orioles in 16 inn game
September 12, 1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m
September 12, 1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
September 12, 1960 "Vintage '60" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City for 8 performances
September 12, 1959 "Bonanza" premieres on NBC-TV
September 12, 1959 Janos Kadar becomes premier of Hungary
September 12, 1959 Luna 2 launched by U.S.S.R.; 1st spacecraft to impact on Moon
September 12, 1958 U.S. Supreme Court orders Little Rock Arkansas high school to integrate
September 12, 1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
September 12, 1957 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus visits U.S.
September 12, 1956 Black students enter and are barred from Clay Kentucky elementary school
September 12, 1955 KNTV TV channel 11 in San Jose, California (ABC) begins broadcasting
September 12, 1954 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open
September 12, 1954 Indians sweep Yanks at Municipal Stadium; largest AL crowd (86,563)
September 12, 1954 WLBZ TV channel 2 in Bangor, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting
September 12, 1954 White Sox win 90th game, 1st time they win this many since 1920
September 12, 1953 "Carnival in Flanders" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 6 performances
September 12, 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers, clinch NL pennant earlier than any other team
September 12, 1953 Nikita Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R. Communist Party
September 12, 1953 Sen John F. Kennedy, 36, marries Jacqueline Bouvier, 24
September 12, 1952 Noel Coward's "Quadrille," premieres in London
September 12, 1950 Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants
September 12, 1949 Theodor Heuss elected 1st pres/Conrad Adenauer 1st PM of German FR
September 12, 1947 Pirate Ralph Kiner hits his record 8th HR in 4 games
September 12, 1946 Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels
September 12, 1944 Hurricane, kills 389 in NC
September 12, 1944 Noorbeek and Mheer freed
September 12, 1944 U.S. Army troops entered Germany for 1st time
September 12, 1943 Free French lands on Corsica
September 12, 1943 Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Mussolini at Gran Sasso
September 12, 1943 German paratroopers, on orders of Adolf Hitler, seize former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government
September 12, 1942 Battle of Edson's Ridge begins at Guadalcanal
September 12, 1942 Free-Poland and Belgium asks pope to condemn nazi-war crimes
September 12, 1941 1st German ship in WW II captured by U.S. ship (Busko)
September 12, 1940 49 die and 200 injured when Hercules Powder Co plant explodes (NJ)
September 12, 1940 Italian troops enter Egypt
September 12, 1940 4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings
September 12, 1938 Adolph Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech
September 12, 1936 50th U.S. Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (46 63 62)
September 12, 1936 56th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J Donald Budge (26 62 86 16 108)
September 12, 1935 55th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wilmer L Allison beats Sidney B Wood (62 62 63)
September 12, 1935 Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph
September 12, 1934 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against U.S.S.R.
September 12, 1933 Alejandro Lerroux forms new Spanish government
September 12, 1933 Dutch parliament accepts ban on uniforms
September 12, 1932 Bkln Dodger Johnny Frederick hits his record 6th pinch hit HR
September 12, 1932 German government of Papen falls/Reichstag dissolved
September 12, 1931 51st U.S. Mens Tennis: H E Vines beats George M Lott, Jr. (79 63 97 75)
September 12, 1930 Brooklyn catcher Al Lopez hits major league's last recorded bounce HR
September 12, 1928 Hurricane in Florida, kills 6,000
September 12, 1928 Katharine Hepburn's New York stage debut in "Night Hostess"
September 12, 1927 Sigmund Romberg's musical "My Maryland," premieres in New York City
September 12, 1925 20th Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (5-0)
September 12, 1923 Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co
September 12, 1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4)
September 12, 1920 7th Olympic games close in Antwerp Belgium
September 12, 1918 During WW I, U.S. forces launch an attack on German-occupied St. Mihiel
September 12, 1914 Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager
September 12, 1912 Dutch Olympian Committee forms (NOC)
September 12, 1911 Boston's Cy Young vs Christy Mathewson of Giants, Giants win 9-0
September 12, 1910 Gustav Mahlers 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians
September 12, 1910 World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD)
September 12, 1908 Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier
September 12, 1907 Lusitania arrives in New York City after 5 day crossing of Atlantic (record)
September 12, 1901 Arabs attack Gedara, Palestine
September 12, 1895 Defender (U.S.) beats Valkyrie III (England) in 10th America's Cup
September 12, 1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Ft. Salisbury)
September 12, 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Greek Interpreter"
September 12, 1885 Highest score (35) recorded in any 1st-class soccer match is set
September 12, 1882 Belgian King Leopold II receives Pierre de Brazza
September 12, 1878 Cleopatra Needle installed in London
September 12, 1876 King Leopold II opens Congo-conference
September 12, 1867 2nd synagogue in Curacao, Emanu-El of Willemstad, inaugurated
September 12, 1862 Battle of Harpers Ferry VA
September 12, 1857 423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC
September 12, 1840 Composer Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck
September 12, 1814 Battle of North Point fought near Baltimore during War of 1812
September 12, 1787 Black Masons form 1st lodge
September 12, 1776 Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission
September 12, 1758 Charles Messier observes Crab Nebula and begins catalog
September 12, 1751 Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto
September 12, 1745 Duke of Toscane chosen German emperor Frans I Stefanus
September 12, 1733 Polish Landowners select Stanislaw Lesczynski king
September 12, 1722 Russian troops occupy Baku and Derbent on Persia
September 12, 1720 Isaak of Hoornbeek elected Dutch pension advisor
September 12, 1703 Emperor Leopold I ends contacts on Spanish heritage
September 12, 1703 English army under arch duke Charles of Austria lands in Portugal
September 12, 1695 New York Jews petition governor Dongan for religious liberties
September 12, 1683 Turkish troops attacks Vienna overthrows by Polish king Sobieski
September 12, 1673 Prince Willem III occupies Naarden
September 12, 1666 Great Fire in London ends, kills 8
September 12, 1639 Viceroy Thomas Wentworth sails back to England
September 12, 1635 Sweden and Poland sign ceasefire Treaty of Stuhmsdorf
September 12, 1624 1st submarine tested (London)
September 12, 1556 Emperor Charles resigns, his brother Ferdinand van Austria takes over
September 12, 1543 Treaty of Venlo: Duke Willem of Gulik and Emperor Charles V
September 12, 1396 Crusaders under earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis
September 12, 1217 French prince Louis and English king Henry III sign peace treaty
September 12, 1213 Battle at Muret: Crusade of Simon de Montfort beat Pedro II of Aragon
September 12, 1015 Henry I becomes earl of Leuven



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