| Date | Name | Location / Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Day for South-South Cooperation |  | ||
| National Day |  | ||
| St. John the Baptist Day | |||
| Geez New Year | |||
| Mid-Autumn Festival Day 1 | |||
| Eid al-Adha |  | ||
| Coptic New Year | |||
| Ethiopian New Year | |||
| National Video Game Day |  | ||
| National Chocolate Milkshake Day |  | ||
| National Day of Encouragement |  | ||
| National Report Medicare Fraud Day |  | ||
| Indra Jatra | |||
| Chuseok Holiday |  | ||
| National Police Woman Day |  | ||
Historical Events on September 12
- 1814: As the British attempt to advance in Baltimore, American forces halt their momentum at the Battle of North Point during the War of 1812.
- 1846: Poet Elizabeth Barret elopes with playwright Robert Browning.
- 1847: During the Mexican American War, the battle of Chapultepec starts.
- 1857: Around 160-miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, the SS Central America sinks. A total of 426 people – both passengers and crew – drown. This includes Capt. William Lewis Herndon. The SS Central America was carrying approximately 14 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush.
- 1919: Adolf Hitler joins the German Worker’s Party on this day. This party would later become the Nazi Party.
- 1923: Southern Rhodesia is annexed by the U.K. Today, this country is known as Zimbabwe.
- 1933: Leó Szilárd comes up with the idea behind nuclear chain reactions while he’s waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury.
- 1939: Adolf Hitler demands self-determination for Germans living in the Sudetenland of
- 1940: In Lascaux, France, cave paintings are discovered.
- 1942: The RMS Laconia is torpedoed off of the coast of West Africa killing civilians, Italian POWs and Allied soldiers.
- 1943: Led by Austrian SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lt. Colonel) Otto Skorzeny, a rescue operation is undertaken by German commandos to free the dictator of Italy, Benito Mussolini from house arrest in Gran Sasso.
- 1952: an unexplained sighting of an unidentified extraterrestrial is seen by residents in Flatwoods, Virginia.
- 1953: United States Senator and future U.S President John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
- 1962: United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy gives a now famous speech at Rice University that affirms that the United States will put a man on the moon before the conclusion of the decade.
Famous Birthdays on September 12
- Nobel Prize laureate, French chemist and physicist Irene Joliot-Curie is born in 1897.
- American mathematician and logician Haskell Curry is born in 1900.
- American race car driver Lou Moore is born in 1904.
- Irish poet and playwright Louis MacNeice is born in 1907.
- American Olympic sprinter and long jumper Jesse Owens is born in 1913.
- American singer-songwriter Barry White is born in 1944.
- American conductor John Mauceri is born in 1945.
- English engineer David Grant is born in 1947.