September 12: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1683 - Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna - several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
2. 1814 - Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
3. 1940 - Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
4. 1959 - The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
5. 1979 - Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
6. 1983 - A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 2005 - Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
10. 2007 - Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
11. Famous Birthdays: Benjamin Carr (American composer, singer, teacher, and music publisher), Irene Joliot-Curie (French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry), Yao Ming (Chinese basketball player), Emmy Rossum (American actress and singer), Andrew Luck (American football player)

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