The 12t o September is the 255t day o the year (256t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 110 days bidin.
1940 : Cave pentins in the Lascaux
1964 : Canyonlands Naitional Pairk
1966 : Gemini 11 launch
1609 - Henry Hudson splores the Hudson River .
1689 - Peter the Great taks absolute power in Roushie .
1848 - Swisserland becomes a federal state.
1857 - The ship "SS Central America" sinks aboot 160 mile east o Cape Hatteras , North Carolina , killin a total o 426 fowk.
1885 - Arbroath F.C. defeats Bon Accord 36-0 in a record fitbaa scoreline.
1890 - Salisbury (nou Harare , caipital o Zimbabwe ) is foondit.
1905 - Japanese battleship "Mikasa" sinks efter a muneetions splosion, killin 256 oot o the 935 men on baird.
1918 - Breetish passenger ship "Galway Castle" is torpedoed bi a German U-boat aff Land's End, Cornwall , killin 143 fowk.
1920 - The 1920 Simmer Olympics in Antwerp end.
1928 - A hurricane hits Guadeloupe , killin 1,200 fowk.
1940 - Discovery o cave pentins in the Lascaux , in the Sooth o Fraunce .
1940 - A splosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenil, New Jersey , Unitit States , kills 51 fowk an injures 200.
1944 - Warld War II : American troops enters Germany naur Trier .
1945 - German fitbaw team VfL Wolfsburg is foondit.
1949 - Theodor Heuss becomes the first Preses o the Federal Republic o Germany .
1953 - Waddin o John F. Kennedy an Jacqueline Bouvier .
1959 - Heinrich Lübke becomes the 2nt Preses o the Federal Republic o Germany .
1959 - The Soviet Union launches the Luna 2 probe.
1964 - The Canyonlands Naitional Pairk in Utah , Unitit States , is creatit.
1966 - The Gemini 11 spacecraft is launched.
1974 - Haile Selassie is overthrown in Ethiopie .
1990 - The Faroe Islands defeat Austrick 1-0 in a surprise fitbaa result.
1990 - East Germany plays its last internaitional fitbaa match, defeatin Belgium 2-0.
1992 - Mae Jemison becomes the first black woman in space.
2005 - Hong Kong Disneyland Resort offeecially opens.
2007 - Scotland defeats Fraunce 1-0 away in a surprise fitbaa result, wi a goal bi James McFadden .
2011 - A gas pipeline splosion in Nairobi , Kenyae , kills ower 100 fowk.
2015 - Jeremy Corbyn becomes leader o the Labour Pairty in the Unitit Kinrick .
2015 - A splosion in Petlawad, Wastren Madhya Pradesh , Indie , kills 105 fowk.
2018 - The European Pairlament votes tae tak action against the richt-wing govrenment o Hungary ower concerns aboot human richts an rule o law in the kintra.
Joachim Frank
Bertie Ahern
Mhairi Black
1492 - Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke o Urbino , Florentine statesman (d. 1519 )
1494 - Keeng Francis I o Fraunce (d. 1547 )
1811 - William Bell Scott , Scots airtist (d. 1890 )
1852 - H. H. Asquith , Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1928 )
1861 - Robert Younger, Baron Blanesburgh , Scots barrister an juidge (d. 1946 )
1871 - John Campbell , Scots fitbawer (d. 1947 )
1888 - Maurice Chevalier , French actor an sangster (d. 1972 )
1893 - Jimmy McStay , Scots fitbawer (d. 1974 )
1897 - Irène Joliot-Curie , French pheesicist an chemist (d. 1956 )
1902 - Juscelino Kubitschek , Preses o Brazil (d. 1976 )
1913 - Jesse Owens , American athlete (d. 1980 )
1914 - Desmond Llewelyn , Welsh actor (d. 1999 )
1921 - Stanislaw Lem , Pols writer (d. 2006 )
1930 - Akira Suzuki , Japanese chemist
1931 - Silvia Pinal , Mexican actress
1931 - Sir Ian Holm , Inglis actor (d. 2020 )
1932 - Atli Dam , Prime meenister o the Faroe Islands (d. 2005 )
1940 - Joachim Frank , German-American biopheesicist, jynt 2017 Nobel laureate
1944 - Barry White , American sangster (d. 2003 )
1949 - Irina Rodnina , Roushie feegur skeitcher an politeecian
1951 - Bertie Ahern , Erse Taoiseach
1957 - Hans Zimmer , German film componer
1959 - Sigmar Gabriel , German politeecian
1968 - Paul F. Tompkins , American actor an comedian
1969 - Graeme Connal , Scots curler
1973 - Paul Walker , American actor (d. 2013 )
1980 - Yao Ming , Cheenese basketbaw player
1981 - Jennifer Hudson , American actress an sangster
1986 - Emmy Rossum , American actress
1986 - Yuto Nagatomo , Japanese fitbawer
1989 - Kieran Merrilees , Scots badminton player
1991 - Mike Towell , Scots boxer (d. 2016 )
1994 - Mhairi Black , Scots politeecian
1994 - Elina Svitolina , Ukrainian tennis player
1362 - Pape Innocent VI (b. 1295 )
1640 - William Alexander, 1st Yerl o Stirlin , Scots coortier an poet (b. 1567 )
1764 - Jean-Philippe Rameau , French componer (b. 1692 )
1833 - Thomas Allan , Scots meeneralogist (b. 1777 )
1854 - David Landsborough , Scots clergyman an naituralist (b. 1779 )
1981 - Eugenio Montale , Italian writer (b. 1896 )
1992 - Anthony Perkins , American actor (b. 1932 )
2003 - Johnny Cash , American kintra sangster (b. 1932 )
2009 - Norman Borlaug , American agronomist (b. 1914 )
2010 - Claude Chabrol , French filmmaker (b. 1930 )
2013 - Otto Sander , German actor (b. 1941 )
2014 - Ian Paisley , Northren Erse politeecian an religious leader (b. 1926 )
2018 - Rachid Taha , Algerie sangster an activist (b. 1958 )