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| Birthday September 12, 1818 Richard Jordan Gatling, US inventor of hand-cranked machine gun |
| Birthday September 12, 1829 Charles Dudley Warner, US newspaperman, author |
| Birthday September 12, 1852 H.H. Asquith (Liberal), British prime minister (1908-16) |
| Birthday September 12, 1880 Henry L. Mencken, newspaperman, critic, Baltimore's son |
| Birthday September 12, 1888 Maurice Chevalier, thanked heaven for little girls (Gigi) |
| Birthday September 12, 1892 Alfred A. Knopf, US publisher |
| Birthday September 12, 1902 Margaret Hamilton, wicked witch of the west |
| Birthday September 12, 1913 Jesse Owens, spoiled Hitler's 1936 Olympics |
| Birthday September 12, 1920 Irene Daily, ( Another World) |
| Birthday September 12, 1921 Stanislaw Lem, Polish science-fiction writer |
| Birthday September 12, 1921 Am!lcar Cabral, worked for independence of Portuguese Africa |
| Birthday September 12, 1924 Howard Curtis Nelson, (R-Ut-Rep) |
| Birthday September 12, 1931 George Jones, Country singer |
| Birthday September 12, 1940 Stephen J. Solarz, (D-NY-Rep) |
| Birthday September 12, 1940 Linda Gray, in Santa Monica |
| Birthday September 12, 1943 Maria Muldaur, in Greenwich Village (Midnight at the Oasis) |
| Birthday September 12, 1944 Barry White, singer |
| Birthday September 12, 1944 Barry White is born |
| Birthday September 12, 1954 Russell G. Alexander, creator of Today In History ! |
| History September 12, 0490 BC Athenians defeat 2nd Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon. |
| History September 12, 1609 Henry Hudson discovers Hudson River. |
| History September 12, 1649 Drogheda Ireland falls to Puritan troops; inhabitants massacred. |
| History September 12, 1758 Charles Messier observes the Crab Nebula and begins catalog. |
| History September 12, 1777 Congress receives news of defeat at Brandywine |
| History September 12, 1846 Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning elope |
| History September 12, 1861 The First Battle of Lexington, Missouri, begins |
| History September 12, 1918 U.S. launches Saint-Mihiel offensive |
| History September 12, 1941 1st German ship in WW2 captured by US ship (Busko) |
| History September 12, 1942 The Laconia is sunk |
| History September 12, 1951 Sugar Ray Robinson wins back belt |
| History September 12, 1953 John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island |
| History September 12, 1953 Khrushchev elected Soviet leader |
| History September 12, 1953 JFK marries Jacqueline Bouvier |
| History September 12, 1953 Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of the Communist Party |
| History September 12, 1954 Indians sweep Yanks at Municipal Largest AL crowd 86 563 |
| History September 12, 1959 Luna 1 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on the moon. |
| History September 12, 1959 Situation deteriorates in South Vietnam |
| History September 12, 1959 Bonanza premiers |
| History September 12, 1966 The Monkees premiers |
| History September 12, 1966 Gemini XI launched |
| History September 12, 1970 USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility. |
| History September 12, 1972 U.S. intelligence agencies report 100,000 troops in the South |
| History September 12, 1972 Hopalong Cassidy rides off into his last sunset |
| History September 12, 1974 Violence in Boston over racial busing |
| History September 12, 1974 coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day). |
| History September 12, 1977 Steven Biko dies |
| History September 12, 1986 240.49 million shares traded in the NY Stock Exchange |
| History September 12, 1988 Hurricane Gilbert slams Jamaica |
| History September 12, 1990 German occupation rights are relinquished |
| History September 12, 1993 New floating bridge opens in Seattle; I-90 stretches from coast to coast |
| History September 12, 2002 Tyco execs indicted |
| History September 12, 2004 Season One of Entourage–a TV show about life in Hollywood–comes to an end |