September 12 in History

Historical Events on September 12

1848 Switzerland approves its 1st Constitution and becomes a Federal state.

1942 World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.

1943 World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.

1944 World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities.

1953 U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.

1959 The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.

1962 President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

1983 The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.

2003 Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.

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Famous Birthdays on September 12

1852 H. H. Asquith

1951 Bertie Ahern

1956 Sam Brownback

1959 Scott Brown (politician)

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Famous Deaths on September 12

1992 Anthony Perkins

1993 Raymond Burr

2003 Johnny Cash

2014 Ian Paisley

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