12th September anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1852
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Herbert Asquith, British Prime Minister."
  • 1880
  • United States
  • "Birth of H L Mencken, American journalist." more
  • 1907
  • "Birth of Louis MacNeice, Irish-born British poet"
• event
  • 1609
  • English explorer Henry Hudson began exploring the river that would later be named after him the Hudson River
  • 1846
  • United Kingdom
  • Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett elope. more
  • 1885
  • Great Britain
  • "Arbroath beat Bon Accord 36 - 0, the all time record scoreline in professional football." more
  • 1906
  • Great Britain
  • "Opening of the Newport (Gwent) Transporter Bridge, now one of only 6 such bridges still operational." more
  • 1919
  • Adolf Hitler joined the fledgling German Workers Party which would later become the Nazi Party
  • 1933
  • Hungary
  • Hungarian-American physicist Leó Szilárd conceived the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. more
  • 1940
  • France
  • "The stunning ancient cave paintings were discovered in Lascaux, France." more
  • 1960
  • Great Britain
  • MOT tests on motor vehicles introduced in Britain. more
  • 1970
  • Great Britain
  • First landing of Concorde at London Heathrow Airport
  • 2005
  • Great Britain
  • England regain the 'Ashes' after a gripping Test series (but are whitewashed 5-0 in the return series in Australia 2007)
• Death
  • 1362
  • France
  • Death of Pope Innocent VI more
  • 1764
  • France
  • "Death of Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer." more
  • 1977
  • "Death of Steve Biko, South African civil rights leader"
  • 1977
  • United States
  • "Death of Robert Lowell, American poet" more
  • 1993
  • "Death of Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (‘Perry Mason’, ‘Ironside’) ."