All Events

Historical Events on September 12

  • Laconia incident

    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.

  • Bajina Bašta

    1944

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

  • St. Mary's Church Complex (Newport, Rhode Island)

    1953

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

  • Lunik II

    1959

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

  • Rastafari movement

    1974

    Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.

  • Los Macheteros

    1983

    A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.

  • Korean Air Lines Flight 007

    1983

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

  • Pan Am Flight 103

    2003

    The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

  • Fallujah

    2003

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

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Famous Deaths on September 12

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