| September 12 |
| 490 BC |
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Athenian and Plataean Hoplites commanded by General Miltiades drive back a Persian invasion force under General Datis at Marathon. |
| 1213 |
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Simon de Montfort defeats Raymond of Toulouse and Peter II of Aragon at Muret, France. |
| 1609 |
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Henry Hudson sails into what is now New York Harbor aboard his sloop Half Moon. |
| 1662 |
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Governor Berkley of Virginia is denied his attempts to repeal the Navigation Acts. |
| 1683 |
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A combined Austrian and Polish army defeats the Turks at Kahlenberg and lifts the siege on Vienna, Austria. |
| 1722 |
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The Treaty of St. Petersburg puts an end to the Russo-Persian War. |
| 1786 |
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Despite his failed efforts to suppress the American Revolution, Lord Cornwallis is appointed governor general of India. |
| 1836 |
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Mexican authorities crush the revolt which broke out on August 25. |
| 1918 |
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British troops retake Havincourt, Moeuvres, and Trescault along the Western Front. |
| 1919 |
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Adolf Hitler joins German Worker’s Party. |
| 1939 |
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In response to the invasion of Poland, the French Army advances into Germany. On this day they reach their furthest penetration-five miles. |
| 1940 |
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Italian forces begin an offensive into Egypt from Libya. |
| 1940 |
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The Lascaux Caves in France, with their prehistoric wall paintings, are discovered. |
| 1944 |
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American troops fight their way into Germany. |
| 1945 |
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French troops land in Indochina. |
| 1969 |
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President Richard Nixon orders a resumption in bombing North Vietnam. |
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Born on September 12 |
| 1812 |
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Richard March Hoe, who built the first successful rotary printing press. |
| 1829 |
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Charles Dudley Warner, essayist and novelist who, with Mark Twain, wrote The Guilded Age. |
| 1880 |
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H.L. Mencken, jornalist and iconoclast known as the "Sage of Baltimore." |
| 1888 |
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Maurice Chevalier, singer, dancer and actor. |
| 1892 |
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Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher. |
| 1910 |
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Alexander D. Langmuir, epidemiologist, created and led the U.S. Epidemic Intelligence Service. |
| 1913 |
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Jesse Owens, track and field athlete who won four medals at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. |
| 1931 |
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Kristin Hunter, author (God Bless the Child, The Survivors). |
| 1931 |
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George Jones, country singer. |
| 1943 |
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Michael Ondaatje, Canadian novelist and poet (The English Patient). |
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