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