September 12th, 1942

Born on September 12th, 1942

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What happened on September 12th, 1942?

September 12th, 1942

World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army troops.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Edson's_Ridge

September 12th, 1942

World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the Battle of Edson's Ridge in an effort to retake Henderson Field on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands from the Allies.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

What else happened on September 12th?

September 12th, 2008

A Metrolink train collided head-on with a freight train in Los Angeles, California, resulting in 25 deaths and 135 injuries; the Metrolink driver had passed through a red signal, having likely been distracted by text messaging.

September 12th, 2003

Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.

September 12th, 1995

Hurricane Ismael formed off the southwest coast of Mexico; it went on to kill over a hundred people in the country.

September 12th, 1992

Aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, American Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to travel to space.

September 12th, 1983

The clandestine Boricua Popular Army staged a bank robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, making off with $7 million in the largest cash theft in U.S. history at the time.

September 12th, 1977

South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died after being beaten in police custody in Port Elizabeth.

September 12th, 1962

In a speech at Rice Stadium in Houston, U.S. president John F. Kennedy reiterated an aspiration to land a man on the Moon before 1970.

September 12th, 1952

Three boys in Flatwoods, West Virginia, U.S., reported seeing a ten-foot-tall (3 m) monster in the woods while investigating a UFO.

September 12th, 1948

The People's Liberation Army launched the Liaoshen campaign, the first of the three major military campaigns during the late stage of the Chinese Civil War.

September 12th, 1933

Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard conceived of the idea of the nuclear chain reaction while waiting for a traffic light in Bloomsbury, London.

September 12th, 1928

The Okeechobee hurricane first struck the island of Guadeloupe; eventually it reached the United States and caused over 4,000 deaths overall.

September 12th, 1910

Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire and popularly known as the "Symphony of a Thousand", was first performed in Munich (1916 performers pictured).

September 12th, 1846

The English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (pictured) eloped to Italy, marrying in secret to avoid their disapproving families.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on September 12th

Born on September 12th, 1942

81

Michel Drucker

French journalist

*September 12th, 1942, Vire

81

Carola von Braun

German politician

*September 12th, 1942, Nakuru

81

Marina Mayoral

Spanish writer, columnist and novelist

*September 12th, 1942, Mondoñedo

47

Mario Frustalupi

Italian footballer (1942–1990)

*September 12th, 1942, Orvieto †April 14th, 1990, San Salvatore Monferrato

61

François Tavenas

Canadian engineer and professor

*September 12th, 1942, Bourg-de-Péage †February 13th, 2004, Luxembourg

74

Angelika Rochhausen

German painter (1942-2017)

*September 12th, 1942, Neukirchen †February 18th, 2017

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Who's birthday is on September 12th?

83

Joachim Frank

German-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate

*September 12th, 1940, Siegen

59

Dieter Hecking

German association football player and manager

*September 12th, 1964, Castrop-Rauxel

85

Anne Helm

American actress and author, born 1938

*September 12th, 1938, Toronto

62

Mylène Farmer

French singer and songwriter (born 1961)

*September 12th, 1961, Pierrefonds

88

Ian Holm

British actor (1931–2020)

*September 12th, 1931, Goodmayes †June 19th, 2020, London

80

Michael Ondaatje

Canadian novelist and poet

*September 12th, 1943, Colombo

66

Hans Zimmer

German film composer (born 1957)

*September 12th, 1957, Frankfurt

36

Julia Wong Pei Xian

Badminton player

*September 12th, 1987, Malacca

40

Paul Walker

American actor (1973–2013)

*September 12th, 1973, Glendale †November 30th, 2013, Valencia

78

Richard Thaler

American economist

*September 12th, 1945, East Orange

56

Mirko Slomka

German association football player and manager

*September 12th, 1967, Hildesheim

78

Maria Aitken

British actress, writer, producer and director

*September 12th, 1945, Dublin

84

Stanisław Lem

Polish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist (1921-2006), studied medical doctor

*September 12th, 1921, Lviv †March 27th, 2006, Kraków

82

Çetin İnanç

Turkish film director

*September 12th, 1941, Ankara

65

Kurt Demmler

German musician, songwriter, lyricist (1943-2009)

*September 12th, 1943, Poznań †February 3rd, 2009, Berlin

37

Emmy Rossum

American actress and singer

*September 12th, 1986, New York City

62

Günter Rexrodt

German politician (1941-2004)

*September 12th, 1941, Berlin †August 19th, 2004, Berlin

66

Jesse Owens

American track and field athlete (1913–1980)

*September 12th, 1913, Oakville †March 31st, 1980, Tucson

56

Louis C.K.

American comedian and actor

*September 12th, 1967, Washington, D.C.

83

Frankie Avalon

American actor and singer

*September 12th, 1940, Philadelphia

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Born in 1942

81

Joe Biden

President of the United States since 2021

*November 20th, 1942, Scranton

77

Terry Jones

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

*February 1st, 1942, Colwyn Bay †January 21st, 2020, North London

81

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

German-Swedish actor

*August 16th, 1942, Essen

76

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

*January 8th, 1942, Oxford †March 14th, 2018, Cambridge

81

Katherine Justice

American actress

*October 28th, 1942, Sacramento

81

Wolfgang Schäuble

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

*September 18th, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau †December 26th, 2023, Offenburg

81

Richard Stoltzman

American musician

*July 12th, 1942, Omaha

81

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor (born 1942)

*October 11th, 1942, Prayagraj

82

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

*March 9th, 1942, Garnant

81

Paul McCartney

English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)

*June 18th, 1942, Liverpool

74

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

*October 12th, 1942, Shavei Tzion †May 3rd, 2017, Asheville

74

Muhammad Ali

American boxer, philanthropist, and activist (1942–2016)

*January 17th, 1942, Louisville †June 3rd, 2016, Scottsdale

82

Per A. Anonsen

Norwegian actor, film editor, screenwriter and film producer

*January 8th, 1942, Oslo

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

69

Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator, politician and political theorist (1942–2011)

*June 7th, 1942, Qasr Abu Hadi †October 20th, 2011, Sirte

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

76

Aretha Franklin

American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)

*March 25th, 1942, Memphis †August 16th, 2018, Detroit

82

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

*January 8th, 1942, Yokosuka

81

Raman Ghosh

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1942, Bareilly

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

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No: With 365 days 1942 is a normal year and no leap year.

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