September 12th, 1974

Born on September 12th, 1974

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on September 12th, 1974?

September 12th, 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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Selassie

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, 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.

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, 1974

49

Guy Smith

British racing driver

*September 12th, 1974, Beverley

49

Jennifer Nettles

American singer

*September 12th, 1974, Douglas

49

Sam Nouri

Iranian actor

*September 12th, 1974, Tehran

49

Nuno Valente

Portuguese footballer

*September 12th, 1974, Lisbon

49

Cristina Torrens Valero

Spanish tennis player

*September 12th, 1974, Pamplona

49

Eduardo Coudet

Argentine footballer

*September 12th, 1974, Buenos Aires

49

Kenichi Suzumura

Japanese voice actor, narrator, singer (1974-)

*September 12th, 1974, Niigata

32

Caroline Aigle

Pilot

*September 12th, 1974, Montauban †August 21st, 2007, Dijon

49

J. Teddy Garces

American actor

*September 12th, 1974, New York City

49

Hayley McElhinney

Australian actress

*September 12th, 1974, Australia

Same Day
Who's birthday is on September 12th?

40

Paul Walker

American actor (1973–2013)

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

59

Dieter Hecking

German association football player and manager

*September 12th, 1964, Castrop-Rauxel

36

Julia Wong Pei Xian

Badminton player

*September 12th, 1987, Malacca

62

Mylène Farmer

French singer and songwriter (born 1961)

*September 12th, 1961, Pierrefonds

56

Mirko Slomka

German association football player and manager

*September 12th, 1967, Hildesheim

37

Emmy Rossum

American actress and singer

*September 12th, 1986, New York City

55

Amala Akkineni

Indian actress

*September 12th, 1968, Kolkata

56

Louis C.K.

American comedian and actor

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

66

Hans Zimmer

German film composer (born 1957)

*September 12th, 1957, Frankfurt

48

Carina Zampini

Argentine actress

*September 12th, 1975, Buenos Aires

42

Jennifer Hudson

American singer–songwriter, actress, spokesperson

*September 12th, 1981, Chicago

51

Anders Aukland

Norwegian cross-country skier

*September 12th, 1972, Tønsberg Municipality

43

Yao Ming

Chinese basketball player

*September 12th, 1980, Shanghai

43

Matthew Savoie

Figure skater

*September 12th, 1980, Peoria

45

Elisabetta Canalis

Italian model and actress

*September 12th, 1978, Sassari

55

Paul F. Tompkins

American actor

*September 12th, 1968, Mount Airy

46

David Thompson

English professional footballer (born 1977)

*September 12th, 1977, Birkenhead

37

Yuto Nagatomo

Japanese association football player

*September 12th, 1986, Saijō

88

Ian Holm

British actor (1931–2020)

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

48

Luis Castillo

Dominican baseball player

*September 12th, 1975, San Pedro de Macorís

Same year
Born in 1974

49

Arianne Zucker

American actress and model

*June 3rd, 1974, Northridge

50

Ty Olsson

Canadian actor (born 1974)

*January 28th, 1974, Halifax

49

Anggun

Indonesian-born French singer-songwriter and television personality

*April 29th, 1974, Jakarta

50

Maulik Pancholy

Indian American actor, author, activist, and speaker

*January 18th, 1974, Kissimmee

49

Yoo Yong-sung

Badminton player

*October 25th, 1974, Dangjin

49

Michelle Edwards

Badminton player

*July 11th, 1974, Durban

49

Kenneth Jonassen

Badminton player

*July 3rd, 1974, Herning

49

Markus Weinzierl

German association football player and manager

*December 28th, 1974, Straubing

49

Marina Andrievskaia

Badminton player

*November 20th, 1974, Moscow

49

Florentine Lahme

TV and film actress

*July 21st, 1974, Berlin

50

Anna Grisebach

German actress

*March 20th, 1974, Göttingen

49

Leonardo DiCaprio

American actor and film producer (born 1974)

*November 11th, 1974, Los Angeles

50

Adrian Holmes

Welsh-Canadian actor

*March 31st, 1974, Wrexham

50

Martin Dulig

German politician (SPD)

*February 26th, 1974, Plauen

50

Steve Lomas

Northern Irish association football player and manager

*January 18th, 1974, Hanover

49

Bas Böttcher

German writer and poetry slam performer

*December 31st, 1974, Bremen

50

Alyson Hannigan

American actress and television presenter

*March 24th, 1974, Washington, D.C.

50

Tri Kusharyanto

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1974, Yogyakarta City

49

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

49

Kim Ji-hyun

South Korean badminton player

*September 10th, 1974, Busan

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No: With 365 days 1974 is a normal year and no leap year.

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