What are the important events that happened on September 12? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

September 12: Facts & Myths About This Day

September 12 is the 255^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 110 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 30, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 488,232 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectapentacontapentagon’ day.

Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 158 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,648 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 12 Historical Events

• 1213 –
  Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
• 1874 –
  The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
• 1943 –
  World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
• 1944 –
  World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.
• 1964 –
  Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
• 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.
• 1979 –
  Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
• 1990 –
  The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification.
• 1992 –
  Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path’s leadership fell as well.
• 2008 –
  The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.

Who were born on September 12?

• 1875 –
  Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (d. 1926)
• 1898 –
  Alma Moodie, Australian classical violinist (d. 1943)
• 1927 –
  Mathé Altéry, French singer
• 1929 –
  Harvey Schmidt, American composer for musical theatre
• 1951 –
  Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby union player (d. 2007)
• 1956 –
  Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong artist and director (d. 2003)
• 1969 –
  Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer
• 1980 –
  Sean Burroughs, American baseball player
• 1983 –
  Daniel Muir, American football player
• 1986 –
  Joanne Jackson, English swimmer

Who died on September 12?

• 1500 –
  Albert, Duke of Saxony (b. 1443)
• 1660 –
  Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (b. 1577)
• 1665 –
  Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (b. 1596)
• 1672 –
  Tanneguy Lefebvre, French classical scholar (b. 1615)
• 1907 –
  Ilia Chavchavadze, founding father of modern Georgia (b. 1837)
• 1977 –
  Robert Lowell, American poet (b. 1917)
• 1995 –
  Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
• 1999 –
  Bill Quackenbush, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
• 2009 –
  Willy Ronis, French photographer (b. 1910)
• 2011 –
  Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985)