September 12
1609 - Henry Hudson began his exploration of the Hudson River.
1914 - During World War I, the First Battle of the Marne ended in an Allied victory against Germany.
1938 - In a speech in Nuremberg, Adolf Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.
1943 - German paratroopers rescued former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from the hotel where he was being held prisoner by his own government.
1944 - U.S. Army troops entered Germany for the first time during World War II, near Trier.
1953 - Future President John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Bouvier.
1958 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Cooper v. Aaron, unanimously ruled that Arkansas officials who were resisting public school desegregation orders could not disregard the high court’s rulings.
1962 - In a speech at Rice University in Houston, President John F. Kennedy reaffirmed his support for the manned space program, declaring: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
1974 - Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by Ethiopia's military after ruling for 58 years.
1977 - South African black civil rights leader Steven Biko died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry.
1987 - Reports surfaced that Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Biden had borrowed, without attribution, passages of a speech by British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock for one of his own campaign speeches. (The Kinnock report, along with other damaging revelations, prompted Biden to drop his White House bid.)
1992 - Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first black woman in space aboard the space shuttle Endeavor.
1994 - A stolen, single-engine Cessna crashed into the South Lawn of the White House, coming to rest against the executive mansion; the pilot, Frank Corder, was killed.
1995 - The Belarusian military shot down a hydrogen balloon during an international race, killing its two American pilots, John Stuart-Jervis and Alan Fraenckel.
1999 - Indonesia announced it would allow an international peacekeeping force to restore order to East Timor.
2000 - Dutch lawmakers gave same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children.
2001 - President George W. Bush labeled the previous day's terrorist attacks "acts of war" and asked Congress for $20 billion to rebuild and recover.
2002 - President George W. Bush told the United Nations to confront the "grave and gathering danger" of Saddam Hussein's Iraq or stand aside as the United States acted.
2003 - Country musician Johnny Cash died at age 71.
2005 - Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown resigned, three days after losing his onsite command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
2006 - In a speech in his native Germany, Pope Benedict XVI quoted from an obscure medieval text that characterized some teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," unleashing a torrent of rage across the Islamic world.
2008 - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who was under investigation for corruption, resigned as prime minister.
2008 - A commuter train engineer ran a red light while text messaging on his cell phone and struck a freight train head-on in Los Angeles, killing himself and 24 other people.
2012 - The U.S. dispatched an elite group of Marines to Tripoli, Libya, after the mob attack in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. President Barack Obama strongly condemned the violence, and vowed to bring the killers to justice; Republican challenger Mitt Romney accused the administration of showing weakness in the face of tumultuous events in the Middle East.
2016 - Two men disrupted a live broadcast of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” by rushing onto the stage to protest Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte’s presence on the show. (Lochte and his swimming teammates faced criticism since they were involved in an early-morning drunken encounter at a gas station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.)
2020 - Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were shot and seriously wounded while sitting in a squad car outside a rail station in an apparently unprovoked ambush. (The suspect, Deonte Lee Murray, has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and other charges.)
Birthdays
24 - Sydney Sweeney (actress)
25 - Janessa Gornichec (model)
25 - Colin Ford (actor)
28 - Kelsea Ballerini (singer)
32 - Andrew Luck (football player)
32 - Freddie Freeman (baseball player)
35 - Emmy Rossum (actress)
40 - Jennifer Hudson (actress/singer)
41 - Yao Ming (basketball player)
43 - Ruben Studdard (singer)
43 - Ben McKenzie (actor)
43 - Kelly Jenrette (actress)
45 - Lauren Stamile (actress)
47 - Jennifer Nettles (singer)
51 - Josh Hopkins (actor)
51 - Will Chase (actor/singer)
52 - Angel Cabrera (golfer)
54 - Louis C.K. (actor/comedian)
55 - Darren E. Burrows (actor)
59 - Amy Yasbeck (actress)
64 - Rachel Ward (actress)
66 - Peter Scolari (actor)
69 - Nina Blackwood (MTV VJ)
70 - Joe Pantoliano (actor)
79 - Maria Muldaur (singer)
81 - Linda Gray (actress)
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Today in Sports History - September 12
1970 - #9 Nebraska opens the season with a 36-12 win over Wake Forest.
1976 - The Seattle Seahawks play their inaugural NFL regular season game, a 30-24 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.
1979 - Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox became the first American League player to get 3,000 career hits and 400 career home runs.
1981 - #7 Nebraska opens the season on the road with a 10-7 loss to Cockeye.
1984 - Michael Jordan signs a seven-year contract to play basketball for the Chicago Bulls.
1984 - Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets set a rookie strikeout record with his 251st strikeout of the season.
1987 - #2 Nebraska defeats #3 UCLA 42-35.
1992 - #11 Nebraska defeats Middle Tennessee State 48-7.
1998 - #4 Nebraska defeats California 24-3.
2002 - A judge announced that a jury would have to decide who would get the ball that Barry Bonds hit for his record 73rd home run. The ownership of the ball, with an estimated value of $1 million, was being disputed between two men that had been in the bleachers.
2004 - The Detroit Lions defeat the Chicago Bears 20-16 to snap their NFL-record 24-game road losing streak.
2006 - Rick DiPietro (New York Islanders) signed a 15-year contract worth $67.5 million.
2009 - #22 Nebraska defeats Arkansas State 38-9.
2015 - Nebraska defeats South Alabama 48-9.
1609 - Henry Hudson began his exploration of the Hudson River.
1914 - During World War I, the First Battle of the Marne ended in an Allied victory against Germany.
1938 - In a speech in Nuremberg, Adolf Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.
1943 - German paratroopers rescued former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from the hotel where he was being held prisoner by his own government.
1944 - U.S. Army troops entered Germany for the first time during World War II, near Trier.
1953 - Future President John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Bouvier.
1958 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Cooper v. Aaron, unanimously ruled that Arkansas officials who were resisting public school desegregation orders could not disregard the high court’s rulings.
1962 - In a speech at Rice University in Houston, President John F. Kennedy reaffirmed his support for the manned space program, declaring: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
1974 - Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by Ethiopia's military after ruling for 58 years.
1977 - South African black civil rights leader Steven Biko died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry.
1987 - Reports surfaced that Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Biden had borrowed, without attribution, passages of a speech by British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock for one of his own campaign speeches. (The Kinnock report, along with other damaging revelations, prompted Biden to drop his White House bid.)
1992 - Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first black woman in space aboard the space shuttle Endeavor.
1994 - A stolen, single-engine Cessna crashed into the South Lawn of the White House, coming to rest against the executive mansion; the pilot, Frank Corder, was killed.
1995 - The Belarusian military shot down a hydrogen balloon during an international race, killing its two American pilots, John Stuart-Jervis and Alan Fraenckel.
1999 - Indonesia announced it would allow an international peacekeeping force to restore order to East Timor.
2000 - Dutch lawmakers gave same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children.
2001 - President George W. Bush labeled the previous day's terrorist attacks "acts of war" and asked Congress for $20 billion to rebuild and recover.
2002 - President George W. Bush told the United Nations to confront the "grave and gathering danger" of Saddam Hussein's Iraq or stand aside as the United States acted.
2003 - Country musician Johnny Cash died at age 71.
2005 - Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown resigned, three days after losing his onsite command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
2006 - In a speech in his native Germany, Pope Benedict XVI quoted from an obscure medieval text that characterized some teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," unleashing a torrent of rage across the Islamic world.
2008 - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who was under investigation for corruption, resigned as prime minister.
2008 - A commuter train engineer ran a red light while text messaging on his cell phone and struck a freight train head-on in Los Angeles, killing himself and 24 other people.
2012 - The U.S. dispatched an elite group of Marines to Tripoli, Libya, after the mob attack in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. President Barack Obama strongly condemned the violence, and vowed to bring the killers to justice; Republican challenger Mitt Romney accused the administration of showing weakness in the face of tumultuous events in the Middle East.
2016 - Two men disrupted a live broadcast of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” by rushing onto the stage to protest Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte’s presence on the show. (Lochte and his swimming teammates faced criticism since they were involved in an early-morning drunken encounter at a gas station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.)
2020 - Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were shot and seriously wounded while sitting in a squad car outside a rail station in an apparently unprovoked ambush. (The suspect, Deonte Lee Murray, has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and other charges.)
Birthdays
24 - Sydney Sweeney (actress)
25 - Janessa Gornichec (model)
25 - Colin Ford (actor)
28 - Kelsea Ballerini (singer)
32 - Andrew Luck (football player)
32 - Freddie Freeman (baseball player)
35 - Emmy Rossum (actress)
40 - Jennifer Hudson (actress/singer)
41 - Yao Ming (basketball player)
43 - Ruben Studdard (singer)
43 - Ben McKenzie (actor)
43 - Kelly Jenrette (actress)
45 - Lauren Stamile (actress)
47 - Jennifer Nettles (singer)
51 - Josh Hopkins (actor)
51 - Will Chase (actor/singer)
52 - Angel Cabrera (golfer)
54 - Louis C.K. (actor/comedian)
55 - Darren E. Burrows (actor)
59 - Amy Yasbeck (actress)
64 - Rachel Ward (actress)
66 - Peter Scolari (actor)
69 - Nina Blackwood (MTV VJ)
70 - Joe Pantoliano (actor)
79 - Maria Muldaur (singer)
81 - Linda Gray (actress)
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Today in Sports History - September 12
1970 - #9 Nebraska opens the season with a 36-12 win over Wake Forest.
1976 - The Seattle Seahawks play their inaugural NFL regular season game, a 30-24 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.
1979 - Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox became the first American League player to get 3,000 career hits and 400 career home runs.
1981 - #7 Nebraska opens the season on the road with a 10-7 loss to Cockeye.
1984 - Michael Jordan signs a seven-year contract to play basketball for the Chicago Bulls.
1984 - Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets set a rookie strikeout record with his 251st strikeout of the season.
1987 - #2 Nebraska defeats #3 UCLA 42-35.
1992 - #11 Nebraska defeats Middle Tennessee State 48-7.
1998 - #4 Nebraska defeats California 24-3.
2002 - A judge announced that a jury would have to decide who would get the ball that Barry Bonds hit for his record 73rd home run. The ownership of the ball, with an estimated value of $1 million, was being disputed between two men that had been in the bleachers.
2004 - The Detroit Lions defeat the Chicago Bears 20-16 to snap their NFL-record 24-game road losing streak.
2006 - Rick DiPietro (New York Islanders) signed a 15-year contract worth $67.5 million.
2009 - #22 Nebraska defeats Arkansas State 38-9.
2015 - Nebraska defeats South Alabama 48-9.
