Page 7: Historical Events In September - 12

1964  Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage on September - 12.   

1965  Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida and Louisiana kills 75 on this day in history.   

1966  On September - 12 "The Monkees,"premier on NBC   

1966  On September - 12 gemini XI launched for 71-hour flight   

1970  USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility on this day in history.   

1971  On September - 12 lin Piau, Chinese minister of Defense, dies at 63   

1972  On this day in history two British trawlers sunk by Icelandic gunboats during the 'cod war'   

1972  On this day in history william Boyd, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy), dies at 77   

1973  On September - 12 eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer, dies at 77   

1974  Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day) on September - 12.   

1977  On September - 12 robert Lowell, US poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60)   

1978  Frank Ferguson, actor (Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal Sal), dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1979  Denis Smith, cricketer (England left-handed batsman 1935), dies on September - 12.   

1980  Military coup in Turkey on September - 12.   

1980  Lillian Randolph, actress (Roots, Amos n Andy), dies at 65 on September - 12.   

1982  On this day in history kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor/director (Paul Vlaanderen), dies at 89   

1983  Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million on September - 12.   

1983  USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane on September - 12.   

1984  Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident on September - 12.   

1985  Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds on this day in history.   

1986  240.49 million shares traded in the NY Stock Exchange on this day in history.   

1986  US professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped and held hostage in Beirut on September - 12.   

1986  Frank Nelson, actor (Ralph-I Love Lucy, Jack Benny Show), dies at 75 on September - 12.   

1987  On September - 12 john Qualen, actor (Patch of Blue, Jungle Book), dies   

1988  Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica on this day in history.   

1988  On this day in history alan Bible, (Sen-D-Nev, 1954-74), dies at 78   

1989  Anton Lubowski, Namibian attorney/SWAPO, murdered at 37 on September - 12.   

1990  On September - 12 full sovereignity handed back to the newly unified German state   

1990  On September - 12 uS, England, France, USSR, East and West Germanys sign agreements allowing the 2 Germanys to merge   

1990  On this day in history athene Seyler, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 101   

1991  On this day in history space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) launched   

1991  On this day in history jacques Benoit, [JJM Bayer], poet, dies   

1992  Anthony Perkins, actor (Psycho), dies from AIDs at 60 on this day in history.   

1993  On this day in history charles Lamont, actor/director (Abbott & Costello movies), dies at 95   

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1492  Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (d. 1519) was born on this day in history.   

1494  On September - 12 birth of francois I of Valois-Angouleme, king of France (1515-47)   

1494  On this day in history birth of king Francis I of France (d. 1547)   

1559  Lodovico Cardi da Cigoli, Italian painter/architect was born on this day in history.   

1575  On this day in history birth of henry Hudson, England, navigator/explorer (Hudson River)   

1605  William Dugdale, English antiquarian (d. 1686) was born on this day in history.   

1655  Sebastien de Brossard, composer was born on September - 12.   

1688  On this day in history birth of ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731)   

0352  On September - 12 maximinus van Trier, bishop of Trier/saint, dies   

0413  On this day in history death of marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint   

1012  On this day in history guido van Anderlecht, Flemish pilgrim/saint, dies   

1015  Lambert I with the Beard, count of Leuven, dies in battle at about 65 on September - 12.   

1185  On this day in history death of andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1183-85), lynched   

1213  Pedro II, [el Catolico], king of Aragon, dies in battle on this day in history.   

1362  Innocent VI, [Etienne Aubert], Pope (1352-62), dies on this day in history.   

1369  On this day in history death of blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (b. 1345)