Thursday, September 12, 2013

September 12th in History


1848 - Switzerland becomes a Federal state.

1919 - Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party.

1938 - Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

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 continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.

1953 - US. Representative John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.

2003 - The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Famous Birthdays

1494 - King Francis I of France

1837 - Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse

1907 - Louis MacNeice, poet

1931 - Ian Holm, actor

1944 - Fred Fay, disability rights activist

1951 - Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach (Prime Minister of Ireland )

1957 - Rachel Ward, actress

1978 - Elisabetta Canalis, model and actress

1984 - Petra Marklund "September", singer

1996 - Colin Ford, actor

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