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Historical Events on September 12

  • Switzerland

    1848

    Switzerland approves its 1st Constitution and becomes a Federal state.

  • World War II

    1942

    World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.

  • Benito Mussolini

    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.

  • Serbia

    1944

    World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities.

  • John F. Kennedy

    1953

    U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.

  • Soviet Union

    1959

    The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.

  • John F. Kennedy

    1962

    President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

  • Soviet Union

    1983

    The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.

  • Iraq War

    2003

    Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.

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