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Events on September 12

• 1683 At the Battle of Kahlenberg, a relief army under the Polish King John III Sobieski surprises the Ottomans under Kara Mustafa Pasha and decisively defeats them. This ends the Second Siege of Vienna.
• 1840 The composer Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck in Schönefeld near Leipzig with court approval, even though her father forbade any contact between the two and rejected the marriage.
• 1848 By recording the majority's approval of the Federal Constitution, the Federal Assembly constitutes Switzerland as a federal state.
• 1909 The chemist Fritz Hofmann, an employee of the dye factory Bayer/Elberfeld on the Wupper, is granted the world's first patent for a process to produce synthetic rubber.
• 1940 The Lascaux Cave with its cave paintings is discovered.
• 1949 Theodor Heuss becomes the first Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany.
• 1963 At the International Motor Show in Frankfurt am Main, Porsche unveils the 901 as the successor to model 356. Due to Peugeot's trademark rights, it has to be renamed 911 a year later.
• 1977 The South African civil rights activist Steve Biko dies after being tortured by the police one day after being admitted to the prison hospital in Pretoria. His death becomes a symbol of the resistance movement against the apartheid regime and later prompts the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo on the country.
• 1981 The Chaos Computer Club is founded in Berlin.
• 1987 The Barschel affair begins. One day before the state parliament election in Schleswig-Holstein, Der Spiegel reports that Minister-President Uwe Barschel had given the order to have the SPD's lead candidate Björn Engholm spied on.
• 1990 In Brussels, the East German national football team wins its 293rd and final international match 2:0 against Belgium.
• 2016 As the second German tennis player after Steffi Graf, Angelique Kerber takes the lead in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) world rankings.

Born on September 12

• 1852 H. H. Asquith, British politician, Prime Minister
• 1873 Gertrud Bäumer, German reform educator, women's rights activist, politician and member of the Reichstag
• 1885 Heinrich Hoffmann, German photographer, Adolf Hitler's personal photographer
• 1921 Stanisław Lem, Polish philosopher, essayist and science fiction author
• 1931 Ian Holm, British actor
• 1940 Linda Gray, American actress
• 1951 Bertie Ahern, Irish scientist and politician, Prime Minister
• 1961 Mylène Farmer, Franco-Canadian pop singer
• 1980 Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
• 1991 Thomas Meunier, Belgian football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „12. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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