September 12th in History
1910: World's first police woman appointed in Los Angeles, USA
1917: In Buenos Aires, South America, German buildings are destroyed by angry mob
1919: Adolf Hitler joins the German Worker's Party
1943: Benito Mussolini, captured by the Allies, is rescued by the Germans
1959: Luna 2, of the USSR, became to first spacecraft to crash on the moon
1972: Two British trawlers sunk by Icelandic gunboats during the 'cod war'
1990: Full sovereignity handed back to the newly unified German state
September 12th birthdays
1818: Richard Gatling, US inventor of the Gatling gun
1888: Maurice Chevalier, French actor
1913: Jesse Owens, American Olympic athlete
1941: Linda Gray, American actress