Today in History: The September 12 Coup Was Performed

September 12 is the 255th (256th in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 110.

Railways

• 12 September 1869 The Ottoman Government accepted the new company headed by Talabot.

Events 

• 1331 – King of France VI. Filip returned Monaco to the Grimaldi family. Since then, the family has ruled uninterruptedly in Monaco (with the exception of the Italian and German occupations in World War II).
• 1937 – Seyit Rıza, the leader of the Dersim Rebellion, surrendered. Seyit Rıza was executed on 15 November as a result of the trial.
• 1940 - In France, 4 young people discovered the Lascaux cave, where there are 17 thousand years old paintings.
• 1943 – Benito Mussolini was rescued from his prison hotel in Gran Sasso by German commandos and flown to Vienna.
• 1953 - Nikita Khrushchev is elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1956 – The 6-7 September Incidents trial began.
• 1959 - The Soviet Union launched the Luna 2 rocket to the moon.
• 1963 – A partnership agreement was signed between Turkey and the European Economic Community.
• 1970 – Palestinian guerrillas; They hijacked four planes from the USA, Switzerland, the UK and Germany. The guerrillas blew up three of the planes in the Jordanian desert and took the passengers hostage.
• 1975 – United Nations Human Rights Commission decided against Turkey on Cyprus issue.
• 1977 – The 32nd International Folk Dance Competition was held in Dijon, France.
• 1980 – The September 12 Coup took place.
• 1993 - contracting newspaper began to be published.
• 1996 – In the bomb attack that took place in the Batıkent district of Ankara, Serkan Wide, registered in Ankara's Beypazarı register, lost his life during the incident.
• 2006 – In the bomb attack that took place in the Bağlar town of Diyarbakır, 8 people, including 10 children, were killed and 15 injured.
• 2008 – Metallica's 9th studio album Death magnetic was released to the market.
• 2010 – A constitutional amendment referendum was held regarding the constitutional amendment. The result was a 'yes' decision from the ballot box.
• 2013 – Duman music group, Darmadu financing He released his album.

Births 

• 1492 – Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, ruler of Florence and Duke of Urbino (d. 1519)
• 1494 – Francis I, King of France from 1515 to 1547 (d. 1547)
• 1777 – Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, French scientist (d. 1850)
• 1852 – Herbert Henry Asquith, British politician (Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior) (d. 1928)
• 1880 – HL Mencken, German-American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, author, and American cultural critic (d. 1956)
• 1882 – Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian writer (d. 1963)
• 1885 – Heinrich Hoffmann was Adolf Hitler's official photographer and publisher (d. 1957)
• 1888 – Maurice Chevalier, French singer and film actor (d. 1972)
• 1894 – Kyūichi Tokuda, Japanese communist revolutionary, politician, and lawyer (d. 1953)
• 1897 – Irène Joliot-Curie, French scientist (d. 1956)
• 1902 – Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian politician (d. 1976)
• 1913 Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980)
• 1914 Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)
• 1921 Stanislaw Lem, Polish writer (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Turgut Cansever, Turkish architect, city planner and thinker (d. 2009)
• 1924 – Amilcar Cabral, African agronomist, author, Marxist, and patriotic politician (d. 1973)
• 1927 – Mathé Altéry, French singer
• 1931 – Ian Holm, English actor (d. 2020)
• 1939 – Pablo McNeil, former Jamaican sprinter and now sprint coach (d. 2011)
• 1940 – Linda Gray, American actress, model, and producer
• 1941 – Cetin Inanc, Turkish director
• 1943 – Michael Ondaatje, Canadian writer and poet
• 1944 – Barry White, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1945 – Milo Manara, Italian comics artist
• 1948 – Aziz Kocaoğlu, Turkish politician (Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality between 2004-2019)
• 1949 – Jeremy Cronin, statesman, politician, writer, and poet, member of the South African Communist Party and member of the African National Council
• 1949 – Irina Rodnina, Russian former athlete
• 1951 – Bertie Ahern, Irish politician
• 1951 – Joe Pantoliano, American film and television actor
• 1952 – Neil Peart, Canadian musician
• 1954 – Gülsin Onay, Turkish pianist
• 1954 – Zeynep Değirmencioğlu, Turkish film actress
• 1956 – Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actress (d. 2003)
• 1957 – Rachel Claire Ward, British film and television actress
• 1957 – Hans Zimmer, German, soundtrack composer and record producer
• 1959 – Sigmar Gabriel, German politician
• 1961 – Mylène Jeanne Gautier, French musician
• 1962 – Sunay Akın, Turkish poet, writer, journalist and researcher
• 1964 – Tomás Bulat, Argentine economist, journalist and author (d. 2015)
• 1965 – Ahmet Mumtaz Taylan, Turkish actor and director
• 1965 – Seden Gürel, Turkish singer
• 1966 – Ben Folds is an American singer and songwriter.
• 1967 – Louis CK, American comedian, actor, producer, director, and copywriter
• 1968 – Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian, actor, and writer
• 1969 – Ángel Cabrera, Argentine golfer
• 1973 – Paul Walker, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1974 – Nuno Valente, Portuguese former international football player
• 1976 – Maciej Żurawski, Polish football player
• 1978 – Ben McKenzie, American actor
• 1980 – Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
• 1981 – Jennifer Hudson, Oscar-winning American actress and singer
• 1982 – Zoran Planinić is a professional basketball player of Croatian origin.
• 1984 – Sevtap Özaltun, Turkish actress
• 1985 – Burak Aksak, Turkish director, screenwriter and TV actor
• 1986 – Alfie Allen, English actor
• 1986 – Yuto Nagatomo, Japanese international football player
• 1986 – Dimitrios Régas, Greek sprinter
• 1986 – Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
• 1987 – Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakh tennis player
• 1991 – Thomas Meunier, Belgian international football player
• 1991 – Ece Seçkin, Turkish singer
• 1991 – Mike Towell, Scottish boxer (d. 2016)
• 1993 – Resul Özgen, Turkish football player
• 1994 – RM, South Korean rapper
• 1994 – Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player

Deaths 

• 1185 – Andronikos I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)
• 1362 – VI. Innocentius; real name Étienne Aubert, Pope (b. 1282 or 1295)
• 1612 – IV. Vasily, Tsar of Russia (b. 1552)
• 1764 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French baroque composer (b. 1683)
• 1819 – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (b. 1742)
• 1869 – Peter Roget, English physician and linguist (b. 1779)
• 1889 – Fustel de Coulanges, French historian (b. 1830)
• 1906 – Ernesto Cesàro, Italian mathematician (b. 1859)
• 1907 – Ilia Chavchavadze is the leading figure in Georgian literature and political life in the 19th century (b. 1837)
• 1919 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian expressionist writer (b. 1871)
• 1941 – Eugen von Schobert, German general (b. 1883)
• 1961 – Carl Hermann, German professor of Crystallography (b. 1898)
• 1967 – Vladimir Bartol, Slovenian writer (b. 1903)
• 1968 – Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer (b. 1894)
• 1972 – William Boyd, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1974 – Bedri Böke, Turkish soldier and rider (b. 1920)
• 1977 – Steve Biko, South African popular leader (anti-segregationist) (b. 1946)
• 1981 – Eugenio Montale, Italian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1990 – Mustafa Duzgunman, Turkish marbling artist (b. 1920)
• 1992 – Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)
• 1993 – Raymond William Stacy Burr, Canadian actress (b. 1917)
• 1994 – Tom Ewell, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1994 – Boris Borisovich Yegorov, russian cosmonaut (b. 1937)
• 1995 – Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
• 1996 – Ernesto Beckmann Geisel, Brazilian soldier and politician (b. 1907)
• 2001 – Abbas Fingersizoglu,^[1] Turkish journalist and one of the first members of the Turkish Journalists Association
• 2003 – Johnny Cash, American musician (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Max Abramovitz, American architect (b. 1908)
• 2008 – David Foster Wallace, American novelist, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1962)
• 2009 – John Albert Kramer, American tennis player (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Norman Ernest Borlaug, American agronomist (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Claude Chabrol, French film director (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Tom Sims, Snowboard world champion and also the inventor of snowboard (b. 1963)
• 2012 – Christopher Stevens, American diplomat and lawyer (b. 1960)
• 2012 – Sidney Watkins, English neurosurgeon (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Ray Milton Dolby, American engineer and businessman, inventor of sound recording technology (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Otto Sander, German actor (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Atif Mohammed Ebayd, Egyptian politician (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Salah El Mahdi, Tunisian musicologist, conductor, composer, flutist, music critic and judge (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Ian Paisley, Northern Irish loyalist politician (b. 1926)
• 2016 – Ali Cevan, Iranian physicist (b. 1926)
• 2017 – Siegfried Köhler, German conductor and classical composer (b. 1923)
• 2017 – Edith “Edie” Windsor, American LGBT rights activist (b. 1929)
• 2018 – Shlomo Aronson, Israeli historian and political scientist (b. 1936)
• 2018 – Rachid Taha, Algerian singer (b. 1958)
• 2019 – Samiuela 'Akilisi Pōhiva, Tongan politician (b. 1941)
• 2020 – Nevid Efkari, executed Iranian wrestler (b. 1993)
• 2020 – Jean-Claude Annaert, French racing cyclist (b. 1935)
• 2020 – Joaquín Carbonell, Spanish singer-songwriter, journalist and poet (b. 1947)
• 2020 – Carlos Casamiquela, Argentine agricultural engineer and minister (b. 1948)
• 2020 – Didier Lapeyronnie, French sociologist and academic (b. 1956)
• 2020 – Azmi Mohammed Mujahid, Egyptian volleyball player (b. 1950)
• 2020 – Katip Şadi, born in Derekuşçulu village of Görele district, was a kemençe master and artist (b. 1932)