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Events

• 1923 (103 years ago) Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
• 1938 (88 years ago) Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• 1942 (84 years ago) 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.
• 1974 (52 years ago) Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
• 1992 (34 years ago) Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.
• 2003 (23 years ago) 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.
• 2007 (19 years ago) Two earthquakes measuring 8.4 and 7.9 on the Richter Scale hits the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing 25 people and injuring 161.
• 2014 (12 years ago) The Synagogue Church building collapse results in the deaths of 115 people and several injured, in the Church run by Nigeria's T. B. Joshua.

Births

• 1494 (532 years ago) Francis I of France,
• 1897 (129 years ago) Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1956)
• 1913 (113 years ago) Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper (died 1980)
• 1921 (105 years ago) Stanisław Lem, Polish philosopher and author (died 2006)
• 1957 (69 years ago) Hans Zimmer, German composer and producer
• 1973 (53 years ago) Paul Walker, American actor (died 2013)
• 1986 (40 years ago) Emmy Rossum, American singer and actress
• 1997 (29 years ago) Sydney Sweeney, American actress

Deaths

• 1362 (664 years ago) Pope Innocent VI,
• 1764 (262 years ago) Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and theorist (born 1683)
• 1907 (119 years ago) Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian poet, journalist, and lawyer (born 1837)
• 1919 (107 years ago) Leonid Andreyev, Russian author and playwright (born 1871)
• 1977 (49 years ago) Steve Biko, South African activist (born 1946)
• 1981 (45 years ago) Eugenio Montale, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)
• 2003 (23 years ago) Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1932)
• 2009 (17 years ago) Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)

All 390 events, births and deaths of September 12