Volume 13 , Issue 37

This Day In History (September 12)

On Sept. 12, 1977, South African black student leader Steven Biko died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry. - Go to article

On Sept. 12, 1913, Jesse Owens, the American black man who caused a sensation at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin by winning four gold medals, was born. Following his death on March 31, 1980, his obituary appeared in The Times. - Go to obituary

• 1609 - English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into the river that now bears his name.
• 1880 - Journalist and critic H.L. Mencken was born in Baltimore.
• 1938 - In a speech in Nuremberg, Adolf Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.
• 1943 - German paratroopers rescued former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from the hotel where he was being held prisoner by his own government.
• 1944 - U.S. Army troops entered Germany for the first time during World War II, near Trier.
1953 - Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I.
• 1954 - "Lassie" made its TV debut on CBS.
• 1959 - "Bonanza" premiered on NBC.
• 1974 - Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by Ethiopia's military after ruling for 58 years.

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