What happend on 12th September

11.09
13.09
1992

NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavor on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission.

1992

Mae Carol Jemison becomes the first African-American woman in space on STS-47.

1990

The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification.

1983

A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, was robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros .

1980

Military coup in Turkey

1979

Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.

1977

South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.

1974

Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.

1974

Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg.

1962

President John F. Kennedy declares the USA will get a man on the moon, and bring him back, by the end of the decade.