What happend on 12th September

11.09
13.09
1959

Bonanza premiers. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.

1957

NORAD begins operations.

1953

John F. Kennedy marries Jackie Bouvier.

1953

Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

1947

The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath

1944

The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities.

1943

Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest by German commando Otto Skorzeny

1942

RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks.

1940

Cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France.

1940

The Hercules Munitions Plant in Kenvil, New Jersey explodes, killing 55 people.