What happend on 12th September

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13.09
1938

Adolf Hitler demands autonomy for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

1933

Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.

1930

Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians.

1890

Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.

1847

Mexican-American War: The Battle of Chapultepec begins. U.S. Army deserters in the Saint Patrick's Battalion who fought alongside the Mexican army are hanged en masse for treason by the order of General Winfield Scott.

1846

Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.

1814

Battle of North Point: An American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.

1683

Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna

1609

Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River.

1213

Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester defeats Peter II of Aragon, the king of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.