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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_12" title="September 12">September 12</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/379" title="379">379</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yax_Nuun_Ahiin_I" title="Yax Nuun Ahiin I">Yax Nuun Ahiin I</a></b> took the throne as the ruler (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajaw" title="Ajaw">ajaw</a></i>) of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization" title="Maya civilization">Mayan</a> city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikal" title="Tikal">Tikal</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1846" title="1846">1846</a> – The English poets <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Browning" title="Robert Browning">Robert Browning</a></b> and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning" title="Elizabeth Barrett Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a></b> eloped to Italy, marrying in secret to avoid their disapproving families.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933" title="1933">1933</a> – Hungarian-American physicist <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Szilard" title="Leo Szilard">Leo Szilard</a></b> conceived of the idea of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_chain_reaction" title="Nuclear chain reaction">nuclear chain reaction</a> while waiting for a traffic light in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsbury" title="Bloomsbury">Bloomsbury, London</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948" title="1948">1948</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army" title="People's Liberation Army">People's Liberation Army</a> launched the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liaoshen_campaign" title="Liaoshen campaign">Liaoshen campaign</a></b>, the first of the three major military campaigns during the late stage of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War" title="Chinese Civil War">Chinese Civil War</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995" title="1995">1995</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ismael" title="Hurricane Ismael">Hurricane Ismael</a></b> formed off the southwest coast of Mexico; it went on to kill over a hundred people in the country.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley_Peel" title="Parsley Peel">Parsley Peel</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1795); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Ayres" title="Alice Ayres">Alice Ayres</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1859); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Ag%C3%A2rbiceanu" title="Ion Agârbiceanu">Ion Agârbiceanu</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1882); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Biko" title="Steve Biko">Steve Biko</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1977)</p>