September 12

September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). There are 110 days remaining.

Births:

Deaths:

• 1977: South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko.

Events:

• 1953: Nikita Krushchev was elected as the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1953: US Senator John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.
• 1983: Arnold Schwarzenegger became a US citizen.
• 1992: Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first African-American woman in space.

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