September 12

Today in History
• 1624 - 1st submarine publicly tested in London on the Thames for King James I
• 1662 - John Flamsteed sees partial solar eclipse, stirs his interest in astronomy
• 1695 - New York Jews petition governor Dongan for religious liberties
• 1733 - Polish Landowners select Stanislaw Lesczynski king
• 1751 - Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto
• 1759 - British soldiers capture the town of Quebec
• 1787 - Statesman George Mason suggests adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution
• 1792 - Court martial begins for instigators of the mutiny on the Bounty on board HMS


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Hug Your Hound Day
• National Ants on a Log Day
• National Chocolate Milkshake Day
• National Day of Encouragement
• National Police Woman Day
• National Report Medicare Fraud Day
• National Video Games Day
• United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation

Birthdays
• 1565 - Henry Hudson, English navigator and explorer (Hudson River)
• 1788 - Alexander Campbell, Irish-American clergyman and Founder of Disciples of Christ
• 1811 - James Hall, American geologist and paleontologist (Natural history of NY)
• 1818 - Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor famous for the Gatling Gun
• 1830 - William Sprague IV, American politician and Governor of Rhode Island (1859-63)
• 1855 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician and 12th Premier of Quebec (1900-05)
• 1897 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935)
• 1902 - Juscelino Kubitschek, President Brazil (1955-60)