Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 12

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 * 1309 – Reconquista: Castilian forces captured Gibraltar from the Emirate of Granada.
 * 1910 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire and popularly known as the "Symphony of a Thousand", was first performed in Munich (1916 performers pictured).
 * 1928 – The Okeechobee hurricane first struck the island of Guadeloupe; eventually it reached the United States and caused over 4,000 deaths overall.
 * 1942 – RMS Laconia was sunk by a U-boat off the coast of West Africa, which then attempted to rescue the passengers as it was acting under the old prize rules.
 * 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the Battle of Edson's Ridge in an effort to retake Henderson Field on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands from the Allies.
 * 1952 – Three boys in Flatwoods, West Virginia, U.S., reported seeing a ten-foot-tall (3 m) monster in the woods while investigating a UFO.
 * 1962 – In a speech at Rice Stadium in Houston, U.S. president John F. Kennedy reiterated an aspiration to land a man on the Moon before 1970.
 * 1977 – South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died after being beaten in police custody in Port Elizabeth.
 * 1983 – The clandestine Boricua Popular Army staged a bank robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, making off with $7 million in the largest cash theft in U.S. history at the time.
 * 1992 – Aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, American Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to travel to space.
 * 2003 – Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.
 * 2008 – A Metrolink train collided head-on with a freight train in Los Angeles, California, resulting in 25 deaths and 135 injuries; the Metrolink driver had passed through a red signal, having likely been distracted by text messaging.
 * 2015 – An explosion involving illegally stored mining detonators in Petlawad, India, killed 104 people and injured more than 150 others.
 * Born/died this day: |Andronikos I Komnenos |d|1185| Mary Bosanquet Fletcher |b|1739| Philip Francis Thomas |b|1810| Carl Eytel |b|1862| Grace Macurdy |b|1866| Peter Mark Roget |b|1869| Fitz Hugh Ludlow |d|1870| Irène Joliot-Curie |b|1897| Walter Woon|b|1956| Tarana Burke |b|1973|  Raymond Burr |d|1993| Leslie Cheung  |d|2003 | Bengt Feldreich  |b|1925