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NGC Discovered

NGC 266 is a face-on barred spiral galaxy discovered by William Herschel on the 12th September 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t53995486/ngc-266/

NGC 296 is a spiral galaxy discovered by William Herschel on the 12th September 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58533722/ngc-296/

NGC 507 is a lenticular galaxy discovered by William Herschel on the 12th September 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58533715/ngc-507/

NGC 508 is an elliptical galaxy discovered by William Herschel on the 12th September 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58533703/ngc-508/

NGC 736 is an elliptical galaxy discovered by William Herschel on the 12th September 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58533693/ngc-736/

NGC 746 is an irregular galaxy discovered by Lewis A. Swift on the 12th September 1885.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58533651/ngc-746/

NGC 750 is an interacting elliptical galaxy discovered by William Herschel on the 12th September 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58533643/ngc-750/

NGC 777 is an elliptical galaxy discovered by William Herschel on the 12th September 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58533633/ngc-777/

NGC 7394 is an asterism discovered by John Herschel on the 12th September 1829. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58533624/ngc-7394/

NGC 7457 was discovered by William Herschel on the 12th September 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t63074592/ngc-7457/

NGC 7753 was discovered by William Herschel on the 12th September 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t63068822/ngc-7753/



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A transit of Mars across Jupiter on 12 September 1170 was observed by the monk Gervase at Canterbury
http://occultations.askdefine.com/

Mars made a close approach to Earth on September 12, 57617 BC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars#Closest_approaches

On 12 September 1662 John Flamsteed observed his first partial solar eclipse
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44929390/solar-eclipse-of-september-12-1662/

Luna 2 (E-1A series) was launched on September 12, 1959
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_2

Luna 16 was launched on September 12, 1970
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_16

Gemini 11 was launched on the 12th September 1966
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t20924945/gemini-11-mission/

STS-48 was launched on 12 September 1991
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-48

STS-47 was launched on 12 September 1992
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44932756/sts-47/

STS-51 was launched on 12 September 1993
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51



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People

Mae Carol Jemison went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44932704/mae-carol-jemison/

Anousheh Ansari (born September 12, 1966, in Mashhad, Iran) is an engineer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anousheh_Ansari

Guillaume Le Gentil (September 12, 1725 - October 22, 1792) was a French astronomer.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44932468/guillaume-joseph-hyacinthe-jean-baptiste-le-gentil-de-la-gal/

Marguerite Laugier (née Lhomme) (12 September 1896 - 10 June 1976) was a French astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Laugier

Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur von Auwers (September 12, 1838 - January 24, 1915) was a German astronomer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Auwers

Henry Gordon Gale (September 12, 1874 - November 16, 1942) was an American astrophysicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gale_(astrophysicist)

Andrej Cadez (September 12, 1942- in Ljubljana ) is a Slovene physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_%C4%8Cade%C5%BE

Richard David Gill (born 11 September 1951) is a mathematician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Gill

Irène Joliot-Curie (12 September 1897 - 17 March 1956) was a French scientist
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44932403/irne-joliot-curie-1897-1956/



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JFK's speech at Rice University on September 12th, 1962

Spoiler

The Blob - (1958) Steve McQueen
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t19598430/the-blob/

The Lascaux cave was discovered on September 12, 1940 by four teenagers and a dog
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t8491432/grotte-de-lascaux/

Super Typhoon Nancy was a powerful tropical cyclone of the 1961 Pacific typhoon season
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Nancy_(1961)#Records

First light of the DECam was achieved on 12 September 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Energy_Survey#Survey

On September 12, 2011 three low-mass planets around HD 136352 were announced 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu2_Lupi#Planetary_system

Japan's Hayabusa probe arrived in the vicinity of Itokawa on 12 September 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25143_Itokawa#Exploration

Asteroid (59) Elpis was discovered by Jean Chacornac from Paris, on September 12, 1860.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59_Elpis

Asteroid (117) Lomia was discovered by French astronomer Alphonse Borrelly on September 12, 1871 from the Marseilles Observatory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/117_Lomia

Asteroid (241 Germania was discovered by Robert Luther on September 12, 1884 in Düsseldorf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/241_Germania



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Meteorite falls

The Sulagiri (LL6) meteorite fell in Tamil Nadu, India, on the 12th September 2008.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t20733143/bangalore-meteorites/



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