Effemeride del 12 Settembre

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1940 : Discovery of the Lascaux cave On September 12, 1940, four teenagers discovered a cave covered with 15 to 17,000 year-old paintings, near Montignac. 600 paintings and 1500 engravings are listed. The cave is open to the public in 1948 but closed in 1963 because of damage caused by artificial light and pollution brought about by excessive human presence. A replica of the cave will be open to the public in 1983.
1974 : Coup in Ethiopia On September 12, 1974, after a 58-year reign, the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie was overthrown in a coup by a group of Marxist military, the Derg. This was the beginning of a strong repression, summary executions and the Civil War.
1977 : Steve Biko dies On September 12, 1977, the South-African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died on arrival at a prison in Pretoria, after a journey of nearly 1,200 km from Port Elizabeth, naked and chained in a police vehicle , after suffering days of torture. His death shocked the international community which took sanctions against South Africa and will make Biko a symbol of the anti-apartheid struggle.
1988 : Gilbert hit Jamaica On September 12, 1988, the Category 5 hurricane Gilbert struck Jamaica with winds of 280 km/h and a 60-mile eye. 80% of homes were damaged and 1/4 of the population was left homeless. 200 people were killed. Two days later, the hurricane hit the area of Cancun in Mexico. Half of the hotels in the region were destroyed and 200,000 people were left homeless.

Desmond Llewelyn
Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

François 1er, Re di Francia (1494)
Samuel Joseph May, Riformatore americano, abolizionista e sostenitore dei diritti delle donne (1797)
Maurice Chevalier, Cantante e attore frrancese (1888)
Irène Joliot-Curie, Chimica e fisica francese, Premio Nobel per la Chimica (1897)
Jesse Owens, Atleta americano (1913)
Desmond Llewelyn, Attore gallese (1914)
Han Suyin, Scrittrice cinese (1917)
Ian Holm, Attore inglese (1931)
Linda Gray, Attrice americana (1940)
Michel Drucker, Presentatore televisivo francese (1942)
Barry White, Cantante americano (1944)
Irina Rodnina, Pattinatore russa (1949)
Joe Pantoliano, Attore americano (1951)
Leslie Cheung, Attore e cantante di Hong Kong (1956)
Rachel Ward, Attrice inglese (1957)
Mylène Farmer, Cantante francese (1961)
Darren Campbell, Atleta inglese (1973)
Paul Walker, Attore americano (1973)
Jennifer Hudson, Attrice americana (1981)
Joanne Jackson, Nuotatrice inglese (1986)

Jean-Philippe Rameau, Compositore francese (1764)
François Guizot, Storico francese (1874)
Steve Biko, Attivista anti-apartheid sudafricano (1977)
Anthony Perkins, Attore americano (1992)
Raymond Burr, Attore canadese (1993)
Tom Ewell, Attore americano (1994)
Jeremy Brett, Attore inglese (1995)
Johnny Cash, Cantante americano (2003)
Willy Ronis, Fotografo francese (2009)
Claude Chabrol, Regista francese (2010)