Today in History

September 12

1942 - A German U-boat sinks the British troop ship than 1,400.

1953 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.

1959 - Soviet Union launches moon.

1974 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed by a military junta. 1980 - Turkish military seizes power and keeps it until 1983.

1997 - Scotland votes in favour of setting up its own parliament for the first time in 300 years.

2003 -UN Security Council votes to lift sanctions against Libya.

2007 - A Philippines anti-graft court sentences former president Joseph Estrada to life imprisonment. killing more the first spacecraft to reach the