1951
Sugar Ray Robinson wins back title
On September 12th, 1951, former middleweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Randy Turpin to win back the belt in front of 61,370 spectators at the Polo Grounds in New YorkCity. Robinson, had lost the belt to Turpin two months prior in Turpin’s native London.
1953
Khrushchev elected
Taking place six months after the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev succeeds him with his election as first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; deafeating Stalin’s chosen successor, Georgy Malenkov.
1953
JFK marries
Seven years before he bacame President, Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, a photographer for the Washington Times-Herald, at St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
1993
New floating bridge opens in Seattle; stretching I-90 from coast to coast
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Lastly, on September 12, 1993, the rebuilt Lacey V. Murrow Bridge over Lake Washington opens in Seattle. The new bridge, which was actually the eastbound lanes of Interstate 90 (the westbound lanes cross the lake on a separate bridge), connects the city and its eastern suburbs.
Source:
History.com
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