What day of the week was September 12, 1857?

The day of the week September 12th, 1857 fell on was a Saturday.

Manuel Espinosa Batista the Colombian pharmacist and politician (d. 1919) was born on 12 September in 1857.

The sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras the North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush.