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September 10
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{{PAGENAME}} is the 253rd day of the year (254th in
leap years). There are 112 days following it.
Events
*
1419 -
John of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future
Charles VII of France.
*
1608 -
John Smith of Jamestown John Smith is elected council president of
Jamestown, Virginia.
*
1776 -
American Revolutionary War:
Nathan Hale volunteers to spy.
*
1798 - At the
Battle of St. George,
British Honduras defeats
Spain.
*
1813 - The
United States U.S. defeats the British Fleet at the
Battle of Lake Erie during the
War of 1812.
*
1823 -
Simón BolÃvar is named President of
Peru.
*
1846 -
Elias Howe gets a patent for the
sewing machine.
*
1858 -
George Mary Searle discovers the
asteroid 55 Pandora.
*
1897 - In the
Lattimer Massacre, a sheriff's posse killes more than nineteen unarmed immigrant miners in
Pennsylvania,
United States.
*
1898 - Empress
Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by
Luigi Lucheni.
*
1913 - The first paved coast-to-coast
United States U.S. highway opens.
*
1919 -
Austria and the Allies sign the
Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of
Poland,
Hungary,
Czechoslovakia and
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia.
*
1927 -
France had its first
Davis Cup win, though it had competed since
1905.
*
1932 - The
New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned "IND", is opened.
*
1939 - The submarine
HMS Oxley HMS'' Oxley'' is sunk by mistake by the submarine
HMS Triton (N15) HMS'' Triton'' off the coast of
Norway and becomes the
Royal Navy's first loss in the Second World War.
* 1939 -
Canada declares war on
Nazi Germany.
*
1942 - The Allies carry out an amphibious landing at Majunga, north-west Madagascar, to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the
Battle of Madagascar Madagascar Campaign.
*
1943 -
Germany German forces began their occupation of
Rome during
World War II.
*
1945 -
Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaboration with Nazi
Germany.
*
1951 -
United Kingdom began an economic boycott of
Iran.
*
1960 -
Mickey Mantle hits what is thought to be the Major League baseball's longest
home run, sending the ball an estimated 643 feet.
*
1963 - 20 African-American students enter public schools in the U.S. state of Alabama.
*
1967 - The people of
Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of
Spain.
*
1972 - The
United States loses its first international
basketball game in a disputed match versus the
Soviet Union at
Munich,
Germany.
*
1974 -
Guinea-Bissau gains independence from
Portugal.
*
1976 - A
British Airways Trident and an
Adria Airways Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near
Zagreb,
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia, killing 176.
*
1977 - Last
execution (legal) execution by
Guillotine in France.
Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, was executed at Baumettes Prison in
Marseille.
*
1990 - The
Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in
Yamoussoukro,
C̫te d'Ivoire Рthe largest church in Africa and perhaps the world Рis consecrated by
Pope John Paul II.
*
2001 -
Norwegian parliamentary election, 2001
*
2002 -
Switzerland, known for its
neutrality, finally joins the
United Nations.
* 2002 - The U.S.
Homeland Security Advisory System is set to Orange, or ''High Condition'', for the first time.
*
2003 -
Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of
Sweden, is stabbed fatally while shopping, and dies of her wounds on
September 11.
Births
*
920 - King
Louis IV of France (d.
954)
*
1169 -
Alexius II Comnenus,
Byzantine Emperor (d.
1183)
*
1487 -
Pope Julius III (d.
1555)
*
1550 -
Alonso de Guzman El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commander of the Spanish Armada (d.
1615)
*
1588 -
Nicholas Lanier, English composer (d.
1666)
*
1624 -
Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d.
1689)
*
1638 -
Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of
Louis XIV of France (d.
1683)
*
1714 -
Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d.
1774)
*
1758 -
Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d.
1840)
*
1788 -
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaelogist (d.
1868)
*
1839 -
Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (d.
1912)
*
1844 -
Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d.
1918)
*
1852 -
Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d.
1935)
*
1861 -
Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (d.
1941)
*
1866 -
Jeppe Aakjær, Danish writer (d.
1930)
*
1886 -
Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d.
1961)
*
1890 -
Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d.
1973)
* 1890 -
Franz Werfel, poet and author (d.
1945)
*
1892 -
Arthur Compton, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1962)
*
1896 -
Ye Ting Chinese military leader (d. 1946 )
*
1897 -
Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d.
1976)
*
1914 -
Robert Wise, American film director (d.
2005)
*
1915 -
Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d.
1985)
*
1917 -
Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat
*
1920 -
Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d.
2001)
*
1922 -
Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer
*
1928 -
Jean Vanier, Canadian humanitarian.
*
1929 -
Arnold Palmer, American golfer
*
1931 -
Philip Baker Hall, American actor
*
1933 -
Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (d.
2000)
*
1934 -
Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d.
1997)
* 1934 -
Roger Maris, baseball player (d.
1985)
*
1938 -
Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
*
1941 -
Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d.
2002)
* 1941 -
Christopher Hogwood, English conductor
* 1941 -
Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d.
1997)
*
1943 -
Billy Graham (wrestler) Eldridge Coleman ("Superstar" Billy Graham), American professional wrestler
*
1945 -
Jose Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer
*
1946 -
Jim Hines, American athlete
* 1946 -
Don Powell, English drummer (
Slade)
*
1948 -
Tony Gatlif, Algerian-born director
* 1948 -
Bob Lanier (basketball player) Bob Lanier, American basketball player
*
1949 -
Don Muraco, professional wrestler
* 1949 -
Bill O'Reilly (commentator) Bill O'Reilly, American journalist, author, and commentator
*
1950 -
Joe Perry (musician) Joe Perry, American musician (
Aerosmith)
*
1953 -
Amy Irving, American actress
*
1957 -
Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer (
Bananarama and
Shakespear's Sister)
*
1958 -
Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor
* 1958 -
Chris Columbus, American film director
*
1959 -
Peter Nelson, American actor
*
1960 -
Colin Firth, English actor
*
1963 -
Randy Johnson, American baseball player
*
1966 -
Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian
ice hockey player
*
1968 -
Big Daddy Kane, American rapper
* 1968 -
Guy Ritchie, British film director
*
1969 -
Jonathon Schaech, American actor
*
1970 -
Robert Green, American football player
*
1972 -
Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete
* 1972 -
James Duval, American actor
*
1973 -
Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
*
1974 -
Ryan Phillippe, American actor
* 1974 -
Ben Wallace, American basketball player
*
1976 -
Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
*
1980 -
Mikey Way, American bassist (
My Chemical Romance)
Deaths
*
918 - Count
Baldwin II, Count of Flanders Baldwin II of Flanders (b.
865)
*
954 - King
Louis IV of France (b.
920)
*
1167 -
Empress Matilda, wife of
Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b.
1102)
*
1197 -
Henry II of Champagne (b.
1166)
*
1308 -
Emperor Go-Nijo Emperor Go-NijÅ? of Japan (b.
1285)
*
1419 -
John, Duke of Burgundy John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (b.
1371)
*
1519 -
John Colet, English churchman and educator
*
1559 -
Anthony Denny, confidant of King
Henry VIII of England (b.
1501)
*
1591 -
Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b.
1542)
*
1604 -
William Morgan (Bible translator) William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b.
1545)
*
1607 -
Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist (b.
1545)
*
1669 -
Henrietta Maria, queen of
Charles I of England (b.
1609)
*
1676 -
Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b.
1609)
*
1680 -
Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (b.
1610)
*
1749 -
Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b.
1706)
*
1759 -
Ferdinand KonÅ¡Ä?ak, Croatian explorer (b.
1703)
*
1797 -
Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b.
1759)
*
1851 -
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b.
1787)
*
1867 -
Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (b.
1788)
*
1898 -
Elisabeth of Bavaria Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated) (b.
1837)
*
1935 -
Huey Long, American politician (b.
1893)
*
1937 -
Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b.
1892)
*
1948 - King
Ferdinand of Bulgaria (b.
1861)
*
1961 -
Leo Carrillo, American actor (b.
1880)
*
1965 -
Father Divine, American religious leader (b.
1880)
*
1966 -
Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b.
1891)
*
1975 -
George Paget Thomson, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1892)
*
1976 -
Dalton Trumbo, American writer (b.
1905)
*
1979 -
Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (b.
1922)
*
1983 -
Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1905)
* 1983 -
John Vorster,
Prime Minister of South Africa (b.
1915)
*
1985 -
Jock Stein,
Scotland Scottish football (soccer) football player and manager (b.
1922)
*
1996 -
Joanne Dru, American actress (b.
1923)
*
1997 -
Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler (b.
1929)
*
1999 -
Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b.
1927)
*
2004 -
Brock Adams, American politician (b.
1927)
*
2005 -
Clarence Gatemouth Brown, American guitarist and singer (b.
1924)
Holidays
*
Calendar of Saints - Virgin of the Wonders;
Nicholas of Tolentino
* Also see
September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*
Gibraltar -
National Day
* World Suicide Prevention Day
*
Software Freedom Day
*
Teacher's Day in China
*
Day of the Child in
Honduras
See also
*
10 September (political group) 10 September was the name of a communist faction in
Turkey.
* After the
September 11 attacks, the expression ''this is September 10'' was created to mean ''this is an average day, with nothing special''
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
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