September 10

is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). There are 112 days following it.

Events

506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
1419 - John of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
1608 - 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's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
1813 - The U.S. defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
1823 - Simón Bolívar 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 kills 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 U.S. highway opens.
1919 - Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and 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 is sunk by mistake by the submarine 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 Madagascar Campaign.
1943 - 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.
1961 - At the Formula One Italian Grand Prix in Monza, a horrific crash at the 2nd lap of the race causes the death of German driver Wolfgang Von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari.
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 Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
1977 - Last execution by Guillotine in France. Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, was executed at Baumettes Prison in Marseille.
1978 - At the Formula One Italian Grand Prix in Monza, just after the start a terrible crash involves many cars. Italian driver Vittorio Brambilla is severely injured by a roaming wheels, but will recover some days later; Swedish driver Ronnie Peterson seems injured less severely, but sadly he will die the day later in a Milan hospital owing to fat embolism after the operation.
1990 - The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire – the largest church in Africa and perhaps the world – is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
1993 - The X-Files premieres on FOX
1996 - Austrian inventor and automotive pioneer Hans List, founder of AVL List, dies
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)
1659 - Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
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)
1836 - Joseph Wheeler, Confederate Lt. General and United States General (d. 1906)
1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (d. 1912)
1839 - Charles Peirce, American philosopher
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 laureate (d. 1962)
1896 - Ye Ting Chinese military leader (d. 1946 )
1897 - Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976)
1904 - Max Shachtman, American Trotskyist politician
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 - 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, American basketball player
1949 - Don Muraco, professional wrestler
1949 - Bill O'Reilly, American journalist, author, and commentator
1950 - 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
1960 - David Lowery, American musician (Cracker (band))
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, English 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 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-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
1419 - 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, 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 Konščak, 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 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, Scottish 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)
2000 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921)
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
Teacher's Day in China
Day of the Child in Honduras
Grandparent's Day (US)

External links

BBC: On This Day

September 9 · September 11 · August 10 · October 10 · more historical anniversaries

Gourt Home::Gourt :: September 10

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