September 10
September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). There are 112 days following it.
Events
- 1608 - John Smith elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia
- 1776 - Nathan Hale volunteers to spy
- 1813 - The U.S. defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
- 1823 - Simón Bolívar named President of Peru
- 1846 - Elias Howe gets a patent for the sewing machine
- 1898 - Queen Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Liccheri.
- 1913 - First paved coast-to-coast highway opened in the U.S.
- 1919 - Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
- 1927 - France wins the first Davis Cup
- 1932 - The New York Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned "IND", is opened.
- 1939 - Canada declares war on Nazi Germany.
- 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's longest home run, sending the ball an estimated 643 feet.
- 1967 - The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain
- 1972 - United States loses first international basketball game in disputed match versus the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany
- 1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal
- 1976 - A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia killing 176
- 1977 - France's last execution is performed by guillotine.
- 1990 - The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, the largest church in Africa and perhaps the world, is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
- 1990 - Will Smith makes his television debut in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
- 2001 - Major Charles Ingram allegedly cheats to win the £1,000,000 prize on the British Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- 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, and dies of her wounds on September 11
Births
- 920 - Louis IV of France (d. 954)
- 1487 - Pope Julius III (d. 1555)
- 1638 - Marie-Therese of Austria, Queen consort of France
- 1714 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer (d. 1774)
- 1740 - Mary Willing Byrd, plantation manager
- 1758 - Hannah Webster Foster, author
- 1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, dictionary publisher (d. 1912)
- 1852 - Alice Brown Davis
- 1864 - Josephine Adams Rathbone, librarian
- 1886 - Hilda Doolittle, poet, novelist (d. 1961)
- 1890 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973)
- 1907 - Fay Wray, Canadian actress (d. 2004)
- 1914 - Robert Wise, American director
- 1915 - Edmond O'Brien, actor (d. 1985)
- 1920 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
- 1927 - Yma Sumac, singer (the date is disputed)
- 1929 - Arnold Palmer, American golf player
- 1931 - Philip Baker Hall, actor
- 1932 - Bo Goldman, screenwriter
- 1933 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (d. 2000)
- 1934 - Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
- 1934 - Charles Kuralt, journalist (d. 1997)
- 1938 - Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer
- 1942 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
- 1945 - Jose Feliciano, singer
- 1946 - Jim Hines, American athlete
- 1948 - Bob Lanier, Basketball Hall of Famer
- 1949 - Bill O'Reilly, American journalist, author, and commentator
- 1950 - Joe Perry, rock and roll musician, member of Aerosmith
- 1957 - Siobhan Fahey, singer (Bananarama, Shakespear's Sister)
- 1958 - Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor (The Simpsons)
- 1958 - Chris Columbus, film director
- 1960 - Colin Firth, actor (Shakespeare in Love, Bridget Jones's Diary, Love Actually)
- 1963 - Randy Johnson, baseball pitcher
- 1968 - Guy Ritchie, film director
- 1968 - Big Daddy Kane, rap musician
- 1969 - Jonathon Schaech, actor
- 1972 - Ghada Shouaa, Syrian heptathlete
- 1974 - Ryan Phillippe, actor
- 1974 - Ben Wallace, NBA star
- 1976 - Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis star
Deaths
- 918 - Count Baldwin II of Flanders
- 954 - Louis IV of France
- 1669 - Henrietta Maria, Queen of England
- 1851 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, educator (b. 1787)
- 1867 - Simon Sechter, music teacher
- 1898 - Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated)
- 1904 - Aparicio Saravia, Uruguay politician
- 1935 - Huey Long, American politician
- 1948 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria
- 1961 - Leo Carrillo, actor
- 1965 - Father Divine, religious leader
- 1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist
- 1971 - Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union
- 1976 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer
- 1977 - Hamida Djandoubi, last private guillotine execution (legal) in France
- 1979 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician
- 1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist
- 1983 - John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa
- 2004 - Brockman Adams, American politician
Holidays
- National Day of Gibraltar
- World Suicide Prevention Day
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