September 10
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September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events [change]
- 1419 – John of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
- 1509 – A strong earthquake hits Constantinople, referred to by people at the time as the "Lesser Judgement Day".
- 1547 – Battle of Pinkie Cleugh: Last major battle engagement between England and Scotland, which ends in victory for the forces of Edward VI of England.
- 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, 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 killes more than nineteen unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
- 1898 – Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni, at Lake Geneva, Switzerland.
- 1913 – The first paved coast-to-coast U.S. highway opens.
- 1918 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures the city of Kazan.
- 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 – World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany.
- 1942 – World War II: The Allies carry out an amphibious landing at Majunga, north-west Madagascar, to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
- 1943 – Tottori, Japan is struck by a magnitude 7.4 earthquake, killing 1,190 people.
- 1943 – World War II: German forces began their occupation of Rome during World War II.
- 1945 – In Norway, Vidkun Quisling is sentenced to death for collaboration with Nazi Germany.
- 1951 – The 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.
- 1960 – At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila becomes the first person from SubSaharan Africa to win an Olympic gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
- 1961 – Italian Grand Prix: German racing driver Wolfgang von Trips is killed in a crash. Being crushed under his Ferrari, 13 spectators are also killed.
- 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 takes place in France. Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, is executed at Baumettes Prison in Marseille.
- 1989 – A Bulgarian tug boat collides with Romanian passenger ship Mogasoaia on the Danube, near Galati, Romania, killing 207 people.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN on the French-Swiss border is switched on for the first time.
Births [change]
- 920 – King Louis IV of France (d. 954)
- 1169 – Alexios Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
- 1487 – Pope Julius III (d. 1555)
- 1624 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
- 1638 – Maria Theresa of Spain, wife of King Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)
- 1659 – Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
- 1786 – Nicolas Bravo, 11th President of Mexico (d. 1854)
- 1788 – Jacques Boucher de Crevecoeur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
- 1801 – Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
- 1821 – William Jervois, 10th Governor of South Australia (d. 1897)
- 1836 – Joseph Wheeler, American Confederate general and politician (d. 1906)
- 1839 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher, mathematician and scientist (d. 1914)
- 1844 – Abel Hoadley, English-Australian candy maker (d. 1918)
- 1852 – Alice Brown Davis, American chief of the Seminole tribe in Oklahoma (d. 1935)
- 1861 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1941)
- 1866 – Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish writer (d. 1930)
- 1871 – Charles Collett, English engineer (d. 1952)
- 1887 – Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd President of Italy (d. 1978)
- 1890 – Bob Heffron, 30th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1978)
- 1890 – Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturier (d. 1973)
- 1890 – Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (d. 1945)
- 1892 – Arthur Compton, American physicist (d. 1962)
- 1893 – Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian (d. 2009)
- 1895 – Viswanathan Satyanarayana, Indian poet (d. 1976)
- 1896 – Robert Tascheraeu, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1970)
- 1906 – Karl Wien, German mountaineer (d. 1937)
- 1908 – Angus Bethune, Premier of Tasmania (d. 2004)
- 1912 – Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian politician (d. 2002)
- 1914 – Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Irish politician (d. 1990)
- 1914 – Robert Wise, American director and producer (d. 2005)
- 1918 – Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932)
- 1922 – Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Shmuel Eisenstadt, Israeli sociologist (d. 2010)
- 1925 – Roy Brown, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
- 1926 – Ladislav Adamec, Czechoslovakian politician (d. 2007)
- 1926 – Beryl Cook, British painter (d. 2008)
- 1928 – Otto F. Kernberg, Austrian psychoanalyst
- 1929 – Arnold Palmer, American golfer
- 1931 – Philip Baker Hall, American actor
- 1933 – Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
- 1933 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000)
- 1934 – Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
- 1937 – Jared Diamond, American evolutionary biologist
- 1939 – Cynthia Lennon, English ex-wife of John Lennon
- 1939 – Hans Sotin, German opera singer
- 1940 – Roy Ayers, American jazz musician
- 1941 – Stephen Jay Gould, American palaeontologist (d. 2002)
- 1941 – Christopher Hogwood, English conductor
- 1942 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game designer (d. 1997)
- 1946 – Michele Alliot-Marie, French politician
- 1946 – Don Powell, English drummer (Slade)
- 1948 – Margaret Trudeau, Canadian actress, author and biographer
- 1950 – Joe Perry, American singer-songwriter
- 1952 – Bruno Giacomelli, Italian racing driver
- 1953 – Amy Irving, American actress, film producer and singer
- 1956 – Johnnie Fingers, Irish musician, songwriter and producer
- 1958 – Chris Columbus, American film director, producer and screenwriter
- 1960 – Colin Firth, British actor
- 1963 – Randy Johnson, American baseball pitcher, five-time Cy Young Award winner
- 1964 – John E. Sununu, American politician
- 1966 – Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968 – Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer
- 1968 – Guy Ritchie, British director, screenwriter and producer
- 1968 – Big Daddy Kane, American rapper and producer
- 1968 – Juan Maldacena, Argentine-American physicist
- 1969 – David Trueba, Spanish writer, journalist, screenwriter, actor and director
- 1976 – Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
- 1976 – Vassilis Lakis, Greek footballer
- 1980 – Mikey Way, musician, bassist for My Chemical Romance
- 1982 – Stephen McManus, Scottish footballer
- 1983 – Fernando Belluschi, Argentine footballer
- 1983 – Jeremy Toulalan, French footballer
- 1985 – David Clarkson, Scottish footballer
- 1985 – Aya Kamiki, Japanese musical artist
- 1985 – Laurent Koscielny, French footballer
- 1986 – Eoin Morgan, Irish cricketer
- 1988 – Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1988 – Jared Lee Loughner, American murderer
Deaths [change]
- 210 BC – Qin Shi Huang, Chinese Emperor (b. 259 BC)
- 918 – Baldwin II, Count of Flanders (b. 865)
- 954 – King Louis IV of France (b. 920)
- 1167 – Empress Matilda of England (b. 1102)
- 1306 – Nicholas of Tolentino, Italian saint and mystic (b. 1245)
- 1308 – Emperor Go-Nijo of Japan (b. 1285)
- 1382 – Louis I of Hungary (b. 1326)
- 1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1371)
- 1591 – Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542)
- 1669 – Henrietta Maria of France (b. 1609)
- 1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft, British female philosopher (b. 1759)
- 1842 – William Hobson, 1st Governor of New Zealand (b. 1792)
- 1842 – Letitia Christian Tyler, First Lady of the United States (b. 1790)
- 1889 – Charles III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1818)
- 1898 – Empress Elizabeth of Austria (b. 1837)
- 1915 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, 3rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
- 1923 – Sukumar Ray, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1887)
- 1931 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
- 1935 – Huey Long, American politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1893)
- 1937 – Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
- 1938 – Charles Cruft, British businessman (b. 1852)
- 1948 – King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
- 1954 – Peter Anders, German tenor (b. 1908)
- 1961 – Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880)
- 1961 – Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928)
- 1965 – Father Divine, American spiritual leader (b. 1880)
- 1975 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist (b. 1892)
- 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, last person to be executed by guillotine in France (b. 1949)
- 1979 – Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola (b. 1922)
- 1983 – Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist (b. 1905)
- 1983 – John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915)
- 1983 – Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest-recorded person (b. 1941)
- 1985 – Jock Stein, Scottish football manager (b. 1922)
- 1991 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
- 1994 – Max Morlock, German footballer (b. 1925)
- 2006 – Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (b. 1918)
- 2007 – Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b. 1942)
- 2007 – Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
- 2011 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
