September 10
September 10 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 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 - The submarine HMS Oxley is sunk by mistake by the submarine HMS TritionNorway and becomes the first loss of the Royal Navy in the Second World War.
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 - Maria Theresa 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, a president of the American Library Association
1886 - Hilda Doolittle , poet, novelist (d. 1961 )
1897 - Hilde Hildebrand , German actress (d. 1976 )
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
1941 - Christopher Hogwood , English conductor
1941 - Gunpei Yokoi , inventor and video game designer (d. 1997 )
1941 - Stephen Jay Gould , American paleontologist (d. 2002 )
1945 - Jose Feliciano , singer
1946 - Jim Hines , American athlete
1946 - Don Powell , Slade , drummer
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
1607 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi , Italian composer and organist
1669 - Henrietta Maria , Queen of England (b. 1609 )
1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft , English feminist author
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
1999 - Alfredo Kraus , Spanish tenor (b. 1927 )
2004 - Brockman Adams , American politician
Holidays
National Day of Gibraltar
World Suicide Prevention Day
External links
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