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.
[edit] Events
506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. 1419 - John the Fearless, Duke 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 for the Continental Army. 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 BolÃvar is named President of Peru. 1846 - Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine. 1858 - George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora. 1897 - Lattimer Massacre - a sheriff's posse kills twenty unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States. 1898 - Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni. 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 - World War II: The submarine HMAS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss. 1939 - World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies - France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia. 1942 - World War II: The British carry out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign. 1943 - World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome. 1945 - Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death. 1951 - United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran. 1961 - Italian Grand Prix, a crash 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 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 against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany. 1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal. 1976 - A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176. 1977 - Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France. 1990 - The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire – the largest church in Africa is consecrated by Pope John Paul II. 2000 - The musical Cats closes on Broadway. 2002 - Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations. 2003 - Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies of her wounds on September 11. 2007 - Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999. 2008 - The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
[edit] Births
1169 - Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183) 1487 - Pope Julius III, Italian Roman Catholic Pope (d. 1555) 1550 - Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish Armada commander (d. 1615) 1561 - Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1634) 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) 1786 - Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (d. 1854) 1786 - William Mason, American politician (d. 1860) 1788 - Jacques Boucher de CrèvecÅ“ur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868) 1801 - Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881) 1836 - Joseph Wheeler, American general (d. 1906) 1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (d. 1912) 1839 - Charles Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914) 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) 1871 - Charles Collett, British mechanical engineer (d. 1952) 1886 - Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d. 1961) 1890 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973) 1890 - Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist (d. 1945) 1892 - Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962) 1893 - Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian 1895 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (d. 1976). 1896 - Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946) 1896 - Adele Astaire, American dancer and entertainer (d. 1981) 1896 - Robert Taschereau, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1970) 1897 - Georges Bataille, French writer (d. 1962) 1897 - Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976) 1898 - Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986) 1898 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999) 1904 - Max Shachtman, American politician (d. 1972) 1907 - Alva R. Fitch, American army officer (d. 1989) 1908 - Waldo Wedel, American Archaeologist (d. 1996) 1908 - Raymond Scott, American composer, bandleader, electronic music pioneer (d. 1994) 1912 - Mary Walter, Filipina actress (d. 1993) 1914 - Robert Wise, American film director (d. 2005) 1915 - Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985) 1917 - Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat 1918 - Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932) 1920 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001) 1922 - Yma Súmac, Peruvian singer 1924 - Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (d. 1988) 1924 - Boyd K. Packer, LDS apostle 1928 - Jean Vanier, Canadian disabilities advocate 1928 - Walter Martin, American Christian apologist (d. 1989) 1929 - Arnold Palmer, American golfer 1931 - Philip Baker Hall, American actor 1932 - Bo Goldman, American screenwriter 1933 - Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000) 1933 - Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer 1934 - Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997) 1934 - Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985) 1935 - Mary Oliver, American poet 1937 - Jared Diamond, American biologist and author 1941 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002) 1941 - Christopher Hogwood, English conductor 1941 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997) 1942 - Danny Hutton, American singer 1943 - Eldridge Coleman ("Superstar" Billy Graham), American professional wrestler 1943 - Daniel Truhitte, American actor 1943 - Neale Donald Walsch, American author 1944 - Sir Thomas Allen, English baritone 1945 - Jose Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer 1946 - Jim Hines, American athlete 1946 - Don Powell, English drummer 1946 - Michèle Alliot-Marie, French politician 1948 - Tony Gatlif, Algerian-born director 1948 - Judy Geeson, English actress 1948 - Bob Lanier, American basketball player 1948 - Margaret Trudeau, former wife of Pierre Trudeau 1948 - Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese writer 1948 - Charlie Waters, American football player 1949 - Don Muraco, professional wrestler 1949 - Bill O'Reilly, American journalist and commentator 1950 - Joe Perry, American musician 1952 - Vic Toews, Canadian politician 1953 - Amy Irving, American actress 1956 - Johnny Hickman, American musician 1957 - Carol Decker, UK singer 1957 - Kate Burton, Swiss actress 1958 - Chris Columbus, American film director 1958 - Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer 1959 - Peter Nelson, American actor 1960 - Alison Bechdel, American cartoonist 1960 - Colin Firth, English actor 1960 - David Lowery, American musician 1963 - Randy Johnson, American baseball player 1963 - Bill Stevenson, American music producer and musician 1964 - John E. Sununu, American politician 1965 - Robin Goodridge, English rock drummer 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 - Paula Kelley, musician 1972 - Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete 1972 - James Duval, American actor 1972 - Bente Skari, Norwegian cross-country skier 1972 - KatarÃna Hasprová, Slovak singer 1973 - Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer 1974 - Ryan Phillippe, American actor 1974 - Mirko Filipovic, Croatian martial artist 1974 - Ben Wallace, American basketball player 1975 - Jonathan Hoenig, American investment advisor 1979 - Jacob Young, American actor and singer 1980 - Mikey Way, American Bassist (My Chemical Romance) 1986 - Hiroki Uchi, Japanese Idol 1988 - Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
[edit] Deaths
210 BC - Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China. 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) 1217 - William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon 1308 - Emperor Go-NijÅ of Japan (b. 1285) 1419 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (b. 1371) 1482 - Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and arts patron 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) 1748 - Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, foundress of the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary (b. 1663) 1749 - Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706) 1759 - Ferdinand KonÅ¡Äak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703) 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759) 1801 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780) 1851 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787) 1867 - Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (b. 1788) 1898 - Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1837) 1905 - Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861) 1915 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (b. 1822) 1931 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869) 1935 - Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893) 1937 - Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892) 1948 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (b. 1861) 1952 - Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese civil engineer and architect (b. 1866) 1961 - Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880) 1961 - Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928) 1965 - Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880) 1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891) 1971 - Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932) 1975 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) 1976 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (b. 1905) 1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1944) 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) 1991 - Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908) 1995 - Charles Denner, French actor (b. 1926) 1996 - Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923) 1996 - Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896) 1997 - Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler (b. 1929) 1998 - Carl Forgione, British actor (b. 1944) 1999 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927) 2000 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921) 2001 - DJ Uncle Al (b.1969) 2004 - Brock Adams, American politician (b. 1927) 2005 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American musician (b. 1924) 2006 - Patty Berg, American golf player (b. 1918) 2006 - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (b. 1918) 2006 - Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith (b. 1986) 2007 - Jane Wyman, American actress (b.1917) 2007 - Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b.1942) 2007 - Ted Stepien, former basketball team owner (b. 1925)
[edit] Holidays and observances
Calendar of Saints - Nicholas of Tolentino; Saint Aubert. Also see September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics). Gibraltar - National Day. Teacher's Day in People's Republic of China and Hong Kong.