10 September - Definition and Overview

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 - The submarine HMS Oxley is sunk by mistake by the submarine HMS Trition off the coast of Norway 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 - 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)
• 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
• 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
• 1999 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
• 2004 - Brockman Adams, American politician

Holidays

• National Day of Gibraltar
• World Suicide Prevention Day

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