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What happened on September 10 - World events by date
Births920 - King Louis IV of France (d. 954) 1169 - Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183) 1487 - Pope Julius III (d. 1555) 1550 - Alonso de Guzman El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commander of the Spanish Armada (d. 1615) 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) 1788 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaelogist (d. 1868) 1836 - Joseph Wheeler, Confederate Lt. General and United States General (d. 1906) 1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (d. 1912) 1839 - Charles Peirce, American philosopher 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) 1886 - Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d. 1961) 1890 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973) 1890 - Franz Werfel, poet and author (d. 1945) 1892 - Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962) 1896 - Ye Ting Chinese military leader (d. 1946 ) 1897 - Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976) 1904 - Max Shachtman, American Trotskyist politician 1914 - Robert Wise, American film director (d. 2005) 1915 - Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985) 1917 - Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat 1920 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001) 1922 - Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer 1928 - Jean Vanier, Canadian humanitarian. 1929 - Arnold Palmer, American golfer 1931 - Philip Baker Hall, American actor 1933 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (d. 2000) 1934 - Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997) 1934 - Roger Maris, baseball player (d. 1985) 1938 - Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer 1941 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002) 1941 - Christopher Hogwood, English conductor 1941 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997) 1943 - Eldridge Coleman ("Superstar" Billy Graham), American professional wrestler 1945 - Jose Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer 1946 - Jim Hines, American athlete 1946 - Don Powell, English drummer (Slade) 1948 - Tony Gatlif, Algerian-born director 1948 - Bob Lanier, American basketball player 1949 - Don Muraco, professional wrestler 1949 - Bill O'Reilly, American journalist, author, and commentator 1950 - Joe Perry, American musician (Aerosmith) 1953 - Amy Irving, American actress 1957 - Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer (Bananarama and Shakespear's Sister) 1958 - Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor 1958 - Chris Columbus, American film director 1959 - Peter Nelson, American actor 1960 - Colin Firth, English actor 1960 - David Lowery, American musician (Cracker (band)) 1963 - Randy Johnson, American baseball player 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 - Robert Green, English football player 1972 - Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete 1972 - James Duval, American actor 1973 - Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer 1974 - Ryan Phillippe, American actor 1974 - Ben Wallace, American basketball player 1976 - Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player 1980 - Mikey Way, American bassist (My Chemical Romance)
Deaths918 - 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) 1308 - Emperor Go-NijÅ of Japan (b. 1285) 1419 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (b. 1371) 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) 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) 1851 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787) 1867 - Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (b. 1788) 1898 - Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1837) 1935 - Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893) 1937 - Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892) 1948 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (b. 1861) 1961 - Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880) 1965 - Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880) 1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891) 1975 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) 1976 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (b. 1905) 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) 1996 - Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923) 1997 - Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler (b. 1929) 1999 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927) 2000 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921) 2004 - Brock Adams, American politician (b. 1927) 2005 - Clarence Gatemouth Brown, American guitarist and singer (b. 1924) Calendar of Saints - Virgin of the Wonders; Nicholas of Tolentino Also see September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Gibraltar - National Day World Suicide Prevention Day Teacher's Day in China Day of the Child in Honduras Grandparent's Day (US) AIDS Day (Africa) 10 September was the name of a communist faction in Turkey. After the September 11 attacks, the expression this is September 10 was created to mean this is an average day, with nothing special BBC: On This Day
Events506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. 1419 - John 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. 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 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 kills more than nineteen unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States. 1898 - Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni. 1913 - The first paved coast-to-coast U.S. highway opens. 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 - Canada declares war on Nazi Germany. 1942 - The Allies carry out an amphibious landing at Majunga, north-west Madagascar, to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign. 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 baseball's longest home run, sending the ball an estimated 643 feet. 1961 - At the Formula One Italian Grand Prix in Monza, a horrific crash at the 2nd lap of the race 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 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 in France. Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, was executed at Baumettes Prison in Marseille. 1978 - At the Formula One Italian Grand Prix in Monza, just after the start a terrible crash involves many cars. Italian driver Vittorio Brambilla is severely injured by a roaming wheels, but will recover some days later; Swedish driver Ronnie Peterson seems injured less severely, but sadly he will die the day later in a Milan hospital owing to fat embolism after the operation. 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. 1993 - The X-Files premieres on FOX 1996 - Austrian inventor and automotive pioneer Hans List, founder of AVL List, dies 2001 - Norwegian parliamentary election, 2001 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. |
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