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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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