September 10

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[edit] Events

  • 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, 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 Bolívar 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 killes 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

[edit] Births

  • 1960 - Colin Firth, actor
  • 1963 - Randy Johnson, baseball pitcher, five-time Cy Young Award winner

[edit] Deaths