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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.
- 1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Istanbul.
- 1547 – The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
- 1561 – Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima – Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
- 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 United States 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 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 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
- 1898 – Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
- 1918 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
- 1919 – Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
- 1932 – The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
- 1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS 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 Army carries 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.
- 1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters' Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her "to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them". She would become known as Mother Teresa.
- 1960 – At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
- 1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are 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 suffers its first loss of an 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 of 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.
- 2001 – Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
- 2001 – Antonio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil was assassinated.
- 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 the following day.
- 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 history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
[edit] Births
- 920 – King Louis IV of France (d. 954)
- 1169 – Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
- 1385 – Le Loi, national hero of Viet Nam, founder of the Later Lê Dynasty (d. 1433)
- 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)
- 1753 – Sir John Soane, English neo-classical architect (d. 1837)
- 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 Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
- 1801 – Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
- 1821 – Sir William Jervois, British colonial administrator, Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1897)
- 1836 – Joseph Wheeler, American general (d. 1906)
- 1839 – Isaac K. Funk, American publisher (d. 1912)
- 1839 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914)
- 1844 – Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918)
- 1852 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company (d. 1937)
- 1852 – Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)
- 1855 – Albert F. Mummery, British mountaineer (d. 1895)
- 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)
- 1872 – K. S. Ranjitsinhji, Indian king and Test cricketer (d. 1933)
- 1876 – Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian theatre entrepreneur (d. 1942)
- 1883 – Jock Delves Broughton, British noble (d. 1942)
- 1885 – Carl Clinton Van Doren, American biographer and critic (d. 1950)
- 1886 – Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d. 1961)
- 1887 – Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1978)
- 1887 – Kenneth Mason, British geographer (d. 1976)
- 1890 – Bob Heffron, Premier of New South Wales (d. 1978)
- 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 (d. 2009)
- 1894 – Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet film director (d. 1956)
- 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)
- 1903 – Cyril Connolly, English literary critic (d. 1974)
- 1904 – Max Shachtman, American politician (d. 1972)
- 1906 – Karl Wien, German mountaineer (d. 1937)
- 1907 – Alva R. Fitch, American army officer (d. 1989)
- 1908 – Sir Angus Bethune, Premier of Tasmania (d. 2004)
- 1908 – Raymond Scott, American composer (d. 1994)
- 1908 – Waldo Wedel, American archaeologist (d. 1996)
- 1912 – Mary Walter, Filipina actress (d. 1993)
- 1913 – Lincoln Gordon, American diplomat (d. 2009)
- 1914 – Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1990)
- 1914 – Robert Wise, American film director (d. 2005)
- 1915 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1917 – Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat (d. 2009)
- 1918 – Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932)
- 1920 – Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
- 1924 – Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (d. 1988)
- 1924 – Boyd K. Packer, American religious figure
- 1925 – Roy Brown, American blues musician (d. 1981)
- 1926 – Beryl Cook, English painter (d. 2008)
- 1928 – Roch Bolduc, Canadian civil servant and senator
- 1928 – Walter Martin, American Christian apologist (d. 1989)
- 1928 – Jean Vanier, Canadian disabilities advocate
- 1929 – Michel Bélanger, Canadian businessman and banker (d. 1997)
- 1929 – Tommy Leonetti, American songwriter, actor (d. 1979)
- 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 – Jim Oberstar, American politician
- 1934 – Larry Sitsky, Australian composer, pianist and educator
- 1934 – Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
- 1935 – Mary Oliver, American poet
- 1937 – Jared Diamond, American biologist and author
- 1939 – Cynthia Lennon, British celebrity
- 1939 – David Stratton, UK-Australian film critic
- 1939 – Hans Sotin, German operatic bass
- 1940 – Buck Buchanan, American football player (d. 1992)
- 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, 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
- 1945 – Gerard Henderson, Australian public affairs columnist and commentator
- 1945 – Mike Mullane, American astronaut
- 1946 – Jim Hines, American athlete
- 1946 – Patrick Norman, Canadian country musician
- 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 television host, author, and political commentator
- 1950 – Joe Perry, American musician
- 1952 – Vic Toews, Canadian politician
- 1952 – Medea Benjamin, American activist
- 1953 – Yannis Bezos, Greek actor
- 1953 – Amy Irving, American actress
- 1956 – Johnny Hickman, American musician
- 1956 – Johnny Fingers, Irish musician The Boomtown Rats
- 1956 – Erick Zonca, French film director
- 1957 – Carol Decker, British singer
- 1957 – Kate Burton, Swiss actress
- 1957 – Andreï Makine, Russian-born French author
- 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 – Tim Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1960 – David Lowery, American musician
- 1963 – Randy Johnson, American baseball player
- 1963 – Marian Keyes, Irish novelist
- 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 – Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer
- 1968 – Guy Ritchie, British film director
- 1969 – Johnathon Schaech, American actor
- 1969 – Ai Jing, Chinese singer
- 1970 – Paula Kelley, American musician
- 1970 – Ménélik, Cameroonian/French rapper
- 1972 – James Duval, American actor
- 1972 – Katarína Hasprová, Slovak singer
- 1972 – Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete
- 1972 – Bente Skari, Norwegian cross-country skier
- 1973 – Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
- 1974 – Mirko Filipović, Croatian martial artist
- 1974 – Ryan Phillippe, American actor
- 1974 – Ben Wallace, American basketball player
- 1975 – Melanie Pullen, American photographer
- 1976 – Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
- 1976 – Vassilis Lakis, Greek footballer
- 1976 – Matt Morgan, American professional wrestler
- 1979 – Andreas Aniko, Estonian footballer
- 1979 – Jacob Young, American actor and singer
- 1980 – Jayam Ravi, Indian Actor
- 1981 – Marco Chiudinelli, Swiss tennis player
- 1981 – Germán Denis, Argentine footballer
- 1983 – Joey Votto, Canadian baseball player
- 1985 – Aya Kamiki, Japanese rock singer
- 1985 – Matsuda Shota, Japanese actor
- 1985 – Elyse Levesque, Canadian actress
- 1985 – Laurent Koscielny, French footballer
- 1986 – Eoin Morgan, Irish cricketer
- 1986 – Hiroki Uchi, Japanese singer and actor
- 1987 – Nana Tanimura, Japanese singer
- 1988 – Jared Lee Loughner, American spree killer
- 1988 – Coco Rocha, Canadian fashion model
- 1988 – Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989 – Manish Pandey, Indian cricketer
[edit] Deaths
- 210 BC – Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China.
- 918 – Count Baldwin II of Flanders (b. 865)
- 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
- 1306 – St Nicholas of Tolentino, Italian mystic (b. c. 1245)
- 1308 – Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
- 1382 – Louis I of Hungary, King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, Jerusalem, Sicily, and Poland (b. 1326)
- 1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (b. 1371)
- 1482 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and arts patron (b. 1422)
- 1519 – John Colet, English churchman and educator (b. 1467)
- 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 of France, 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 Konščak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703)
- 1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)
- 1801 – Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780)
- 1842 – William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand (b. 1792)
- 1842 – Letitia Christian Tyler, US First Lady (b. 1790)
- 1851 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787)
- 1867 – Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (b. 1788)
- 1889 – Charles III, Prince of Monaco, founder of the Monte Carlo casino (b. 1818)
- 1898 – Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1837)
- 1905 – Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
- 1915 – Bagha Jatin, Indian revolutionary philosopher against British rule (b. 1879 )
- 1915 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
- 1919 – J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher (b. 1856)
- 1922 – Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and writer (b. 1840)
- 1923 – Sukumar Ray, Bengali humorous poet, story writer and playwright who mainly wrote for children (b. 1887)
- 1931 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
- 1931 – Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American gangster (b. 1886)
- 1934 – Sir George Henschel, German-British baritone, conductor, composer (b. 1850)
- 1935 – Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893)
- 1937 – Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
- 1939 – Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig, German soldier (b. 1888)
- 1948 – King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
- 1952 – Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese civil engineer and architect (b. 1866)
- 1954 – Peter Anders, German operatic tenor (b. 1908)
- 1961 – Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880)
- 1961 – Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928)
- 1965 – Abdul Hamid (soldier), Recipient of the Republic of India's highest military decoration, the Param Vir Chakra (b. 1933)
- 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 – Hans Swarowsky, Austrian conductor (b. 1899)
- 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 – Norah Lofts, British novelist (b. 1904)
- 1983 – B. J. Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915)
- 1985 – Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1922)
- 1988 – Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and author (b. 1916)
- 1991 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
- 1994 – Charles Drake, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1995 – Charles Denner, French actor (b. 1926)
- 1995 – Yasutomo Nagai, motorbike driver (b.1965)
- 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 – Sir Hermann Bondi, Anglo-Austrian cosmologist (b. 1919)
- 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)
- 2007 – Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b. 1942)
- 2007 – Ted Stepien, former basketball team owner (b. 1925)
- 2007 – Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
- 2008 – Gérald Beaudoin, Canadian lawyer and senator (b. 1929)
- 2008 – Vernon Handley, British conductor (b. 1930)
- 2008 – Domagoj Kapec, Croatian hockey player (b. 1989)
- 2010 – Gizela Dali, Greek actress (b. 1940)
- 2011 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
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