10th
September, on this day
422 St Celestine
I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
506 The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council
of Agde.
1349 Jews who survived a massacre in Constance, Germany are burned
to death
1547 Defeat for the Scots by the English at the Battle
of Pinkie Cleugh, Edinburgh
1608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va
1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan
Hale volunteers
1798 British Hondurus beats Spain in battle
of St George's caye
1813 Comm Oliver H Perry defeats the British in the Battle
of Lake Erie
1823
Simon Bolivar, known as 'the Liberator' is declared dictator of
Peru
1846 Elias
Howe patents the sewing machine
1847 Gold is discovered in California
1855 During the Crimean War, the Russian Black Sea base of Sebastopol
falls to Anglo-French froces after an 11 month siege
1869 Baptist minister invents the rickshaw
in Yokohama, Japan
1882 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets in
Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
1891 'Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-E' , the most popular song in Victorian England
in the 1890s is written by former Canadian bandsman Henry
J Sayers - copyrighted in New York. Sayers later admits to copying
an Austrian song after hearing the tune being played in a brothel
in Missouri
1897 Lattimer
Massacre - a sheriff's posse kills twenty unarmed immigrant miners
in Pennsylvania, United States.
1897 London taxi driver George Smith is the first person in Britain
to be convicted of drink-driving. He's fined £1 for driving
on the pavement in Bond Street
1898 Empress Elizabeth
of Austria is murdered by Italian anarchist Luigi
Lucheni in Geneva
1899 2nd quake in 7 days hits Yakutat Bay, Alaska
1907 New Zealand is granted Dominion status
1910 Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
1913 In US, Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
1915 The first branch of the British
Women's Institute is founded in the North Welsh town of Llanfairpwll
1919 NYC welcomes home Gen John
J Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers
1919 Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty
of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
1924 Leopold
and Loeb found guilty of murder
1932 The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the
municipally-owned
IND, is opened.
1933 English tennis player Fred
Perry becomes the first Briton to win the US Open Championship
since 1903
1939 Canada declares war on Germany
1939 The submarine HMAS
Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS
Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first WW2 loss
1942 The British carry out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to
re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar
Campaign.
1943 German troops occupy Rome and take over the protection of the
Vatican City
1945
Vidkun Quisling, Germany's 'puppet' premier of Norway during World
War II is sentenced to death for collaborating with the enemy. He
is executed on 24th October
1945 Mike
the Headless Chicken is decapitated; he survives for another 18
months before choking to death
1951 United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran.
1954 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville, Algeria
1955 In US, "Gunsmoke"
premiers on CBS TV
1960 An English
Football League match is seen live on television in Britain for
the first time. Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers draw 0-0
1960 Running barefoot, Ethiopian Abebe
Bikila wins Rome Olympic marathon
1961 Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German driver
Wolfgang
von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari.
1962
Rod Laver wins the Grand Slam of tennis
1963 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama
1966 Beatles' "Revolver,"
album goes to number 1 and stays for 6 weeks
1967 Almost 100 per cent of the voters of Gibraltar reject Spanish
rule in favour of retaining British sovereignty
1972 US Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to USSR (disputed)
1973 Muhammad Ali defeats Ken
Norton
1974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal
1974 Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in
24 hrs
1976 A British Airways Hawker Siddeley 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.
1979 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are
freed
1981 The Picasso painting 'Guernica'
is returned to Spain after 40 years in the United States of America.
Pablo Picasso had refused to allow it to be shown in Spain until the
restoration of democracy
1988 German tennis player Steffi
Graf beats Argentinian Gabriella Sabatini in the final of the
US Open to become only fifth person to complete the Grand Slam - winning
all four top tennis tournaments in the same calendar year.
1989 Against the wishes of the East German Government, Hungary opens
its western border allowing thousands of East German citizens to leave
the country
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.
1990 George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki
1990 Hard
Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas, Nevada
1990 Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq
1993 The body of former president Ferdinand
Marcos is returned to the Phillipines four years after he died
in exile in Hawaii
1996 Switzerland faces international pressure, particularly from Britain,
to give up an estimated £4 billion in gold looted by the Nazis
during World War II
1998 An historic face-to-face meeting in Belfast between the First
Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly - Ulster Unionist leader
David Trimble and the Sinn Fein President Gerry
Adams
2000 Cats
closes on Broadway.
2002 Switzerland, noted as a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
2003 Anna Lindh,
the foreign minister of Sweden, is stabbed fatally while shopping,
and dies of her wounds on September 11.
2007 Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following
a military coup in October 1999.
2008 The first attempt at circulating a beam through the Large
Hadron Collider is scheduled to take place.
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Birthdates
which occurred on 10th September:
1487 Julius III
Counter-Reformation pope (1550-55)
1736 Carter Braxton signed Decl of Ind
1753 Sir John Soane England, architect (Soane Museum)
1836 Joseph Wheeler Maj Gen/Cavalry Commander, Army of Tennessee
1839 Isaac Kauffman Funk US, publisher (Funk & Wagnalls)
1872 Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji India, cricketer/politician
1887 Giovanni Gronchi president of Italy
1890 Franz Werfel Austria, author (40 Days of Musa Dagh)
1893 Al "Fuzzy" St John Santa Ana Calif, actor (Lash of
the West)
19-- Arthur Taxler actor (Lt Zymack-Midnight Caller)
19-- Dennis Burkley Van Nuys Calif, actor (Mary Hartman, Sanford)
19-- Harry Groener actor (Ralph-Dear John)
19-- Michael Pasternak Bkln NY, actor (Co-ed Fever)
1907 Fay Wray Alberta Canada, actress-King Kong's main squeeze
1909 Raymond Scott Bkln NY, orch leader (Your Hit Parade)
1914 Robert Wise movie director (Day the Earth Stood Still)
1915 Edmond O'Brien NYC, actor (Sam Benedict, Johnny Midnight)
1927 Yma Sumac [Emperatriz Chavarri], Ichocan Peru, 5 octave soprano
1929 Arnold Palmer golfer (PGA Golfer of the Year 1960, 1962)
1933 Yevgeny V Khrunov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5)
1934 Charles Kuralt Wilmington NC, newscaster (On the Road)
1934 Roger Maris Yankee, HR champ (61 in 1961, AL MVP 1960, 1961)
1935 John Palmer Kingsport Tenn, news anchor (NBC Weekend News)
1939 Greg Mullavey Buffalo NY, actor (Tom-Mary Hartman, Rituals)
1940 Roy Ayers LA, disco jazz artist (Fever, You Send Me)
1945 Jos‚ Feliciano Lares PR, singer/songwriter (Light my Fire)
1945 Richard M Mullane Tx, USAF/astro (STS 41-D, STS-27, STS-36)
1945 Tom Ligon New Orleans, actor (Joyride)
1946 James R Hines US, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1968)
1948 Bob Lanier NBA center (Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks)
1948 Judy Geeson Arundei Sussex Engld, actress (To Sir With Love,
Berserk)
1948 Margaret Trudeau Vancouver BC, former Canadian 1st lady
1950 Joe Perry Boston, rocker (Aerosmith-Walking the Dog)
1953 Amy Irving Palo Alto, Cal, actress (Yentl, Carrie, Crossing Delancy)
1957 Brian Fitzpatrick Upper Darby Pa, actor (Rick Alden-Loving)
1957 Siobhan Fahey rocker (Bananarama-Venus)
1960 Miranda Wilson Nebraska, actress (Sandra-Santa Barbara)
1963 Carol Decker rocker (T'Pau-Heart & Soul)
1963 David Titlow rocker (Blue Mercedes-Rich & Famous)
1965 Allison Daughtry actress (Guilding Light)
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Deaths which occurred
on September 10th:
1419 John the Fearless Burgundy France, warrior, murdered at 48
1842 Letitia Tyler Pres Tyler's wife, dies at 51
1961 Leo Carrillo actor who portrayed Pancho on Cisco Kid, dies at
81
1976 Mordecai Johnson 1st black president of Howard U, dies at 86
1977 Hamida Djandoubi convicted murderer last to, die in the guillotine
1985 Alexa Kenin actress (Mousie-Coed Fever), dies at 23
1990 Samuel Kanyon Doe president of Liberia, assassinated
1991 Yves Montand actor (Lets Make Love, Z), dies at 70
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