'''September_10''' is the 253rd day of the year (254th in Leap_years). There are 112 days following it.
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==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 a Yugoslav 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.
==Births==
*920 - 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)
*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)
*1839 - Isaac_Kauffman_Funk, American publisher (d. 1912)
*1844 - Abel_Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918)
*1852 - Alice_Brown_Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)
*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)
*1897 - Hilde_Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976)
*1907 - Fay_Wray, Canadian actress (d. 2004)
*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
*1963 - Randy_Johnson, baseball player
*1968 - Big_Daddy_Kane, American rapper
*1968 - Guy_Ritchie, British film director
*1969 - Jonathon_Schaech, American actor
*1970 - Robert_Green, American 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)
==Deaths==
*918 - 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-Nijō 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_Konščak, 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)
*2004 - Brock_Adams, American politician (b. 1927)
==Holidays==
* Calendar_of_Saints - Virgin of the Wonders; Nicholas_of_Tolentino
Also see September_10_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
* Gibraltar - National_Day
* World Suicide Prevention Day
* Software_Freedom_Day
* Teacher's_Day in China
* Day_of_the_Child in Honduras
==See also==
* 10 September was the name of a communist faction in Turkey.
== External links ==
* BBC: On This Day
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