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10th September

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 Battle of Lake Erie
1823 - Simón Bolívar named President of Peru
1846 - Elias Howe gets a patent for the sewing machine
1913 - First paved coast-to-coast highway opened in the US.
1919 - Austria and the Allies signed a treaty recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
1927 - France wins the first Davis Cup
1939 - Canada declares war on 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 - Great Britain began an economic boycott of Iran.
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 - Last ever execution takes places in France.
1990 - Will Smith made his debut in the television show "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
2002 - Switzerland joins the United Nations.
2003 - Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden is stabbed fatally and dies of the wounds on September 11

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