September 10

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

Births

• 920 - Louis IV of France
• 1714 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer († 1774)
• 1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, dictionary publisher († 1912)
• 1886 - Hilda Doolittle, poet, novelist († 1961)
• 1890 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere († 1973)
• 1907 - Fay Wray, Canadian actress
• 1914 - Robert Wise, American director
• 1915 - Edmond O'Brien, actor († 1985)
• 1920 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer
• 1927 - Yma Sumac, singer
• 1929 - Arnold Palmer, American golf player
• 1931 - Philip Baker Hall, actor
• 1932 - Bo Goldman, screenwriter
• 1933 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut
• 1934 - Roger Maris, American baseball player († 1985)
• 1934 - Charles Kuralt, journalist († 1997)
• 1938 - Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer
• 1942 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist († 2002)
• 1945 - Jose Feliciano, singer
• 1946 - Jim Hines, American athlete
• 1950 - Joe Perry, rock and roll musician, member of Aerosmith
• 1957 - Siobhan Fahey, singer (Bananarama, Shakespear's Sister)
• 1957 - Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor
• 1958 - Chris Columbus, film director
• 1960 - Colin Firth, actor
• 1968 - Guy Ritchie, film director
• 1968 - Big Daddy Kane, rap musician
• 1969 - Jonathon Schaech, actor
• 1974 - Ryan Philippe, actor

Deaths

• 954 - Louis IV of France
• 1669 - Henrietta Maria, Queen of England
• 1867 - Simon Sechter, music teacher
• 1898 - Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated)
• 1935 - Huey Long, American politician
• 1948 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria
• 1961 - Leo Carrillo, actor
• 1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist
• 1971 - Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union
• 1976 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer
• 1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist
• 1983 - John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa

Holidays

• National Day of Gibraltar

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December - more historical anniversaries

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