September 10

September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). There are 112 days remaining.

Events

• 1608 - John Smith elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia
• 1776 - Nathan Hale[?] volunteers to spy
• 1813 - The Battle of Lake Erie
• 1823 - Simon Bolivar 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
• 1990 - Will Smith made his debut in the television show "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."

Births

• 920 - Louis IV of France
• 1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk[?], dictionary publisher (+ 1912)
• 1886 - Hilda Doolittle, poet, novelist (+ 1961)
• 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 - José 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)
• 1958 - Dan Castallaneta[?], 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
• 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

• Today is National Day in Gibraltar

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