Today September 10th in history click read more below to view detail events, deaths, births, Holidays and observances, and video clips in hisotry. Please comments, last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009
Events
506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
1419 – John the Fearless, Duke 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 for the Continental Army.
1798 – At the Battle of St. George s Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
1813 – The United States 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 is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1897 – Lattimer Massacre – a sheriff s posse kills twenty unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
1898 – Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
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 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy s first loss.
1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
1943 – World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
1951 – United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran.
1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari.
1963 – 20 African-American students enter public schools in 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 against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
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.
2000 – The musical Cats closes on Broadway.
2001 – Portland International Airport opens three new concorses (A, B, and C) to the public, as well as a MAX Light Rail terminus station
2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
2003 – Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies of her wounds.
2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
Births
1169 – Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
1385 – Le Loi, national hero of Viet Nam, founder of the Later Lê Dynasty
1487 – Pope Julius III, Italian Roman Catholic Pope (d. 1555)
1550 – Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish Armada commander (d. 1615)
1561 – Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1634)
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)
1659 – Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
1714 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)
1758 – Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
1786 – Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (d. 1854)
1786 – William Mason, American politician (d. 1860)
1788 – Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
1801 – Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
1836 – Joseph Wheeler, American general (d. 1906)
1839 – Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (d. 1912)
1839 – Charles Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914)
1844 – Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918)
1852 – Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)
1861 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941)
1866 – Jeppe Aakjær, Danish writer (d. 1930)
1871 – Charles Collett, British mechanical engineer (d. 1952)
1886 – Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d. 1961)
1890 – Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973)
1890 – Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist (d. 1945)
1892 – Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1893 – Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian and former oldest living person (d. 2009)
1895 – Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (d. 1976)
1896 – Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946)
1896 – Adele Astaire, American dancer and entertainer (d. 1981)
1896 – Robert Taschereau, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1970)
1897 – Georges Bataille, French writer (d. 1962)
1897 – Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976)
1898 – Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986)
1898 – Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999)
1904 – Max Shachtman, American politician (d. 1972)
1907 – Alva R. Fitch, American army officer (d. 1989)
1908 – Waldo Wedel, American Archaeologist (d. 1996)
1908 – Raymond Scott, American composer, bandleader, electronic music pioneer (d. 1994)
1912 – Mary Walter, Filipina actress (d. 1993)
1914 – Robert Wise, American film director (d. 2005)
1915 – Edmond O Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
1917 – Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat
1918 – Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932)
1920 – Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
1922 – Yma Súmac, Peruvian singer
1924 – Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (d. 1988)
1924 – Boyd K. Packer, LDS apostle
1928 – Jean Vanier, Canadian disabilities advocate
1928 – Walter Martin, American Christian apologist (d. 1989)
1929 – Arnold Palmer, American golfer
1931 – Philip Baker Hall, American actor
1932 – Bo Goldman, American screenwriter
1933 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000)
1933 – Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
1934 – Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
1934 – Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1935 – Mary Oliver, American poet
1937 – Jared Diamond, American biologist and author
1941 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
1941 – Christopher Hogwood, English conductor
1941 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)
1942 – Danny Hutton, American singer
1943 – Eldridge Coleman (Superstar Billy Graham), American professional wrestler
1943 – Daniel Truhitte, American actor
1943 – Neale Donald Walsch, American author
1944 – Sir Thomas Allen, English baritone
1945 – Jose Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer
1946 – Jim Hines, American athlete
1946 – Don Powell, English drummer
1946 – Michèle Alliot-Marie, French politician
1948 – Tony Gatlif, Algerian-born director
1948 – Judy Geeson, English actress
1948 – Bob Lanier, American basketball player
1948 – Margaret Trudeau, former wife of Pierre Trudeau
1948 – Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese writer
1948 – Charlie Waters, American football player
1949 – Don Muraco, professional wrestler
1949 – Bill O Reilly, American journalist and commentator
1950 – Joe Perry, American musician
1952 – Vic Toews, Canadian politician
1952 – Medea Benjamin, American activist
1952 – Gunpei Yokoi, the creator of the original Game Boy (d. 1997).
1953 – Amy Irving, American actress
1956 – Johnny Hickman, American musician
1957 – Carol Decker, UK singer
1957 – Kate Burton, Swiss actress
1958 – Chris Columbus, American film director
1958 – Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer
1959 – Peter Nelson, American actor
1960 – Alison Bechdel, American cartoonist
1960 – Colin Firth, English actor
1960 – David Lowery, American musician
1963 – Randy Johnson, American baseball player
1963 – Bill Stevenson, American music producer and musician
1964 – John E. Sununu, American politician
1965 – Robin Goodridge, English rock drummer
1966 – Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Big Daddy Kane, American rapper
1968 – Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer
1968 – Guy Ritchie, British film director
1969 – Jonathon Schaech, American actor
1970 – Paula Kelley, musician
1970 – Ménélik, French rapper
1972 – Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete
1972 – James Duval, American actor
1972 – Bente Skari, Norwegian cross-country skier
1972 – Katarína Hasprová, Slovak singer
1973 – Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
1974 – Ryan Phillippe, American actor
1974 – Mirko Filipovic, Croatian martial artist
1974 – Ben Wallace, American basketball player
1975 – Jonathan Hoenig, American investment advisor
1975 – Sammy Knight, American football player
1976 – Matt Morgan, American professional wrestler
1979 – Jacob Young, American actor and singer
1980 – Mikey Way, American Bassist (My Chemical Romance)
1986 – Hiroki Uchi, Japanese Idol
1988 – Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Coco Rocha, Canadian fashion
Deaths
210 BC – Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China.
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)
1217 – William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon
1308 – Emperor Go-Nijo of Japan (b. 1285)
1382 – Louis I of Hungary, the King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, Jerusalem and Sicily from 1342 and of Poland
1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (b. 1371)
1482 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and arts patron
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)
1748 – Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, foundress of the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary (b. 1663)
1749 – Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
1759 – Ferdinand Konšcak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703)
1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)
1801 – Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780)
1851 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787)
1867 – Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (b. 1788)
1898 – Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1837)
1905 – Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
1915 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
1931 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
1935 – Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893)
1937 – Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1948 – King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
1952 – Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese civil engineer and architect (b. 1866)
1961 – Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880)
1961 – Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928)
1965 – Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880)
1966 – Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)
1971 – Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)
1975 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1976 – Dalton Trumbo, American writer (b. 1905)
1978 – Ronnie Peterson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1944)
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)
1991 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
1995 – Charles Denner, French actor (b. 1926)
1996 – Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923)
1996 – Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)
1997 – Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler (b. 1929)
1998 – Carl Forgione, British actor (b. 1944)
1999 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
2000 – Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921)
2001 – DJ Uncle Al (b. 1969)
2004 – Brock Adams, American politician (b. 1927)
2005 – Clarence Gatemouth Brown, American musician (b. 1924)
2006 – Patty Berg, American golf player (b. 1918)
2006 – King Taufa ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (b. 1918)
2006 – Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith (b. 1986)
2007 – Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
2007 – Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b. 1942)
2007 – Ted Stepien, former basketball team owner (b. 1925)
2008 – Domagoj Kapec, Croatian hockey player (b. 1989)
Holidays and observances
Calendar of Saints – Nicholas of Tolentino; Saint Aubert.
Also see September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Gibraltar – National Day.
Teacher s Day in People s Republic of China and Hong Kong.
