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 - 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 1898 - Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated) 1935 - Huey Long, Americann 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 September 9 · September 11 · August 10 · October 10 · more historical anniversaries
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