September 10
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September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in
leap years). There are 112 days following it.
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Events
\n*1608 - John Smith elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia\n*1776 - Nathan Hale volunteers to spy\n*1813 - The Battle of Lake Erie\n*1823 - Simón Bolívar named President of Peru\n*1846 - Elias Howe gets a patent for the sewing machine\n*1913 - First paved coast-to-coast highway opened in the US.\n*1919 - Austria and the Allies signed a treaty recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. \n*1927 - France wins the first Davis Cup\n*1939 - Canada declares war on Germany. \n*1943 - German forces began their occupation of Rome during World War II.\n*1945 - Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaboration with Nazi Germany.\n*1951 - United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran. \n*1967 - The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain\n*1972 - United States loses first international basketball game in disputed match versus the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany\n*1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal\n*1976 - A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia killing 176\n*1977 - Last ever execution takes places in France.\n*1990 - Will Smith made his debut in the television show "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."\n*2002 - Switzerland joins the United Nations.\n*2003 - Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden is stabbed fatally and dies of the wounds on September 11
Births
\n*920 - Louis IV of France (d. 954)\n*1487 - Pope Julius III (d. 1555)\n*1714 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer (d. 1774)\n*1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, dictionary publisher (d. 1912)\n*1886 - Hilda Doolittle, poet, novelist (d. 1961)\n*1890 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973)\n*1907 - Fay Wray, Canadian actress\n*1914 - Robert Wise, American director\n*1915 - Edmond O'Brien, actor (d. 1985)\n*1920 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)\n*1927 - Yma Sumac, singer\n*1929 - Arnold Palmer, American golf player\n*1931 - Philip Baker Hall, actor \n*1932 - Bo Goldman, screenwriter\n*1933 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (d. 2000)\n*1934 - Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)\n*1934 - Charles Kuralt, journalist (d. 1997)\n*1938 - Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer\n*1942 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)\n*1945 - Jose Feliciano, singer\n*1946 - Jim Hines, American athlete\n*1948 - Bob Lanier, Basketball Hall of Famer\n*1949 - Bill O'Reilly, American journalist, author, and commentator\n*1950 - Joe Perry, rock and roll musician, member of Aerosmith\n*1957 - Siobhan Fahey, singer (Bananarama, Shakespear's Sister)\n*1958 - Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor (The Simpsons)\n* 1958 - Chris Columbus, film director\n*1960 - Colin Firth, actor (Shakespeare in Love, Bridget Jones's Diary, Love Actually)\n*1963 - Randy Johnson, baseball pitcher\n*1968 - Guy Ritchie, film director\n*1968 - Big Daddy Kane, rap musician\n*1969 - Jonathon Schaech, actor\n*1972 - Ghada Shouaa, Syrian heptathlete\n*1974 - Ryan Phillippe, actor\n* 1974 - Ben Wallace, NBA star\n*1976 - Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis star
Deaths
\n*918 - Count Baldwin II of Flanders\n*954 - Louis IV of France\n*1669 - Henrietta Maria, Queen of England\n*1867 - Simon Sechter, music teacher\n*1898 - Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated)\n*1935 - Huey Long, American politician\n*1948 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria\n*1961 - Leo Carrillo, actor\n*1965 - Father Divine, religious leader\n*1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist\n*1971 - Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union\n*1976 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer\n*1977 - Hamida Djandoubi, last private guillotine execution (legal) in France\n*1979 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician \n*1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist\n*1983 - John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa
Holidays
\n* National Day of Gibraltar
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