What happened on September 10? There are more than 296 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 10
September 10 is the 254th day of the year 2024. There are 112 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday. This day falls under the 37th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Eastport, New York 11941 sunrise will occur at 06:25 AM and sunset will occur at 07:09 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 141 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 10
- 506The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
- 1419John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
- 1509An earthquake known as “The Lesser Judgment Day” hits Istanbul.
- 1515Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
- 1547The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
- 1561Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima – Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
- 1608John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1776American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
- 1798At the Battle of St. George’s Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
- 1813The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
- 1823Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
- 1846Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
- 1858George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
- 1897Lattimer massacre: A sheriff’s posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
- 1898Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
- 1918Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
- 1919Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
- 1932The New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
- 1937Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 1939World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
- 1939World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy’s first loss.
- 1942World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
- 1943World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
- 1946While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters’ Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her “to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them”. She would become known as Mother Teresa.
- 1960At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
- 1961Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
- 196320 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
- 1967The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
- 1972The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
- 1974Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
- 1976A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
- 1977Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
- 1990The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire – the largest church in Africa is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
- 2001Antonio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil was assassinated.
- 2001Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
- 2002Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
- 2003Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
- 2007Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
- 2008The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
Who Were Born On September 10?
- 920King Louis IV of France (d. 954)
- 1169Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
- 1385Le Loi, national hero of Viet Nam, founder of the Later Lê Dynasty (d. 1433)
- 1487Pope Julius III, Italian Roman Catholic Pope (d. 1555)
- 1550Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish Armada commander (d. 1615)
- 1561Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1634)
- 1588Nicholas Lanier, English composer (d. 1666)
- 1624Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
- 1638Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)
- 1659Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
- 1714Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)
- 1753Sir John Soane, English neo-classical architect (d. 1837)
- 1758Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
- 1786Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (d. 1854)
- 1786William Mason, American politician (d. 1860)
- 1788Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
- 1801Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
- 1821Sir William Jervois, British colonial administrator, Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1897)
- 1836Joseph Wheeler, American general (d. 1906)
- 1839Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914)
- 1839Isaac K. Funk, American publisher (d. 1912)
- 1844Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918)
- 1852Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)
- 1852Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company (d. 1937)
- 1855Albert F. Mummery, British mountaineer (d. 1895)
- 1861Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941)
- 1866Jeppe Aakjær, Danish writer (d. 1930)
- 1871Charles Collett, British mechanical engineer (d. 1952)
- 1872K. S. Ranjitsinhji, Indian king and Test cricketer (d. 1933)
- 1876Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian theatre entrepreneur (d. 1942)
- 1883Jock Delves Broughton, British noble (d. 1942)
- 1885Carl Clinton Van Doren, American biographer and critic (d. 1950)
- 1886Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d. 1961)
- 1887Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1978)
- 1887Kenneth Mason, British geographer (d. 1976)
- 1888Israel Abramofsky, Russian-born American artist (d. 1976)
- 1890Bob Heffron, Premier of New South Wales (d. 1978)
- 1890Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973)
- 1890Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist (d. 1945)
- 1892Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
- 1893Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian (d. 2009)
- 1894Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet film director (d. 1956)
- 1895Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (d. 1976)
- 1896Adele Astaire, American dancer and entertainer (d. 1981)
- 1896Robert Taschereau, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1970)
- 1896Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946)
- 1897Georges Bataille, French writer (d. 1962)
- 1897Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976)
- 1898Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986)
- 1898Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999)
- 1903Cyril Connolly, English literary critic (d. 1974)
- 1904Max Shachtman, American politician (d. 1972)
- 1906Karl Wien, German mountaineer (d. 1937)
- 1907Alva R. Fitch, American army officer (d. 1989)
- 1908Raymond Scott, American composer (d. 1994)
- 1908Sir Angus Bethune, Premier of Tasmania (d. 2004)
- 1908Waldo Wedel, American archaeologist (d. 1996)
- 1912Mary Walter, Filipina actress (d. 1993)
- 1913Lincoln Gordon, American diplomat (d. 2009)
- 1914Robert Wise, American film director (d. 2005)
- 1914Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1990)
- 1915Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1917Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat (d. 2009)
- 1918Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932)
- 1920Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
- 1924Boyd K. Packer, American religious figure
- 1924Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (d. 1988)
- 1925Roy Brown, American blues musician (d. 1981)
- 1926Beryl Cook, English painter (d. 2008)
- 1928Jean Vanier, Canadian disabilities advocate
- 1928Roch Bolduc, Canadian civil servant and senator
- 1928Walter Martin, American Christian apologist (d. 1989)
- 1929Arnold Palmer, American golfer
- 1929Michel Bélanger, Canadian businessman and banker (d. 1997)
- 1929Tommy Leonetti, American songwriter, actor (d. 1979)
- 1931Philip Baker Hall, American actor
- 1932Bo Goldman, American screenwriter
- 1933Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
- 1933Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000)
- 1934Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
- 1934Jim Oberstar, American politician
- 1934Larry Sitsky, Australian composer, pianist and educator
- 1934Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
- 1935Mary Oliver, American poet
- 1937Jared Diamond, American biologist and author
- 1939Cynthia Lennon, British celebrity
- 1939David Stratton, UK-Australian film critic
- 1939Hans Sotin, German operatic bass
- 1940Buck Buchanan, American football player (d. 1992)
- 1941Christopher Hogwood, English conductor
- 1941Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)
- 1941Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
- 1942Danny Hutton, American singer
- 1943Daniel Truhitte, American actor
- 1943Eldridge Coleman, American professional wrestler
- 1943Neale Donald Walsch, American author
- 1944Sir Thomas Allen, English baritone
- 1945Gerard Henderson, Australian public affairs columnist and commentator
- 1945Jose Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer
- 1945Mike Mullane, American astronaut
- 1946Don Powell, English drummer
- 1946Jim Hines, American athlete
- 1946Michèle Alliot-Marie, French politician
- 1946Patrick Norman, Canadian country musician
- 1948Bob Lanier, American basketball player
- 1948Charlie Waters, American football player
- 1948Judy Geeson, English actress
- 1948Margaret Trudeau, former wife of Pierre Trudeau
- 1948Tony Gatlif, French director
- 1948Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese writer
- 1949Bill O'Reilly, American television host, author, and political commentator
- 1949Don Muraco, professional wrestler
- 1950Joe Perry, American musician
- 1952Medea Benjamin, American activist
- 1952Vic Toews, Canadian politician
- 1953Amy Irving, American actress
- 1953Yannis Bezos, Greek actor
- 1954Clark Johnson, American actor
- 1956Erick Zonca, French film director
- 1956Johnny Fingers, Irish musician The Boomtown Rats
- 1956Johnny Hickman, American musician
- 1957Andreï Makine, Russian-born French author
- 1957Carol Decker, British singer
- 1957Kate Burton, Swiss actress
- 1958Chris Columbus, American film director
- 1958Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer
- 1959Peter Nelson, American actor
- 1960Alison Bechdel, American cartoonist
- 1960Colin Firth, English actor
- 1960David Lowery, American musician
- 1960Tim Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963Bill Stevenson, American music producer and musician
- 1963Marian Keyes, Irish novelist
- 1963Randy Johnson, American baseball player
- 1964John E. Sununu, American politician
- 1965Robin Goodridge, English rock drummer
- 1966Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer
- 1968Big Daddy Kane, American rapper
- 1968Guy Ritchie, British film director
- 1969Ai Jing, Chinese singer
- 1969Johnathon Schaech, American actor
- 1970Ménélik, Cameroonian/French rapper
- 1970Paula Kelley, American musician
- 1972Bente Skari, Norwegian cross-country skier
- 1972Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete
- 1972James Duval, American actor
- 1972Katarína Hasprová, Slovak singer
- 1973Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
- 1974Ben Wallace, American basketball player
- 1974Mirko Filipović, Croatian martial artist
- 1974Ryan Phillippe, American actor
- 1975Melanie Pullen, American photographer
- 1976Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
- 1976Matt Morgan, American professional wrestler
- 1976Vassilis Lakis, Greek footballer
- 1979Andreas Aniko, Estonian footballer
- 1979Jacob Young, American actor and singer
- 1980Jayam Ravi, Indian Actor
- 1981Germán Denis, Argentine footballer
- 1981Marco Chiudinelli, Swiss tennis player
- 1983Jérémy Toulalan, French footballer
- 1983Joey Votto, Canadian baseball player
- 1985Aya Kamiki, Japanese rock singer
- 1985Elyse Levesque, Canadian actress
- 1985Laurent Koscielny, French footballer
- 1985Matsuda Shota, Japanese actor
- 1986Eoin Morgan, Irish cricketer
- 1986Hiroki Uchi, Japanese singer and actor
- 1987Nana Tanimura, Japanese singer
- 1988Coco Rocha, Canadian fashion model
- 1988Jared Lee Loughner, American spree killer
- 1988Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989Manish Pandey, Indian cricketer
Who Died On September 10?
- 210 BCQin Shi Huang, first emperor of China.
- 918Count Baldwin II of Flanders (b. 865)
- 1167Empress Matilda, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1102)
- 1197Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)
- 1217William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon
- 1306St Nicholas of Tolentino, Italian mystic (b. c. 1245)
- 1308Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
- 1382Louis I of Hungary, King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, Jerusalem, Sicily, and Poland (b. 1326)
- 1419John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (b. 1371)
- 1482Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and arts patron (b. 1422)
- 1519John Colet, English churchman and educator (b. 1467)
- 1559Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (b. 1501)
- 1591Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542)
- 1604William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)
- 1607Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist (b. 1545)
- 1669Henrietta Maria of France, queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609)
- 1676Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
- 1680Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (b. 1610)
- 1748Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, foundress of the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary (b. 1663)
- 1749Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
- 1759Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703)
- 1797Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)
- 1801Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780)
- 1842Letitia Christian Tyler, US First Lady (b. 1790)
- 1842William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand (b. 1792)
- 1851Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787)
- 1867Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (b. 1788)
- 1889Charles III, Prince of Monaco, founder of the Monte Carlo casino (b. 1818)
- 1898Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1837)
- 1905Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
- 1915Bagha Jatin, Indian revolutionary philosopher against British rule (b. 1879 )
- 1915Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
- 1919J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher (b. 1856)
- 1922Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and writer (b. 1840)
- 1923Sukumar Ray, Bengali humorous poet, story writer and playwright who mainly wrote for children (b. 1887)
- 1931Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
- 1931Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American gangster (b. 1886)
- 1934Sir George Henschel, German-British baritone, conductor, composer (b. 1850)
- 1935Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893)
- 1937Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
- 1939Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig, German soldier (b. 1888)
- 1948King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
- 1952Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese civil engineer and architect (b. 1866)
- 1954Peter Anders, German operatic tenor (b. 1908)
- 1961Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880)
- 1961Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928)
- 1965Abdul Hamid (soldier), Recipient of the Republic of India’s highest military decoration, the Param Vir Chakra (b. 1933)
- 1965Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880)
- 1966Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)
- 1971Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)
- 1975George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- 1975Hans Swarowsky, Austrian conductor (b. 1899)
- 1976Dalton Trumbo, American writer (b. 1905)
- 1979Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (b. 1922)
- 1983B. J. Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915)
- 1983Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
- 1983Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest person in medical history, at 1,400 lbs (635 kg) (b. 1941)
- 1983Norah Lofts, British novelist (b. 1904)
- 1985Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1922)
- 1988Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and author (b. 1916)
- 1991Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
- 1994Charles Drake, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1995Charles Denner, French actor (b. 1926)
- 1995Yasutomo Nagai, motorbike driver (b.1965)
- 1996Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)
- 1996Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923)
- 1997Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler (b. 1929)
- 1998Carl Forgione, British actor (b. 1944)
- 1999Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
- 2000Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921)
- 2001DJ Uncle Al (b. 1969)
- 2004Brock Adams, American politician (b. 1927)
- 2005Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, American musician (b. 1924)
- 2005Sir Hermann Bondi, Anglo-Austrian cosmologist (b. 1919)
- 2006King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (b. 1918)
- 2006Patty Berg, American golf player (b. 1918)
- 2007Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b. 1942)
- 2007Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
- 2007Ted Stepien, former basketball team owner (b. 1925)
- 2008Domagoj Kapec, Croatian hockey player (b. 1989)
- 2008Gérald Beaudoin, Canadian lawyer and senator (b. 1929)
- 2008Vernon Handley, British conductor (b. 1930)
- 2010Gizela Dali, Greek actress (b. 1940)
- 2011Cliff Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
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