Historical Events on 10th September ◀ Aug September Oct ▶ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 All Events Birthdays Weddings Deaths Events 1 - 200 of 205 422 - St Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. 918 - Arnulf I the Old becomes landsheer of Flanders 1349 - Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death 1510 - Bishop Frederik of Bathe recaptures Oldenzaal 1547 - Battle at Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots 1547 - English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5 1608 - John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va 1776 - George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers 1785 - Prussia signs trade agreement with US 1798 - British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St George 1813 - Comm Oliver H Perry defeats British in Battle of Lake Erie Military and Political Leader Simon BolívarMilitary and Political Leader Simon Bolívar 1823 - Simon Bolivar named president of Peru 1838 - Hector Berlioz opera Benvenuto Cellini, premieres in Paris 1845 - King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange 1846 - Elias Howe patents sewing machine 1847 - 1st theater opens in Hawaii 1849 - 1st performance by US actor Edwin Booth (Richard III) 1858 - John Holden hits 1st recorded HR (Bkln vs NY) 1858 - George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora. 1861 - -15] Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia 1861 - Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities 1863 - George Bizets opera Les Pêcheurs de Perles, premieres in Paris 1869 - Baptist minister supposedly invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan Composer Georges BizetComposer Georges Bizet 1870 - Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms 1872 - Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam 1880 - Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo 1882 - 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests) 1884 - Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention 1894 - London taxi driver George Smith is first fined for drunk driving 1897 - Lattimer Massacre - a sheriffs posse kills twenty unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States. 1898 - Lord Kitcheners ships sails from Kartoum to Fashoda Communist Philosopher Karl MarxCommunist Philosopher Karl Marx 1898 - Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni. 1899 - 2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay Alaska 1900 - 20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record) 1902 - Utrecht soccer team UVV forms 1905 - Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes 1910 - Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber 1913 - Cleveland Call & Post forms 1913 - George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia 1913 - Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway 1918 - Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners & $1,000 each for the losers 1919 - Indians Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0 US WW1 Commander John J. PershingUS WW1 Commander John J. Pershing 1919 - NYC welcomes home Gen John J Pershing & 25,000 WW I soldiers 1919 - Treaty of St Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany 1922 - Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth & Gehrig consecutive HRs 1923 - Irish Free state joins League of Nations 1924 - Giants rip Braves 22-1, Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out 1924 - Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder 1926 - Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn 1926 - Germany joins League of Nations 1927 - 22nd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Philadelphia (3-2) 1930 - Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia 1931 - Lord Cecil of British government says War was never so improbable 1932 - 52nd US Mens Tennis: Henry E Vines beats Henri Cochet (6-4 6-4 6-4) 1932 - Dodgers Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season 1932 - Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in NYC 1933 - 1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park) 1933 - 53rd US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J H Crawford (6-3 11-13 4-6 6-0 6-1) 1937 - 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0) 1937 - Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0 1939 - Canada declares war on Germany Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie KingPrime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King 1939 - Canada, under the leadership of Mackenzie King, declares war on Germany 1940 - Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb 1942 - British troops lands on Madagascar 1942 - RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf 1943 - British 8th army occupies Tarente 1943 - German troops occupied Rome & took over the protection of Vatican City 1943 - Italian fleet anchors at Malta 1943 - Lt-Gen Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London 1944 - Lt-gen Frederick Browning against Montgomery But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far 1945 - KLS-AM in Oakland Ca changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA) 1945 - Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis 1945 - Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death. 1948 - Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life 1948 - Bradman scores 153 in his last 1st-class cricket innings in England 1949 - Cabatgata (A Night in Spain) closes at Broadway NYC after 76 perfs Baseball Player Joe DiMaggioBaseball Player Joe DiMaggio 1950 - Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HR in a game at Griffith Stadium 1951 - British begin economic boycott of Iran 1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Thomasville Golf Open 1953 - Swanson sells its 1st TV dinner 1954 - 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria 1954 - WLUK TV channel 11 in Green Bay, WI (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 1954 - Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelms knuckleball catcher Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls 1955 - Gunsmoke premieres on CBS TV 1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia 1956 - Louisville Ky public schools integrates 1956 - WSYE (now WETM) TV chan 18 in Elmira-Corning, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast 1957 - Mask & Gown opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 39 performances 1958 - WJCT TV channel 7 in Jacksonville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting 1960 - Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:15:16.2) Baseball Legend Mickey MantleBaseball Legend Mickey Mantle 1960 - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643 HR over right field roof in Detroit 1961 - 75th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Ann Haydon Jones (63 64) 1961 - 81st US Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Rodney G Laver (75 63 62) 1961 - Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit HR # 400 1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1961 - Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari. 1962 - 82nd US Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64) 1962 - KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting 1962 - WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting 1963 - 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama 1963 - Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0 MLB Legend Stan MusialMLB Legend Stan Musial 1963 - Stan Musial hits a HR in his 1st at bat as a grandfather 1964 - Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms 1964 - Rod Steward records his 1st single Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 1965 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1965 - Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards 1965 - WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting 1966 - Beatles Revolver, album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks 1966 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title 1966 - Neal Diamonds 1st chart song (Cherry Cherry) 1967 - 81st US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats Ann H Jones (119 64) 1967 - 87th US Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Clark Graebner (64 64 86) 1967 - Chicago White Sox Joel Horlen no-hits Det Tigers, 6-0 1967 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Pacific Golf Classic 1967 - Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British & not Spanish 1967 - Joel Horlen revives Chicagos pennant hopes with a 5-0 no-hit win 1967 - KVVU TV channel 5 in Henderson-Las Vegas, NV (IND) begins broadcasting 1969 - NY Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time 1969 - US performs nuclear test at Grand Valley Colorado 1971 - KVUE TV channel 24 in Austin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting 1972 - 20th Olympic games close at Munich, German FR Tennis Player Ilie NastaseTennis Player Ilie Nastase 1972 - 92nd US Mens Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Arthur Ashe (36 63 67 64 63) 1972 - Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship 1972 - Frank Shorter wins 17th Olympic marathon (2:12:19.8) 1972 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open 1972 - US Mens olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to USSR (disputed) 1972 - WKAR TV channel 23 in East Lansing, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting 1973 - Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton 1973 - NY Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St Louis Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammad AliHeavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammad Ali 1974 - Lou Brock ties (104) & then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark 1974 - NY Dolls disband 1974 - Portugal recognizes independence of Rep of Guinea-Bissau 1974 - Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hrs 1975 - Darryl Sittler is named captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 1976 - 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard 1976 - 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, NY 1977 - 91st US Womens Tennis: Chris Evert L Mills beats W Turnbull (76 62) 1977 - Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits 1977 - Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5) 1977 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1977 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation 1977 - Susan Perkins (Ohio), crowned 50th Miss America 1978 1977 - Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France. 1978 - Timbuktu! closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 243 perfs 1978 - 98th US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 62 62) 1978 - Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yds & 30) 1978 - Jimmy Connors is 1st player to win US Open on 3 different surfaces 1978 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1978 - 4th game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks out hit em 67-21; score 42-9 1979 - 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed 1980 - Expos Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18 1980 - Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick 1981 - Guernica by Pablo Picasso returns to Spain 1982 - Decca releases Beatle audition Complete Silver Beatles album 1983 - 97th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert L Mills (61 63) 1983 - Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title 1984 - Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla 1984 - Sean OKeefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days) 1986 - Bryan OConnor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel 1988 - -18] Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas & Yucatan Tennis Player Steffi GrafTennis Player Steffi Graf 1988 - 102nd US Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini (6-3 3-6 6-1) 1988 - Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (Minn), 22, crowned 62nd Miss America 1989 1989 - 109th US Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (76 16 63 76) 1989 - 5 days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners 1989 - Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record 1989 - East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary & Czechoslovakia) 1989 - Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship NFL Legend Deion SandersNFL Legend Deion Sanders 1989 - Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown, the first in his career 1990 - 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win US Open 1990 - 1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different 1990 - Ellis Island reopens as a museum 1990 - Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada 1990 - Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq 1990 - Mariner Matt Young becomes 21st ALer to strike out 4 in 1 inning 1990 - 1st time in NY Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland As beat them 12 games to 0 Tennis Player Pete SamprasTennis Player Pete Sampras 1991 - Senate Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas nomination 1991 - Yolanda Gail Devers runs US female record 100m hurdles (12.48 secs) 1992 - Bud Selig becomes interm commissioner of baseball 1992 - Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents 1993 - 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced 1993 - Israel & PLO sign joint recognition statements 1994 - 108th US Womens Tennis Open: Aranxta S Vicario beats Steffi Graf (1-6 7-6 6-4) 1994 - Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke 1995 - 115th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 46 75) 1995 - 35th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland beats US, 14-10 1995 - 47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Fraiser & Candice Bergen win 1995 - Alison Nicholas wins PING-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship 1995 - Browns & Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleve for only time, Browns 22-6 over Tampa, Indians 5-3 over Orioles 1997 - Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million 1997 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation MLB First Baseman Mark McGwireMLB First Baseman Mark McGwire 1997 - Mark McGwire joins Babe as only players to hit 50 HRs in 2 consec yrs 1998 - 15th MTV Awards: Madonna & Will Smith wins 2000 - The musical Cats closes on Broadway. 2000 - 52nd Emmy Awards: The West Wing, Will & Grace, James Gandolfini & Sela Ward win 2002 - Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations. 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 the history of mankind is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland. Pop Star MadonnaPop Star Madonna 2012 - 16 people are killed by a suicide bombing n Kunduz, Afghanistan 2012 - Teachers in Chicago strike effecting 350,000 students012 - 10,000 miners demonstrate at Lonmin mines in Marikana, South Africa 2012 - 29 people are killed by floods and heavy rain in Vietnam 2012 - A left over bazooka grenade in Cambodia explodes and kills three children 2013 - 16 people are killed after a series of bomb attacks across Iraq 2013 - 3 people are killed after a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter crashes in the Artic Ocean
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