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2005-09-10

On this day in History - Sep 10

0422 - Pope Celestine I is elected
0918 - Count Baldwin II of Flanders dies.
0920 - King Louis IV of France was born (d. 0954)
0954 - King Louis IV of France dies (b. 0920)
1308 - Go-Nijō dies (b. 1285). Emperor of Japan.
1382 - Louis I, the Great, dies. King of Hungary and Poland.
1419 - John of Burgundy, the Fearless, dies assassinated (b. 1371) by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France
1487 - Pope Julius III was born (d. 1555)
1550 - Alonso de Guzman El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia was born (d. 1615). Commander of the Spanish Armada.
1588 - Nicholas Lanier was born (d. 1666). English composer.
1591 - Richard Grenville dies (b. 1542). English soldier and explorer.
1604 - William Morgan dies (b. 1545). Welsh Bible translator.
1607 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi dies. Italian composer and organist
1608 - John Smith elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia
1624 - Thomas Sydenham was born (d. 1689). English physician.
1638 - Maria Theresa of Austria was born (d. 1683). Queen of Louis XIV of France.
1669 - Henrietta Maria dies (b. 1609). Queen of Charles I of England.
1676 - Gerrard Winstanley dies (b. 1609). English religious reformer.
1680 - Baldassare Ferri dies (b. 1610). Italian castrato.
1714 - Niccolò Jommelli was born (d. 1774). Italian composer.
1727 - Giovanni Tiepolo was born. Italian painter.
1758 - Hannah Webster Foster was born (d. 1840). American author.
1776 - Nathan Hale volunteers to spy.
1788 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes was born (d. 1868). French archaelogist.
1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft dies (b. 1759). English author.
1798 - At the Battle of St. George, British Honduras defeats Spain.
1813 - The U.S. defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
1823 - Simón Bolívar named President of Peru and assumed the presidency with dictatorial powers. He had led the wars for independence from Spain in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.
1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk was born (d. 1912). American publisher.
1839 - Charles Sanders Peirce was born († 1914). American philosopher, mathematicien and scientist.
1846 - Elias Howe gets a patent for the sewing machine.
1851 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet dies (b. 1787). American educator.
1852 - Alice Brown Davis was born (d. 1935). Seminole chief.
1866 - Jeppe Aakjær was born († 1930). Danish writer.
1867 - Simon Sechter dies (b. 1788). Austrian composer.
1886 - Hilda Doolittle was born (d. 1961). American poet and novelist.
1888 - Ian Fleming, British spy master and author of James Bond, was born in Melbourne, Australia.
1890 - Elsa Schiaparelli was born (d. 1973). French couturiere.
1890 - Franz Werfel was born in Austria (d. 1945). Poet and author (40 Days of Musa Dagh) .
1892 - Arthur Compton was born (d. 1962). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1897 - Hilde Hildebrand dies (b. 1976). German actress.
1897 - In the Lattimer Massacre, a sheriff's posse killes more than nineteen unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania.
1898 - Queen Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Liccheri.
1898 - Elisabeth of Austria dies, assassinated (b. 1837)
1907 - Fay Wray was born (d. 2004). Canadian actress.
1913 - First paved coast-to-coast highway opened in the U.S.
1914 - Robert Wise was born. American film director
1915 - Edmond O'Brien was born (d. 1985). American actor.
1919 - Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
1920 - Fabio Taglioni was born (d. 2001). Italian motorcycle engineer.
1920 - Fernando Bandeira Ferreira was born († 2002). Portuguese archaelogist.
1930 - Ferreira Gullar was born. Brazilian poet and writer.
1922 - Yma Sumac was born. Peruvian singer.
1924 - Nasce Luís Francisco Rebelo. Escritor português.
1927 - France wins the first Davis Cup
1929 - Arnold Palmer was born. American golfer.
1931 - Philip Baker Hall was born. American actor.
1932 - The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned "IND", is opened.
1933 - Yevgeny Khrunov was born (d. 2000). Cosmonaut.
1934 - Roger Maris was born (d. 1985). Baseball player.
1934 - Charles Kuralt was born (d. 1997). American journalist.
1935 - Mary Oliver was born. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
1935 - Huey Long dies (b. 1893). American politician.
1938 - Karl Lagerfeld was born. German fashion designer.
1939 - Jorge Sampaio was born. Presidente of Portugal ( 9 Mar 1996 - ... ) .
1939 - The submarine HMS Oxley is sunk by mistake by the submarine HMS Trition off the coast of Norway and becomes the first loss of the Royal Navy in the Second World War.
1939 - Canada declares war on Nazi Germany.
1941 - Christopher Hogwood was born. English conductor
1941 - Gunpei Yokoi was born (d. 1997). Japanese inventor and video game designer.
1941 - Stephen Jay Gould was born (d. 2002). American paleontologist.
1942 - The Allies carry out an amphibious landing at Majunga, north-west Madagascar, to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
1943 - German forces began their occupation of Rome during World War II.
1945 - Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaboration with Nazi Germany.
1945 - Jose Feliciano was born. Puerto Rican singer
1946 - Jim Hines was born. American athlete
1946 - Don Powell was born. English drummer (Slade)
1948 - Bob Lanier was born. American basketball player.
1948 - Tony Gatlif was born. Algerian-born director.
1948 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria dies (b. 1861).
1949 - Bill O'Reilly was born. American journalist, author, and commentator
1950 - Joe Perry was born. American musician (Aerosmith)
1951 - United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran.
1953 - Amy Irving was born. American actress
1957 - Siobhan Fahey was born. Irish singer (Bananarama and Shakespear's Sister)
1958 - Dan Castellaneta was born. American voice actor
1958 - Chris Columbus was born. American film director
1959 - Peter Nelson was born. American actor.
1960 - Colin Firth was born. English actor.
1960 - Mickey Mantle hits what is thought to be the Major League's longest home run, sending the ball an estimated 643 feet.
1961 - Jomo Kenyatta returned to Kenya from exile, during which he had been elected president of the Kenya National African Union.
1961 - Leo Carrillo dies (b. 1880). American actor.
1963 - 20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
1963 - Randy Johnson was born. baseball player.
1965 - Father Divine dies. American religious leader
1966 - Emil Gumbel dies (b. 1891). German mathematician and pacifist.
1967 - The people of Gibraltar vote 12.138 to 44 to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain
1968 - Guy Ritchie was born. British film director
1968 - Big Daddy Kane was born. American rapper.
1969 - Jonathon Schaech was born. American actor.
1970 - Robert Green was born. American football player.
1971 - Nikita Khrushchev dies (b. 1894). Premier of the Soviet Union.
1972 - Ghada Shouaa was born. Syrian athlete
1972 - Nate Thoma was born. American film director and novelist.
1972 - United States loses first international basketball game in disputed match versus the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany
1973 - Ferdinand Coly was born. Senegalese footballer
1974 - Ryan Phillippe was born. American actor
1974 - Ben Wallace was born. American basketball player
1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal
1975 - George Paget Thomson dies (b. 1892). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1976 - Dalton Trumbo dies (b. 1905). American writer.
1976 - A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia killing 176.
1976 - Gustavo Kuerten was born. Brazilian tennis player.
1977 - France's last execution is performed by guillotine.
1979 - Agostinho Neto dies (b. 1922). Angolan politician.
1980 - Mikey Way was born. American bassist (My Chemical Romance)
1981 - Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica was returned to Spain and installed in Madrid’s Prado Museum. Picasso had stated in his will that the painting was not to return to Spain until the Fascists lost power and democracy was restored.
1983 - Christopher Kukstis was born. American pedagogue, wordsmith, and popinjay.
1983 - Felix Bloch dies (b. 1905). Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1983 - John Vorster dies (b. 1915). Prime Minister of South Africa.
1990 - The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, the largest church in Africa and perhaps the world, is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
1990 - Will Smith makes his television debut in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
1993 - The cult series "The X-Files" premiered on Fox Television.
1999 - Alfredo Kraus dies (b. 1927). Spanish tenor.
2000 - Marat Safin beat Pete Sampras 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 to become the first Russian to win the U.S. Open.
2000 -Tiger Woods won the Canadian Open by one stroke over Grant Waite.
2001 - Norwegian parliamentary election, 2001
2001 - Major Charles Ingram allegedly cheats to win the £1,000,000 prize on the British Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
2002 - Switzerland, known for its neutrality, finally joins the United Nations, became the 190th member of the UN
2002 - The U.S. Homeland Security Advisory System is set to Orange, or High Condition, for the first time.
2003 - Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is stabbed fatally while shopping, and dies of her wounds on September 11.
2004 - Brock Adams dies (b. 1927). American politician.
National Day of Gibraltar
World Suicide Prevention Day
Software Freedom Day

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