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)
- 1167 - Empress Matilda dies (b. 1102). Wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1169 - Alexius II Comnenus was born (d. 1183). Byzantine Emperor
- 1197 - Henry II of Champagne dies (b. 1166)
- 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)
- 1519 - John Colet dies. English churchman and educator
- 1550 - Alonso de Guzman El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia was born (d. 1615). Commander of the Spanish Armada.
- 1559 - Anthony Denny dies (b. 1501). Confidant of King Henry VIII of England
- 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.
- 1659 - Henry Purcell was born (d. 1695). English composer.
- 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.
- 1749 - Émilie du Châtelet dies (b. 1706). French mathematician and physicist.
- 1758 - Hannah Webster Foster was born (d. 1840). American author.
- 1759 - Ferdinand Konščak dies (b. 1703). Croatian explorer.
- 1776 - American Revolutionary War: 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.
- 1801 - Jason Fairbanks dies (b. 1780). American murderer.
- 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.
- 1836 - Joseph Wheeler was born (d. 1906). Confederate Lt. General and United States General
- 1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk was born (d. 1912). American publisher.
- 1839 - Charles Sanders Peirce was born († 1914). American philosopher, mathematicien and scientist.
- 1844 - Abel Hoadley was born (d. 1918). Australian confectioner
- 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.
- 1861 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen was born (d. 1941). Danish sculptor and ceramist.
- 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.
- 1896 - Ye Ting was born (d. 1946). Chinese military leader.
- 1896 - Robert Taschereau was born (d. 1970). Chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and Governor general of Canada
- 1897 - Hilde Hildebrand was born (d. 1976). German actress.
- 1897 - In the Lattimer Massacre, a sheriff's posse killes more than nineteen unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania.
- 1898 - Bessie Love was born (d. 1986). American actress.
- 1898 - Waldo Semon was born (d. 1999). American inventor.
- 1898 - Queen Elisabeth of Austria dies assassinated by Luigi Lucheni (b. 1837)
- 1904 - Max Shachtman was born. American Trotskyist politician
- 1907 - Fay Wray was born (d. 2004). Canadian actress.
- 1907 - Alva R. Fitch was born (d. 1989). American World War II and Korean soldier
- 1914 - Robert Wise was born. American film director
- 1915 - Edmond O'Brien was born (d. 1985). American actor.
- 1915 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville dies (b. 1822). Premier of Quebec.
- 1917 - Miguel Serrano was born. Chilean author and diplomat
- 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.
- 1921 - Fernando Bandeira Ferreira was born († 2002). Portuguese archaelogist.
- 1922 - Yma Sumac was born. Peruvian singer.
- 1924 - Luís Francisco Rebelo was born. Portuguese writer.
- 1924 - Ted Kluszewski was born (d. 1988). Major League baseball player
- 1928 - Jean Vanier was born. Canadian humanitarian.
- 1929 - Arnold Palmer was born. American golfer.
- 1930 - Ferreira Gullar was born. Brazilian poet and writer
- 1931 - Philip Baker Hall was born. American actor.
- 1931 - Dmitri Egorov dies (b. 1869). Russian mathematician.
- 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.
- 1937 - Sergei Tretyakov dies (b. 1892). Russian writer.
- 1938 - Karl Lagerfeld was born. German fashion designer.
- 1939 - Jorge Sampaio was born. Presidente of Portugal ( 9 Mar 1996 - 9 Mar 2006 ) .
- 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.
- 1942 - Danny Hutton was born. American singer (Three Dog Night)
- 1943 - Eldridge Coleman ("Superstar" Billy Graham) was born. American professional wrestler
- 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 - Margaret Trudeau was born. Former wife of late Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau
- 1948 - Judy Geeson was born. English actress
- 1948 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria dies (b. 1861).
- 1949 - Bill O'Reilly was born. American journalist, author, and commentator
- 1949 - Don Muraco was born. Professional wrestler
- 1951 - United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran.
- 1952 - Vic Toews was born. Canadian politician
- 1953 - Amy Irving was born. American actress
- 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 - David Lowery was born. American musician (Cracker (band))
- 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 - At the Formula One Italian Grand Prix in Monza, a horrific crash at the 2nd lap of the race causes the death of German driver Wolfgang Von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari.
- 1961 - Leo Carrillo dies (b. 1880). American actor.
- 1963 - 20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
- 1963 - Randy Johnson was born. American baseball player.
- 1965 - Father Divine dies. American religious leader
- 1966 - Joe Nieuwendyk was born. Canadian ice hockey player
- 1966 - Emil Gumbel dies (b. 1891). German mathematician and pacifist.
- 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 - Pier Angeli dies (b. 1932). Italian actress.
- 1972 - Ghada Shouaa was born. Syrian athlete
- 1972 - Nate Thoma was born. American film director and novelist.
- 1972 - James Duval was born. American actor
- 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 - Gustavo Kuerten was born. Brazilian tennis player.
- 1977 - France's last execution is performed by guillotine. Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, was executed at Baumettes Prison in Marseille.
- 1978 - At the Formula One Italian Grand Prix in Monza, just after the start a terrible crash involves many cars. Italian driver Vittorio Brambilla is severely injured by a roaming wheels, but will recover some days later; Swedish driver Ronnie Peterson seems injured less severely, but sadly he will die the day later in a Milan hospital owing to fat embolism after the operation.
- 1979 - Agostinho Neto dies (b. 1922). Angolan politician.
- 1980 - Mikey Way was born. American bassist (My Chemical Romance)
- 1980 - Robert Green was born. English football player.
- 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.
- 1988 - At his residence in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden launches al Qaeda.
- 1990 - The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ovoire - 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.
- 1991 - Jack Crawford dies (b. 1908). Australian tennis player.
- 1993 - The cult series "The X-Files" premiered on Fox Television.
- 1996 - Joanne Dru dies (b. 1923). American actress.
- 1997 - Jack Adkisson dies (b. 1929). Professional wrestler.
- 1998 - Carl Forgione dies (b. 1944). British actor.
- 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 - The last Broadway performance of CATS
- 2000 -Tiger Woods won the Canadian Open by one stroke over Grant Waite.
- 2000 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah dies (b. 1921). Pakistani journalist and writer.
- 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.
- 2005 - Four people are known to have died following a football match in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a wall collapsed in the stadium the teams were playing in.
- 2005 - Clarence Gatemouth Brown dies (b. 1924). American guitarist and singer.
- National Day of Gibraltar
- World Suicide Prevention Day
- Teacher's Day in China
- Grandparent's Day (US)
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