On this day in History - Sep. 10

• 210 BC - Qin Shi Huang dies. First emperor of China.
• 0422 - St. Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
• 0506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
• 0918 - Count Baldwin II of Flanders dies (b. 0865).
• 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).
• 1217 - William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon dies. English noble.
• 1308 - Go-Nijō dies (b. 1285). Emperor of Japan.
• 1382 - Louis I, the Great, dies. King of Hungary and Poland.
• 1385 - Le Loi was born. National hero of Viet Nam, founder of the Later Lê Dynasty.
• 1419 - John of Burgundy, the Fearless, dies assassinated (b. 1371) by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
• 1482 - Federico da Montefeltro dies. Italian Renaissance condottiero and patron of arts.
• 1487 - Pope Julius III was born (d. 1555).
• 1509 - An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Istanbul.
• 1519 - John Colet dies. English churchman and educator.
• 1547 - The 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.
• 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.
• 1561 - Hernando Arias de Saavedra was born (d. 1634). Spanish colonial governor.
• 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 (b. 1546). 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.
• 1740 - Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida was born in Lisbon (d. 1811). Portuguese satiric poet.
• 1748 - Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo dies (b. 1663). Foundress of the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.
• 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
• 1786 - Nicolás Bravo was born (d. 1854). Mexican politician and soldier.
• 1786 - William Mason was born (d. 1860). American politician.
• 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 - Marie Laveau was born (d. 1881). American Voodoo practitioner.
• 1801 - Jason Fairbanks dies (b. 1780). American murderer.
• 1813 - The United States 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.
• 1836 - Joseph Wheeler was born (d. 1906). Confederate Lt. General and United States General.
• 1838 - Hector Berlioz' opera "Benvenuto Cellini," premieres in Paris.
• 1839 – Charles Sanders Peirce was born († 1914). American philosopher, mathematician and scientist.
• 1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk was born (d. 1912). American publisher.
• 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.
• 1858 - George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
• 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.
• 1871 - Charles Collett was born (d. 1952). British mechanical engineer.
• 1885 - Carl Clinton Van Doren was born (d. 1950). American biographer and critic.
• 1886 - Hilda Doolittle was born (d. 1961). American poet and novelist.
• 1887 - Giovanni Gronchi was born (d. 1978). 3rd President of the Italian Republic.
• 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.
• 1895 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana was born (d. 1976). Telugu writer.
• 1896 - Adele Astaire was born (d. 1981). American dancer and entertainer.
• 1896 - Robert Taschereau was born (d. 1970). Chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and Governor general of Canada.
• 1896 - Ye Ting was born (d. 1946). Chinese military leader.
• 1897 - In the Lattimer Massacre, a sheriff's posse killes more than nineteen unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania.
• 1897 - Georges Bataille was born (d. 8-Jul-1962). Philosopher Histoire de l'oeil.
• 1897 - Hilde Hildebrand was born (d. 1976). German actres
• 1898 - Empress Elizabeth of Austria (b. 1837) is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
• 1898 - Bessie Love was born (d. 1986). American actress.
• 1898 - Waldo Semon was born (d. 1999). American inventor.
• 1904 - Max Shachtman was born. American Trotskyist politician.
• 1905 - Pete Browning dies (b. 1861). American baseball player.
• 1907 - Alva R. Fitch was born (d. 1989). American World War II and Korean soldier.
• 1907 - Fay Wray was born (d. 2004). Canadian actress.
• 1908 - Raymond Scott was born (d. 1994). American composer, bandleader, electronic music pioneer.
• 1908 - Waldo Wedel was born (d. 1996). American archaeologist.
• 1912 - Mary Walter was born (d. 1993). Filipina actress.
• 1913 - First paved coast-to-coast highway opened in the U.S.
• 1914 - Robert Wise was born (d. 14-Sep-2005). 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.
• 1918 - Rin Tin Tin was born (d. 1932). German shepherd dog.
• 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 Súmac was born. Peruvian singer.
• 1924 - Boyd K. Packer was born. LDS apostle.
• 1924 - Luís Francisco Rebelo was born. Portuguese writer.
• 1924 - Ted Kluszewski was born (d. 1988). American baseball player.
• 1925 - Roy Brown was born (d. 1981). American blues musician.
• 1927 - France had its first Davis Cup beating USA in Philadelphia (3-2),though it had competed since 1905.
• 1928 - Jean Vanier was born. Canadian humanitarian.
• 1928 - Walter Martin was born (d. 1989). American Christian apologist.
• 1929 - Arnold Palmer was born. American golfer.
• 1930 - Ferreira Gullar was born. Brazilian poet and writer, Camões Prize 2010.
• 1931 – Joan Carroll Cruz was born. American author.
• 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.
• 1932 - 52nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Henry E Vines beats Henri Cochet (6-4 6-4 and 6-4).
• 1932 - Bo Goldman was born. American screenwriter.
• 1933 - 53rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J H Crawford (6-3, 11-13 4-6, 6-0, 6-1).
• 1933 – Karl Lagerfeld was born. German fashion designer.
• 1933 - Yevgeny Khrunov was born (d. 2000). Soviet cosmonaut.
• 1934 - Charles Kuralt was born (d. 1997). American journalist.
• 1934 - Roger Maris was born (d. 1985). American baseball player.
• 1935 - Mary Oliver was born. American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
• 1935 - Huey Long dies (b. 1893). American politician.
• 1937 - Jared Diamond was born. American biologist and author.
• 1937 - Sergei Tretyakov dies (b. 1892). Russian writer.
• 1938 - Karl Lagerfeld was born. German fashion designer.
• 1939 - World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.The submarine HMS Oxley is sunk by mistake by the submarine HMS Trition off the coast of Norway and becomes and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.
• 1939 - World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany.
• 1940 - William C. Ballard, Jr. was born. American businessman.
• 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 - World War II: The British carry out an amphibious landing at Majunga, north-west Madagascar, to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
• 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.
• 1943 - World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
• 1943 - Daniel Truhitte was born. American actor.
• 1943 - Eldridge Coleman ("Superstar" Billy Graham) was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1943 - Neale Donald Walsch was born. American author.
• 1944 - Sir Thomas Allen was born. English baritone.
• 1945 - Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaboration with Nazi Germany.
• 1945 - Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death.
• 1945 - Jose Feliciano was born. Puerto Rican singer.
• 1946 - Jim Hines was born. American athlete.
• 1946 - Don Powell was born. English drummer (Slade).
• 1946 - Michèle Alliot-Marie was born. French politician.
• 1948 - Bob Lanier was born. American basketball player.
• 1948 - Charlie Waters was born. American football player.
• 1948 - Judy Geeson was born. English actress.
• 1948 - Margaret Trudeau was born. Former wife of Pierre Trudeau.
• 1948 - Tony Gatlif was born. Algerian-born director.
• 1948 - Zhang Chengzhi was born. Chinese writer.
• 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.
• 1950 - Joe Perry was born. American musician (Aerosmith).
• 1951 - United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran.
• 1952 - Vic Toews was born. Canadian politician.
• 1952 - Youssef Aftimus dies (b. 1866). Lebanese civil engineer and architect.
• 1953 - Amy Irving was born. American actress.
• 1956 - Johnny Hickman was born. American musician.
• 1957 - Carol Decker was born. UK singer T'Pau.
• 1957 - Kate Burton was born. Swiss actress.
• 1958 - Dan Castellaneta was born. American voice actor.
• 1958 - Chris Columbus was born. American film director.
• 1958 - Siobhan Fahey was born. Irish singer (Bananarama and Shakespear's Sister).
• 1959 - Peter Nelson was born. American actor.
• 1960 - Mickey Mantle hits what is thought to be the Major League's longest home run, sending the ball an estimated 643 feet.
• 1960 - Alison Bechdel was born. American cartoonist.
• 1960 - Colin Firth was born. English actor.
• 1960 - David Lowery was born. American musician (Cracker (band))
• 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 - 75th U.S. Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Ann Haydon Jones (6-3 and 6-4)
• 1961 - 81st U.S. Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Rodney G Laver (7-5, 6-3 and 6-2)
• 1961 - Leo Carrillo dies (b. 1880). American actor.
• 1961 - Wolfgang von Trips dies (b. 1928). German racing driver.
• 1961 - Leo Carrillo dies (b. 1880). American actor.
• 1962 - 82nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (6-2, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4).
• 1963 - 20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
• 1963 - Bill Stevenson was born. American music producer, punk rock drummer (Descendents), (Black Flag), (ALL), (Only Crime).
• 1963 - Randy Johnson was born. American baseball player.
• 1964 - Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms.
• 1965 - Robin Goodridge was born. English rock drummer (Bush).
• 1965 - Father Divine dies (b. 1888). American religious leader.
• 1966 - Joe Nieuwendyk was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1966 - Richard Melviille Ballerand was born. Tri-national strategy adviser.
• 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.
• 1967 - 81st U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats Ann H Jones (11-9 and 6-4).
• 1967 - 87th U.S. Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Clark Graebner (6-4, 6-4 and 8-6).
• 1968 - Guy Ritchie was born. British film director.
• 1968 - Big Daddy Kane was born. American rapper.
• 1969 - Jonathon Schaech was born. American actor.
• 1970 - Paula Kelley was born. American singer-songwriter.
• 1970 - Robert Green was born. American football player.
• 1971 - Pier Angeli dies (b. 1932). Italian actress.
• 1972 - The United States loses its first international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
• 1972 - Frank Shorter wins 17th Olympic marathon (2:12:19.8).
• 1972 - 20th Olympic games close at Munich, Germany.
• 1972 - 92nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Arthur Ashe (3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3).
• 1972 - Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship.
• 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 - Bente Skari was born. Norwegian cross country skier.
• 1972 - Katarína Hasprová was born. Slovak singer.
• 1972 - Petkovic was born.
• 1973 - Ferdinand Coly was born. Senegalese footballer.
• 1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
• 1974 - Ben Wallace was born. American basketball player.
• 1974 - Mirko Filipovic was born. Croatian kickboxer and mixed martial artist.
• 1974 - Ryan Phillippe was born. American actor.
• 1975 - Jonathan Hoenig was born. American investment advisor.
• 1975 - Sammy Knight was born. American football player.
• 1975 - George Paget Thomson dies (b. 1892). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1976 - A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia killing 176.
• 1976 - Gustavo Kuerten was born. Brazilian tennis player.
• 1976 - Federico Gasperoni was born. San Marinese football player.
• 1976 - Dalton Trumbo dies (b. 1905). American writer.
• 1977 - France's last execution is performed by guillotine. Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, is executed at Baumettes Prison in Marseille.
• 1977 - 91st U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris Evert L Mills beats W Turnbull (7-6 and 6-2).
• 1977 - Danys Báez was born. Cuban baseball player.
• 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.
• 1978 - Jimmy Connors is 1st player to win U.S. Open on 3 different surfaces.
• 1978 - Nish Selvadurai was born. Australian comedian.
• 1978 - Ronnie Peterson dies (b. 1944). Swedish Formula One driver.
• 1979 - Agostinho Neto dies (b. 1922). Angolan politician.
• 1979 - Jacob Young was born. American actor.
• 1979 - Mustis was born. Norwegian musician (Dimmu Borgir).
• 1980 - Mikey Way was born. American bassist (My Chemical Romance).
• 1980 - Robert Green was born. English football player.
• 1980 - Roger Mason was born. American basketball 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.
• 1981 - Tracy Ip was born. Miss Hong Kong 2005.
• 1982 - Guillermo Israilevich was born. Argentinian-Israeli footballer.
• 1982 - Travis Rice was born. American snowboarder.
• 1982 - Staffan Kronwall was born. Swedish hockey player
• 1983 - 97th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maerina Navratilova beats Chris Evert L Mills (6-1 and 6-3).
• 1983 - Fernando Belluschi was born. Argentinian footballer.
• 1983 - Christopher Kukstis was born. American pedagogue, wordsmith, and popinjay.
• 1983 - Joey Votto was born. Canadian Major League baseball player.
• 1983 - Felix Bloch dies (b. 1905). Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1983 - John Vorster dies (b. 1915). Prime Minister of South Africa.
• 1984 - Harry Kretchmer was born. Welsh actor.
• 1984 - Matthew Followill was born. Guitarist of American rock band Kings Of Leon.
• 1985 - James B Graham was born. English rugby player.
• 1985 - Fernando Bonassi was born. Brazilian writer.
• 1985 - Jock Stein dies (b. 1922). Scottish football player and manager.
• 1986 - Greg Garbowsky was born. American musician.
• 1987 - At his residence in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden launches al Qaeda.
• 1988 - 102nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini (6-3, 3-6 and 6-1).
• 1988 – Coco Rocha was born. Canadian fashion model.
• 1988 - Jordan Staal was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1989 - 109th U.S. Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (7-6, 1-6, 6-3 and 7-6).
• 1989 - Sanjaya Malakar was born. American Idol contestant.
• 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.
• 1990 - 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win U.S. Open.
• 1991 - USA: Senate Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination.
• 1991 - Jack Crawford dies (b. 1908). Australian tennis player.
• 1993 - The cult series "The X-Files" premiered on Fox Television.
• 1994 - Amy Clampitt dies in Lenox, Massachusetts, United States, at 74. British poet (Silence Opens).
• 1995 - 115th U.S. Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (6-4, 6-3, 4-6 and 7-5).
• 1995 - 47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Fraiser and Candice Bergen wins.
• 1995 - Charles Denner dies (b. 1926). French actor.
• 1996 - Hans List dies (b. 1896). Austrian inventor and automotive pioneer, founder of AVL List.
• 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 - DJ Uncle Al dies (b. 1969). A Miami, Florida DJ.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2006 - Patty Berg dies (b. 1918). American female golf player.
• 2006 - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga dies (b. 1918).
• 2006 - Daniel Wayne Smith dies (b. 1986). Son of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith.
• 2007 - Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
• 2007 – Anita Roddick dies (b. 1942). British businesswoman.
• 2007 - Jane Wyman dies (b. 1917). American actress.
• 2007 - Ted Stepien dies (b. 1925). Former basketball team owner.
• 2008 - The first attempt at circulating a beam through the Large Hadron Collider is scheduled to take place.
• 2008 - Domagoj Kapeć dies (b. 1989). Croatian hockey player.
• 2008 - Gérald Beaudoin dies (b. 1969). Canadian lawyer and senator.
• Teacher's Day(People's Republic of China and Hong Kong).
• Calendar of Saints - Nicholas of Tolentino; Saint Aubert.
• Gibraltar - National Day.
• World Suicide Prevention Day.