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September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). There are 112 days remaining.
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Events
- 1608 - John Smith elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia
- 1776 - Nathan Hale volunteers to spy
- 1813 - The Battle of Lake Erie
- 1823 - Sim�n Bol�var named President of Peru
- 1846 - Elias Howe gets a patent for the sewing machine
- 1913 - First paved coast-to-coast highway opened in the US.
- 1919 - Austria and the Allies signed a treaty recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
- 1927 - France wins the first Davis Cup
- 1939 - Canada declares war on Germany.
- 1943 - German forces began their occupation of Rome during World War II.
- 1945 - Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaboration with Nazi Germany.
- 1951 - Great Britain began an economic boycott of Iran.
- 1967 - The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain
- 1972 - United States loses first international basketball game in disputed match versus the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany
- 1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal
- 1976 - A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia killing 176
- 1977 - Last ever execution takes places in France.
- 1990 - Will Smith made his debut in the television show "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
- 2002 - Switzerland joins the United Nations.
- 2003 - Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden is stabbed fatally and dies of the wounds on September 11
Births
- 920 - Louis IV of France
- 1714 - Niccol� Jommelli, composer († 1774)
- 1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, dictionary publisher († 1912)
- 1886 - Hilda Doolittle, poet, novelist († 1961)
- 1890 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere († 1973)
- 1907 - Fay Wray, Canadian actress
- 1914 - Robert Wise, American director
- 1915 - Edmond O'Brien, actor († 1985)
- 1920 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer
- 1927 - Yma Sumac, singer
- 1929 - Arnold Palmer, American golf player
- 1931 - Philip Baker Hall, actor
- 1932 - Bo Goldman, screenwriter
- 1933 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut
- 1934 - Roger Maris, American baseball player († 1985)
- 1934 - Charles Kuralt, journalist († 1997)
- 1938 - Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer
- 1942 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist († 2002)
- 1945 - Jose Feliciano, singer
- 1946 - Jim Hines, American athlete
- 1950 - Joe Perry, rock and roll musician, member of Aerosmith
- 1957 - Siobhan Fahey, singer (Bananarama, Shakespear's Sister)
- 1957 - Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor
- 1958 - Chris Columbus, film director
- 1960 - Colin Firth, actor
- 1968 - Guy Ritchie, film director
- 1968 - Big Daddy Kane, rap musician
- 1969 - Jonathon Schaech, actor
- 1974 - Ryan Philippe, actor
Deaths
- 954 - Louis IV of France
- 1669 - Henrietta Maria, Queen of England
- 1898 - Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated)
- 1935 - Huey Long, Americann politician
- 1948 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria
- 1961 - Leo Carrillo, actor
- 1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist
- 1971 - Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union
- 1976 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer
- 1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist
- 1983 - John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa
Holidays
- National Day of Gibraltar
September 9 � September 11 � August 10 � October 10 � more historical anniversaries
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