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What happened in history on this day: September 10?
On September 10 in ...
- 422 - Saint Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 1349 - Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death.
- 1419 - John the Fearless Burgundy France, warrior, murdered at age 48.
- 1487 - Birth of Julius III Counter-Reformation pope (1550-55).
- 1608 - John Smith is elected president of Jamestown colony council, Virginia.
- 1635 - Swedish Council concludes the Truce of Stuhmsdorf with Poland, surrendering Prussia to Poland for 26 years truce.
- 1736 - Birth of Carter Braxton signed Declaration of Independence.
- 1753 - Birth of John Soane England, architect (Soane Museum).
- 1798 - British Hondurus beats Spain in battle of Saint George.
- 1813 - US Navy Commodore Oliver H Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie.
- 1823 - Simon Bolivar is named president of Peru.
- 1836 - Birth of Joseph Wheeler; Major General/Cavalry Commander, Army of Tennessee.
- 1839 - Birth of Isaac Kauffman Funk; US publisher (Funk and Wagnalls).
- 1842 - Letitia Tyler, US President Tyler's wife, dies at age 51.
- 1846 - Elias Howe patents the sewing machine.
- 1848 - Gold dust price in San Francisco is set at $16 per ounce.
- 1858 - John Holden hits the first recorded home run (Brooklyn versus New York).
- 1869 - Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan.
- 1882 - First international conference to promote anti-semitism meets in Dresden, Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests).
- 1887 - Birth of Giovanni Gronchi; president of Italy.
- 1890 - Birth of Franz Werfel in Austria; author (40 Days of Musa Dagh).
- 1893 - Birth of Al "Fuzzy" Saint John in Santa Ana, California, USA; actor (Lash of the West).
- 1894 - Birth of Humphrey Hume Wrong in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Canadian diplomat: first secretary, counsellor, minister counsellor, ambassador to Washington, permanent Canadian delegate to the League of Nations, assistant undersecretary and undersecretary of state for external affairs (dies 1954).
- 1898 - Duchess Elisabeth of Bavaria is stabbed and killed in Geneva, Switzerland, by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni.
- 1899 - In Yakutat Bay, Alaska, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurs.
- 1908 - Birth of Eva Adams; US Mint Director.
- 1909 - Birth of Raymond Scott in Brooklyn, New York, USA; orchestra leader (Your Hit Parade).
- 1910 - Great Idaho Fire destroys three million acres of timber.
- 1913 - George W Buckner is named US minister to Liberia.
- 1913 - Lincoln Highway opens as first US paved coast-to-coast highway.
- 1914 - Birth of Robert Wise; movie director (The Day the Earth Stood Still).
- 1915 - Birth of Edmond O'Brien in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Sam Benedict, Johnny Midnight).
- 1919 - Cleveland Indians' Ray Caldwell no-hits New York Yankees 3-0.
- 1919 - New York City welcomes home General John J Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers.
- 1922 - Largest Polo Grounds baseball crowd; Non Meusel, Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig make consecutive home runs.
- 1927 - Birth of Yma Sumac [Emperatriz Chavarri] in Ichocan, Peru; five-octave soprano.
- 1927 - France wins its first Davis Cup in tennis.
- 1929 - Birth of Arnold Palmer; golfer (PGA Golfer of the Year 1960, 1962).
- 1931 - The worst hurricane in Belize history kills an estimated 1,500 people.
- 1933 - Birth of Yevgeny V Khrunov in USSR; cosmonaut (Soyuz 5).
- 1934 - Birth of Charles Kuralt in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA; newscaster (On the Road).
- 1934 - Birth of Roger Eugene Maras AKA Roger Maris in Hibbing, Minnesota, USA; major league baseball (Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Saint Louis Cardinals), American League Most Valuable Player (1960, 1961), hit record 61 home runs in 1961 (dies in 1985).
- 1935 - Death of Huey "Kingfish" Long by assassin Carl Weiss, in Louisiana, USA; American politician, governor of Louisiana (1928-32), US Senator (1932-35).
- 1935 - Birth of John Palmer in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA; news anchor (NBC Weekend News).
- 1937 - Second American Football League plays first game (Los Angeles Bulldogs 21, Pittsburgh Americans 0); Cleveland Rams plays their first NFL game, lose 28-0.
- 1939 - Birth of Greg Mullavey in Buffalo, New York, USA; actor (Tom - Mary Hartman, Rituals).
- 1939 - An article in the New York Times newspaper refers to the conflict in Poland as the "Second World War".
- 1939 - (1310 hours) In Ottawa, Canada, the Governor-General of Canada, Lord Tweedsmuir, announces that Parliament has declared war on Germany, as of the start of the day.
- 1939 - The US extends its embargo on arms shipments to Canada.
- 1940 - Birth of Roy Ayers in Louisiana, USA; disco jazz artist ("Fever", "You Send Me").
- 1945 - Birth of José Feliciano in Lares, Puerto Rico; singer/songwriter ("Light my Fire").
- 1945 - Birth of Richard M Mullane in Texas, USA; US Air Force/astronaut (STS 41-D, STS-27, STS-36).
- 1945 - Birth of Tom Ligon in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; actor (Joyride).
- 1946 - Birth of James R Hines; American sprinter (Olympic-gold-1968).
- 1948 - Birth of Bob Lanier; NBA center (Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks).
- 1948 - Birth of Judy Geeson Arundei in Sussex, England; actress (To Sir With Love, Berserk).
- 1950 - Birth of Joe Perry in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; rocker (Aerosmith - "Walking the Dog").
- 1950 - NBC premieres The Colgate Comedy Hour, a 60-minute variety show.
- 1950 - Joe DiMaggio becomes first to hit three home runs in a game at Griffith Stadium.
- 1953 - Birth of Amy Irving in Palo Alto, California, USA; actress (Yentl, Carrie, Crossing Delancy).
- 1954 - Twelve-second earthquake kills 1,460 in Orleansville, Algeria.
- 1955 - CBS premieres the Gunsmoke western TV show.
- 1957 - Birth of Brian Fitzpatrick in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Rick Alden - Loving).
- 1957 - CBS-TV airs the last episode of Private Secretary.
- 1957 - Birth of Siobhan Fahey; rocker (Bananarama - "Venus").
- 1959 - CBS premieres the Checkmate TV show, a 60-minute mystery series.
- 1960 - Birth of Miranda Wilson in Nebraska, USA; actress (Sandra - Santa Barbara).
- 1960 - New York Yankees player Mickey Mantle hits 643-foot home run over right field roof in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1960 - Running barefoot, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila wins Rome Olympic marathon.
- 1961 - Death of Leo Carrillo of cancer at age 80; actor (Pancho - Cisco Kid TV show).
- 1961 - Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit home run number 400.
- 1961 - NBC airs the last This is Your Life TV show.
- 1962 - Rod Laver wins the Grand Slam of tennis.
- 1963 - Birth of Carol Decker; rocker (T'Pau - "Heart and Soul").
- 1963 - Birth of David Titlow; rocker (Blue Mercedes - "Rich and Famous").
- 1963 - ABC airs the last Untouchables TV show.
- 1963 - Philadelphia Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0.
- 1965 - Birth of Allison Daughtry; actress (Guiding Light).
- 1965 - NBC airs the last The Jack Benny Program TV show. A total of 39 episodes aired on NBC.
- 1965 - CBS begins airing the Hazel 30-minute TV show.
- 1965 - Philadelphia Phillies' 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phillies beat Saint Louis Cardinals.
- 1966 - The Beatles' "Revolver" album goes #1 and stays #1 for six weeks.
- 1967 - Chicago White Sox player Joel Horlen no-hits Detroit Tigers, 6-0.
- 1967 - Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British (not Spanish).
- 1969 - New York Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in first place for first time.
- 1970 - NBC airs the last Dragnet TV show.
- 1972 - Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship.
- 1972 - US Men's Olympic basketball team's first loss, 51-50 to USSR (disputed).
- 1972 - The NBC TV network airs the last The Name of the Game TV show in the USA.
- 1973 - Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton.
- 1973 - New York Jets trade pro football's leading receiver Don Maynard to Saint Louis Cardinals.
- 1974 - Portuguese Guinea gains independence from Portugal as Guinea-Bissau.
- 1974 - Lou Brock ties (104) and then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark.
- 1974 - Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 miles in 24 hours.
- 1975 - ABC airs the first episode of TV show Starsky and Hutch.
- 1976 - Two airliners collide over Yugoslavia, killing all 176 aboard.
- 1976 - Mordecai Johnson, president of Howard University, dies at age 86.
- 1977 - Toronto Blue Jays beat New York Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits.
- 1977 - Hamida Djandoubi, convicted murderer, last to die in the guillotine.
- 1978 - Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yards and 30 inches).
- 1978 - 4th game of the Boston Massacre; New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for first place. Yankees out-hit Red Sox 67-21; score 42-9.
- 1979 - Three Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill US President Harry Truman are freed.
- 1980 - Birth of Mikey Way; American bassist (My Chemical Romance).
- 1980 - Bill Gullickson sets rookie record of striking out 18.
- 1981 - Picasso's painting Guernica is moved from New York to Madrid, Spain.
- 1983 - Death of Dai Rees, British golfer (born 1913).
- 1983 - Death of Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905).
- 1983 - Death of Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest man who ever lived (born 1941).
- 1984 - Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days).
- 1985 - Yoshiuki Takada plunges six stories to his death when a rope holding him breaks. The Sankai Juku Dance Company of Toyko had been performing The Dance Of Birth And Death on the side of Seattle's Mutual Life building.
- 1985 - Alexa Kenin, actress (Mousie - Coed Fever), dies at age 23.
- 1986 - Bryan O'Connor named chairman of US Space Flight Safety Panel.
- 1988 - The ABC TV network debuts The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
- 1988 - Steffi Graf wins US Open.
- 1989 - Boris Becker beats Yvan Lendl for the US Open championship.
- 1989 - The Hungarian government opens the country's western borders to refugees from the German Democratic Republic.
- 1989 - Birth of Sanjaya Malakar; American singer (American Idol TV show).
- 1990 - Nineteen-year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win the US Open of tennis.
- 1990 - First time in New York Yankees' history they are completely swept in a season series, Oakland Athletics beat them 12 games to 0.
- 1990 - First time since 1966 that all eight grand slam tennis champions are different.
- 1990 - US President George Bush and Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki, Finland.
- 1990 - The 2-hour The Disney Afternoon syndicated TV show premieres. Included is a new series, Tale Spin.
- 1990 - Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq.
- 1990 - Seattle Mariners' Matt Young becomes 21st American League player to strike out four in one inning.
- 1990 - TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air debuts, starring Will Smith.
- 1991 - Yves Montand, actor (Lets Make Love, Z), dies at age 70.
- 1993 - Near the coast of Chiapas, Mexico, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs. Felt in much of Central America.
- 1993 - The syndicated TV series Bill Nye, the Science Guy begins.
- 1993 - The TV series The Crusaders first airs.
- 1993 - Fox debuts TV show The X-Files.
- 1994 - ABC premieres computer-animated cartoon Reboot.
- 1996 - Death of Joanne Dru at age 74 of lymphedema; actress (Playhouse 90 TV show, Lux Video Theatre, Ford Television Theatre, Guestward Ho! TV show (1960)).
- 1997 - Death of George Schaefer at age 76; director (almost 100 television productions).
- 2001 - Norwegian parliamentary election: Kjell Magne Bondevik returns to power as head of a conservative coalition.
- 2001 - US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld calls a meeting of hundreds of Pentagon senior staff, giving a speech calling the Pentagon bureaucracy an adversary to the security of the USA. He says "... today we declare war on bureaucracy".
- 2002 - Switzerland joins the United Nations.
- 2003 - Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh is stabbed several times while shopping in Stockholm. She dies the following morning of heart and lung failure.
- 2003 - Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
- 2006 - Seven-time World Champion Michael Schumacher announces he will retire from Formula One racing at the end of the year.
- 2006 - Death of Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (born 1918).
- 2007 - (to September 30) The 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup is held in China.
- 2007 - In Veracruz state of Mexico, six explosions on gas pipelines disrupt oil and natural-gas supplies to factories and thousands of homes.
- 2007 - Death of Anita Roddick, English entrepreneur, pioneer of green capitalism, founder of Body Shop in 1976 (born 1942).
- 2007 - Death of Ralph Kent, Walt Disney Company artist, 1963-2004.
- 2007 - In Pakistan, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrives in Wawalpindi from seven-year exile. Four hours later, he is charged with corruption, arrested, and General Pervez Musharraf expels him to Saudi Arabia.
- 2008 - Lehman Brothers investment bank of New York posts a record quarterly loss of US$3.9 billion.
- 2008 - The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva first begins accelerating protons. The Collider can measure events within a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second.
- 2008 - China's tainted-milk scandal begins, with melamine-laced milk from Sanlu dairy farm resulting in tens of thousands of children sick.
- 2008 - An undersea earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale hits the eastern Moluccas islands.
- 2011 - The MV Spice Islander I, carrying at least 800 people, sinks off the coast of Zanzibar, killing 240 people.
- 2015 - Scientists announce the discovery of Homo naledi, a previously unknown species of early human in South Africa.
- 2017 - Hurricane Irma strikes Florida Keys islands as Category 4 storm.
- 2019 - The Parliament of the United Kingdom is prorogued amid unprecedented protests from opposition MPs.
- 2021 - Death of Charles Konan Banny, 6th Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast (born 1942).
- 2021 - Death of Jorge Sampaio, 18th President of Portugal (born 1939).
- 2023 - Death of Ian Wilmut at age 79; British embryologist (his team created Dolly the cloned sheep).
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