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10th of September 0506 EVENT The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
10th of September 1419 EVENT John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
10th of September 1509 EVENT An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Istanbul.
10th of September 1547 EVENT 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.
10th of September 1608 EVENT John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
10th of September 1776 EVENT American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
10th of September 1798 EVENT At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
10th of September 1813 EVENT The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
10th of September 1823 EVENT Simon Bolivar is named President of Peru.
10th of September 1846 EVENT Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
10th of September 1858 EVENT George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
10th of September 1897 EVENT Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
10th of September 1898 EVENT Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
10th of September 1919 EVENT Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
10th of September 1932 EVENT The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
10th of September 1939 EVENT 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.
10th of September 1939 EVENT World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies : France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
10th of September 1942 EVENT World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
10th of September 1943 EVENT World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
10th of September 1961 EVENT Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
10th of September 1963 EVENT 20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
10th of September 1967 EVENT The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
10th of September 1972 EVENT The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
10th of September 1974 EVENT Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
10th of September 1976 EVENT A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
10th of September 1977 EVENT Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
10th of September 1990 EVENT The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire : the largest church in Africa is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
10th of September 2001 EVENT Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
10th of September 2002 EVENT Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
10th of September 2003 EVENT Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
10th of September 2007 EVENT Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
10th of September 2008 EVENT The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
10th of September 1169 BIRTHDAY Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
10th of September 1385 BIRTHDAY Le Loi, national hero of Viet Nam, founder of the Later Le Dynasty (d. 1433)
10th of September 1487 BIRTHDAY Pope Julius III, Italian Roman Catholic Pope (d. 1555)
10th of September 1550 BIRTHDAY Alonso de Guzman El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish Armada commander (d. 1615)
10th of September 1561 BIRTHDAY Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1634)
10th of September 1588 BIRTHDAY Nicholas Lanier, English composer (d. 1666)
10th of September 1624 BIRTHDAY Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
10th of September 1638 BIRTHDAY Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)
10th of September 1659 BIRTHDAY Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
10th of September 1714 BIRTHDAY Niccolo Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)
10th of September 1758 BIRTHDAY Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
10th of September 1786 BIRTHDAY William Mason, American politician (d. 1860)
10th of September 1786 BIRTHDAY Nicolas Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (d. 1854)
10th of September 1788 BIRTHDAY Jacques Boucher de Crevecoeur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
10th of September 1801 BIRTHDAY Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
10th of September 1836 BIRTHDAY Joseph Wheeler, American general (d. 1906)
10th of September 1839 BIRTHDAY Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (d. 1912)
10th of September 1839 BIRTHDAY Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914)
10th of September 1844 BIRTHDAY Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918)
10th of September 1852 BIRTHDAY Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company (d. 1937)
10th of September 1852 BIRTHDAY Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)
10th of September 1855 BIRTHDAY Albert F. Mummery, British mountaineer (d. 1895)
10th of September 1861 BIRTHDAY Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941)
10th of September 1866 BIRTHDAY Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish writer (d. 1930)
10th of September 1871 BIRTHDAY Charles Collett, British mechanical engineer (d. 1952)
10th of September 1883 BIRTHDAY Jock Delves Broughton, British noble (d. 1942)
10th of September 1885 BIRTHDAY Carl Clinton Van Doren, American biographer and critic (d. 1950)
10th of September 1886 BIRTHDAY Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d. 1961)
10th of September 1887 BIRTHDAY Kenneth Mason, British geographer (d. 1976)
10th of September 1887 BIRTHDAY Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1978)
10th of September 1890 BIRTHDAY Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973)
10th of September 1890 BIRTHDAY Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist (d. 1945)
10th of September 1892 BIRTHDAY Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
10th of September 1893 BIRTHDAY Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian (d. 2009)
10th of September 1895 BIRTHDAY Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (d. 1976)
10th of September 1896 BIRTHDAY Robert Taschereau, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1970)
10th of September 1896 BIRTHDAY Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946)
10th of September 1896 BIRTHDAY Adele Astaire, American dancer and entertainer (d. 1981)
10th of September 1897 BIRTHDAY Georges Bataille, French writer (d. 1962)
10th of September 1897 BIRTHDAY Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976)
10th of September 1898 BIRTHDAY Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986)
10th of September 1898 BIRTHDAY Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999)
10th of September 1904 BIRTHDAY Max Shachtman, American politician (d. 1972)
10th of September 1906 BIRTHDAY Karl Wien, German mountaineer (d. 1937)
10th of September 1907 BIRTHDAY Alva R. Fitch, American army officer (d. 1989)
10th of September 1908 BIRTHDAY Waldo Wedel, American Archaeologist (d. 1996)
10th of September 1908 BIRTHDAY Raymond Scott, American composer (d. 1994)
10th of September 1912 BIRTHDAY Mary Walter, Filipina actress (d. 1993)
10th of September 1913 BIRTHDAY Lincoln Gordon, American diplomat (d. 2009)
10th of September 1914 BIRTHDAY Robert Wise, American film director (d. 2005)
10th of September 1915 BIRTHDAY Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
10th of September 1917 BIRTHDAY Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat (d. 2009)
10th of September 1918 BIRTHDAY Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932)
10th of September 1920 BIRTHDAY Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
10th of September 1922 BIRTHDAY Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer (d. 2008)
10th of September 1924 BIRTHDAY Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (d. 1988)
10th of September 1924 BIRTHDAY Boyd K. Packer, American religious figure
10th of September 1925 BIRTHDAY Roy Brown, American blues musician (d. 1981)
10th of September 1928 BIRTHDAY Roch Bolduc, Canadian civil servant and senator
10th of September 1928 BIRTHDAY Walter Martin, American Christian apologist (d. 1989)
10th of September 1928 BIRTHDAY Jean Vanier, Canadian disabilities advocate
10th of September 1929 BIRTHDAY Michel Belanger, Canadian businessman and banker (d. 1997)
10th of September 1929 BIRTHDAY Arnold Palmer, American golfer
10th of September 1931 BIRTHDAY Philip Baker Hall, American actor
10th of September 1932 BIRTHDAY Bo Goldman, American screenwriter
10th of September 1933 BIRTHDAY Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000)
10th of September 1933 BIRTHDAY Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
10th of September 1934 BIRTHDAY Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
10th of September 1934 BIRTHDAY Jim Oberstar, American politician
10th of September 1934 BIRTHDAY Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
10th of September 1935 BIRTHDAY Mary Oliver, American poet
10th of September 1937 BIRTHDAY Jared Diamond, American biologist and author
10th of September 1939 BIRTHDAY Cynthia Lennon, British celebrity
10th of September 1940 BIRTHDAY Buck Buchanan, American football player (d. 1992)
10th of September 1941 BIRTHDAY Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
10th of September 1941 BIRTHDAY Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)
10th of September 1941 BIRTHDAY Christopher Hogwood, English conductor
10th of September 1942 BIRTHDAY Danny Hutton, American singer
10th of September 1943 BIRTHDAY Eldridge Coleman, American professional wrestler
10th of September 1943 BIRTHDAY Daniel Truhitte, American actor
10th of September 1943 BIRTHDAY Neale Donald Walsch, American author
10th of September 1944 BIRTHDAY Sir Thomas Allen, English baritone
10th of September 1945 BIRTHDAY Jose Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer
10th of September 1946 BIRTHDAY Patrick Norman, Canadian country musician
10th of September 1946 BIRTHDAY Jim Hines, American athlete
10th of September 1946 BIRTHDAY Michele Alliot-Marie, French politician
10th of September 1946 BIRTHDAY Don Powell, English drummer
10th of September 1948 BIRTHDAY Tony Gatlif, Algerian-born director
10th of September 1948 BIRTHDAY Judy Geeson, English actress
10th of September 1948 BIRTHDAY Bob Lanier, American basketball player
10th of September 1948 BIRTHDAY Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese writer
10th of September 1948 BIRTHDAY Margaret Trudeau, former wife of Pierre Trudeau
10th of September 1948 BIRTHDAY Charlie Waters, American football player
10th of September 1949 BIRTHDAY Don Muraco, professional wrestler
10th of September 1949 BIRTHDAY Bill O'Reilly, American journalist and commentator
10th of September 1950 BIRTHDAY Joe Perry, American musician
10th of September 1952 BIRTHDAY Vic Toews, Canadian politician
10th of September 1952 BIRTHDAY Medea Benjamin, American activist
10th of September 1953 BIRTHDAY Yannis Bezos, Greek actor
10th of September 1953 BIRTHDAY Amy Irving, American actress
10th of September 1956 BIRTHDAY Johnny Fingers, Irish musician The Boomtown Rats
10th of September 1956 BIRTHDAY Johnny Hickman, American musician
10th of September 1956 BIRTHDAY Erick Zonca, French film director
10th of September 1957 BIRTHDAY Carol Decker, British singer
10th of September 1957 BIRTHDAY Andrei Makine, Russian-born French author
10th of September 1957 BIRTHDAY Kate Burton, Swiss actress
10th of September 1958 BIRTHDAY Chris Columbus, American film director
10th of September 1958 BIRTHDAY Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer
10th of September 1959 BIRTHDAY Peter Nelson, American actor
10th of September 1960 BIRTHDAY Alison Bechdel, American cartoonist
10th of September 1960 BIRTHDAY Tim Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
10th of September 1960 BIRTHDAY Colin Firth, English actor
10th of September 1960 BIRTHDAY David Lowery, American musician
10th of September 1963 BIRTHDAY Bill Stevenson, American music producer and musician
10th of September 1963 BIRTHDAY Randy Johnson, American baseball player
10th of September 1964 BIRTHDAY John E. Sununu, American politician
10th of September 1965 BIRTHDAY Robin Goodridge, English rock drummer
10th of September 1966 BIRTHDAY Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player
10th of September 1968 BIRTHDAY Big Daddy Kane, American rapper
10th of September 1968 BIRTHDAY Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer
10th of September 1968 BIRTHDAY Guy Ritchie, British film director
10th of September 1969 BIRTHDAY Johnathon Schaech, American actor
10th of September 1969 BIRTHDAY Ai Jing, Chinese singer
10th of September 1970 BIRTHDAY Paula Kelley, American musician
10th of September 1970 BIRTHDAY Menelik, Cameroonian/French rapper
10th of September 1972 BIRTHDAY Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete
10th of September 1972 BIRTHDAY James Duval, American actor
10th of September 1972 BIRTHDAY Bente Skari, Norwegian cross-country skier
10th of September 1972 BIRTHDAY Katarina Hasprova, Slovak singer
10th of September 1973 BIRTHDAY Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
10th of September 1974 BIRTHDAY Mirko Filipovic, Croatian martial artist
10th of September 1974 BIRTHDAY Ryan Phillippe, American actor
10th of September 1974 BIRTHDAY Ben Wallace, American basketball player
10th of September 1975 BIRTHDAY Melanie Pullen, American photographer
10th of September 1976 BIRTHDAY Vassilis Lakis, Greek footballer
10th of September 1976 BIRTHDAY Matt Morgan, American professional wrestler
10th of September 1976 BIRTHDAY Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
10th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Andreas Aniko, Estonian footballer
10th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Jacob Young, American actor and singer
10th of September 1980 BIRTHDAY Jayam Ravi, Indian Actor
10th of September 1981 BIRTHDAY Marco Chiudinelli, Swiss tennis player
10th of September 1983 BIRTHDAY Joey Votto, Canadian baseball player
10th of September 1985 BIRTHDAY Aya Kamiki, Japanese rock singer
10th of September 1985 BIRTHDAY Matsuda Shota, Japanese actor
10th of September 1985 BIRTHDAY Elyse Levesque, Canadian actress
10th of September 1985 BIRTHDAY Laurent Koscielny, French footballer
10th of September 1986 BIRTHDAY Eoin Morgan, Irish cricketer
10th of September 1986 BIRTHDAY Hiroki Uchi, Japanese singer and actor
10th of September 1987 BIRTHDAY Nana Tanimura, Japanese singer
10th of September 1988 BIRTHDAY Jared Lee Loughner, American spree killer
10th of September 1988 BIRTHDAY Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
10th of September 1988 BIRTHDAY Coco Rocha, Canadian fashion model
10th of September 1989 BIRTHDAY Manish Pandey, Indian cricketer
10th of September 0918 DEATH Count Baldwin II of Flanders (Born 865)
10th of September 0954 DEATH King Louis IV of France (Born 920)
10th of September 1167 DEATH Empress Matilda, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1102)
10th of September 1197 DEATH Henry II of Champagne (Born 1166)
10th of September 1217 DEATH William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon
10th of September 1308 DEATH Emperor Go-Nijo of Japan (Born 1285)
10th of September 1382 DEATH Louis I of Hungary, King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, Jerusalem, Sicily, and Poland (Born 1326)
10th of September 1419 DEATH John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (Born 1371)
10th of September 1482 DEATH Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and arts patron (Born 1422)
10th of September 1519 DEATH John Colet, English churchman and educator (Born 1467)
10th of September 1559 DEATH Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (Born 1501)
10th of September 1591 DEATH Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (Born 1542)
10th of September 1604 DEATH William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (Born 1545)
10th of September 1607 DEATH Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist (Born 1545)
10th of September 1669 DEATH Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (Born 1609)
10th of September 1676 DEATH Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (Born 1609)
10th of September 1680 DEATH Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (Born 1610)
10th of September 1748 DEATH Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, foundress of the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary (Born 1663)
10th of September 1749 DEATH Emilie du Chatelet, French mathematician and physicist (Born 1706)
10th of September 1759 DEATH Ferdinand Konscak, Croatian explorer (Born 1703)
10th of September 1797 DEATH Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (Born 1759)
10th of September 1801 DEATH Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (Born 1780)
10th of September 1851 DEATH Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (Born 1787)
10th of September 1867 DEATH Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (Born 1788)
10th of September 1898 DEATH Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated) (Born 1837)
10th of September 1905 DEATH Pete Browning, American baseball player (Born 1861)
10th of September 1915 DEATH Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (Born 1822)
10th of September 1931 DEATH Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (Born 1869)
10th of September 1931 DEATH Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American gangster (Born 1886)
10th of September 1935 DEATH Huey Long, American politician (Born 1893)
10th of September 1937 DEATH Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (Born 1892)
10th of September 1939 DEATH Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig, German soldier (Born 1888)
10th of September 1948 DEATH King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (Born 1861)
10th of September 1952 DEATH Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese civil engineer and architect (Born 1866)
10th of September 1961 DEATH Leo Carrillo, American actor (Born 1880)
10th of September 1961 DEATH Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (Born 1928)
10th of September 1965 DEATH Father Divine, American religious leader (Born 1880)
10th of September 1966 DEATH Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (Born 1891)
10th of September 1971 DEATH Pier Angeli, Italian actress (Born 1932)
10th of September 1975 DEATH George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1892)
10th of September 1976 DEATH Dalton Trumbo, American writer (Born 1905)
10th of September 1978 DEATH Ronnie Peterson, Swedish race car driver (Born 1944)
10th of September 1979 DEATH Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (Born 1922)
10th of September 1983 DEATH Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1905)
10th of September 1983 DEATH John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (Born 1915)
10th of September 1985 DEATH Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager (Born 1922)
10th of September 1991 DEATH Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (Born 1908)
10th of September 1994 DEATH Charles Drake, American actor (Born 1917)
10th of September 1995 DEATH Charles Denner, French actor (Born 1926)
10th of September 1995 DEATH Yasutomo Nagai, motorbike driver (Born1965)
10th of September 1996 DEATH Joanne Dru, American actress (Born 1923)
10th of September 1996 DEATH Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (Born 1896)
10th of September 1997 DEATH Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler (Born 1929)
10th of September 1998 DEATH Carl Forgione, British actor (Born 1944)
10th of September 1999 DEATH Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (Born 1927)
10th of September 2000 DEATH Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (Born 1921)
10th of September 2001 DEATH DJ Uncle Al (Born 1969)
10th of September 2004 DEATH Brock Adams, American politician (Born 1927)
10th of September 2005 DEATH Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American musician (Born 1924)
10th of September 2006 DEATH King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (Born 1918)
10th of September 2006 DEATH Patty Berg, American golf player (Born 1918)
10th of September 2006 DEATH Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith (Born 1986)
10th of September 2007 DEATH Jane Wyman, American actress (Born 1917)
10th of September 2007 DEATH Ted Stepien, former basketball team owner (Born 1925)
10th of September 2007 DEATH Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (Born 1942)
10th of September 2008 DEATH Gerald Beaudoin, Canadian lawyer and senator (Born 1929)
10th of September 2008 DEATH Domagoj Kapec, Croatian hockey player (Born 1989)