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- 0506 The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
- 0954 France's Louis IV dies September 10 at age 33 and is succeeded by his son Lothair, 13, who will reign until 986
- 1349 Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
- 1419 John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
- 1543 DeSoto's expedition returns to Mexico.
- 1608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va
- 1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
- 1798 At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
- 1798 British Hondurus beats Spain in battle of St George
- 1810 The British secretary of state for foreign affairs George Canning, 40, resigns September 9, saying that the War Office is hampering progress in the Peninsular War
- 1813 Comm Oliver H Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie
- 1813 The Americans defeat the British naval forces in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
- 1813 The U.S. defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
- 1823 Simn Bolvar is named President of Peru.
- 1846 Elias Howe receives a US patent for his hand-crank sewing machine.
- 1847 The first theater opens in Hawaii
- 1849 Edwin Booth, later to assassinate president Abraham Lincoln, makes his acting debut.
- 1858 George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
- 1869 Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
- 1897 Lattimer Massacre - a sheriff's posse kills twenty unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
- 1898 Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
- 1899 2nd quake in 7 days hits Yakutat Bay Alaska
- 1899 In the Yakutat Bay, Alaska area, one of the 15 Largest Earthquakes in the United States, measured at 8.2
- 1910 Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
- 1913 Cleveland Call & Post established
- 1913 George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia
- 1913 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
- 1916 The suspension span ofQuebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence which was being lifted, buckled and fell into the river killing 10 - 12 workmen.
- 1919 Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
- 1919 NYC welcomes home Gen John J Pershing & 25,000 WW I soldiers
- 1924 Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder
- 1927 France had its first Davis Cup win, though it had competed since 1905.
- 1930 Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
- 1932 The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
- 1939 Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining France, the UK, New Zealand and Australia in the Allies.
- 1939 HMS OXLEY, sunk by "friendly fire " off Norwegian coast, south of Stavanger in North Sea torpedoed in error by RN submarine 'Triton'.
- 1939 World War II: The submarine HMAS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.
- 1943 Tottori, Japan a 7.4 quake resulted in 1,190 deaths. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.
- 1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis
- 1951 United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran.
- 1953 Swanson sells its 1st "TV dinner"
- 1954 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria
- 1954 Visitor posting - Wayne ( Skip) Foltz Born in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada eventually becoming part of The Los Brovo\'s Motorcycle Club that eventually Became part or The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club - Canada
- 1955 "Gunsmoke" premiers on CBS TV
- 1955 The western series Gunsmoke debuts on CBS-TV for the first of 20 seasons (whew!).
- 1956 Louisville Ky public schools integrate
- 1960 Running barefoot, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila wins Rome Olympic marathon
- 1961 Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari.
- 1962 Rod Laver wins the Grand Slam of tennis
- 1963 20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
- 1963 Visitor posting - September 10, 1963 Scott Gibbs was born
- 1964 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Kinks - You Really Got Me
- 1966 Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
- 1967 Residents of Gibraltar vote to remain British and not return to Spain.
- 1967 The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
- 1971 Shoe-slapping statesman Nikita Krushchev, former Premier of Russia, dies.
- 1972 Chicago Bears running back Gayle Sayers retires from pro football.
- 1972 Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship
- 1972 Heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton, redeeming his loss to Norton in their previous encounter.
- 1972 US Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to USSR (disputed)
- 1973 Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton
- 1974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
- 1974 Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hrs
- 1976 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard
- 1976 Visitor posting - andrea born - USA [email protected]
- 1976 A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
- 1977 Last execution by Guillotine in France. Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder.
- 1977 Visitor posting - Adrienne Archer was born - USA
- 1977 Visitor posting - Adam Hankins is born in Richlands,VA
- 1979 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed
- 1980 Visitor posting - K. Younger born - USA
- 1980 Visitor posting - Mikey Way was born! - USA
- 1982 Decca releases Beatle audition "The Complete Silver Beatles" album
- 1982 Pete Rose breaks Hank Aarons's National League record by playing in his 3,077th baseball game.
- 1983 John Vorster, former prime minister of South Africa, dies in Cape Town at age 67.
- 1984 Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla
- 1984 Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days)
- 1985 Visitor posting - Niketa born - India [email protected]
- 1986 Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel
- 1988 Number one hit on UK music charts - Phil Collins - A Groovy Kind Of Love
- 1988 Visitor posting - September 10, 1988- Debbie Stephanie Rivas- Born in San Francisco, Ca- Young and Successfull M.D.
- 1988 Steffi Graf wins US Open, 1st woman Grand Slam since Court (1970)
- 1989 Boris Becker beats Yvan Lendl for the US Open championship
- 1989 East Germans begin their flight to the west (via Hungary & Czech)
- 1990 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win the US Open
- 1990 Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada
- 1990 Iran and Iraq agree to resume full diplomatic ties with one another.
- 1990 The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Cte d'Ivoire the largest church in Africa is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
- 1991 Visitor posting - September 10 1991 Josh Minnich was born!
- 1992 Visitor posting - Jessica Burrows was born.............soon to be famous actress
- 1992 Visitor posting - Ashleigh Shearer was born!! :) - United Kingdom
- 1993 Near Coast of Chiapas, Mexico a 7.3 quake resulted in 1 person killed, 3 injured and considerable damage in southwestern Guatemala
- 1993 Visitor posting - September 10 1993 Eric Migliazzo was born
- 1994 Visitor posting - Jodie Pearce born today in Cumbriaaa:) - United Kingdom
- 1994 Visitor posting - rozzle sadly gave birth to a diformed child named jodie sarah pearce:( - Pakistan
- 1999 Visitor posting - Thomas Hearn is born - USA
- 2002 Switzerland, known for its neutrality, joins the United Nations.
- 2003 Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is stabbed fatally while shopping, and dies of her wounds on September 11.
- 2006 Michael Schumacher announced his retirement as a driver.
- 2007 Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
- 2007 The Premier of the Australian state of Queensland, Peter Beattie, announced he would resign from the top job on September 13.
- 2008 Lehman puts itself up for sale after reports a $4 billion loss says it will spin off the troubled commercial real estate assets
- 2009 Visitor posting - September 10, 2009 Adyson Mae Poellet is born in Yankton, South Dakota USA
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