Notable Historical Events on September 10th
September 10th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
422 |
St Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
506 |
The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. |
918 |
Arnulf I the Old becomes landsheer of Flanders |
1349 |
Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death |
1510 |
Bishop Frederik of Bathe recaptures Oldenzaal |
1547 |
Battle at Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots |
1547 |
English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5 |
1608 |
John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va |
1776 |
George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers |
1785 |
Prussia signs trade agreement with US |
1798 |
British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St George |
1813 |
Comm Oliver H Perry defeats British in Battle of Lake Erie |
1823 |
Simon Bolivar named president of Peru |
1838 |
Hector Berlioz' opera "Benvenuto Cellini," premieres in Paris |
1845 |
King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange |
1846 |
Elias Howe patents sewing machine |
1847 |
1st theater opens in Hawaii |
1849 |
1st performance by US actor Edwin Booth (Richard III) |
1858 |
John Holden hits 1st recorded HR (Bkln vs NY) |
1858 |
George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora. |
1861 |
-15] Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia |
1861 |
Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities |
1863 |
George Bizet's opera "Les Pêcheurs de Perles," premieres in Paris |
1869 |
Baptist minister supposedly invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan |
1870 |
Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms |
1872 |
Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam |
1880 |
Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo |
1882 |
1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests) |
1884 |
Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention |
1894 |
London taxi driver George Smith is first fined for drunk driving |
1897 |
Lattimer Massacre - a sheriff's posse kills twenty unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States. |
1898 |
Lord Kitchener's ships sails from Kartoum to Fashoda |
1898 |
Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni. |
1899 |
2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay Alaska |
1900 |
20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record) |
1902 |
Utrecht soccer team UVV forms |
1905 |
Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes |
1910 |
Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber |
1913 |
Cleveland Call & Post forms |
1913 |
George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia |
1913 |
Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway |
1918 |
Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners & $1,000 each for the losers |
1919 |
Indian's Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0 |
1919 |
NYC welcomes home Gen John J Pershing & 25,000 WW I soldiers |
1919 |
Treaty of St Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany |
1922 |
Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth & Gehrig consecutive HRs |
1923 |
Irish Free state joins League of Nations |
1924 |
Giants rip Braves 22-1, Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out |
1924 |
Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder |
1926 |
Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn |
1926 |
Germany joins League of Nations |
1927 |
22nd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Philadelphia (3-2) |
1930 |
Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia |
1931 |
Lord Cecil of British government says War was never so improbable |
1932 |
52nd US Mens Tennis: Henry E Vines beats Henri Cochet (6-4 6-4 6-4) |
1932 |
Dodgers Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season |
1932 |
Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in NYC |
1933 |
1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park) |
1933 |
53rd US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J H Crawford (6-3 11-13 4-6 6-0 6-1) |
1937 |
2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0) |
1937 |
Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0 |
1939 |
Canada declares war on Germany |
1939 |
Canada, under the leadership of Mackenzie King, declares war on Germany |
1940 |
Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb |
1942 |
British troops lands on Madagascar |
1942 |
RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf |
1943 |
British 8th army occupies Tarente |
1943 |
German troops occupied Rome & took over the protection of Vatican City |
1943 |
Italian fleet anchors at Malta |
1943 |
Lt-Gen Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London |
1944 |
Lt-gen Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far" |
1945 |
KLS-AM in Oakland Ca changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA) |
1945 |
Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis |
1945 |
Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death. |
1948 |
Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life |
1948 |
Bradman scores 153 in his last 1st-class cricket innings in England |
1949 |
"Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" closes at Broadway NYC after 76 perfs |
1950 |
Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HR in a game at Griffith Stadium |
1951 |
British begin economic boycott of Iran |
1952 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Thomasville Golf Open |
1953 |
Swanson sells it's 1st "TV dinner" |
1954 |
12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria |
1954 |
WLUK TV channel 11 in Green Bay, WI (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls |
1955 |
"Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV |
1956 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia |
1956 |
Louisville Ky public schools integrates |
1956 |
WSYE (now WETM) TV chan 18 in Elmira-Corning, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1957 |
"Mask & Gown" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 39 performances |
1958 |
WJCT TV channel 7 in Jacksonville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:15:16.2) |
1960 |
NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit |
1961 |
75th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Ann Haydon Jones (63 64) |
1961 |
81st US Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Rodney G Laver (75 63 62) |
1961 |
Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit HR # 400 |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961 |
Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari. |
1962 |
82nd US Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64) |
1962 |
KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1963 |
20 black students entered public schools in Alabama |
1963 |
Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0 |
1963 |
Stan Musial hits a HR in his 1st at bat as a grandfather |
1964 |
Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms |
1964 |
Rod Steward records his 1st single "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" |
1965 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1965 |
Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards |
1965 |
WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1966 |
Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks |
1966 |
Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
1966 |
Neal Diamond's 1st chart song (Cherry Cherry) |
1967 |
81st US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats Ann H Jones (119 64) |
1967 |
87th US Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Clark Graebner (64 64 86) |
1967 |
Chicago White Sox Joel Horlen no-hits Det Tigers, 6-0 |
1967 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Pacific Golf Classic |
1967 |
Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British & not Spanish |
1967 |
Joel Horlen revives Chicago's pennant hopes with a 5-0 no-hit win |
1967 |
KVVU TV channel 5 in Henderson-Las Vegas, NV (IND) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
NY Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time |
1969 |
US performs nuclear test at Grand Valley Colorado |
1971 |
KVUE TV channel 24 in Austin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1972 |
20th Olympic games close at Munich, German FR |
1972 |
92nd US Mens Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Arthur Ashe (36 63 67 64 63) |
1972 |
Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship |
1972 |
Frank Shorter wins 17th Olympic marathon (2:12:19.8) |
1972 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
1972 |
US Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to USSR (disputed) |
1972 |
WKAR TV channel 23 in East Lansing, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1972 |
3 British soldiers are killed in a land mine attack near Dungannon, County Tyrone |
1973 |
Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton |
1973 |
NY Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St Louis |
1974 |
Lou Brock ties (104) & then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark |
1974 |
NY Dolls disband |
1974 |
Portugal recognizes independence of Rep of Guinea-Bissau |
1974 |
Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hrs |
1975 |
Darryl Sittler is named captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs |
1976 |
2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard |
1976 |
5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, NY |
1977 |
91st US Womens Tennis: Chris Evert L Mills beats W Turnbull (76 62) |
1977 |
Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits |
1977 |
Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5) |
1977 |
Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
1977 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
1977 |
Susan Perkins (Ohio), crowned 50th Miss America 1978 |
1977 |
Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France. |
1978 |
"Timbuktu!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 243 perfs |
1978 |
98th US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 62 62) |
1978 |
Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yds & 30") |
1978 |
Jimmy Connors is 1st player to win US Open on 3 different surfaces |
1978 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
1978 |
4th game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9 |
1979 |
3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed |
1980 |
Expos Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18 |
1980 |
Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick |
1981 |
"Guernica" by Pablo Picasso returns to Spain |
1982 |
Decca releases Beatle audition "Complete Silver Beatles" album |
1983 |
97th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert L Mills (61 63) |
1983 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
1984 |
Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla |
1984 |
Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days) |
1986 |
Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel |
1988 |
-18] Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas & Yucatan |
1988 |
102nd US Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini (6-3 3-6 6-1) |
1988 |
Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (Minn), 22, crowned 62nd Miss America 1989 |
1989 |
109th US Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (76 16 63 76) |
1989 |
5 days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners |
1989 |
Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record |
1989 |
East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary & Czechoslovakia) |
1989 |
Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship |
1989 |
Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown, the first in his career |
1990 |
19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win US Open |
1990 |
1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different |
1990 |
Ellis Island reopens as a museum |
1990 |
Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada |
1990 |
Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq |
1990 |
Mariner Matt Young becomes 21st AL'er to strike out 4 in 1 inning |
1990 |
1st time in NY Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0 |
1991 |
Senate Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination |
1991 |
Yolanda Gail Devers runs US female record 100m hurdles (12.48 secs) |
1992 |
Bud Selig becomes interm commissioner of baseball |
1992 |
Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents |
1993 |
1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced |
1993 |
Israel & PLO sign joint recognition statements |
1994 |
108th US Womens Tennis Open: Aranxta S Vicario beats Steffi Graf (1-6 7-6 6-4) |
1994 |
Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke |
1995 |
115th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 46 75) |
1995 |
35th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland beats US, 14-10 |
1995 |
47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Fraiser & Candice Bergen win |
1995 |
Alison Nicholas wins PING-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
1995 |
Browns & Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleve for only time, Browns 22-6 over Tampa, Indians 5-3 over Orioles |
1997 |
Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million |
1997 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
1997 |
Mark McGwire joins Babe as only players to hit 50 HRs in 2 consec yrs |
1998 |
15th MTV Awards: Madonna & Will Smith wins |
2000 |
The musical Cats closes on Broadway. |
2000 |
52nd Emmy Awards: The West Wing, Will & Grace, James Gandolfini & Sela Ward win |
2002 |
Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations. |
2007 |
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999. |
2008 |
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland. |
2012 |
16 people are killed by a suicide bombing n Kunduz, Afghanistan |
2012 |
Teachers in Chicago strike effecting 350,000 students |
2012 |
10,000 miners demonstrate at Lonmin mines in Marikana, South Africa |
2012 |
29 people are killed by floods and heavy rain in Vietnam |
2012 |
A left over bazooka grenade in Cambodia explodes and kills three children |
2013 |
16 people are killed after a series of bomb attacks across Iraq |
2013 |
3 people are killed after a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter crashes in the Artic Ocean |
2016 |
With latest North Korea test, US again seeks elusive Chinese help |
2016 |
UN Security Council strongly condemns North Korean nuclear test |
2016 |
Russia, US reach cease-fire deal for Syria |
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