Historical Events on September 10, Special Events on This Day

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What Happened on September 10th This Day in History

Year Name
2022 Death of Queen Elizabeth II: King Charles III is formally proclaimed as monarch at a meeting of the Accession Council in St James's Palace.
2017 Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in 134 deaths and $64.76 billion (2017 USD) in damage.
2008 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
2007 Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
2002 Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.
2001 Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
2001 During his appearance on the British TV game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, contestant Charles Ingram reaches the £1 million top prize, but it was later revealed that he had cheated to the top prize by listening to coughs from his wife and another contestant.[3]
2000 Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
1976 A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
1974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
1967 The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
1961 In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history.
1960 At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
1943 World War II: In the course of Operation Achse, German troops begin their occupation of Rome.
1942 World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
1939 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 of a submarine in the war.
1939 World War II: The Canadian declaration of war on Germany receives royal assent.
1937 Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
1936 First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium
1932 The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
1919 The Republic of German-Austria signs the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ceding significant territories to Italy, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia.
1918 Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
1898 Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
1897 Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
1858 George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1846 Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
1813 The United States defeats a British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
1798 At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
1776 American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
1608 John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
1607 Edward Maria Wingfield ousted as first president of the governing council of the Colony of Virginia; he is replaced by John Ratcliffe.
1573 German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew are beheaded in Hamburg.
1570 Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
1561 Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
1547 The Battle of Pinkie, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
1515 Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.
1509 An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.
1419 John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
506 The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
Famous People Born on September 10

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Year Name
1950 Tom Lund, Norwegian football player
1978 Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
1963 Bill Stevenson, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
1801 Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
1984 Drake Younger, American wrestler
1852 Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (d. 1937)
1925 Dick Lucas, English minister and cleric
1912 Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Vice President of India (d. 2002)
1973 Tim Stimpson, English rugby player
1994 Mohamed Sylla, French rapper
Famous People Deaths On September 10

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Date Name
1504 Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1480)
2006 Patty Berg, American golfer (b. 1918)
1987 Boris Rõtov, Estonian chess player (b. 1937)
1217 William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon, English politician
602 Dugu Qieluo, empress of the Chinese Sui dynasty (b. 544)
2020 Diana Rigg, British actress (b. 1938)
1939 Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig, German general (b. 1888)
1931 Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1869)
952 Gao Xingzhou, Chinese general (b. 885)
954 Louis IV, king of West Francia (b. 920)