September 10 - Events

Events

• 490 BC – The Battle of Marathon takes places between the forces of the Persian Empire and those of Athens
• 506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in theCouncil of Agde.
• 1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the futureCharles VII of France.
• 1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Istanbul.
• 1547 – 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.
• 1608 – John Smith is elected council president ofJamestown, Virginia.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
• 1798 – At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
• 1813 – The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during theWar of 1812.
• 1823 – Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
• 1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
• 1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
• 1897 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners inPennsylvania, United States.
• 1898 – Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
• 1919 – Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
• 1932 – The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
• 1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarineHMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.
• 1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
• 1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascarto re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
• 1943 – World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
• 1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driverWolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
• 1963 – 20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
• 1967 – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
• 1972 – The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
• 1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
• 1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide nearZagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
• 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
• 1990 – The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire – the largest church in Africa is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
• 2001 – Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
• 2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
• 2003 – Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
• 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 history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.