Major Events
- 1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
- 1813 American Naval Commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in Battle of Lake Erie
- 1846 Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine
- 1924 Leopold and Loeb found guilty of the murder of Robert Franks in Chicago in the "the crime of the century"
- 1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France
- 2008 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland
- 2020 California's August Complex wildfire becomes largest recorded in state history at 471,000 acres (736 square miles)
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Sep 10 in Film & TV
- 1993 "The X-Files", created by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson debuts on Fox
Sep 10 in Music
- 1991 Rock band Nirvana release their single "Smells like Teen Spirit", often dubbed the anthem of Generation X
Sep 10 in Sport
- 1972 American long distance runner Frank Shorter scores a famous win in the men's marathon in 2:12:19.8 at the Munich Olympics
Did You Know?
London taxi driver George Smith is the first to be fined for drunk driving
Julius III
Maria Theresa of Spain
Elsa Schiaparelli
Terence O'Neill
Stephen Jay Gould
Jack Ma
Colin Firth
Misty Copeland
Arnold Palmer
Roger Maris
Jim Hines
Larry Nelson
Dan O'Toole
Fun Fact About September 10
Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death.
Famous Weddings
- 1957 Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chretien (23) weds Aline Chaine (21) in Canada
- 1961 Baseball player Ted Williams marries model Lee Howard (divorced 1967)
- 1961 Nigerian novelist, critic and academic Chinua Achebe ("Things Fall Apart") marries Christie Okoli
More September 10 Weddings
Qin Shi Huang
John the Fearless
Mary Wollstonecraft
Cy Denneny
Patty Berg
Jane Wyman
