Historical Events on September 10

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• 422 St Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 506 35 bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde, shedding light on the moral conditions of the clergy and laity in southern France
• 918 Arnulf I the Old becomes landsheer of Flanders

• 1349 Black Death Massacre: Jews who survived Black Death riots in Constance. Prince-Bishopric of Constance, Holy Roman Empire are burned to death; part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe
• 1510 Bishop Frederik of Bathe recaptures Oldenzaal
• 1547 Battle of Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots

• 1785 Prussia signs trade agreement with US
• 1798 British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St George
• 1813 American Naval Commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in Battle of Lake Erie

• 1845 King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange

• 1847 1st theater opens in Hawaii

• 1858 George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora
• 1858 John Holden hits 1st recorded HR (Brooklyn vs NY)
• 1861 -15] Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater, West Virginia
• 1861 Battle of Carnifex Ferry in Virginia, 170 casualties
• 1869 Baptist minister supposedly invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
• 1870 Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms

• 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 the first to be fined for drunk driving
• 1897 Lattimer Massacre - a sheriff's posse kills twenty unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States
• 1898 Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by anarchists 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)
• 1905 Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes at her moorings after the magazine catches fire, killing 251 seamen
• 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 across the United States
• 1919 China becomes a member of the League of Nations
• 1919 Cleveland Indians pitcher Ray Caldwell no-hits New York Yankees, 3-0 at the Polo Grounds, NYC

• 1919 Treaty of St Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany
• 1922 New York Yankees play their farewell home games in Polo Grounds, win both games of doubleheader against Philadelphia Athletics; move to Yankee Stadium the following season
• 1923 Irish Free State joins League of Nations
• 1924 Leopold and Loeb found guilty of the murder of Robert Franks in Chicago in the "the crime of the century"

• 1926 Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn
• 1926 Germany joins League of Nations
• 1930 Charles E. Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
• 1931 Lord Cecil of British government says War was never so improbable

• 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)
• 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

• 1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb in London
• 1942 British RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf, Germany
• 1942 British troops land on Madagascar
• 1943 British 8th army occupies Tarento, Italy
• 1943 German troops occupy Rome and take took over the protection of Vatican City
• 1943 Italian fleet anchors at Malta

• 1944 Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"
• 1945 KLS-AM in Oakland, California changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA)

• 1948 Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life

• 1951 British begin economic boycott of Iran
• 1952 European Parliament forms in Strasbourg, France
• 1953 Swanson sells its 1st "TV dinner"

• 1954 WLUK TV channel 11 in Green Bay, WI (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1955 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV starring James Arness
• 1956 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia
• 1956 Public schools integrate in Louisville, Kentucky
• 1956 WSYE (now WETM) TV channel 18 in Elmira-Corning, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast
• 1958 WJCT TV channel 7 in Jacksonville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting

• 1960 Fencer Aladár Gerevich is part of the gold medal winning Hungarian sabre team at the Rome Olympics; Gerevich's 6th consecutive gold medal in the event

• 1960 Yugoslavia dominates Denmark 3-1 to win the men's football gold medal at the Rome Olympics
• 1961 American Ferrari driver Phil Hill wins Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch F1 World Drivers Championship; first American F1 world champion
• 1961 Italian F1 Grand Prix, Monza: a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators hit by his Ferrari
• 1961 Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit HR # 400
• 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 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 enter public schools in Alabama
• 1963 Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0

• 1964 Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms

• 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 in the UK

• 1967 Chicago White Sox Joel Horlen no-hits Det Tigers, 6-0
• 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, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1972 3 British soldiers are killed in a land mine attack near Dungannon, County Tyrone
• 1972 American freestyle wrestler Dan Gable wins the 68kg division gold medal at the Munich Olympics; only Olympic wrestler not to have a single point scored against him in the competition
• 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
• 1972 American men's 4 x 100m relay team of Larry Black, Robert Taylor, Gerald Tinker & Eddie Hart combine for a world record 38.19 to beat the Soviet Union for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 An American double in the inaugural Olympic archery competition in Munich; John Williams wins the men's individual gold medal; Doreen Wilber takes the women's gold
• 1972 Cuban boxer Teófilo Stevenson wins first of 3 consecutive Olympic heavyweight gold medals when Munich Games opponent Ion Alexe of Romania withdraws from the final because of a broken thumb
• 1972 East v West in a women's 4 x 100m relay at the Munich Olympics; West Germany beats East Germany by 0.13 seconds for the gold medal
• 1972 Kazimierz Deyna scores twice as Poland beats Hungary 2-1 in the Olympic football gold medal match; 80,000 at the Munich Olympic Stadium
• 1972 West Germany beats Pakistan 1-0 to become first European nation since 1920 to win the field hockey Olympic title; marred by disgraceful behaviour of Pakistani players, fans & officials after losing the Munich final
• 1972 WKAR TV channel 23 in East Lansing, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1972 Yugoslavia beats Czechoslovakia, 21-16 in the inaugural Olympic handball final in Munich
• 1973 Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton on a 12 round split decision for NABF heavyweight boxing title at the Forum, Inglewood, California
• 1973 NY Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St Louis
• 1974 Controversial TV drama "Born Innocent" premieres on NBC TV, starring Linda Blair as an abused teen in a juvenile detention home

• 1974 Portugal recognizes independence of Republic of Guinea-Bissau, their foremer West African colony
• 1974 Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hrs

• 1975 Rock band Kiss release their 1st live album "Alive!"
• 1976 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard
• 1976 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, NY
• 1977 Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits
• 1977 Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5)
• 1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France
• 1978 4th game of Boston Massacre; NY Yankees beat Red Sox, 7-4 to tie for AL East 1st place; Yanks out hit arch rivals, 67-21; score 42-9
• 1978 Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yds & 30")

• 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" painting by Pablo Picasso returns to Spain
• 1982 Decca releases Beatles audition on "Complete Silver Beatles" album, 20 years after label executives rejected them feeling that "guitar groups are on the way out" and "the Beatles have no future in show business"

• 1984 Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Oklahoma

• 1984 Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days)
• 1985 U.S. 7th Circuit Court rules Soviet defector Walter Polovchak can't be forcibly returned to parents' country if it's deemed "not in the best interests" of underage defectors
• 1986 Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel
• 1988 -18] Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas & Yucatan
• 1989 Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record
• 1989 East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary and Czechoslovakia)

• 1990 1st time in NY Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0
• 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
• 1991 Gail Devers runs US female record 100m hurdles (12.48 secs)

• 1992 Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Psychiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents
• 1993 "The X-Files", created by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson debuts on Fox
• 1993 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced
• 1994 Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke
• 1995 47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Frasier and Candice Bergen win
• 1995 Cleveland's major league sports franchises, NFL Browns & MLB Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleveland for only time, both win; Browns 22-6 v Tampa, Indians 5-3 v Orioles
• 1997 Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million

• 2000 Indiana University fires basketball coach Bob Knight after an altercation with a student; Knight had spent 29 years at the school, compiling a 662-239 record
• 2002 Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations

• 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 10,000 miners demonstrate at Lonmin mines in Marikana, South Africa
• 2012 16 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan
• 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
• 2012 Teachers in Chicago strike effecting 350,000 students
• 2013 16 people are killed after a series of bomb attacks across Iraq
• 2013 Three people are killed after a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter crashes in the Arctic Ocean
• 2015 Floods and landslides in North East Japan, centered on Joso force 90,000 to evacuate their homes
• 2015 New human-like species - Homo Naledi announced by Scientists and a team of female archaeologists, found deep in caves in South Africa
• 2015 Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson resigns in wake of IRA supposed killing of Kevin McGuigan

• 2017 Artist Marta Minujin begins redistributing books from her art installation "Parthenon of Banned Books", honoring books burnt by Nazis, in Kassel Germany [1]

• 2018 California passes law to commit to carbon-free electricity sources by 2045
• 2018 John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice win Emmys for "Jesus Christ Superstar - Live In Concert", making them all EGOT winners, Legend is the first black male winner
• 2018 South Carolina issues mandatory evacuation order affecting one million people ahead of Hurricane Florence

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