Today in History – September 10th

Published September 10, 2012 |

1509, An earthquake known as “The Lesser Judgment Day” hits Istanbul.
1547, The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, last full scale military confrontation between England and Scotland.
1570, Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacan Mission.
1608, John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, 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 US defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
1823, Simon Bolivar is named President of Peru.
1839, Isaac K. Funk, American publisher (d. 1912) was born.
1842, Letitia Christian Tyler, US First Lady (b. 1790) died.
1846, Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
1852, Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company (d. 1937) was born.
1858, George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1889, Charles III, Prince of Monaco, founder of the Monte Carlo casino (b. 1818) died.
1897, Lattimer massacre: A sheriff’s posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, US.
1898, Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
1918, Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932) was born.
1918, Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
1919, Austria and Allies sign Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
1932, The New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
1934, Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985) was born.
1935, Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893) died.
1937, Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
1939, WWII: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies, France, the UK, New Zealand and Australia.
1939, WWII: submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy’s 1st loss.
1941, Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002) was born.
1943, WWII: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
1960, Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes 1st sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning marathon in bare feet
1963, 20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
1965, Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880) died.
1967, The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
1972, US suffers its 1st loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
1974, Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
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.
2007, Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917) died.

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