September 10 September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). There are 112 days following it. Events 1600-1899 1608 - John Smith elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia 1776 - Nathan Hale volunteers to spy 1813 - The U.S. defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. 1823 - Simón Bolívar named President of Peru 1846 - Elias Howe gets a patent for the sewing machine. 1898 - Queen Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Liccheri. 1900-1999 1913 - First paved coast-to-coast highway opened in the U.S. 1919 - Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. 1927 - France wins the first Davis Cup 1932 - The New York Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned "IND", is opened. 1939 - The submarine HMS Oxley is sunk by mistake by the submarine HMS Trition off the coast of Norway and becomes the first loss of the Royal Navy in the Second World War. 1939 - Canada declares war on Nazi Germany. 1943 - German forces began their occupation of Rome during World War II. 1945 - Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaboration with Nazi Germany. 1951 - United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran. 1960 - Mickey Mantle hits what is thought to be the Major League's longest home run, sending the ball an estimated 643 feet. 1967 - The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain 1972 - United States loses first international basketball game in disputed match versus the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany 1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal 1976 - A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia killing 176 1977 - France's last execution is performed by guillotine. 1990 - The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, the largest church in Africa and perhaps the world, is consecrated by Pope John Paul II. 1990 - Will Smith makes his television debut in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. 2001 - Major Charles Ingram allegedly cheats to win the £1,000,000 prize on the British Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. 2000-2099 2002 - Switzerland, known for its neutrality, finally joins the United Nations. 2002 - The U.S. Homeland Security Advisory System is set to Orange, or High Condition, for the first time. 2003 - Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden is stabbed fatally, and dies of her wounds on September 11 Births 900-1899 920 - Louis IV of France (d. 954) 1487 - Pope Julius III (d. 1555) 1638 - Marie-Therese of Austria, Queen consort of France 1714 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer (d. 1774) 1740 - Mary Willing Byrd, plantation manager 1758 - Hannah Webster Foster, author 1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, dictionary publisher (d. 1912) 1852 - Alice Brown Davis 1864 - Josephine Adams Rathbone, librarian 1886 - Hilda Doolittle, poet, novelist (d. 1961) 1897 - Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976 ) 1890 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973) 1900-1999 1907 - Fay Wray, Canadian actress (d. 2004) 1914 - Robert Wise, American director 1915 - Edmond O'Brien, actor (d. 1985) 1920 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001) 1927 - Yma Sumac, singer (the date is disputed) 1929 - Arnold Palmer, American golf player 1931 - Philip Baker Hall, actor 1932 - Bo Goldman, screenwriter 1933 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (d. 2000) 1934 - Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985) 1934 - Charles Kuralt, journalist (d. 1997) 1938 - Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer 1941 - Christopher Hogwood, English conductor 1941 - Gunpei Yokoi, inventor and video game designer (d. 1997) 1942 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002) 1945 - Jose Feliciano, singer 1946 - Jim Hines, American athlete 1948 - Bob Lanier, Basketball Hall of Famer 1949 - Bill O'Reilly, American journalist, author, and commentator 1950 - Joe Perry, rock and roll musician, member of Aerosmith 1957 - Siobhan Fahey, singer (Bananarama, Shakespear's Sister) 1958 - Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor (The Simpsons) 1958 - Chris Columbus, film director 1960 - Colin Firth, actor (Shakespeare in Love, Bridget Jones's Diary, Love Actually) 1963 - Randy Johnson, baseball pitcher 1968 - Guy Ritchie, film director 1968 - Big Daddy Kane, rap musician 1969 - Jonathon Schaech, actor 1972 - Ghada Shouaa, Syrian heptathlete 1974 - Ryan Phillippe, actor 1974 - Ben Wallace, NBA star 1976 - Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis star Deaths 900-1899 918 - Count Baldwin II of Flanders 954 - Louis IV of France 1669 - Henrietta Maria, Queen of England 1851 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, educator (b. 1787) 1867 - Simon Sechter, music teacher 1898 - Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated) 1900-1999 1904 - Aparicio Saravia, Uruguay politician 1935 - Huey Long, American politician 1948 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria 1961 - Leo Carrillo, actor 1965 - Father Divine, religious leader 1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist 1971 - Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union 1976 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer 1977 - Hamida Djandoubi, last private guillotine execution (legal) in France 1979 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician 1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist 1983 - John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa 1999 - 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