What Happened On September 10 - On This Day

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  • 1776 George Washington asks for a spy, and Nathan Hale volunteers
  • 1813 American naval commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie
  • As submitted to the patent office in 1846

    Howe Sewing Machine

    1846 Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine
  • 1924 Leopold and Loeb are found guilty of the murder of Bobby Franks in Chicago in "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 the largest recorded in state history at 471,000 acres (736 square miles)
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  • 1993 "The X-Files", created by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, debuts on Fox
  • 1991 Rock band Nirvana releases their single "Smells Like Teen Spirit," often dubbed the anthem of Generation X
  • 1972 American long-distance runner Frank Shorter achieves a famous win in the men's marathon with a time of 2:12:19.8 at the Munich Olympics

London taxi driver George Smith is the first person fined for drunk driving

September 10, 1894

  • Maria Theresa of Spain

    1638 - 1683
  • Peyton Randolph

    1721 - 1775
  • Elsa Schiaparelli

    1890 - 1973
  • Stephen Jay Gould

    1941 - 2002
  • Charles Simonyi

    77 Years Old
  • Jack Ma

    61 Years Old
More Birthdays on September 10
  • Colin Firth

    65 Years Old
  • Misty Copeland

    43 Years Old
  • Arnold Palmer

    1929 - 2016
  • Roger Maris

    1934 - 1985
  • Jim Hines

    1946 - 2023
  • Larry Nelson

    78 Years Old
  • Dan O'Toole

    50 Years Old

Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado, but survives for another 18 months before choking to death

September 10, 1945

  • 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

    259 BC - 210 BC
  • John the Fearless

    1371 - 1419
  • Mary Wollstonecraft

    1759 - 1797
  • Harold Gillies

    1882 - 1960
  • Jane Wyman

    1917 - 2007
  • Charlie Kirk

    1993 - 2025
More September 10 Deaths
  • A wistful-looking Emma poses for a painting

    Nelson's Dying Wish: Save Emma

    Admiral Lord Nelson sailed into the life of Lady Emma Hamilton for the first time on this day. It would be the start of one of history’s great love affairs. September 10, 1793
  • Mike the headless chicken

    Miracle Mike!

    Mike the headless chicken September 10, 1945
  • Rocker Kurt Cobain

    Weekly Quiz for September 9 - 15

    In 1776 US Congress officially adopted the name 'United States of America', what was the previous name? Which war saw the 1st use of tanks on the battlefield?
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  • The Monkees riding high in 1966

    Hey, Hey – We're The Monkees

    September 8, 1965
  • Captain Bligh (Trevor Howard) faces mutineer Fletcher Christian (Marlon Brando) in the 1962 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Mutiny On The Bounty

    William Bligh and the Mutiny on the Bounty

    September 9, 1754
  • God offers life to Adam – the Sistine Chapel ceiling centrepiece

    The Plot Behind Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Masterpiece

    September 11, 1503
  • Marcel Ravidat, second from left in beret, with his friends at the cave entrance in 1940

    Dog Unearths Cave of Antiquity

    September 12, 1940
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