Today in History
10 September
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10 September |
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| Arnulf I the Old becomes landsheer of Flanders | ||
| 1349 Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death | ||
| 1487 Julius III, Counter-Reformation pope (1550-55) was born | ||
| 1510 Bishop Frederik of Bathe recaptures Oldenzaal | ||
| 1547 Battle at Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots | ||
| 1547 English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5 | ||
| 1608 John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia | ||
| 1736 Carter Braxton, US farmer/signer (Declaration of Independence) was born | ||
| 1752 John Soane, English architect (Bank of England, Soane Museum) was born | ||
| 1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers | ||
| 1785 Prussia signs trade agreement with US | ||
| 1798 British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St George | ||
| 1813 Oliver H. Perry sent the message, ''We have met the enemy, and they are ours,'' after an American naval force defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812 | ||
| 1823 Simon Bolivar named president of Peru | ||
| 1845 King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange | ||
| 1846 Elias Howe of Spencer, Massachusetts, received a patent for his sewing machine | ||
| 1846 Japan invents the rickshaw | ||
| 1847 1st theater opens in Hawaii | ||
| 1854 Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Neth manufacturer (Vroom & Dreesman) was born | ||
| 1869 Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan | ||
| 1870 Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms | ||
| 1872 Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam | ||
| 1880 Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo | ||
| 1882 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets | ||
| 1882 Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests) | ||
| 1884 Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention | ||
| 1887 Giovanni Gronchi, president of Italy was born | ||
| 1897 Police shoot at striking mine workers in Penns, kills 20 | ||
| 1898 Lord Kitchener's ships sails from Kartoum to Fashoda | ||
| 1899 2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay Alaska | ||
| 1905 Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes | ||
| 1910 Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber | ||
| 1913 1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway, opens | ||
| 1913 George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia | ||
| 1913 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway | ||
| 1919 New York City welcomed home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who had served in the United States 1st Division during World War I | ||
| 1919 Treaty of St Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany | ||
| 1926 Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn | ||
| 1930 Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia | ||
| 1931 Lord Cecil of British Governamentt says War was never so improbable | ||
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| 1939 Canada declares war on Germany | ||
| 1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb | ||
| 1942 British troops lands on Madagascar | ||
| 1942 RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf | ||
| 1943 British 8th army occupies Tarente | ||
| 1943 German troops occupied Rome & took over the protection of Vatican City | ||
| 1943 Italian fleet anchors at Malta | ||
| 1943 Lt-Gen Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London | ||
| 1945 Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis. | ||
| 1948 Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life | ||
| 1948 American-born Mildred Gillars, accused of being Nazi wartime radio broadcaster "Axis Sally," was indicted in Washington, D.C., for treason. | ||
| 1951 British begins economic boycott of Iran | ||
| 1954 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria | ||
| 1963 20 black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Tuskegee and Mobile, Alabama, following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace. | ||
| 1964 Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms | ||
| 1974 Portugal recognizes independence of Rep of Guinea-Bissau | ||
| 1976 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard | ||
| 1976 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, NY | ||
| 1979 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed | ||
| 1989 East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary & Czech) | ||
| 1989 Hungary gave permission for thousands of East German refugees and visitors to emigrate to West Germany | ||
| 1990 Ellis Island reopens as a museum | ||
| 1990 George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki | ||
| 1990 Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada | ||
| 1990 Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq | ||
| 1993 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced | ||
| 1993 Israel & PLO sign joint recognition statements | ||
| 1998 President Clinton met with members of his Cabinet to apologize and ask forgiveness in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal | ||
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