What are the important events that happened on September 10? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 10: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 10 is the 253rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 28, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,757,462,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectapentacontatrigon’ day.
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Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 160 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,646 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 10 Historical Events
- 1515 –Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
- 1798 –At the Battle of St. George’s Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
- 1823 –Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
- 1846 –Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
- 1918 –Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
- 1932 –The New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
- 1939 –World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
- 1963 –20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
- 1974 –Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
- 2002 –Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
Who were born on September 10?
- 1855 –Albert F. Mummery, British mountaineer (d. 1895)
- 1885 –Carl Clinton Van Doren, American biographer and critic (d. 1950)
- 1886 –Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d. 1961)
- 1917 –Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat (d. 2009)
- 1924 –Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (d. 1988)
- 1928 –Roch Bolduc, Canadian civil servant and senator
- 1946 –Patrick Norman, Canadian country musician
- 1953 –Amy Irving, American actress
- 1966 –Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1988 –Coco Rocha, Canadian fashion model
Who died on September 10?
- 1197 –Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)
- 1482 –Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and arts patron (b. 1422)
- 1749 –Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
- 1801 –Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780)
- 1931 –Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American gangster (b. 1886)
- 1996 –Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)
- 1998 –Carl Forgione, British actor (b. 1944)
- 2005 –Sir Hermann Bondi, Anglo-Austrian cosmologist (b. 1919)
- 2006 –King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (b. 1918)
- 2007 –Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b. 1942)
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