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 254th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 28, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,765,440 minutes 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 ‘dihectapentacontatetragon’ day.
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 141 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 4,281 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 10 Historical Events
1547 –
The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
1813 –
The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
1897 –
Lattimer massacre: A sheriff’s posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
1898 –
Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
1960 –
At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
1963 –
20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
1974 –
Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
1977 –
Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
2001 –
Antonio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil was assassinated.
2003 –
Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
Who were born on September 10?
1887 –
Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1978)
1898 –
Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999)
1907 –
Alva R. Fitch, American army officer (d. 1989)
1934 –
Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
1946 –
Don Powell, English drummer
1954 –
Clark Johnson, American actor
1956 –
Johnny Hickman, American musician
1963 –
Randy Johnson, American baseball player
1988 –
Jared Lee Loughner, American spree killer
1989 –
Manish Pandey, Indian cricketer
Who died on September 10?
1482 –
Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and arts patron (b. 1422)
1669 –
Henrietta Maria of France, queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609)
1748 –
Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, foundress of the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary (b. 1663)
1749 –
Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
1797 –
Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)
1905 –
Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
1931 –
Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American gangster (b. 1886)
1934 –
Sir George Henschel, German-British baritone, conductor, composer (b. 1850)
1975 –
George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
2007 –
Ted Stepien, former basketball team owner (b. 1925)
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