About September 10
September 10, 2024 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.
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Virgo is the sun 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.
What Happened On September 10
- 1419 –John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
- 1515 –Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
- 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.
- 1608 –John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
- 1813 –The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
- 1846 –Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
- 1897 –Lattimer massacre: A sheriff’s posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
- 1918 –Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
- 1919 –Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
- 1932 –The New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
- 1939 –World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy’s first loss.
- 1942 –World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
- 1961 –Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
- 1963 –20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
- 1967 –The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
- 1976 –A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
- 1990 –The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire – the largest church in Africa is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
- 2001 –Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
- 2002 –Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
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