About September 10
September 10, 2023 is the 253rd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 153 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.
- 1509 –An earthquake known as “The Lesser Judgment Day” hits Istanbul.
- 1515 –Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
- 1608 –John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1974 –Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
- 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 –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.
- 2008 –The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
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