About September 10
September 10, 2020 is the 254th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 155 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 10
- 506 –The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1823 –Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
- 1858 –George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
- 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.
- 1937 –Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
- 1946 –While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters’ Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her “to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them”. She would become known as Mother Teresa.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2001 –Antonio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil was assassinated.
- 2007 –Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
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