About September 10
September 10, 2021 is the 253rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 144 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.
- 1561 –Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima – Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
- 1823 –Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
- 1898 –Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
- 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: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1977 –Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
- 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.
- 2002 –Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
- 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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