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
- 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.
- 1515 –Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1937 –Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 1939 –World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
- 1942 –World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
- 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.
- 1972 –The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
- 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 –Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
- 2007 –Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
- 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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