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.
- 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.
- 1561 –Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima – Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
- 1608 –John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1798 –At the Battle of St. George’s Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
- 1858 –George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
- 1898 –Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
- 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: 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2001 –Antonio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil was assassinated.
- 2002 –Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
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