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
- 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.
- 1515 –Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
- 1608 –John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1813 –The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
- 1823 –Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
- 1846 –Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
- 1858 –George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
- 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.
- 1919 –Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2001 –Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
- 2003 –Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
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