September 10 in History

Historical Events on September 10

1570 Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.

1776 American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.

1918 Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.

1932 The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.

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 of a submarine in the war.

1939 World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies: Poland, 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.

2007 Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.

2017 Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in at least 134 deaths and over $62 billion (2017 USD) in damage.

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Famous Birthdays on September 10

1839 Charles Sanders Peirce

1872 Ranjitsinhji

1974 Mirko Filipović

1982 Misty Copeland

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Famous Deaths on September 10

1167 Empress Matilda

1797 Mary Wollstonecraft

1898 Empress Elisabeth of Austria

1935 Huey Long

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