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Historical Events 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 Constantinople.
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.
1570
Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
1608
John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
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.
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 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
1898
Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
1918
Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
1919
Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye 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.
1936
First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium
1937
Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
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.
1960
At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
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.
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.
2000
Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
2001
Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
2002
Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
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.
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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