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The
10t o September
is the 253rd day o the year (254t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 112 days bidin.
Events
- 1547
- Battle o Pinckie:
Ingland
defeats
Scotland
an
Mary, Queen o Scots
is brocht tae safety in
Fraunce
.
- 1898
-
Empress Elisabeth o Austrick
is stabbed tae daith at Lake Geneva.
- 1939
-
Warld War II
:
Canadae
declares war on
Germany
.
- 1939
-
Warld War II
: HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk bi HMS Triton aff
Norawa
, in the
Ryal Navy
's first loss o the war.
- 1943
- Tottori,
Japan
, is hit bi a
yirdquauk
, killin 1,190 fowk.
- 1960
-
Ethiopie
runner
Abebe Bikila
wins the marathon at the
1960 Simmer Olympics
in
Roum
, acomin the first Olympic gowd medallist frae
Sub-Saharan Africae
.
- 1967
-
Gibraltarians
vote tae remain a
UK
dependency.
- 1974
-
Guinea-Bissau
's unthirldom is recognisit bi
Portugal
.
- 1985
-
Scotland
fitbaa manager
Jock Stein
suffers a fatal hairt attack at a match against
Wales
in
Cardiff
.
- 1990
- The Basilica o Oor Lady o Peace in
Yamoussoukro
,
Ivory Coast
, is consecratit bi
Pape John Paul II
.
- 2002
-
Swisserland
jyns the
Unitit Naitions
.
- 2006
-
Michael Schumacher
announces his retirement frae
Formula Ane
.
- 2008
- The
Lairge Hadron Collider
, a pairticle collider, is turned on for the first time.
- 2011
- Tanzanian ferry
MV Spice Islander
sinks near
Zanzibar
, killin 3,000 fowk.
- 2012
- Tennis player
Andy Murray
wins his first Grand Slam, at the US Open.
- 2013
-
Thomas Bach
is electit Preses o the
Internaitional Olympic Committee
.
- 2020
-
COVID-19 pandemic
: The recordit
COVID-19
daith toll reaks 900,000.
Births
- 1487
-
Pape Julius III
(d.
1555
)
- 1638
-
Maria Theresa o Austrick
, Queen o Fraunce (d.
1683
)
- 1659
-
Henry Purcell
, Inglis componer (d.
1695
)
- 1809
-
Thomas Campbell Eyton
, Inglis naituralist (d.
1880
)
- 1839
-
Charles Sanders Peirce
, American mathemateecian an logician (d.
1914
)
- 1866
-
Jeppe Aakjaer
, Dens writer (d.
1930
)
- 1890
-
Franz Werfel
, Austrick novelist (d.
1945
)
- 1892
-
Arthur Compton
, American pheesicist (d.
1962
)
- 1911
-
Renee Simonot
, French actress
- 1914
-
Robert Wise
, American director an producer (d.
2005
)
- 1929
-
Arnold Palmer
, American gowfer (d.
2016
)
- 1933
-
Karl Lagerfeld
, German fashion designer
- 1941
-
Stephen Jay Gould
, American palaeontologist (d.
2002
)
- 1954
-
Lorely Burt
, Inglis polieecian
- 1960
-
Margaret Ferrier
, Scots politeecian
- 1960
-
Colin Firth
, Inglis-Italian actor
- 1968
-
Guy Ritchie
, Inglis filmmaker
- 1976
-
Gustavo Kuerten
, Brazilian tennis player
- 1978
-
Julia Goldsworthy
, Inglis politeecian
- 1982
-
Stephen McManus
, Scots fitbawer
- 1983
-
Jeremy Toulalan
, French fitbawer
- 1985
-
David Clarkson
, Scots fitbawer
- 1985
-
Laurent Koscielny
, French fitbawer
Daiths
Halidays