September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Tuesday or Wednesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Friday or Sunday (56).
NATIONAL TV DINNER DAY
1608 – English adventurer John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
1776 – Nathan Hale of Connecticut, volunteered to spy behind British lines. He was executed on September 22 after being captured by the British. His last words, "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
920 – Louis IV of France (d. 954)
1638 – Maria Theresa of Spain, Queen and first wife of King Louis XIV (d. 1683)
1934 – Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
1951 – Sarah Coakley, English Anglican philosopher, theologian, and academic
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NATIONAL TV DINNER DAY
1608 – English adventurer John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
1776 – Nathan Hale of Connecticut, volunteered to spy behind British lines. He was executed on September 22 after being captured by the British. His last words, "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
1813 – In the first unqualified defeat of a British naval squadron in history, U.S. Captain Oliver Hazard Perry leads a fleet of nine American ships to victory over a squadron of six British warships at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
1833 – On this day in 1833, President Andrew Jackson announces that the government will no longer use the Second Bank of the United States, the country's national bank. He then used his executive power to remove all federal funds from the bank, in the final salvo of what is referred to as the "Bank War."
1861 – Confederate forces withdrew from the Kanawha Valley in western Virginia. This move facilitated the formation of West Virginia. Future U.S. Presidents Rutherford B Hayes and William McKinley fought at Carnifex Ferry with the 23rd Ohio Infantry.
1913 – The Lincoln Highway (in PA, U.S. Route 30) opened. It was the first paved coast-to-coast highway in the U.S. originally running from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco, originally through 13 states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado,Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California. It's total length at that time was 3,389 miles. There were a total of 14 states, 128 counties, and over 700 cities, towns and villages through which the highway passed at some time in its history.
1833 – On this day in 1833, President Andrew Jackson announces that the government will no longer use the Second Bank of the United States, the country's national bank. He then used his executive power to remove all federal funds from the bank, in the final salvo of what is referred to as the "Bank War."
1861 – Confederate forces withdrew from the Kanawha Valley in western Virginia. This move facilitated the formation of West Virginia. Future U.S. Presidents Rutherford B Hayes and William McKinley fought at Carnifex Ferry with the 23rd Ohio Infantry.
1913 – The Lincoln Highway (in PA, U.S. Route 30) opened. It was the first paved coast-to-coast highway in the U.S. originally running from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco, originally through 13 states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado,Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California. It's total length at that time was 3,389 miles. There were a total of 14 states, 128 counties, and over 700 cities, towns and villages through which the highway passed at some time in its history.
1919 – In New York City, a parade was held to welcome home WWI troops and their commanding general, John J. Pershing.
1924 – Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb (Leopold and Loeb) were found guilty of murdering a small boy. Once apprehended, the men's parents retained Clarence Darrow as counsel for the defense. Darrow's summation in their trial is noted for its influential criticism of capital punishment as retributive, rather than a rehabilitative penal system. Leopold and Loeb were sentenced to life imprisonment. Loeb was killed by a fellow prisoner in 1936; Leopold was released on parole in 1958. The case is known as the first "thrill kill."
1924 – Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb (Leopold and Loeb) were found guilty of murdering a small boy. Once apprehended, the men's parents retained Clarence Darrow as counsel for the defense. Darrow's summation in their trial is noted for its influential criticism of capital punishment as retributive, rather than a rehabilitative penal system. Leopold and Loeb were sentenced to life imprisonment. Loeb was killed by a fellow prisoner in 1936; Leopold was released on parole in 1958. The case is known as the first "thrill kill."
1945 – Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death in Norway for his collaboration with Nazi Germany after the 1940 invasion. He was the founder of Norway's National Party in 1934, which was an imitation of Hitler's National Socialist Party.
1981 – The anti-war painting, "Guernica", by Pablo Picasso, is "returned" to Spain. Guernica was painted in Paris, where it was first exhibited, before being placed in the care of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), as it was Picasso's express desire that the painting should not be delivered to Spain until liberty and democracy had been re-established in the country. On its arrival in Spain, it was first displayed behind bomb-and bullet-proof glass screens at the Casón del Buen Retiro in Madrid in time to celebrate the centenary of Picasso's birth, October 24. Guernica was moved to its current permanent location in a purpose-built gallery at the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid) in 1992.
2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
920 – Louis IV of France (d. 954)
1638 – Maria Theresa of Spain, Queen and first wife of King Louis XIV (d. 1683)
1934 – Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
1951 – Sarah Coakley, English Anglican philosopher, theologian, and academic
From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.
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