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Events

★ 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.

★ 1608 - John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.

★ 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy.

★ 1798 - At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.

★ 1813 - The U.S. 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 gets a patent for the sewing machine.

★ 1858 - George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.

★ 1897 - In the Lattimer Massacre, a sheriff's posse kills more than nineteen 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.

★ 1927 - France had its first Davis Cup win, though it had competed since 1905.

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

★ 1939 - World War II: The submarine HMAS Oxley is sunk by mistake by the submarine HMS'' Triton'' off the coast of Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.

★ 1939 - Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining France, the UK, New Zealand and Australia in the Allies.

★ 1942 - World War II: The British carry out an amphibious landing at Majunga, north-west Madagascar, to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.

★ 1943 - World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.

★ 1951 - United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran.

★ 1961 - At the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, a horrific crash on the 2nd lap of the race causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari.

★ 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.

★ 1972 - The United States loses its first international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.

★ 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 - Last execution by Guillotine in France. Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, was executed at Baumettes Prison in Marseille.

★ 1987 - At his residence in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden launches al Qaeda.

★ 1990 - The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire – the largest church in Africa and perhaps the world – is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.

★ 2002 - Switzerland, known for its neutrality, joins the United Nations.

★ 2003 - Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is stabbed fatally while shopping, and dies of her wounds on September 11.

Births

★ 1169 - Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)

★ 1487 - Pope Julius III (d. 1555)

★ 1550 - Alonso de Guzman El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commander of the Spanish Armada (d. 1615)

★ 1561 - Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1634)

★ 1588 - Nicholas Lanier, English composer (d. 1666)

★ 1624 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)

★ 1638 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)

★ 1659 - Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)

★ 1714 - Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)

★ 1758 - Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)

★ 1786 - Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (d. 1854)

★ 1786 - William Mason, American politician (d. 1860)

★ 1788 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)

★ 1836 - Joseph Wheeler, Confederate and United States Army General (d. 1906)

★ 1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (d. 1912)

★ 1839 - Charles Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914)

★ 1844 - Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918)

★ 1852 - Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)

★ 1861 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941)

★ 1866 - Jeppe Aakjær, Danish writer (d. 1930)

★ 1886 - Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d. 1961)

★ 1890 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973)

★ 1890 - Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist (d. 1945)

★ 1892 - Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)

★ 1895 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (d. 1976).

★ 1896 - Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946)

★ 1896 - Robert Taschereau, Supreme Court of Canada chief justice and Governor general (d. 1970)

★ 1897 - Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976)

★ 1898 - Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986)

★ 1898 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999)

★ 1904 - Max Shachtman, American Trotskyist politician (d. 1972)

★ 1907 - Alva R. Fitch, United States Army Lt. General (d. 1989)

★ 1914 - Robert Wise, American film director (d. 2005)

★ 1915 - Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)

★ 1917 - Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat

★ 1920 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)

★ 1922 - Yma Súmac, Peruvian singer

★ 1924 - Ted Kluszewski, Major League baseball player (d. 1988)

★ 1928 - Jean Vanier, Canadian disabilities advocate

★ 1929 - Arnold Palmer, American golfer

★ 1931 - Philip Baker Hall, American actor

★ 1933 - Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000)

★ 1934 - Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)

★ 1934 - Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)

★ 1937 - Jared Diamond, American biologist and author

★ 1938 - Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer

★ 1941 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)

★ 1941 - Christopher Hogwood, English conductor

★ 1941 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)

★ 1942 - Danny Hutton, American singer (Three Dog Night)

★ 1943 - Eldridge Coleman ("Superstar" Billy Graham), American professional wrestler

★ 1943 - Daniel Truhitte, American actor

★ 1943 - Neale Donald Walsch, American author

★ 1945 - Jose Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer

★ 1946 - Jim Hines, American athlete

★ 1946 - Don Powell, English drummer (Slade)

★ 1948 - Tony Gatlif, Algerian-born director

★ 1948 - Bob Lanier, American basketball player

★ 1948 - Margaret Trudeau, former wife of Pierre Trudeau

★ 1948 - Judy Geeson, English actress

★ 1949 - Don Muraco, professional wrestler

★ 1949 - Bill O'Reilly, American journalist and commentator

★ 1950 - Joe Perry, American musician (Aerosmith)

★ 1952 - Vic Toews, Canadian politician

★ 1953 - Amy Irving, American actress

★ 1957 - Carol Decker, UK singer T'Pau

★ 1957 - Kate Burton, Swiss actress

★ 1958 - Chris Columbus, American film director

★ 1958 - Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer (Bananarama and Shakespear's Sister)

★ 1959 - Peter Nelson, American actor

★ 1960 - Colin Firth, English actor

★ 1960 - David Lowery, American musician (Cracker)

★ 1963 - Randy Johnson, American baseball player

★ 1963 - Bill Stevenson, American music producer, punk rock drummer (Descendents), (Black Flag), (ALL), (Only Crime)

★ 1965 - Robin Goodridge, English rock drummer (Bush)

★ 1966 - Richard Melviille Ballerand, tri-national strategy adviser

★ 1966 - Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1968 - Big Daddy Kane, American rapper

★ 1968 - Guy Ritchie, British film director

★ 1969 - Jonathon Schaech, American actor

★ 1970 - Paula Kelley, American singer-songwriter

★ 1972 - Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete

★ 1972 - James Duval, American actor

★ 1972 - Bente Skari, Norwegian cross country skier

★ 1973 - Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer

★ 1974 - Ryan Phillippe, American actor

★ 1974 - Mirko Filipovic, Croatian kickboxer and mixed martial artist

★ 1974 - Ben Wallace, American basketball player

★ 1975 - Jonathan Hoenig, American investment advisor

★ 1975 - Sammy Knight, American football player

★ 1976 - Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player

★ 1976 - Federico Gasperoni, San Marinese football player

★ 1977 - Danys Báez, Cuban baseball player

★ 1978 - Nish Selvadurai, Australian comedian

★ 1980 - Mikey Way, American bassist (My Chemical Romance)

★ 1982 - Staffan Kronwall, Swedish hockey player

★ 1982 - Guillermo Israilevich, Argentinian-Israeli footballer

★ 1983 - Fernando Belluschi, Argentinian footballer

★ 1984 - Harry Kretchmer, Welsh actor

★ 1985 - James B Graham, English rugby player

★ 1988 - Jordan Staal, Canadian hockey player

★ 1989 - Sanjaya Malakar, ''American Idol'' contestant

Deaths

★ 210 BC - Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China.

★ 918 - Count Baldwin II of Flanders (b. 865)

★ 954 - King Louis IV of France (b. 920)

★ 1167 - Empress Matilda, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1102)

★ 1197 - Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)

★ 1217 - William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon English noble

★ 1308 - Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)

★ 1419 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (b. 1371)

★ 1482 - Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and patron of arts

★ 1519 - John Colet, English churchman and educator

★ 1559 - Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (b. 1501)

★ 1591 - Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542)

★ 1604 - William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)

★ 1607 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist (b. 1545)

★ 1669 - Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609)

★ 1676 - Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)

★ 1680 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (b. 1610)

★ 1749 - Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)

★ 1759 - Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703)

★ 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)

★ 1801 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780)

★ 1851 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787)

★ 1867 - Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (b. 1788)

★ 1898 - Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1837)

★ 1905 - Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)

★ 1915 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)

★ 1931 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)

★ 1935 - Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893)

★ 1937 - Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)

★ 1948 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (b. 1861)

★ 1961 - Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880)

★ 1961 - Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928)

★ 1965 - Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880)

★ 1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)

★ 1971 - Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)

★ 1975 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

★ 1976 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (b. 1905)

★ 1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish Formula One driver (b. 1944)

★ 1979 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (b. 1922)

★ 1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

★ 1983 - John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915)

★ 1985 - Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1922)

★ 1991 - Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)

★ 1995 - Charles Denner, French actor (b. 1926)

★ 1996 - Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923)

★ 1996 - Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)

★ 1997 - Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler (b. 1929)

★ 1998 - Carl Forgione, British actor (b. 1944)

★ 1999 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)

★ 2000 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921)

★ 2001 - DJ Uncle Al

★ 2004 - Brock Adams, American politician (b. 1927)

★ 2005 - Clarence Gatemouth Brown, American guitarist and singer (b. 1924)

★ 2006 - Patty Berg, American female golf player (b. 1918)

★ 2006 - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (b. 1918)

★ 2006 - Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith (b. 1986)

Holidays and observances

★ Calendar of Saints - Nicholas of Tolentino; Saint Aubert.

★ Also see September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).

★ Gibraltar - National Day.

★ Teacher's Day in China.

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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