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Events on the 10th of September in history

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10 Sep 0422 St Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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10 Sep 0506 The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
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10 Sep 0918 Arnulf I the Old becomes landsheer of Flanders
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10 Sep 1349 Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
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10 Sep 1419 John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
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10 Sep 1509 An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.
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10 Sep 1510 Bishop Frederik of Bathe recaptures Oldenzaal
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10 Sep 1515 Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
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10 Sep 1547 Battle at Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots
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10 Sep 1547 English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5
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10 Sep 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.
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10 Sep 1561 Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima – Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
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10 Sep 1570 Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
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10 Sep 1608 John Smith elected President of Jamestown colony council, Virginia
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10 Sep 1608 John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
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10 Sep 1776 American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
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10 Sep 1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
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10 Sep 1785 Prussia signs trade agreement with US
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10 Sep 1798 At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
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10 Sep 1798 British Hondurus beats Spain in battle of St George
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10 Sep 1813 The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
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10 Sep 1813 Comm Oliver H Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie
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10 Sep 1823 Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
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10 Sep 1845 King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange
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10 Sep 1846 Japan invents the rickshaw
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10 Sep 1846 Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
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10 Sep 1846 Elias Howe patents the sewing machine
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10 Sep 1847 1st theater opens in Hawaii
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10 Sep 1849 1st performance by US actor Edwin Booth (Richard III)
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10 Sep 1858 John Holden hits 1st recorded home run (Brooklyn vs. NY)
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10 Sep 1858 George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
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10 Sep 1861 Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities
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10 Sep 1869 Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
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10 Sep 1870 Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms
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10 Sep 1872 Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam
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10 Sep 1880 Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo
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10 Sep 1882 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets in Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
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10 Sep 1884 Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention
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10 Sep 1897 Police shoot at striking mine workers in Penns, kills 20
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10 Sep 1897 Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
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10 Sep 1898 Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
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10 Sep 1899 2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay, Alaska
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10 Sep 1900 20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record)
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10 Sep 1902 Utrecht soccer team UVV forms
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10 Sep 1905 Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes
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10 Sep 1910 Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
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10 Sep 1913 1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway, opens
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10 Sep 1913 Cleveland Call and Post forms
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10 Sep 1913 Cleveland Call & Post established
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10 Sep 1913 George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia
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10 Sep 1913 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
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10 Sep 1918 Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers
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10 Sep 1918 Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
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10 Sep 1919 New York City welcomes home General John J Pershing and 25,000 WWI soldiers
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10 Sep 1919 Treaty of St. Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany
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10 Sep 1919 Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
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10 Sep 1919 Indian's Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0
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10 Sep 1922 Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth and Gehrig consecutive HRs
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10 Sep 1923 Irish Free state joins League of Nations
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10 Sep 1924 Giants rip Braves 22-1, Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out
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10 Sep 1924 Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder
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10 Sep 1926 Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn
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10 Sep 1926 Germany joins League of Nations
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10 Sep 1927 22nd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Philadelphia (3-2)
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10 Sep 1927 France wins its 1st Davis Cup
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10 Sep 1930 Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
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10 Sep 1931 Lord Cecil of British Government says War was never so improbable
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10 Sep 1932 52nd US Mens Tennis: Henry E Vines beats Henri Cochet (64 64 64)
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10 Sep 1932 Dodgers Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season
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10 Sep 1932 Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in New York City
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10 Sep 1932 The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
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10 Sep 1933 1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park)
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10 Sep 1933 53rd US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J H Crawford (63 11-13 46 60 61)
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10 Sep 1935 India's first all-boys public school, The Doon School, is founded.
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10 Sep 1936 First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium
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10 Sep 1937 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0)
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10 Sep 1937 Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0
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10 Sep 1937 Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
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10 Sep 1937 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0) Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0
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10 Sep 1939 In WWII, Canada declared war on Germany
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10 Sep 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.
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10 Sep 1939 World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – Poland, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
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10 Sep 1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb
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10 Sep 1942 British troops lands on Madagascar
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10 Sep 1942 World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
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10 Sep 1943 British 8th army occupies Tarente
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10 Sep 1943 German troops occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City
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10 Sep 1943 Italian fleet anchors at Malta
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10 Sep 1943 Lieutenant General Bradley arrives in Prestwick / London
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10 Sep 1943 World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
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10 Sep 1944 Lieutenant General Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"
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10 Sep 1945 KLS-AM in Oakland Ca changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA)
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10 Sep 1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis
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10 Sep 1946 While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters' Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her "to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them". She would become known as Mother Teresa.
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10 Sep 1948 Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life
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10 Sep 1949 "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" closes at Broadway NYC after 76 performances
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10 Sep 1950 Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HR in a game at Griffith Stadium
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10 Sep 1951 British begins economic boycott of Iran
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10 Sep 1952 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Thomasville Golf Open
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10 Sep 1953 Swanson sells its 1st "TV dinner"
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10 Sep 1954 WLUK TV channel 11 in Green Bay, WI (NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
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10 Sep 1954 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria
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10 Sep 1955 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV
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10 Sep 1955 "Gunsmoke" premiers on CBS TV
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10 Sep 1956 WSYE (now WETM) TV chan 18 in Elmira-Corning, New York (NBC) 1st broadcast
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10 Sep 1956 Louisville Ky public schools integrate
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10 Sep 1957 "Mask & Gown" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 39 performances
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10 Sep 1958 WJCT TV channel 7 in Jacksonville, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
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10 Sep 1960 Abebe Bikila runs Olympic / World record marathon (2:15:16.2)
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10 Sep 1960 At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
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10 Sep 1960 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit
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10 Sep 1960 Running barefoot, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila wins Rome Olympic marathon
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10 Sep 1961 75th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Ann Haydon Jones (63 64)
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10 Sep 1961 81st US Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Rodney G Laver (75 63 62)
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10 Sep 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.
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10 Sep 1961 Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit HR # 400
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10 Sep 1962 KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
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10 Sep 1962 Maryland Campaign (Antietam Campaign)
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10 Sep 1962 WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
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10 Sep 1962 Rod Laver wins the Grand Slam of tennis
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10 Sep 1963 Stan Musial hits a HR in his 1st at bat as a grandfather
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10 Sep 1963 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama
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10 Sep 1963 Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0
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10 Sep 1964 Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms
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10 Sep 1964 Rod Steward records his 1st single "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"
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10 Sep 1965 WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
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10 Sep 1965 Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards
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10 Sep 1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
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10 Sep 1966 Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
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10 Sep 1967 81st US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats Ann H Jones (119 64)
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10 Sep 1967 87th US Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Clark Graebner (64 64 86)
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10 Sep 1967 Chicago White Sox Joel Horlen no-hits Detroit Tigers, 6-0
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10 Sep 1967 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Pacific Golf Classic
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10 Sep 1967 Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British and not Spanish
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10 Sep 1967 KVVU TV channel 5 in Henderson-Las Vegas, NV (IND) begins broadcasting
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10 Sep 1967 The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
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10 Sep 1969 New York Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time
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10 Sep 1969 US performs nuclear test at Grand Valley, Colorado
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10 Sep 1971 KVUE TV channel 24 in Austin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
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10 Sep 1972 20th Olympic games close at Munich, German FR
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10 Sep 1972 92nd US Mens Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Arthur Ashe (36 63 67 64 63)
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10 Sep 1972 Frank Shorter wins 17th Olympic marathon (2:12:19.8)
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10 Sep 1972 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
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10 Sep 1972 WKAR TV channel 23 in East Lansing, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
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10 Sep 1972 The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
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10 Sep 1972 Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship
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10 Sep 1972 US Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to USSR (disputed)
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10 Sep 1973 New York Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St. Louis
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10 Sep 1973 Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton
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10 Sep 1974 New York Dolls disband
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10 Sep 1974 Portugal recognizes independence of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
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10 Sep 1974 Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 miles in 24 hours
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10 Sep 1974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
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10 Sep 1974 Lou Brock ties (104) & then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark
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10 Sep 1976 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, New York
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10 Sep 1976 A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
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10 Sep 1976 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard
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10 Sep 1977 91st US Womens Tennis: Chris Evert L Mills beats W Turnbull (76 62)
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10 Sep 1977 Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5)
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10 Sep 1977 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
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10 Sep 1977 Susan Perkins (Ohio), crowned 50th Miss America 1978
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10 Sep 1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
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10 Sep 1977 Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits
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10 Sep 1978 "Timbuktu!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 243 performances
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10 Sep 1978 Jimmy Connors is 1st player to win US Open on 3 different surfaces
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10 Sep 1978 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
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10 Sep 1978 Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yds & 30")
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10 Sep 1978 4th game of the Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9
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10 Sep 1979 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed
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10 Sep 1980 Expos Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18
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10 Sep 1980 Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick
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10 Sep 1981 "Guernica" of Pablo Picasso returns to Spain
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10 Sep 1982 Decca releases Beatle audition "Complete Silver Beatles" album
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10 Sep 1983 97th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert L Mills (61 63)
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10 Sep 1983 Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
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10 Sep 1984 Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla
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10 Sep 1984 Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days)
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10 Sep 1986 Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel
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10 Sep 1987 Pope John Paul II starts his 11-day papal visit to Fort Simpson, Canada and afterwards to several southern and western cities in the United States.
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10 Sep 1988 102nd US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini (63 36 61)
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10 Sep 1988 Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (Minn), 22, crowned 62nd Miss America 1989
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10 Sep 1988 Steffi Graf wins US Open, 1st woman Grand Slam since Court (1970)
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10 Sep 1989 109th US Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (76 16 63 76)
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10 Sep 1989 5 days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners
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10 Sep 1989 Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record
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10 Sep 1989 Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown
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10 Sep 1989 Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
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10 Sep 1989 Boris Becker beats Yvan Lendl for the US Open championship
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10 Sep 1989 East Germans begin their flight to the west (via Hungary & Czech)
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10 Sep 1990 1st time in New York Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland Athletics beat them 12 games to 0
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10 Sep 1990 Ellis Island reopens as a museum
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10 Sep 1990 The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, the largest church in Africa, is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
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10 Sep 1990 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win the US Open
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10 Sep 1990 1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different
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10 Sep 1990 George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki
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10 Sep 1990 Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada
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10 Sep 1990 Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq
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10 Sep 1990 Mariner Matt Young becomes 21st AL'er to strike out 4 in 1 inning
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10 Sep 1991 Yolanda Gail Devers runs US female record 100m hurdles (12.48 seconds)
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10 Sep 1992 Bud Selig becomes interm commissioner of baseball
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10 Sep 1992 Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents
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10 Sep 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, Howard Stern appears as fartman
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10 Sep 1993 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced
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10 Sep 1993 Actress Loretta Young, 80, weds costume designer Jean Louis, 85
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10 Sep 1993 Israel and PLO sign joint recognition statements
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10 Sep 1994 108th US Womens Tennis: Aranxta S Vicario beats Steffi Graf (16 76 64)
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10 Sep 1994 Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67) / 100m backstroke
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10 Sep 1995 115th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 46 75)
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10 Sep 1995 35th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland beats US, 14-10
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10 Sep 1995 47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Fraiser and Candice Bergen wins
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10 Sep 1995 Alison Nicholas wins PING-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
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10 Sep 1995 Browns and Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleveland for only time, Browns 22-6 over Tampa, Indians 5-3 over Orioles
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10 Sep 1997 36th Walker Cup
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10 Sep 1997 Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million
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10 Sep 1997 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
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10 Sep 1997 Mark McGwire joins Babe as only players to hit 50 HRs in 2 consecutive years
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10 Sep 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.
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10 Sep 2001 Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
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10 Sep 2001 Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
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10 Sep 2002 Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
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10 Sep 2003 Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
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10 Sep 2007 Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
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10 Sep 2008 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
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10 Sep 2014 The first Invictus Games took place at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.
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