Events of the day

  September 10th Thursday 

• 1349 Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
• 1510 Bishop Frederik of Bathe recaptures Oldenzaal
• 1547 Battle of Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots
• 1785 Prussia signs trade agreement with US
• 1798 British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St George
• 1813 American Naval Commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in Battle of Lake             Erie
• 1838 Hector Berlioz' opera "Benvenuto Cellini" premieres in Paris
• 1845 King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange
• 1858 John Holden hits 1st recorded HR (Brooklyn vs NY)
• 1858 George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora
• 1861 -15] Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater, West Virginia
• 1861 Battle of Carnifex Ferry in Virginia, 170 casualties
• 1869 Baptist minister supposedly invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
• 1870 Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms
• 1875 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Willie Park Sr. wins his 4th title; beats fellow Scot Bob Martin by 2 strokes
• 1880 Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo
• 1882 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
• 1882  Congressman John R. Lynch presides over Republican National Convention
• 1894 London taxi driver George Smith is the first to be fined for drunk driving
• 1898 Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni
• 1899 2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay, Alaska
• 1900 20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record)
• 1902 Utrecht soccer team UVV forms
• 1905 Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes
• 1910 Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
• 1913 Cleveland Call & Post forms
• 1913 George W. Buckner, named minister to Liberia
• 1913 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
• 1918 Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed             $2,500 to the winners & $1,000 each for the losers
• 1919 Indian's Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0
• 1919 China becomes a member of the League of Nations
• 1922 Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth & Gehrig consecutive HRs
• 1923 Irish Free state joins League of Nations
• 1924 Giants rip Braves 22-1, Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out
• 1924 Leopold and Loeb found guilty of the murder of Robert Franks in Chicago in the "the               crime of the century"
• 1926 Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn
• 1926 Germany joins League of Nations
• 1926 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Philadelphia, PA: Vincent Richards & R Norris Williams clinch US 7th straight title; beat Jacques Brugnon & Henri Cochet of France 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 for 3-0 lead; ends 4-1
• 1927 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Philadelphia, PA: Henri Cochet beats Bill Johnson 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 to clinch a 3-2 win for France and break 7 title US win streak
• 1930 Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
• 1931 Lord Cecil of British government says War was never so improbable
• 1931 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Ellsworth Vines beats George Lott 7-9, 6-3, 9-7, 7-5 for his first of 2 straight US singles titles
• 1932 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills: American Ellsworth Vines successfully defends his title; beats Frenchman Henri Cochet 6–4, 6–4, 6–4
• 1932 Dodgers' Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season
• 1932 Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in NYC
• 1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb
• 1942 British troops land on Madagascar
• 1942 RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf
• 1943 British 8th army occupies Tarente
• 1943 German troops occupy Rome and take took over the protection of Vatican City
• 1943 Italian fleet anchors at Malta
• 1944 Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"
• 1945 KLS-AM in Oakland Ca changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA)
• 1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis
• 1953 Swanson sells its 1st "TV dinner"
• 1954 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria
• 1954 WLUK TV channel 11 in Green Bay, WI (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1954 Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher, Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls
• 1961 American Ferrari driver Phil Hill wins Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch F1 World Drivers Championship; first American F1 world champion
• 1962 KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1962 WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1962 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Australian Margaret Smith beats defending champion Darlene Hard 9-7, 6-4 for her first US singles crown
• 1963 20 black students enter public schools in Alabama
• 1963 Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0
• 1965 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1965 Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards
• 1965 WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1966 Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks in the UK
• 1967 Joel Horlen revives Chicago's pennant hopes with a 5-0 no-hit win
• 1967 KVVU TV channel 5 in Henderson-Las Vegas, NV (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1967 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: John Newcombe of Australia defeats American Clark Graebner 6–4, 6–4, 8–6 for first of 2 US singles titles
• 1975 Rock band Kiss release their 1st live album "Alive!"
• 1976 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard
• 1976 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, NY
• 1977 Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits
• 1985 U.S. 7th Circuit Court rules Soviet defector Walter Polovchak can't be forcibly returned to parents' country if it's deemed "not in the best interests" of underage defectors
• 1986 Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel
• 1988 -18] Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas & Yucatan
• 1994 Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke
• 1995 35th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland beats US, 14-10
• 1995 47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Fraiser & Candice Bergen win
• 1995 Cleveland's major league sports franchises, NFL Browns & MLB Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleveland for only time, both win; Browns 22-6 v Tampa, Indians 5-3 v Orioles
• 2000 US Open Men's Tennis: Marat Safin of Russia wins his first Grand Slam title; beats home favourite Pete Sampras 6-4, 6-3, 6-3
• 2012 16 people are killed by a suicide bombing n Kunduz, Afghanistan
• 2012 Teachers in Chicago strike effecting 350,000 students
• 2012 10,000 miners demonstrate at Lonmin mines in Marikana, South Africa
• 2012 29 people are killed by floods and heavy rain in Vietnam
• 2012 A left over bazooka grenade in Cambodia explodes and kills three children
• 2013 16 people are killed after a series of bomb attacks across Iraq
• 2013 Three people are killed after a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter crashes in the Arctic Ocean
• 2015 Floods and landslides in North East Japan, centered on Joso force 90,000 to evacuate their homes
• 2015 New human-like species - Homo Naledi announced by Scientists and a team of female archaeologists, found deep in caves in South Africa
• 2015 Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson resigns in wake of IRA supposed killing of Kevin McGuigan
• 2016 US Open Women's Tennis: Angelique Kerber beats Karolína Plíšková 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 to become first German player to win the event since Steffi Graf in 1996
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