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What happened in history on this day: September 10?
On September 10 in ...
- 1813 - US Navy Commodore Oliver H Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie.
- 1848 - Gold dust price in San Francisco is set at $16 per ounce.
- 1899 - In Yakutat Bay, Alaska, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurs.
- 1910 - Great Idaho Fire destroys three million acres of timber.
- 1913 - George W Buckner is named US minister to Liberia.
- 1913 - Lincoln Highway opens as first US paved coast-to-coast highway.
- 1919 - New York City welcomes home General John J Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers.
- 1939 - An article in the New York Times newspaper refers to the conflict in Poland as the "Second World War".
- 1939 - The US extends its embargo on arms shipments to Canada.
- 1979 - Three Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill US President Harry Truman are freed.
- 1981 - Picasso's painting Guernica is moved from New York to Madrid, Spain.
- 1984 - Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days).
- 1986 - Bryan O'Connor named chairman of US Space Flight Safety Panel.
- 1990 - US President George Bush and Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki, Finland.
- 2001 - US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld calls a meeting of hundreds of Pentagon senior staff, giving a speech calling the Pentagon bureaucracy an adversary to the security of the USA. He says "... today we declare war on bureaucracy".
- 2008 - Lehman Brothers investment bank of New York posts a record quarterly loss of US$3.9 billion.
- 2017 - Hurricane Irma strikes Florida Keys islands as Category 4 storm.
Births on September 10
- 1893 - Birth of Al "Fuzzy" Saint John in Santa Ana, California, USA; actor (Lash of the West).
- 1909 - Birth of Raymond Scott in Brooklyn, New York, USA; orchestra leader (Your Hit Parade).
- 1915 - Birth of Edmond O'Brien in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Sam Benedict, Johnny Midnight).
- 1934 - Birth of Charles Kuralt in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA; newscaster (On the Road).
- 1934 - Birth of Roger Eugene Maras AKA Roger Maris in Hibbing, Minnesota, USA; major league baseball (Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Saint Louis Cardinals), American League Most Valuable Player (1960, 1961), hit record 61 home runs in 1961 (dies in 1985).
- 1935 - Birth of John Palmer in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA; news anchor (NBC Weekend News).
- 1939 - Birth of Greg Mullavey in Buffalo, New York, USA; actor (Tom - Mary Hartman, Rituals).
- 1940 - Birth of Roy Ayers in Louisiana, USA; disco jazz artist ("Fever", "You Send Me").
- 1945 - Birth of José Feliciano in Lares, Puerto Rico; singer/songwriter ("Light my Fire").
- 1945 - Birth of Richard M Mullane in Texas, USA; US Air Force/astronaut (STS 41-D, STS-27, STS-36).
- 1945 - Birth of Tom Ligon in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; actor (Joyride).
- 1950 - Birth of Joe Perry in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; rocker (Aerosmith - "Walking the Dog").
- 1953 - Birth of Amy Irving in Palo Alto, California, USA; actress (Yentl, Carrie, Crossing Delancy).
- 1957 - Birth of Brian Fitzpatrick in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Rick Alden - Loving).
- 1960 - Birth of Miranda Wilson in Nebraska, USA; actress (Sandra - Santa Barbara).
- 1980 - Birth of Mikey Way; American bassist (My Chemical Romance).
- 1989 - Birth of Sanjaya Malakar; American singer (American Idol TV show).
Deaths on September 10
- 1842 - Letitia Tyler, US President Tyler's wife, dies at age 51.
- 1935 - Death of Huey "Kingfish" Long by assassin Carl Weiss, in Louisiana, USA; American politician, governor of Louisiana (1928-32), US Senator (1932-35).
- 1976 - Mordecai Johnson, president of Howard University, dies at age 86.
- 2007 - Death of Ralph Kent, Walt Disney Company artist, 1963-2004.
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