SomeFacts | September 10

On this day - September 10

506 — The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.

1089 — The first synod of pope Urban II starts in Melfi, with seventy ...

1419 — John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by ...

1509 — An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" ...

1515 — Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.

1547 — The Battle of Pinkie, the last full-scale military ...

1561 — Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi ...

1570 — Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to ...

1573 — German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew are beheaded ...

1607 — Edward Maria Wingfield is ousted as first president of the ...

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

1622 — Fifty-five Christians are executed in Nagasaki during the ...

1640 — Reapers' War: Junta de Braços (Assembly of Estates) of ...

1724 — Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of Jesu, der ...

1776 — American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for ...

1798 — At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras ...

1813 — The United States defeats a British Fleet at the Battle of ...

1846 — Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.

1858 — George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.

1897 — Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed ...

1898 — Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.

1918 — Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.

1919 — The Republic of German-Austria signs the Treaty of ...

1932 — The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, ...

1936 — The first world individual Speedway World Championship was ...

1937 — Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address ...

1939 — World War II: The Canadian declaration of war on Germany ...

1939 — World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by ...

1942 — World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious ...

1943 — World War II: In the course of Operation Achse, German troops ...

1960 — At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first ...

1961 — In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German ...

1967 — The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency ...

1974 — Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.

1976 — A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria ...

1977 — Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last ...

2000 — Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held ...

2001 — During his appearance on the British TV game show Who Wants to ...

2001 — Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is ...

2002 — Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full ...

2007 — Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to ...

2008 — The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest ...

2017 — Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a ...

2024 — Polaris Dawn, the first private crewed spaceflight to involve ...

2025 — American right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk is ...