September 10 Events |
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| September 10th, 2007 (September 10 2007) | Event | Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999. | |
| September 10th, 2003 (September 10 2003) | Event | Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is stabbed fatally while shopping, and dies of her wounds on September 11. | |
| September 10th, 2002 (September 10 2002) | Event | Switzerland, noted as a neutral country, joins the United Nations. | |
| September 10th, 2000 (September 10 2000) | Event | Cats closes on Broadway. | |
| September 10th, 1990 (September 10 1990) | Event | The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Cote d Ivoire - the largest church in Africa is consecrated by Pope John Paul II. | |
| September 10th, 1977 (September 10 1977) | Event | Last execution by Guillotine in France. Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder. | |
| September 10th, 1976 (September 10 1976) | Event | A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176. | |
| September 10th, 1974 (September 10 1974) | Event | Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal. | |
| September 10th, 1972 (September 10 1972) | Event | The United States loses its first international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany. | |
| September 10th, 1967 (September 10 1967) | Event | The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain. | |
| September 10th, 1963 (September 10 1963) | Event | 20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama. | |
| September 10th, 1961 (September 10 1961) | Event | Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari. | |
| September 10th, 1951 (September 10 1951) | Event | United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran. | |
| September 10th, 1943 (September 10 1943) | Event | World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome. | |
| September 10th, 1942 (September 10 1942) | Event | World War II: The British carry out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign. | |
| September 10th, 1939 (September 10 1939) | Event | World War II: The submarine HMAS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy s first loss. | |
| September 10th, 1939 (September 10 1939) | Event | Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining France, the UK, New Zealand and Australia in the Allies. | |
| September 10th, 1932 (September 10 1932) | Event | The New York City Subway s third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened. | |
| September 10th, 1927 (September 10 1927) | Event | France had its first Davis Cup win, though it had competed since 1905. | |
| September 10th, 1919 (September 10 1919) | Event | Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. | |
| September 10th, 1898 (September 10 1898) | Event | Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni. | |
| September 10th, 1897 (September 10 1897) | Event | Lattimer Massacrea sheriff s posse kills twenty unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States. | |
| September 10th, 1858 (September 10 1858) | Event | George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora. | |
| September 10th, 1846 (September 10 1846) | Event | Elias Howe gets a patent for the sewing machine. | |
| September 10th, 1823 (September 10 1823) | Event | Simon Bolivar is named President of Peru. | Simon Bolivar Quotes |
| September 10th, 1813 (September 10 1813) | Event | The U.S. defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. | |
| September 10th, 1798 (September 10 1798) | Event | At the Battle of St. George s Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain. | |
| September 10th, 1776 (September 10 1776) | Event | American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy. | |
| September 10th, 1608 (September 10 1608) | Event | John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia. | James Smith Quotes |
| September 10th, 1419 (September 10 1419) | Event | John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France. | |
| September 10th, 0506 (September 10 0506) | Event | The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. | |
