About September 10
September 10, 2024 is the 254th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 141 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 10
- 1509 –An earthquake known as “The Lesser Judgment Day” hits Istanbul.
- 1515 –Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
- 1798 –At the Battle of St. George’s Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
- 1813 –The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
- 1823 –Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
- 1858 –George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
- 1919 –Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
- 1937 –Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 1939 –World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
- 1943 –World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
- 1967 –The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
- 1974 –Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
- 1976 –A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
- 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.
- 2001 –Antonio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil was assassinated.
- 2001 –Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
- 2002 –Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
- 2003 –Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
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