September 10

Wednesday 10, 2003:

Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is stabbed fatally while shopping, and dies of her wounds on September 11.

Tuesday 10, 2002:

2002 - The U.S. Homeland Security Advisory System is set to Orange, or High Condition, for the first time.

Monday 10, 2001:

Norwegian parliamentary election, 2001

Monday 10, 1990:

The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire – the largest church in Africa and perhaps the world – is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.

Saturday 10, 1977:

Last execution by Guillotine in France. Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, was executed at Baumettes Prison in Marseille.

Friday 10, 1976:

A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia killing 176

Tuesday 10, 1974:

Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.

Sunday 10, 1972:

The United States loses its first international basketball game in a disputed match versus the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.

Sunday 10, 1967:

The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.

Tuesday 10, 1963:

1963 - 20 African-American students enter public schools in the U.S. state of Alabama.

Saturday 10, 1960:

Mickey Mantle hits what is thought to be the Major League baseball's longest home run, sending the ball an estimated 643 feet.

Monday 10, 1951:

United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran.

Monday 10, 1945:

Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaboration with Nazi Germany.

Friday 10, 1943:

German forces began their occupation of Rome during World War II.

Thursday 10, 1942:

The Allies carry out an amphibious landing at Majunga, north-west Madagascar, to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.

Sunday 10, 1939:

Canada declares war on Nazi Germany.

Saturday 10, 1932:

The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned "IND", is opened.

Saturday 10, 1927:

France had its first Davis Cup win, though it had competed since 1905.

Wednesday 10, 1919:

Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

Wednesday 10, 1913:

The first paved coast-to-coast U.S. highway opens.

Saturday 10, 1898:

Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.

Friday 10, 1897:

In the Lattimer Massacre, a sheriff's posse killes more than nineteen unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.

Friday 10, 1858:

George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.

Thursday 10, 1846:

Elias Howe gets a patent for the sewing machine.

Wednesday 10, 1823:

Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.

Friday 10, 1813:

The U.S. defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

Monday 10, 1798:

At the Battle of St. George, British Honduras defeats Spain.

Tuesday 10, 1776:

American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy.

Wednesday 10, 1608:

John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.

Friday 10, 1419:

John of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.

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