What happened on September 10 ?

918 - Count Baldwin II of Flanders (b. 865)

954 - King Louis IV of France (b. 920)

1167 - Empress Matilda, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1102)

1197 - Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)

1308 - Emperor Go-Nij? of Japan (b. 1285)

1419 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (b. 1371)

1519 - John Colet, English churchman and educator

1559 - Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (b. 1501)

1591 - Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542)

1604 - William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)

1607 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist (b. 1545)

1669 - Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609)

1676 - Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)

1680 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (b. 1610)

1749 - ÿmilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)

1759 - Ferdinand Kon??ak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703)

1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)

1851 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787)

1867 - Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (b. 1788)

1898 - Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1837)

1935 - Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893)

1937 - Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)

1948 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (b. 1861)

1961 - Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880)

1965 - Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880)

1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)

1975 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

1976 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (b. 1905)

1979 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (b. 1922)

1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

1983 - John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915)

1985 - Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1922)

1996 - Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923)

1997 - Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler (b. 1929)

1999 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)

2000 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921)

2004 - Brock Adams, American politician (b. 1927)

2005 - Clarence Gatemouth Brown, American guitarist and singer (b. 1924)

Calendar of Saints - Virgin of the Wonders; Nicholas of Tolentino

Also see September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Gibraltar - National Day

World Suicide Prevention Day

Teacher's Day in China

Day of the Child in Honduras

Grandparent's Day (US)

AIDS Day (Africa)

10 September was the name of a communist faction in Turkey.

After the September 11 attacks, the expression this is September 10 was created to mean this is an average day, with nothing special

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