History Events on September 10

The United States defeats a British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

#Battle_of_Lake_Erie

Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.

#Russian_Civil_War

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.

#Nawaz_Sharif

In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history.

#Wolfgang_von_Trips

Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.

#Ajacán_Mission

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 of a submarine in the war.

#World_War_II

Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.

#Battles_of_Kawanakajima

American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.

#American_Revolutionary_War

Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.

#Operation_Barras

Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.

#Thomas_Wolsey

World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, joining the Allies: Poland, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.

#Allies_of_World_War_II

World War II: In the course of Operation Achse, German troops begin their occupation of Rome.

#Operation_Achse

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

#Large_Hadron_Collider

World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.

#Battle_of_Madagascar

German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew beheaded in Hamburg .

#Klein_Henszlein

George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.

#George_Mary_Searle

Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.

#Guinea-Bissau

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

#Independent_Subway_System

Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in 134 deaths and $64.76 billion (2017 USD) in damage.

#Hurricane_Irma

At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.

#Abebe_Bikila

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

#Treaty_of_Saint-Germain-en-Laye_(1919)

Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.

#Empress_Elisabeth_of_Austria

Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.

#Lattimer_massacre

An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.

#1509_Constantinople_earthquake

John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.

#John_Smith_(explorer)

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

#1967_Gibraltar_sovereignty_referendum

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

#Assassination_of_John_the_Fearless

Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.

#Elias_Howe

A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.

#1976_Zagreb_mid-air_collision

Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.

Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.

Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.

Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.

First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium

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

The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.

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