TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: SEPT 10
1349 Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
1419 John the Fearless is murdered at Montereau, France, by supporters of the dauphin.
1588 Thomas Cavendish returns to England, becoming the third man to circumnavigate the globe.
1608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va
1623 Lumber and furs are the first cargo to leave New Plymouth in North America for England.
1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
1794 America’s first non-denominational college was chartered. Blount College later became the University of Tennessee.
1813 Oliver H. Perry sent his famous message, “We have met the enemy, and they are ours,” after defeating the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.
1846 Elias Howe of Massachusetts received a patent for his sewing machine.
1913 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
1914 The six-day Battle of the Marne ends, halting the German advance into France.
1919 NYC welcomes home Gen John J Pershing & 25,000 WW I soldiers
1924 Leopold and Loeb found guilty of the murder of Robert Franks in Chicago in the “the crime of the century”
1948 Mildred “Axis Sally” Gillars was indicted for treason in Washington, DC. Gillars was a Nazi radio propagandist during World War II. She was convicted and spent 12 years in prison.
1953 Swanson sells its 1st “TV dinner”
1963 President John F. Kennedy federalizes Alabama’s National Guard to prevent Governor George C. Wallace from using guardsmen to stop public-school desegregation.
1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France
1979 U.S. President Carter granted clemency to four Puerto Rican nationalists who had been imprisoned for an attack on the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954 and an attempted assassination of U.S. President Truman in 1950.
1981 Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica is returned to Spain and installed in Madrid’s Prado Museum. Picasso stated in his will that the painting was not to return to Spain until the Fascists lost power and democracy was restored.
1990 Iraq’s Saddam Hussein offered free oil to developing nations in an attempt to win their support during the Gulf War Crisis.
1998 U.S. President Clinton met with members of his Cabinet to apologize, ask forgiveness and promise to improve as a person in the wake of the scandal involving Monica Lewinsky.
2002 Florida tested its new elections system. The test resulted in polling stations opening late and problems occurred with the touch screen voting machines.
2008 The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator—described as the biggest scientific experiment in history—is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
2014 First Invictus Games Held. The international games bring together wounded armed forces personnel and veterans who compete in athletic competitions
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
