2014 – First Invictus Games Held, The international games bring together wounded armed forces personnel and veterans who compete in athletic competitions. The 2014 Invictus Games were held at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, England. 300 competitors from 13 countries participated in the games.
0954 – France’s Louis IV dies September 10 at age 33 and is succeeded by his son Lothair, 13, who will reign until 0986
1349 – Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
1547 – English demand Edward VI (10) wed Mary Queen of Scots (5)
1608 – John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown, VA colony council.
1776 – George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
1785 – Prussia signs trade agreement with US
1794 – America’s first non-denominational college was chartered. Blount College later became the University of Tennessee.
1813 – The first defeat of British naval squadron occurred in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. The leader of the U.S. fleet sent the famous message “We have met the enemy, and they are ours” to U.S. General William Henry Harrison.
1845 – King Willem II opened Amsterdam Stock exchange.
1862 – Rabbi Jacob Frankel became the first Jewish Army chaplain.
1869 – Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
1897 – Lattimer Massacre – a sheriff’s posse kills twenty unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States
1898 – Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
1910 – Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
1913 – The Lincoln Highway opened. It was the first paved coast-to-coast highway in the U.S.
1919 – New York City welcomed home 25,000 soldiers and General John J. Pershing who had served in the First Division during World War I.
1921 – The Ayus Autobahn in Germany opened near Berlin. The road is known for its nonexistent speed limit.
1923 – The Irish Free state joined the League of Nations.
1926 – Germany joined the League of Nations.
1939 – Canada declared war on Germany.
1940 – In Britain, Buckingham Palace was hit by German bomb.
1942 – U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt mandated gasoline rationing as part of the U.S. wartime effort.
1943 – German troops occupy Rome and take took over the protection of Vatican City
1945 – Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death.
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.
1951 – Britain began an economic boycott of Iran.
1953 – Swanson began selling its first “TV dinner.”
1960 – Baghdad Conference Begins, The 5-day long conference in Iraq’s capital city ended with the creation of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), an intergovernmental organization of oil-producing countries. Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela were the original members of the group.
1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari.
1963 – Twenty black students entered public schools in Alabama at the end of a standoff between federal authorities and Alabama governor George C. Wallace.
1967 – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
1975 – Rock band Kiss release their 1st live album “Alive!”
1977 – Last execution by Guillotine in France. Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder.
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.
1984 – The Federal Communications Commission changed a rule to allow broadcasters to own 12 AM and 12 FM radio stations. The previous limit was 7 of each.
1985 – U.S. 7th Circuit Court rules Soviet defector Walter Polovchak can’t be forcibly returned to parents’ country if it’s deemed “not in the best interests” of underage defectors
1989 – Hungary gave permission to thousands of East German refugees and visitors to immigrate to West Germany.
1990 – Iraq’s Saddam Hussein offered free oil to developing nations in an attempt to win their support during the Gulf War Crisis.
1992 – In Minneapolis, MN, a federal jury struck down professional football’s limited free agency system.
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.
1999 – A bronze sculpture of a war horse just over 24 feet high was dedicated in Milan, Italy.
2002 – Florida tested its new elections system. The test resulted in polling stations opening late and problems occurred with the touch screen voting machines.
2003 – Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is stabbed fatally while shopping, and dies of her wounds on September 11.
2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
2012 – 16 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan
2014 – First Invictus Games Held, The international games bring together wounded armed forces personnel and veterans who compete in athletic competitions. The 2014 Invictus Games were held at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, England. 300 competitors from 13 countries participated in the games. The next games will take place in 2016.
2015 – New human-like species – Homo Naledi announced by Scientists and a team of female archaeologists, found deep in caves in South Africa
2018 – California passes law to commit to carbon-free electricity sources by 2045
2019 – Iranian woman Sahar Khodayari dies after setting herself on fire during her trial, for entering a stadium disguised as a man in Tehran
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