TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: SEPTEMBER 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.
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.
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.
1924 Leopold and Loeb found guilty of the murder of Robert Franks in Chicago in the “the crime of the century”
1942 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt mandated gasoline rationing as part of the U.S. wartime effort.
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 began selling its first “TV dinner.”
1961 Jomo Kenyatta returns to Kenya from exile, during which he had been elected president of the Kenya National African Union.
1963 Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Mobile, and Tuskegee, Alabama, after President John F. Kennedy sent National Guardsman to end the standoff with Alabama Governor George Wallace.
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.
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.
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.
2001 Contestant Charles Ingram cheats on the British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, wins 1 million pounds.
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, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
