10 September

The **10t o September** is the 253rd day o the year (254t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 112 days bidin.

## Events

* 1547 - Battle o Pinckie: Ingland defeats Scotland an Mary, Queen o Scots is brocht tae safety in Fraunce.
* 1898 - Empress Elisabeth o Austrick is stabbed tae daith at Lake Geneva.
* 1939 - Warld War II: Canadae declares war on Germany.
* 1939 - Warld War II: HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk bi HMS Triton aff Norawa, in the Ryal Navy's first loss o the war.
* 1943 - Tottori, Japan, is hit bi a yirdquauk, killin 1,190 fowk.
* 1960 - Ethiopie runner Abebe Bikila wins the marathon at the 1960 Simmer Olympics in Roum, acomin the first Olympic gowd medallist frae Sub-Saharan Africae.
* 1967 - Gibraltarians vote tae remain a UK dependency. 
* 1974 - Guinea-Bissau's unthirldom is recognisit bi Portugal.
* 1985 - Scotland fitbaa manager Jock Stein suffers a fatal hairt attack at a match against Wales in Cardiff.
* 1990 - The Basilica o Oor Lady o Peace in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, is consecratit bi Pape John Paul II.
* 2002 - Swisserland jyns the Unitit Naitions.
* 2006 - Michael Schumacher announces his retirement frae Formula Ane.
* 2008 - The Lairge Hadron Collider, a pairticle collider, is turned on for the first time.
* 2011 - Tanzanian ferry *MV Spice Islander* sinks near Zanzibar, killin 3,000 fowk.
* 2012 - Tennis player Andy Murray wins his first Grand Slam, at the US Open.
* 2013 - Thomas Bach is electit Preses o the Internaitional Olympic Committee.
* 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The recordit COVID-19 daith toll reaks 900,000.

## Births

* 1487 - Pape Julius III (d. 1555)
* 1638 - Maria Theresa o Austrick, Queen o Fraunce (d. 1683)
* 1659 - Henry Purcell, Inglis componer (d. 1695)
* 1809 - Thomas Campbell Eyton, Inglis naituralist (d. 1880)
* 1839 - Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathemateecian an logician (d. 1914)
* 1866 - Jeppe Aakjaer, Dens writer (d. 1930)
* 1890 - Franz Werfel, Austrick novelist (d. 1945)
* 1892 - Arthur Compton, American pheesicist (d. 1962)
* 1911 - Renée Simonot, French actress
* 1914 - Robert Wise, American director an producer (d. 2005)
* 1929 - Arnold Palmer, American gowfer (d. 2016)
* 1933 - Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
* 1941 - Stephen Jay Gould, American palaeontologist (d. 2002)
* 1954 - Lorely Burt, Inglis polieecian
* 1960 - Margaret Ferrier, Scots politeecian
* 1960 - Colin Firth, Inglis-Italian actor
* 1968 - Guy Ritchie, Inglis filmmaker
* 1976 - Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
* 1978 - Julia Goldsworthy, Inglis politeecian
* 1982 - Stephen McManus, Scots fitbawer
* 1983 - Jérémy Toulalan, French fitbawer
* 1985 - David Clarkson, Scots fitbawer
* 1985 - Laurent Koscielny, French fitbawer

## Daiths
* 954 - Louis IV o Fraunce (b. 920/921)
* 1167 - Empress Matilda o Ingland
* 1382 - Louis I o Hungary
* 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft, Inglis writer an activist (b. 1757)
* 1898 - Empress Elisabeth o Austrick (b. 1837)
* 1948 - Ferdinand I o Bulgarie (b. 1861)
* 1979 - Agostinho Neto, 1st Preses o Angolae (b. 1922)
* 1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss chemist (b. 1905)
* 1985 - Jock Stein, Scots fitbaa manager (b. 1922)
* 2007 - Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
* 2011 - Cliff Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
* 2014 - Richard Kiel, American actor (b. 1939)
* 2020 - Dame Diana Rigg, Inglis actress (b. 1938)

## Halidays

* Naitional Day o Gibraltar
* Internaitional Suicide Prevention Day
* Teachers' Day (Fowkrepublic o Cheenae)
* Childers' Day (Honduras)