September 10
1608 - John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.
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 during the War of 1812.
1846 - Elias Howe of Massachusetts received a patent for his sewing machine.
1939 - Canada declared war on Germany and entered World War II.
1960 - Hurricane Donna, a dangerous Category 4 storm blamed for 364 deaths, struck the Florida Keys.
1963 - Twenty Black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Mobile, and Tuskegee, Alabama after President John F. Kennedy sent National Guardsmen to end the standoff with Alabama Gov. George Wallace.
1979 - Four Puerto Rican nationalists imprisoned for a 1954 attack on the U.S. House of Representatives and a 1950 attempted killing of President Harry S. Truman were freed from prison after being granted clemency by President Jimmy Carter.
1987 - Pope John Paul II arrived in Miami, where he was greeted by President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan as he began a 10-day tour of the United States.
1991 - The Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. The proceedings would become a watershed moment in the discussion of sexual harassment when Anita Hill, a law professor who had previously worked under Thomas, came forward with allegations against him.
2002 - Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations.
2005 - Teams for forensic workers and cadaver dogs fanned out across New Orleans to collect the corpses left behind by Hurricane Katrina.
2008 - The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) was powered up for the first time, successfully firing the first beam of protons through its 17-mile-long (27-kilometer-long) underground ring tunnel.
2022 - King Charles III was officially proclaimed Britain's monarch in a pomp-filled ceremony two days after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
Birthdays
20 - Emmy Perry (actress)
26 - Ellise (singer)
29 - Matt Rife (comedian)
41 - Joey Votto (baseball player)
42 - Misty Copeland (ballerina)
50 - Ryan Phillippe (actor)
56 - Guy Ritchie (director)
60 - Raymond Cruz (actor)
61 - Randy Johnson (baseball player)
64 - Colin Firth (actor)
67 - Kate Burton (actress)
70 - Clark Johnson (actor)
71 - Amy Irving (actress)
75 - Bill O'Reilly (TV host)
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Today in Sports History - September 10
1937 - The Cleveland (now Los Angeles) Rams play their inaugural game.
1960 - Running barefoot, Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia won the Olympic marathon in Rome, becoming the first Black African to win an Olympic gold medal.
1961 - Mickey Mantle hit his 400th career home run, the seventh to ever do so.
1972 - Gayle Sayers of the Chicago Bears announced his retirement from football.
1974 - Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals set a MLB record with his 105th stolen base of the season.
1988 - Steffi Graf achieved tennis' first Grand Slam since Margaret Court in 1970 by winning the U.S. Open women's final.
1989 - Five days after hitting a home run for the New York Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Seattle Mariners, Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown for the Atlanta Falcons.
1989 - Indianapolis Colts running back Eric Dickerson becomes the fastest in NFL history to surpass 10,000 career rushing yards (91 games).
1992 - In Minneapolis, MN, a federal jury struck down professional football's limited free agency system.
1997 - Mark McGwire joins Babe Ruth as the only players in MLB history to hit 50 home runs in two consecutive years.
2000 - Indiana University fires basketball coach Bob Knight after an altercation with a student; Knight had spent 29 years at the school compiling a record of 662-239.
2006 - Roger Federer won his third straight and 12th overall U.S. Open.
1608 - John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.
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 during the War of 1812.
1846 - Elias Howe of Massachusetts received a patent for his sewing machine.
1939 - Canada declared war on Germany and entered World War II.
1960 - Hurricane Donna, a dangerous Category 4 storm blamed for 364 deaths, struck the Florida Keys.
1963 - Twenty Black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Mobile, and Tuskegee, Alabama after President John F. Kennedy sent National Guardsmen to end the standoff with Alabama Gov. George Wallace.
1979 - Four Puerto Rican nationalists imprisoned for a 1954 attack on the U.S. House of Representatives and a 1950 attempted killing of President Harry S. Truman were freed from prison after being granted clemency by President Jimmy Carter.
1987 - Pope John Paul II arrived in Miami, where he was greeted by President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan as he began a 10-day tour of the United States.
1991 - The Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. The proceedings would become a watershed moment in the discussion of sexual harassment when Anita Hill, a law professor who had previously worked under Thomas, came forward with allegations against him.
2002 - Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations.
2005 - Teams for forensic workers and cadaver dogs fanned out across New Orleans to collect the corpses left behind by Hurricane Katrina.
2008 - The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) was powered up for the first time, successfully firing the first beam of protons through its 17-mile-long (27-kilometer-long) underground ring tunnel.
2022 - King Charles III was officially proclaimed Britain's monarch in a pomp-filled ceremony two days after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
Birthdays
20 - Emmy Perry (actress)
26 - Ellise (singer)
29 - Matt Rife (comedian)
41 - Joey Votto (baseball player)
42 - Misty Copeland (ballerina)
50 - Ryan Phillippe (actor)
56 - Guy Ritchie (director)
60 - Raymond Cruz (actor)
61 - Randy Johnson (baseball player)
64 - Colin Firth (actor)
67 - Kate Burton (actress)
70 - Clark Johnson (actor)
71 - Amy Irving (actress)
75 - Bill O'Reilly (TV host)
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Today in Sports History - September 10
1937 - The Cleveland (now Los Angeles) Rams play their inaugural game.
1960 - Running barefoot, Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia won the Olympic marathon in Rome, becoming the first Black African to win an Olympic gold medal.
1961 - Mickey Mantle hit his 400th career home run, the seventh to ever do so.
1972 - Gayle Sayers of the Chicago Bears announced his retirement from football.
1974 - Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals set a MLB record with his 105th stolen base of the season.
1988 - Steffi Graf achieved tennis' first Grand Slam since Margaret Court in 1970 by winning the U.S. Open women's final.
1989 - Five days after hitting a home run for the New York Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Seattle Mariners, Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown for the Atlanta Falcons.
1989 - Indianapolis Colts running back Eric Dickerson becomes the fastest in NFL history to surpass 10,000 career rushing yards (91 games).
1992 - In Minneapolis, MN, a federal jury struck down professional football's limited free agency system.
1997 - Mark McGwire joins Babe Ruth as the only players in MLB history to hit 50 home runs in two consecutive years.
2000 - Indiana University fires basketball coach Bob Knight after an altercation with a student; Knight had spent 29 years at the school compiling a record of 662-239.
2006 - Roger Federer won his third straight and 12th overall U.S. Open.
