What are the important events that happened on September 10? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 10: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 10 is the 253rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 28, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,757,462,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectapentacontatrigon’ day.
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Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 160 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,646 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 10 Historical Events
- 1419 –John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
- 1509 –An earthquake known as “The Lesser Judgment Day” hits Istanbul.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
- 1813 –The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
- 1823 –Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
- 1858 –George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
- 1898 –Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
- 1932 –The New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
- 2001 –Antonio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil was assassinated.
- 2003 –Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
Who were born on September 10?
- 1659 –Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
- 1896 –Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946)
- 1913 –Lincoln Gordon, American diplomat (d. 2009)
- 1928 –Roch Bolduc, Canadian civil servant and senator
- 1937 –Jared Diamond, American biologist and author
- 1948 –Bob Lanier, American basketball player
- 1948 –Judy Geeson, English actress
- 1963 –Bill Stevenson, American music producer and musician
- 1964 –John E. Sununu, American politician
- 1988 –Jared Lee Loughner, American spree killer
Who died on September 10?
- 1197 –Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)
- 1898 –Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1837)
- 1966 –Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)
- 1975 –George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- 1976 –Dalton Trumbo, American writer (b. 1905)
- 1983 –B. J. Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915)
- 1995 –Yasutomo Nagai, motorbike driver (b.1965)
- 2006 –Patty Berg, American golf player (b. 1918)
- 2007 –Ted Stepien, former basketball team owner (b. 1925)
- 2008 –Vernon Handley, British conductor (b. 1930)
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