10th September anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1624
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Thomas Sydenham, physician whose reputation grew in the years after his death and who is sometimes referred to as the English Hippocrates." more
  • 1771
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Mungo Park, explorer whose expeditions to the Niger River made him famous and, ultimately, dead."
  • 1855
  • Germany
  • "Birth of Robert Koldewey, archaeologist who excavated Babylon."
• event
  • 1547
  • Battle of Pinkie - last conflict between england and scotland
  • 1608
  • "Captain John Smith was elected council president of the Jamestown colony, Virginia."
  • 1659
  • "Birth of Henry Purcell, English composer. (Note: actual date is uncertain)"
  • 1919
  • "WWI: Austria and the Allies signed the Treaty of Saint-Germain, which dissolved the Austro-Hungarian Empire and paid the Allies reparations"
  • 1939
  • Canada declared war on Nazi Germany
  • 1988
  • BBC television presenters Mike Smith and Sarah Greene were seriously injured in a helicopter crash in Gloucestershire.
  • 1989
  • "Hungary opened its border with Austria and lifted East German visa restrictions, allowing thousands of East Germans to flee to the West"
  • 1996
  • "The United Nations General Assembly approved the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), banning all nuclear weapons testing"
• Death
  • 1797
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, early pioneer of womens rights and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Also mother of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein." more
  • 1938
  • "Death of Charles Cruft, British dog expert, founder of Crufts dog show ."
  • 1983
  • Switzerland
  • "Death of Felix Bloch, Swiss-born American physicist, Nobel Prize winner ."
  • 1983
  • "Death of Balthazar Johannes (‘John’) Vorster, South African Prime Minister (1966–78) and President (1978–79)."