September 10: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

September 10th marks the 253rd day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 254th in case of leap years). There are 112 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Virgo. Famous birthdays on this day include Colin Firth (1960), Karl Lagerfeld (1933) and Michèle Alliot-Marie (1946).
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2018 Syrian Civil War: The Netherlands stops funding the opposition and police forces in Syria, claiming that there are very few chances they will win the war. The Netherlands will cease support for the White Helmets in December 2018.
2017 Russian military intervention in Syria Civil War: Russian airstrikes against several ferries crossing the Euphrates near Deir ez-Zor have killed at least 34 civilians including 9 children, according the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
2016 Russia-United States relations and Syrian civil war: The U.S. Obama Administration and the Russian Putin Administration have reached a peace agreement for Syria. This deal will end combat in certain areas and create a center of combat for the fight against ISIL and Al-Nusra Front.
2015 Syrian Civil War, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. ISIL attacks an air base held by the government near the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor. There were dozens of ISIL militants and loyalists killed.
2014 Insurgency of the Moro in the Philippines: Philippines President Benigno Aquino III presents a bill to the Congress of the Philippines, which will grant autonomy to Filipino Muslims in Bangsamoro as well as bring peace to Mindanao.
2013 Human Rights Watch releases a report concluding the Syrian government forces are most likely to have been responsible for chemical weapon attacks on two Damascus suburbs on August 21.
2012 Mexican Drug War
2011 Zanzibar ferry sinking. The 'MVampnbspSpice IslanderampnbspI', carrying at most 800 people, sinks off Zanzibar's coast, killing 240.
2010 Five Palestinians were injured in four separate Israeli air strikes in Gaza Strip. These attacks were in response to the fourth rocket attack from Gaza on southern Israel in the past two days.
2009 Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister, apologizes for the treatment of Alan Turing (respected WWII code-breaker) after World War II. He was chemically castrated for homosexual relations.
2008 New York's Lehman Brothers Investment Bank posts record quarterly losses of US$3.9 Billion.
2007 After seven years of exile, Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, returns to Pakistan following a military coup that took place in October 1999.
2006 A long statement by Ayman al-Zawahiri (al-Qaeda's second-in-command), on the eve the fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001 attacks, calls for Muslims to resist the United States.
2005 After a wall collapsed at the stadium where the football teams were playing, four people died in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
2004 Habib Akdas was reportedly killed in an air strike in Iraq. He is believed to have been the leader of the terrorist cell that carried out the November 2003 bombings at two synagogues in Istanbul, a bank and an embassy. After the 2003 bombings, Akdas fled Turkey to Iraq to escape authorities.
2003 Anna Lindh, the Swedish Foreign Minister, is attacked while shopping at a mall for clothes without any bodyguards.
2002 Switzerland is now a full member in good standing of the United Nations.
2001 Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, calls a meeting of hundreds Pentagon senior staff members and gives a speech in which he called the Pentagon bureaucracy an enemy to security. He declares "... that we are declaring war on the bureaucracy.
1997 36th Walker Cup
1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) signed (it will be ratified 180 days after ratification by 44 Annex 2 countries).
1995 115th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 46 75)
1994 108th US Womens Tennis: Aranxta S Vicario beats Steffi Graf
1993 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced
1992 Bud Selig becomes interm commissioner of baseball
1991 Yolanda Gail Devers runs US female record 100m hurdles
1990 1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different
1989 109th US Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl
1988 102nd US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini
1986 Bryan O'Connor named chairman of US Space Flight Safety Panel.
1984 Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla
1983 97th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert L Mills
1982 Decca releases Beatle audition Complete Silver Beatles album
1981 Guernica of Pablo Picasso returns to Spain
1980 Expos Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18
1979 Three Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill US President Harry Truman are freed.
1978 Timbuktu! closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 243 performances
1977 91st US Womens Tennis: Chris Evert L Mills beats W Turnbull
1976 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, New York
1974 New York Dolls disband
1973 Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton.
1972 20th Olympic games close at Munich, German FR
1971 KVUE TV channel 24 in Austin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1969 US performs nuclear test at Grand Valley, Colorado
1967 81st US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats Ann H Jones
1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1965 Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards
1964 Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms
1963 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama
1962 KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 75th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Ann Haydon Jones
1960 Abebe Bikila runs Olympic / World record marathon
1958 WJCT TV channel 7 in Jacksonville, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 Mask & Gown opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 39 performances
1956 Louisville Ky public schools integrates
1955 Gunsmoke premieres on CBS TV
1954 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria
1952 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Thomasville Golf Open
1951 British begins economic boycott of Iran
1950 Joe DiMaggio becomes first to hit three home runs in a game at Griffith Stadium.
1949 Cabatgata (A Night in Spain) closes at Broadway NYC after 76 performances
1948 Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life
1947 Hasan Saka forms the new government of Turkey. (16 th government)
1945 KLS-AM in Oakland Ca changes call letters to KWBR
1944 Lieutenant General Frederick Browning against Montgomery But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far
1943 British 8th army occupies Tarente
1942 British troops lands on Madagascar
1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb
1939 In WWII, Canada declared war on Germany
1938 Hermann Göring, in a speech at Nuremberg, calls the Czechs a quotmiserable pygmy racequot who are quotharassing the human race.quot That same evening, Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia, makes a broadcast in which he appeals for calm.
1937 2nd American Football League plays 1st game
1933 1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park)
1932 52nd US Mens Tennis: Henry E Vines beats Henri Cochet
1931 Lord Cecil of British Government says War was never so improbable
1930 Charles E Mitchell, named Minister to Liberia
1927 22nd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Philadelphia
1926 Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn
1924 Giants rip Braves 22-1, Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out
1923 Irish Free state joins League of Nations
1922 Largest Polo Grounds crowd Meusel, Ruth and Gehrig consecutive home runs.
1919 New York City welcomes home General John J Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers.
1918 Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers
1913 1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway, opens
1910 Great Idaho Fire destroys three million acres of timber.
1905 Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes
1902 Utrecht soccer team UVV forms
1900 20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record)
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