September 10
September 10 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 112 days remain until the year's end. It falls in summer (northern hemisphere) and under the astrological sign of Virgo.
External references
Curated jump-off points to the major almanacs, encyclopaedias and primary sources for this date.
Astronomy
On September 10 the Sun's declination is approximately +3.8°. At this latitude the Sun is north of the celestial equator, giving the Northern Hemisphere longer days than nights.
For specific rise/set times at your location, see the U.S. Naval Observatory, or the NASA APOD archive for any imagery published on a September 10.
Position in the year
Holidays & observances
- Amerindian Heritage Day (Guyana)
- Children's Day (Honduras)
- Christian feast day: Alexander Crummell (Episcopal Church)
- Christian feast day: Aubert
- Christian feast day: Blessed Thomas Tsugi, Charles Spinola, and Martyrs of Nagasaki
Events
A selection of widely-documented historical events that took place on this date. Years marked BCE follow standard astronomical convention.
- 2025 — American right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk is assassinated while onstage at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. ↗(1 years ago)
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2024 — Polaris Dawn, the first private crewed spaceflight to involve a spacewalk, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ↗(2 years ago)more
Polaris Dawn was a private crewed spaceflight operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 CEO Jared Isaacman, the first of three planned missions in the Polaris program. Launched September 10, 2024, as the 14th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, Isaacman and his crew of three — Scott Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon — flew in an elliptic orb...
2017 — Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in 134 deaths and $77.2 billion (2017 USD) in damage. ↗(9 years ago)more
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2008 — The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland. ↗(18 years ago)more
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2007 — Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999. ↗(19 years ago)more
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- 2002 — Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations. ↗(24 years ago)
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- 2001 — Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated. ↗(25 years ago)
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Antônio da Costa Santos was a Brazilian architect and politician of the Workers' Party (PT).
2001 — During his appearance on the British TV game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, contestant Charles Ingram reaches the £1 million top prize, but it was later revealed that he had cheated to the top prize by listening to coughs from his wife and another contestant. ↗(25 years ago)more
Charles William Ingram is a British fraudster and a former major in the British Army who gained fame for his appearance on the ITV television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Across two episodes recorded in September 2001, Ingram correctly answered 15 questions to win the show's maximum prize of £1 million, becoming the third recorded contestant e...
2000 — Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War. ↗(26 years ago)more
Operation Barras was a British Army operation that took place in Sierra Leone on 10 September 2000, during the late stages of the Sierra Leone Civil War. The operation aimed to release six British soldiers of the Royal Irish Regiment and their Sierra Leone Army (SLA) liaison officer, who were being held by a militia group known as the "West Side Boys".
1977 — Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France. ↗(49 years ago)more
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1976 — A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176. ↗(50 years ago)more
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1974 — Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal. ↗(52 years ago)more
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Notable births
- 2004 — Gabriel Bateman, American actor[citation needed] ↗(22 years ago)
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Gabriel Bateman is an American actor. He is best known for starring in numerous horror films, including as Robert in Annabelle (2014), Martin Wells in Lights Out (2016), Andy Barclay in Child's Play (2019), and Kyle Flynn in Unhinged (2020).
2001 — Armando Broja, Albanian-born English footballer ↗(25 years ago)more
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2001 — Nick Cross, American football player ↗(25 years ago)more
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1999 — jschlatt, American YouTuber and singer ↗(27 years ago)more
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1998 — Anna Blinkova, Russian tennis player ↗(28 years ago)more
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Notable deaths
2024 — Frankie Beverly, American soul/funk singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (born 1946) ↗(2 years ago)more
Howard Stanley Beverly, known as Frankie Beverly, was an American singer, songwriter, and producer known primarily for his recordings with the soul and funk band Maze. He formed Maze, originally called Raw Soul, in his hometown of Philadelphia in 1970.
2024 — Jim Sasser, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to China (born 1936) ↗(2 years ago)more
James Ralph Sasser was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served three terms as a member of the United States Senate from 1977 to 1995, and was Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on the Budget.
2023 — Ian Wilmut, British embryologist (born 1944) ↗(3 years ago)more
Sir Ian Wilmut was an English embryologist and the chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He was the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly.
2020 — Diana Rigg, British actress (born 1938) ↗(6 years ago)more
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg was an English actress of stage and screen. Her roles include Emma Peel in the TV series The Avengers (1965–1968); Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, wife of James Bond, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones (2013–2017); and the title role in Medea in the West End in 1993 followed by Broadway a...
2015 — Norman Farberow, American psychologist and academic (born 1918) ↗(11 years ago)more
Norman Louis Farberow was an American psychologist, and one of the founding fathers of modern suicidology. He was among the three founders in 1958 of the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center, which became a base of research into the causes and prevention of suicide.
Numerical & calendrical curiosities
| Day-of-year (254) | 2 × 127 · composite (no) |
|---|---|
| Days remaining (112) | 2^4 × 7 |
| Date code DDMMYYYY | 10092026 · no palindrome in next 200 years |
| Sun declination | +3.82° (Cooper approximation) |
| Distance from solstice | 82 days |