Year 894
London Taxi driver George Smith was the first person to be convicted for drunken driving.
SEPTEMBER 10
Daily Historical Chronicle
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10 September: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 10 September.
Observances & Special Days
World Suicide Prevention Day
Year 1898
Empress Elisabeth of Austria was assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
Year 1936
First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London’s (England) Wembley Stadium.
Year 1960
At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
Year 1967
The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
Year 1988
Steffi Graf, the 19-year-old West German tennis star, was today the third woman in history to win the Grand Slam – the Australian, French, Wimbledon, and U. S. Open singles titles in the same year.
Year 2002
Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, became a full member of the United Nations.
Year 2007
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
Year 2008
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
Year 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 $64.76 billion (2017 USD) in damage.
Born 1753
Sir John Soane, English neo-classical architect who is noted for the Bank of England in London and many country homes.
Born 1872
Maharaja K. S. Ranjitsingh, former Indian cricketer. Indian cricket plays for Ranji Trophy on his name.
Born 1887
Govind Vallabh Pant, Indian freedom fighter, and politician. He received India’s highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna in 1957.
Born 1892
Arthur Compton, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
Born 1895
Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian Telugu writer, poet, and novelist.
Born 1912
Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Vice President of India (d. 2002)
Born 1920
C. A. Rao, Indian American Mathematician.
Born 1965
Atul Kulkarni, National award-winning Indian actor.
Born 1972
Anurag Kashyap, Indian film director, producer, screenplay writer, and actor.
Born 1978
Manju Warrier, Indian actress.
Born 1989
Manish Pandey, Indian cricketer
Died 210 BC
Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, and founder of the Qin dynasty.
Died 1842
William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand soldier, and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand.
Died 1915
Bagha Jatin, Indian freedom fighter, philosopher, and author.
Died 1923
Sukumar Ray, Indian poet, and playwright. He was famous for his writings for children. He is the father of Satyajit Ray.
Died 1983
Balthazar Johannes Vorster, former prime Minister of South Africa who was interned during World War II as a pro-Nazi leader.
Died 2000
Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Indian-Pakistani journalist and author. She was a pioneer of Pakistani literature and journalism in English, and also a pioneer of feminism in Pakistan. She was Pakistan’s first female columnist, editor, publisher, and political commentator.