Historical Events on September 10.

World Suicide Prevention Day  

1. 1894, 10th September – London Taxi driver George Smith was the first person to be convicted for drunken driving.

2. 1898, 10th September – Empress Elisabeth of Austria was assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.

3. 1936, 10th September – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London’s (England) Wembley Stadium. 

4. 1960, 10th September – 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.

5. 1967, 10th September – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.

6. 1988, 10th September – 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.

7. 2002, 10th September – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, became a full member of the United Nations.              

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on September 10.

1. 1753 – Sir John Soane, English neo-classical architect who is noted for the Bank of England in London and many country homes.

2. 1872 – Maharaja K. S. Ranjitsingh, former Indian cricketer. Indian cricket plays for Ranji Trophy on his name.

3. 1887 – Govind Vallabh Pant, Indian freedom fighter, and politician. He received India’s highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna in 1957.

4. 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.

5. 1895 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian Telugu writer, poet, and novelist.

6. 1912 – Basappa Danappa Jatti, the fifth Vice President of India.

7. 1920 – C. A. Rao, Indian American Mathematician. 

8. 1965 – Atul Kulkarni, National award-winning Indian actor.

9. 1972 – Anurag Kashyap, Indian film director, producer, screenplay writer, and actor.

10. 1978 – Manju Warrier, Indian actress.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on September 10.

1. 210 BC – Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, and founder of the Qin dynasty.

2. 1842 – William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand soldier, and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand. 

3. 1915 – Bagha Jatin, Indian freedom fighter, philosopher, and author.

4. 1923 – Sukumar Ray, Indian poet, and playwright. He was famous for his writings for children. He is the father of Satyajit Ray.

5. 1983 – Balthazar Johannes Vorster, former prime Minister of South Africa who was interned during World War II as a pro-Nazi leader.

6. 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.

10-September-1858

Shah Jahan entered Rajputana and raided Amber crossing the Tapti. He arrived near the kingdom of Golconda and from there passed on to Orissa which was surrendered to him.

10-September-1858

Manilal Nathubhai Dwivedi, great author and father of modern Gujarati poems, was born.

10-September-1872

Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji "Ranji", Maharaj Jamsaheb of Nawanagar and noted cricketer, was born in village Sarodar near Jamnagar, Kathiawad. He was referred as "The prince of a little state, but the king of a great game". He also played for Sussex.

10-September-1887

Govind Ballabh Pant was born in village Khunt, Almora District, U.P. He served eight years as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was as outstanding parliamentary figure of his days. He was awarded with Bharat Ratna in 1959.

10-September-1911

Jatin Chakravorty, social reformer, politician and trade unionist, was born at Comilla, Bangladesh.

10-September-1912

B. D. Jatti, former Vice President of India, was born.

10-September-1915

Jatindranath Mukhrjee, great revolutionary, died after being wounded in a pitched battle between the revolutionaries and the police, aided by an army unit, in Balasore.

10-September-1918

Muslim riots break out in Calcutta.

10-September-1920

Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the "theory of estimation" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the "Cramer-Rao inequality", "The Fisher-Rao theorem" and "Rao-Black Wellistaion" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal.

10-September-1920

Subramhanyam Bharti, national poet in Tamil language, orator, author, editor, philosopher and revolutionary, passed away.

10-September-1923

Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali child litterateur, passed away.

10-September-1924

K.T. Gopalkrishnan, famous Hindi writer, was born at Azhicode.

10-September-1943

Satyendra Chandra Bardhan, Vakkom Abdul Khader, Fouja Singh, Boniface Pereira and Anandan were hanged on charges of conspiracy to "wage war against the King" under the Ememy Agents Ordinance (which was given retrospective effect) at Madras Jail. They sang Vande Mataram and shouted "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" when they were being hanged.

10-September-1966

Parliament approved the Punjab Re-organisation Bill for the formation of Haryana and Punjab as two independent states.

10-September-1976

An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aeroplane was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan.

10-September-1977

The Planning Commission decides to introduce the Rolling Plan concept.

10-September-1980

Mangalore University established.

10-September-1992

All movable and immovable properties of big bull Harshad Mehta, and others involved in the Security scam, attached.

10-September-1993

India and South Korea sign agreement to expand trade and investment.

10-September-1995

87 of the 180 members of the newly constituted JAAC assume office.

10-September-1996

Central Ethical Committee of ICMR on Human Research, constituted under the Chairmanship of Justice (Retired) M.N. Venkatachaliah, held its first meeting. Several sub committees were constituted to address specific topics viz. Epidemiological Research, Clinical Evaluation of Products to be Used on Humans, Organ Transplantation; Human Genetics, etc.

10-September-1999

Sonia Gandhi files her nomination papers for the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency.

10-September-1999

Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final.

10-September-2000

Marat Safin wins the men's singles in the US open championship.