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Today in History

  • 2014 First Invictus Games Held

    The international games bring together wounded armed forces personnel and veterans who compete in at

  • 2008 Large Hadron Collider Goes Live

    The world’s largest particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was built by the European Org

  • 1977 Last Person to be Executed in France

    Hamida Djandoubi was also the last person to be executed by a guillotine. Djandoubi was convicted an

  • 1960 Baghdad Conference Begins

    The 5-day long conference in Iraq’s capital city ended with the creation of the Organization of the

  • 1846 Patent For Sewing Machine Awarded

    The United States’ Patent Office awarded a patent for the first sewing machine with a lockstitch des

Illustration of stork, signifying birth

Births On This Day,
September, 10

  • 1976 Matt Morgan

    American wrestler, actor

  • 1960 Colin Firth

    English actor

  • 1941 Stephen Jay Gould

    American paleontologist

  • 1872 Ranjitsinhji

    Indian cricketer

  • 1839 Charles Sanders Peirce

    American philosopher, mathematician, scientist

Illustration of tombstone, signifying death

Deaths On This Day,
September, 10

  • 1985 Jock Stein

    Scottish footballer, manager

  • 1935 Huey Long

    American politician

  • 1898 Empress Elisabeth of Austria

  • 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft

    English author, philosopher

  • 1669 Henrietta Maria of France