Historical Events on September 10

1570
Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
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1776
American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
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1932
The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
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1939
World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.
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1939
World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies: Poland, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
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1942
World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
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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.
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2017
Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in at least 134 deaths and over $62 billion (2017 USD) in damage.
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Famous Birthdays on September 10
1872Ranjitsinhji
1974Mirko Filipović
1982Misty Copeland
Famous Deaths on September 10
1167Empress Matilda
1797Mary Wollstonecraft
1935Huey Long

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