All Events

Historical Events on September 10

  • Ajacán Mission

    1570

    Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.

  • Nathan Hale

    1776

    American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.

  • Kazan Operation

    1918

    Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.

  • New York City Subway

    1932

    The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.

  • HMS Triton (N15)

    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.

  • Nazi Germany

    1939

    World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies: Poland, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.

  • Battle of Madagascar

    1942

    World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.

  • Nawaz Sharif

    2007

    Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.

  • Hurricane Irma

    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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