September 10<\/p>\n
1570 \u2013 Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present day Virginia to establish a mission to the local indian tribes.<\/p>\n
1607 \u2013 Edward Wingfield is ousted as first president of the governing council of the Colony of Virginia; he is replaced by John Ratcliffe.<\/p>\n
1608 \u2013 John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 One of the members of Knowlton’s Rangers, Captain Nathan Hale, volunteers to stay behind the lines to spy on the British in New York City, after the Continental Army is forced to retreat from lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n
1813 \u2013 A U.S. Navy fleet defeats a British fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie. The U.S. commander, Captain Oliver Hazard Perry, sends the message of victory: “We have met the enemy and they are ours…..”<\/em><\/p>\n 1833 \u2013 President Andrew Jackson shuts down the Second Bank of the U.S.<\/p>\n 1846 \u2013 Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.<\/p>\n 1858 \u2013 George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora<\/em> while at the original Dudley Observatory near Albany, New York<\/p>\n 1897 \u2013 A Luzerne County sheriff’s posse kills 19 UMW (United Mine Workers) Union immigrant miners while on a strike of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company in Lattimer, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n 1932 \u2013 New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND<\/em>, is opened.<\/p>\n 1939 \u2013 The Royal Australian Navy submarine HMS Oxley<\/em> is mistakenly sunk by the Royal Navy submarine HMS Triton<\/em> near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy’s first loss of a submarine in World War II. 1977 \u2013 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 President Carter pardons 4 Puerto Rican nationalists for assaulting and wounding several Representatives while Congress was in session in 1954.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 The Senate Judiciary Committee opens hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, is powered up for the first time.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 Hurricane Irma<\/em> makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida at Category 4 intensity after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean resulting in 134 deaths and $64.76 billion in damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 10 1570 \u2013 Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present day Virginia to establish a mission to the local indian tribes. 1607 \u2013 Edward Wingfield is ousted as first president of the governing council of the Colony of Virginia; he is replaced by John Ratcliffe. 1608 \u2013 John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59394"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95856,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59394\/revisions\/95856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCanada declares of war on Germany.<\/p>\n