
September 10th:
2020- California’s August Complex wildfire becomes largest recorded in state history at 471,000 acres (736 square miles)
1977- Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France
1547- English demand Edward VI (10) wed Mary Queen of Scots (5)
1608- John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Virginia
1845- King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange
1872- Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam
1882- 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
1933- 1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park)
1939- Canada, under the leadership of Mackenzie King, declares war on Germany
1945- Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis
1953- Swanson sells its 1st “TV dinner”
1960- Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:15:16.2)
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