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Wednesday September 10, 2014 This is the 253rd day of the year, with 112 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: surfing Surfing originated in ancient Hawaii and there are 1600 recognized surf spots throughout the Hawaiian islands and 25 miles of public beach.
Holidays Switzerland: Kaseteilet.
Bulgaria: Liberation Day.
China: Teachers' Day.
Events 1608 - Captain John Smith was elected council president of the Jamestown colony in Virginia.
1623 - Lumber and furs were the first cargo to leave Plymouth, Massachusetts, for England.
1813 - Oliver H. Perry and an American naval force defeated the British at the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.
1846 - Elias Howe received a U.S. patent for the first sewing machine.
1913 - First paved coast-to-coast road, named the Lincoln Highway, opened in the U.S.
1919 - New boundaries were settled in the Treaty of Saint-Germain, which brought about the end of the Austrian Empire.
1939 - Canada and South Africa declared war on Germany, following the declarations of Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand on the previous day.
1939 - Canada declared war on Nazi Germany.
1955 - "Gunsmoke" premiered on TV.
1963 - Black students entered Alabama public schools following a standoff between federal authorities and Governor George C. Wallace.
1966 - The "Road Runner Show" premiered.
1974 - Guinea-Bissau declared its independence from Portugal.
1977 - Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant and a convicted murderer, became the last person in France executed with the guillotine.
1981 - Pablo Picasso's painting "Guernica" was returned to Spain and put in Madrid's Prado Museum. Picasso's will said that the painting was not to return to Spain until the Fascists lost power and democracy restored.
1993 - The "X-Files" television series debuted.
2000 - Broadway's longest-running production, "Cats," closed after more than 7,400 performances.
2002 - Switzerland, joins the United Nations.
2006 - Michael Schumacher announced his retirement as a race car driver.
Births 1736 - Carter Braxton, American revolutionary statesman and signer of Declaration of Independence.
1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher.
1929 - Arnold Palmer, American, professional golfer.
1934 - Charles Kuralt, American journalist and broadcaster.
1934 - Roger Maris, American professional baseball player.
1941 - Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist, biologist, and science writer.
1949 - Bill O'Reilly, American journalist and commentator.
1950 - Joe Perry, American musician.
1957 - Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor.
1974 - Ryan Phillippe, American actor.
Deaths 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English writer and advocate for women's equality.
1935 - Huey Long, American politician, governor of Louisiana and United States senator, assassinated.
1983 - John Vorster, South African Prime Minister and President.
2003 - Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, 46, was fatally stabbed in a Stockholm department store; she died the following day.
2006 - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga.
2006 - Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith.
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