September 10
People born on this day are Virgo.
- 1976
A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
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TWA Flight 355 is hijacked by five Croatian nationalists. The hijackers surrender upon landing in Paris.
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An Indian Airlines flight is hijacked by six Kashmiri separatists and diverted to Lahore International Airport, where the passengers and crew are released.
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Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
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Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
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During his appearance on the British TV game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, contestant Charles Ingram reaches the £1 million top prize, but it was later revealed that he had cheated to the top prize by listening to coughs from his wife and another contestant.
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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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The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in 134 deaths and $77.2 billion (2017 USD) in damage.
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Polaris Dawn, the first private crewed spaceflight to involve a spacewalk, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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American right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk is assassinated while onstage at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
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A liquefied petroleum gas tank truck overturns and explodes in Iztapalapa, Mexico City, killing 32 people and injuring 90 others.
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2001Armando Broja, Albanian-born English footballer
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2001Nick Cross, American football player
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1999jschlatt, American YouTuber and singer
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1998Anna Blinkova, Russian tennis player
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1998Sheck Wes, American rapper
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1997Brooke Henderson, Canadian golfer
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1997Troy Terry, American ice hockey player
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1995Jack Grealish, English footballer
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1995Matt Rife, American comedian and actor
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1993Sam Kerr, Australian footballer
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1992Ricky Ledo, American basketball player
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1991Sam Morsy, Egyptian footballer
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