Major Events
- 1924 Leopold and Loeb are found guilty of the murder of Bobby Franks in Chicago in “the crime of the century”
- 1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France
- 2008 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland
- 2020 California’s August Complex wildfire becomes the largest recorded in state history at 471,000 acres (736 square miles)
Sep 10 in Film & TV
- 1993 “The X-Files”, created by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, debuts on Fox
Sep 10 in Music
- 1991 Rock band Nirvana releases their single “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” often dubbed the anthem of “Generation X”
Sep 10 in Sport
- 1972 American long-distance runner Frank Shorter achieves a famous win in the men’s marathon with a time of 2:12:19.8 at the Munich Olympics
Did You Know?
London taxi driver George Smith becomes the first person fined for drunk driving
Fun Fact About September 10
Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado, but survives for another 18 months before choking to death
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