September 10
Today in America's Present Past
1608 | Civil Rights: In Jamestown, John Smith was elected President of the colony, potentially the first elected event in North America.
1721 | Founder Peyton Randolph was born.
1736 | Founder Carter Braxton was born.
1758 | Novelist Hannah Webster Foster was born.
1776 | War of Independence: George Washington recruits espionage volunteer Nathan Hale.
1813 | War of 1812: American Naval Commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British on Lake Erie.
1839 | Scientist Charles Peirce was born.
1842 | First Lady Letitia Tyler died.
1845 | SCOTUS: Justice Joseph Story died.
1846 | Elias Howe receives a patent for a lockstitch sewing machine.
1852 | Seminole Chief Alice Brown Davis was born.
1857 | Astronomer James Edward Keeler was born.
1863 | Civil War: Battle of Little Rock, Arkansas
1885 | Historian Carl Van Doren was born.
1892 | Physicist Arthur Compton was born.
1897 | Civil Rights: “Lattimer Massacre” near Hazleton, Pennsylvania.
1919 | WWI: New York City, New York, throws a parade to welcome home General Pershing and 25,000 troops.
1920 | Actress Olive Thomas died.
1925 | Lawyer and activist Henry Lincoln "Linc" Johnson died.
1929 | Leopold and Loeb were convicted in the most famous murder trial of the era.
1929 | Pro golfer Arnold Palmer was born.
1937 | Biologist Jared Diamond was born.
1941 | Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould was born.
1949 | SCOTUS: Justice Wiley Rutledge died.
1955 | TV: ”Gunsmoke" debuted.
1974 | Actor Ryan Phillippe was born.
1976 | Educator Mordecai Johnson died.
1984 | TV: “Jeopardy” debuted.
1995 | Comedian Matt Rife was born.
2007 | Actress Jane Wyman died.