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1897 : First offense due to drunk driving


On September 10, 1897, London taxi driver George Smith was arrested for drunk driving after hitting a building. He was the first person to be fined for this offense. He was sentenced to pay 25 shillings.

1961 : Accident at Grand Prix of Italy


On September 10, 1961, the German Formula 1 racing driver Wolfgang von Trips lost control of his Ferrari and hit spectators. 14 people were killed. The pilot also lost his life.

1967 : Referendum in Gibraltar


On September 10, 1967, the people of Gibraltar refused to see its territory annexed by Spain and chose to remain British by 12,138 votes against 44.

1976 : 2 planes collided over Zagreb


On September 10, 1976, flight 476 from British Airways, from London to Istanbul, struck a charter plane that had just taken off from Split to Cologne, above Zagreb in Yugoslavia.
The 176 passengers on two planes were killed.
At the time of the Cold War, the West aircrafts avoided the Soviet bloc countries and all passed through Yugoslavia, non-aligned country, to go east. Thus the airspace in the region of Zagreb was extremely crowded when the staff were few and did not have high-performance technical resources. The accident was caused by an error of a young and exhausted air traffic controller.
He will be the only person prosecuted by court as a result of the accident.

1977 : Last execution by guillotine in France


On September 10, 1977, Tunisian Hamida Djandoubi was guillotined at the Prison des Baumettes in Marseille. He was the last person sentenced to death to be executed in France. The death penalty wad abolished in 1981 and is also now banned throughout the European Union.

Novità del giorno : 10 Settembre

National Day in Gibraltar
September 10 is National Day in Gibraltar which celebrates the referendum held on September 10th, 1967, dismissing attachment to Spain and which was the first step towards self-determination.

Citazione del giorno : 10 Settembre

Stephen Jay Gould, Paléontologue américain
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

Compleanni : 10 Settembre

Henry Purcell, Compositore inglese (1659)
Niccolò Jommelli, Compositore italiano (1714)
Marie Laveau, Professionista di Voodoo creola Louisiana (1794)
Charles Sanders Peirce, Matematico e filosofo americano (1839)
Alice Brown Davis, Capo della tribù Seminole dell'Oklahoma (1852)
Giovanni Gronchi, 3 ° Presidente della Repubblica Italiana (1887)
Elsa Schiaparelli, Stilista italiana (1890)
Arthur Compton, Fisico americano, premio Nobel (1892)
Georges Bataille, Scrittore francese (1897)
Raymond Scott, Compositore americano (1908)
Robert Wise, Regista americano (1914)
Edmond O'Brien, Attore americano (1915)
Bo Goldman, Sceneggiatore e scrittore americano (1932)
Karl Lagerfeld, Stilista tedesco (1933)
Stephen Jay Gould, Paleontologo americano (1941)
Richard Mullane, Astronauta americano (1945)
Michèle Alliot-Marie, Politica francese (1946)
Amy Irving, Attrice americana (1953)
Chris Columbus, Regista americano (1958)
Colin Firth, Attore inglese (1960)
Marian Keyes, Scrittrice irlandese (1963)
Guy Ritchie, Regista inglese (1968)
Jayam Ravi, Attore indiano (1980)
Jérémy Toulalan, Calciatore francese (1983)
Laurent Koscielny, Calciatore francese (1985)

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Go-Nijō, Imperatore del Giappone (1308)
Emilie du Châtelet, Fisica e matematica francese (1749)
Mary Wollstonecraft, Scrittrice inglese (1797)
Elisabeth d'Autriche (Sissi), Imperatrice d'Austria (1898)
Pier Angeli, Attrice italiana (1971)
George Paget Thomson, Fisico inglese, premio Nobel (1975)
Felix Bloch, Fisico svizzero, Premio Nobel (1983)
Norah Lofts, Scrittrice inglese (1983)
Charles Denner, Attore francese (1995)
Joanne Dru, Attrice americana (1996)
Jane Wyman, Attrice americana (2007)
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