TODAY IN HISTORY
September 10, 2000 - 0:0
Sunday, September 10 1487 Julius III (Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte), pope from 1550 to 1555, born in Rome.
1721 The treaty of Nystad was signed in Finland between Sweden and Russia which ended the Great Northern War (1700-21).
Sweden was forced to cede Livonia, Estonia and Ingria, part of Karelia.
1813 In the British-American War of 1812, the Americans under Oliver Perry defeated the British at the battle of Lake Erie.
1855 Robert Koldewey, German archaeologist who revealed the Babylon of the Bible to be a historical reality, born.
1898 Elizabeth, empress of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated by anarchist Luigi Lucheni in Geneva.
1914 Robert Wise, U.S. film director, born. Films included The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Sound of Music and West Side Story.
1919 The treaty of Saint-Germain was signed by the victorious allied powers and Austria, by which parts of prewar German Austria were ceded to Italy and Czechoslovakia; Austria was forbidden to unite with Germany.
1943 In World War II, German troops occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City.
1945 Vidkun Quisling, head of the puppet regime set up by the Nazis in Norway in World War II, was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death.
1961 A President Airlines aircraft flying from Shannon Airport in Ireland to New Zealand crashed into the river Shannon shortly after takeoff, killing all 77 passengers and six crew.
1974 Portugal recognized the independence of Guinea-Bissau, under the leadership of Luiz Cabral.
1981 The painting "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso was returned to Spain. Painted in 1937, it had hung in New York since 1939 and commemorated the Nazi bombing of the Basque city-shrine of Guernica during the Spanish civil war.
Picasso vowed it would not enter Spain until democracy was restored.
1983 John Vorster, prime minister of South Africa 1966-78 and president from 1978-79, died.
1989 Hungary opened its border to the West, allowing thousands of East Germans to leave in a mass exodus which led to the toppling of the Berlin Wall.
1990 Arab states agreed to move the headquarters of the deeply divided Arab League back to Cairo from Tunis in a move by the group's anti-Iraqi camp to isolate Baghdad and its supporters in the Persian Gulf crisis.
1993 The body of former president Ferdinand Marcos was laid to rest on Philippine soil, four years after he died in exile in Hawaii.
1994 Pope John Paul made an impassioned plea for peace in the Balkans on his arrival in Croatia. The pontiff was making the first papal visit to the region of former Yugoslavia.
1995 NATO sent U.S. Cruise missiles into action against Bosnian Serb antiaircraft sites in a campaign to make the Serbs remove their siege guns from Sarajevo.
1998 Afghanistan's Taleban movement said it found the bodies of nine Iranian diplomats whose disappearance sparked tension with neighboring Iran.
1998 Leaders of Northern Ireland's pro-British Protestants and pro-Irish Catholic republicans met face-to-face for the first time since 1922.
1721 The treaty of Nystad was signed in Finland between Sweden and Russia which ended the Great Northern War (1700-21).
Sweden was forced to cede Livonia, Estonia and Ingria, part of Karelia.
1813 In the British-American War of 1812, the Americans under Oliver Perry defeated the British at the battle of Lake Erie.
1855 Robert Koldewey, German archaeologist who revealed the Babylon of the Bible to be a historical reality, born.
1898 Elizabeth, empress of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated by anarchist Luigi Lucheni in Geneva.
1914 Robert Wise, U.S. film director, born. Films included The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Sound of Music and West Side Story.
1919 The treaty of Saint-Germain was signed by the victorious allied powers and Austria, by which parts of prewar German Austria were ceded to Italy and Czechoslovakia; Austria was forbidden to unite with Germany.
1943 In World War II, German troops occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City.
1945 Vidkun Quisling, head of the puppet regime set up by the Nazis in Norway in World War II, was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death.
1961 A President Airlines aircraft flying from Shannon Airport in Ireland to New Zealand crashed into the river Shannon shortly after takeoff, killing all 77 passengers and six crew.
1974 Portugal recognized the independence of Guinea-Bissau, under the leadership of Luiz Cabral.
1981 The painting "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso was returned to Spain. Painted in 1937, it had hung in New York since 1939 and commemorated the Nazi bombing of the Basque city-shrine of Guernica during the Spanish civil war.
Picasso vowed it would not enter Spain until democracy was restored.
1983 John Vorster, prime minister of South Africa 1966-78 and president from 1978-79, died.
1989 Hungary opened its border to the West, allowing thousands of East Germans to leave in a mass exodus which led to the toppling of the Berlin Wall.
1990 Arab states agreed to move the headquarters of the deeply divided Arab League back to Cairo from Tunis in a move by the group's anti-Iraqi camp to isolate Baghdad and its supporters in the Persian Gulf crisis.
1993 The body of former president Ferdinand Marcos was laid to rest on Philippine soil, four years after he died in exile in Hawaii.
1994 Pope John Paul made an impassioned plea for peace in the Balkans on his arrival in Croatia. The pontiff was making the first papal visit to the region of former Yugoslavia.
1995 NATO sent U.S. Cruise missiles into action against Bosnian Serb antiaircraft sites in a campaign to make the Serbs remove their siege guns from Sarajevo.
1998 Afghanistan's Taleban movement said it found the bodies of nine Iranian diplomats whose disappearance sparked tension with neighboring Iran.
1998 Leaders of Northern Ireland's pro-British Protestants and pro-Irish Catholic republicans met face-to-face for the first time since 1922.