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On Sept. 10, 1919, New York City welcomed home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who had served in the United States 1st Division during World War I.

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On Sept. 10, 1934, Roger Maris, the professional baseball player who held the record for home runs in a single season from 1961 to 1998, was born. Following his death on Dec. 14, 1985, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1608	John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.
1813	Oliver H. Perry sent the message, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours," after an American naval force defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.
1846	Elias Howe of Spencer, Mass., received a patent for the sewing machine.
1919	New York City welcomed home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who had served in the U.S. 1st Division during World War I.
1924	A judge in Chicago sentenced Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb to life in prison for the murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks - a "thrill killing" that had shocked the nation.
1935	Sen. Huey P. Long, the "Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, died two days after being shot in Baton Rouge.
1948	American-born Mildred Gillars, the Nazi wartime radio broadcaster known as "Axis Sally," was indicted in Washington, D.C., for treason.
1955	"Gunsmoke" premiered on CBS.
1963	Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Tuskegee and Mobile, Ala., following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace.
1977	A convicted murderer became the last person to be executed by the guillotine in France.
1988	Steffi Graf of West Germany achieved tennis' Grand Slam - winning all four major tournaments in a calendar year - by taking the U.S. Open women's title.
2000	The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Cats" closed after 7,485 performances over nearly 18 years as the longest-running show in Broadway history.
2000	NBC's "The West Wing" won a record nine Emmy awards, including best drama series.
2002	Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations.
2003	Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, 46, was stabbed in a Stockholm department store; she died the next day.

Current Birthdays

Actor Colin Firth turns 51 years old today.

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Actor Ryan Phillippe turns 37 years old today.

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1929	Arnold Palmer, Golfer, turns 82
1931	Philip Baker Hall, Actor, turns 80
1945	Jose Feliciano, Singer, turns 66
1948	Bob Lanier, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 63
1950	Joe Perry, Rock musician (Aerosmith), turns 61
1953	Amy Irving, Actress, turns 58
1957	Kate Burton, Actress, turns 54
1960	David Lowery, Rock singer, musician, turns 51
1963	Randy Johnson, Baseball player, turns 48
1963	Sean O'Bryan, Actor, turns 48
1964	John E. Sununu, Former U.S. senator, R-N.H., turns 47
1968	Big Daddy Kane, Rapper, turns 43
1968	Guy Ritchie, Director, turns 43
1976	Gustavo Kuerten, Tennis player, turns 35
1980	Mikey Way, Rock musician (My Chemical Romance), turns 31
1984	Matthew Followill, Rock musician (Kings of Leon), turns 27
1974	Sanjaya Malakar, Singer ("American Idol"), turns 37

Historic Birthdays

Roger Maris9/10/1934 - 12/14/1985American professional baseball player.Go to obituary »

?	Alonso Perez Medina-Sidonia 9/10/1550 - ?/?/1619 Spanish naval commander
83	Sir John Soane 9/10/1753 - 1/20/1837 English Neoclassical architect
74	William Torrey Harris 9/10/1835 - 11/5/1909 American public school educator and philosopher
92	John Lynch 9/10/1847 - 11/2/1939 American politician; served in Mississippi legislature and U.S. Congress during Reconstruction
64	Carl Van Doren 9/10/1885 - 7/18/1950 American novelist, biographer and critic
54	Franz Werfel 9/10/1890 - 8/26/1945 German Expressionist poet, playwright and novelist
83	Elsa Schiaparelli 9/10/1890 - 11/13/1973 Italian-born French dress designer
69	Arthur Holly Compton 9/10/1892 - 3/15/1962 American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1927)
71	Cyril Connolly 9/10/1903 - 11/26/1974 English critic, novelist and founder of Horizon magazine