^{Aerial view of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (Photo: Maximilien Brice (CERN), Copyright © 2008-2018, CC-BY-SA 4.0)}

Today in History

• American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to be a spy for the Continental Army (1776)
• Elias Howe patents the sewing machine (1846)
• Gibraltar residents vote to remain part of Great Britain (1967)
• France executes its last person by guillotine (1977)
• The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, opens near Geneva, Switzerland (2008)

Birthdays

• Isaac Funk, co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls (1839)
• Carl Van Doren, critic and biographer (1885)
• Elsa Schiaparelli, fashion designer (1890)
• Franz Werfel, poet and playwright (1890)
• Adele Astaire, actress and dancer (1896)
• Cyril Connolly, author and critic (1903)
• Robert Wise, filmmaker (1914)
• Edmond O’Brien, actor (1915)
• Ted Kluszewski, baseball player (1924)
• Arnold Palmer, golfer (1929)
• Karl Lagerfield, fashion designer (1933)
• Charles Kuralt, television journalist (1934)
• Roger Maris, baseball player (1934)
• Jared Diamond, biologist, geographer, author (1937)
• Gunpei Yokoi, invented the Game Boy (1941)
• José Feliciano, singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945)
• Judy Geeson, actress (1948)
• Bob Lanier, basketball player (1948)
• Margaret Trudeau, actress and talk show host (1948)
• Bill O’Reilly, television pundit (1949)
• Amy Irving, actress (1953)
• Chris Columbus, filmmaker (1958)
• Colin Firth, actor (1960)
• Guy Ritchie, filmmaker (1968)
• Ryan Phillippe, actor (1974)

Deaths

• Mary Wollstonecraft, feminist pioneer (1797)
• Thomas Gallaudet, educator of the deaf (1851)
• Huey Long, Louisiana governor (1935)
• Father Divine, spiritual leader (1965)
• Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter and novelist (1976)
• Nora Lofts, author (1983)
• Virginia Satir, psychotherapist (1988)
• Jane Wyman, actress (2007)
• Cliff Robertson, actor (2011)
• Richard Kiel, actor (2014)

Holidays and Observances

• Amerindian Heritage Day (Guyana)
• Children’s Day (Honduras)
• National Day (Gibraltar)
• Saint George’s Caye Day (Belize)
• Teacher’s Day (China)
• World Suicide Prevention Day

September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). There are 112 days remaining until the end of the year.