World
Suicide Prevention Day
World
Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September promotes
worldwide commitment and action to prevent
suicides. On average, almost 3000 people
commit suicide daily. For every person who
completes a suicide, 20 or more may attempt
to end their lives.
The
sponsoring International Association for
Suicide Prevention, the co-sponsor WHO and
other partners advocate for the prevention
of suicidal behaviour, provision of adequate
treatment and follow-up care for people
who attempted suicide, as well as responsible
reporting of suicides in the media.
At
the global level, awareness needs to be
raised that suicide is a major preventable
cause of premature death. Governments need
to develop policy frameworks for national
suicide prevention strategies. At the local
level, policy statements and research outcomes
need to be translated into prevention programmes
and activities in communities.
Events
506
– The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in
the Council of Agde.
1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy
is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin,
the future Charles VII of France.
1509 – An earthquake known as "The
Lesser Judgment Day" hits Istanbul.
1515 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
1547 – The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the
last full scale military confrontation between
England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive
victory for the forces of Edward VI.
1561 – Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima – Takeda
Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax
of their ongoing conflicts.
1608 – John Smith is elected council president
of Jamestown, Virginia.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan
Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental
Army.
1798 – At the Battle of St. George's Caye,
British Honduras defeats Spain.
1813 – The United States defeats the British
Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during
the War of 1812.
1823 – Simón Bolívar is named President
of Peru.
1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for
the sewing machine.
1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the
asteroid 55 Pandora.
1897 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse
kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania,
United States.
1898 – Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated
by Luigi Lucheni.
1918 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures
Kazan.
1919 – Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty
of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence
of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
1932 – The New York City Subway's third
competing subway system, the municipally-owned
IND, is opened.
1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference
to address international piracy in the Mediterranean
Sea.
1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley
is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS
Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal
Navy's first loss.
1939 – World War II: Canada declares war
on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France,
the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
1942 – World War II: The British Army carries
out an amphibious landing on Madagascar
to re-launch Allied offensive operations
in the Madagascar Campaign.
1943 – World War II: German forces begin
their occupation of Rome.
1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling,
Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters'
Convent claimed to have heard the call of
God, directing her "to leave the convent
and help the poor while living among them".
She would become known as Mother Teresa.
1960 – At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome,
Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan
African to win a gold medal, winning the
marathon in bare feet.
1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes
the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang
von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit
by his Ferrari.
1963 – 20 African-American students enter
public schools in Alabama.
1967 – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain
a British dependency rather than becoming
part of Spain.
1972 – The United States suffers its first
loss of an international basketball game
in a disputed match against the Soviet Union
at Munich, Germany.
1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence
from Portugal.
1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley
Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near
Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture
and murder, is the last person to be executed
by guillotine in France.
1990 – The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace
in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire – the largest
church in Africa is consecrated by Pope
John Paul II.
2001 – Charles Ingram cheats his way into
winning one million pounds on a British
version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
2001 – Antonio da Costa Santos, mayor of
Campinas, Brazil was assassinated.
2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral
country, joins the United Nations.
2003 – Anna Lindh, the foreign minister
of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping,
and dies the following day.
2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven
years in exile, following a military coup
in October 1999.
2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN,
described as the biggest scientific experiment
in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Aubert
Nicholas of Tolentino
Theodard of Maastricht
September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
National Day (Gibraltar)
Teacher's Day (People's Republic of China
and Hong Kong)
World Suicide Prevention Day (International)
For details, contact Datacentre
|