Events
of the day
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.
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)
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