September
10
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)
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