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John Smith is elected president of the governing council of Jamestown on September 10, 1608, making him the leader of the colony. His leadership focused on imposing discipline, particularly the "he that will not work shall not eat" policy, and improving the fort and food supply, which helped the colony survive its early, difficult years including establishing trade with the Powhatan Indians.
American inventor Elias Howe was granted a patent on September 10, 1846, for his sewing machine. An invention which revolutionized garment manufacturing and help change people's life and the Country economies.
The invention process of the sewing machine involved several men over a number of years, however, Elias Howe, Jr. is ultimately considered the inventor of the sewing machine. He received Four patents were actually issued prior to Howe's, but none of those inventors was successful. Howe's innovation, in addition to the mechanical improvements to his machine, was in putting together all of the work of his predecessors, and producing a sewing machine used around the world, making him wealthy and famous in the process. More
The first ever recorded drunk driving arrest takes place in London on September 10, 1897. The driver was a man named George Smith who was a taxi cab driver in London. He was drinking and driving and crashed into a building, he was arrested for drunk driving and pleaded guilty to the charge. Smith was sentenced to pay 25 shillings.
The first DUI charge in the United States occurred in 1910 when New York became the first state to prohibit drunk driving. No specific individual name was recorded.
Guinea-Bissau Independence from Portugal is formally recognized, on September 10, 1974. Their Independence Day is celebrated on September 24, the day in 1973, when they declared their independence, during their War of Independence from Portugal. Guinea-Bissau is a tropical country on West Africa’s Atlantic coast that’s known for national parks and wildlife.
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Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of the torture and murder of his former girlfriend, becomes the last person to be executed by guillotine on September 10, 1977. The guillotine was France's legal method of execution for nearly 200 years. France officially abolished the death penalty in 1981.
Pablo Picasso’s 1937 masterpiece “Guernica” arrives in Spain, on September 10, 1981, after more than 40 years of being in the custody of New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Picasso had strongly requested that Guernica remains at the Met, until Spain re-established a democratic republic. It would not be until 1981, after both the artist's and Franco's deaths, that Spanish negotiators were finally able to bring the mural home.
The painting was a tribute and a memorial to the city of Guernica and to those who perished during the massive bombing and destruction by warplanes of the Nazi Germany Condor Legion. The bombing too place during the Spanish Civil War in support of the Nationalist rebels led by general Francisco Franco. The painting was kept out of Spain per Picasso's wishes "until the “reestablishment of public liberties” in Spain. More
