MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Today is Monday, September 10, the 252nd day of 2007. There are 113 days left in the year.

422 _ St. Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic pope

1349 _ Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death

1608 _ John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va.

1776 _ George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers

1798 _ British Hondurus beats Spain in the battle of St. George

1823 _ Simon Bolivar named president of Peru

1846 _ Elias Howe patents the sewing machine

1869 _ A Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan

1910 _ The Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber

1939 _ Canada declares war on Germany

1960 _ Running barefoot, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila wins Rome Olympic marathon

1973 _ Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton

1974 _ Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal

1989 _ Boris Becker beats Yvan Lendl for the U.S. Open championship

1989 _ East Germans begin their flight to the West (via Hungary and Czech)

1990 _ George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki

1990 _ Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas, Nevada

1990 _ Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq