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Sept 10, 1509: An earthquake known as "The Minor Judgment Day" hits Constantinople. The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 7.2 on the surface-wave magnitude scale. A tsunami and 45 days of aftershocks followed the earthquake. The death toll of this earthquake is unknown; estimates range between 1,000 and 13,000.

The first big earthquake in Istanbul when it came under the rule of the Ottoman Empire took place on Dec. 18, 1488. While the dome of the Fatih Mosque was demolished, different regions of the city were damaged as well. On Sept. 10, 1509, Istanbul was shaken by a big quake at 4 a.m. Before the people understood what was happening, the whole city was destroyed. According to experts, the earthquake in 1509 in Istanbul was the biggest one in the Eastern Mediterranean after the year 1000. It was felt in the area from Bolu province to Edirne province. It was called "Little Doomsday."

Istanbul's nightmare: A timeline of earthquakes that shook the city

Sept 10, 1813: American naval forces under the command of Oliver Hazard Perry defeated and captured an entire Royal Navy squadron of six ships at the Battle of Lake Erie. The battle was a major victory that gave the U.S. control over the strategically important lake.


This painting, which hangs in the U.S. Capitol, is a larger version of Powell's Perry's Victory on Lake Erie (1865) that hangs in the Ohio Statehouse.


Sept 10, 1897: George Smith, a 25-year-old taxi driver, was the first person to be charged with drink-driving. He was fined 20 shillings at Marlborough Street Police Court in London. Smith had been arrested by Police Constable Russell after crashing his electric cab into the front of 165 New Bond Street.




September 10, 1945: Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death, for collaborating with the Nazis during WW2. He led Norway in 1940 and served as Prime Minister, ruling with the German civilian administrator Josef Terboven from 1942 to 1945. His surname became a synonym for treachery.
The term was coined by the British newspaper The Times in its lead of 15 April 1940, titled "Quislings everywhere." Quislers


Quisling was executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress at 02:40 on 24 October 1945. His last words before being shot were, "I'm convicted unfairly and I die innocent."



September 10, 1967: 99.6 percent of voters in Gibraltar voted to remain a British dependency, rather than becoming part of Spain, in the Gibraltar Sovereignty Referendum. That sounds rigged.




Some would say that 1982 was the greatest year in movie history.




Space Shuttle Endeavour astronauts of mission STS-54 went full Star Trek for the crew's official gag portrait, June 1992.




Sept 10, 1993: THE X-FILES premiered on this night!

And so it began. The "truth" is a moving target.




How it started vs. how it’s going...


Prepared Remarks before the Peterson Institute for International Economics (Archived link; Image text of the now redacted statement. SEC pulled it off their website. Internal comments were quickly deleted) LOL!


This guy either does not exist or might be in the wilderness living off herbs and creek water.


Any relation to FEMA, Director, DHS Continuity Division Joseph “Andy” Couch who cheers for British sports teams?

Beautiful Old Age

D.H. Lawrence

It ought to be lovely to be old
to be full of the peace that comes of experience
and wrinkled ripe fulfilment.

The wrinkled smile of completeness that follows a life
lived undaunted and unsoured with accepted lies
they would ripen like apples, and be scented like pippins
in their old age.

Soothing, old people should be, like apples
when one is tired of love.
Fragrant like yellowing leaves, and dim with the soft
stillness and satisfaction of autumn.

And a girl should say:
It must be wonderful to live and grow old.
Look at my mother, how rich and still she is! -

And a young man should think: By Jove
my father has faced all weathers, but it's been a life!