SEPTEMBER 10
1608:Capt. John Smith is elected council president of the Jamestown colony, taking on the leadership of about 100 men struggling to survive in the first permanent English settlement in North America.
1776: Capt. Nathan Hale volunteers to gather intelligence behind British lines on Long Island, becoming one of the first spies of the American Revolution. The 21-year-old Hale will be captured on Sept. 21 and hanged the next day. His last words are reportedly, “I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.”
1919: Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, and about 25,000 soldiers of the 1st Division are welcomed home from the Western Front with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.
1776: Capt. Nathan Hale volunteers to gather intelligence behind British lines on Long Island, becoming one of the first spies of the American Revolution. The 21-year-old Hale will be captured on Sept. 21 and hanged the next day. His last words are reportedly, “I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.”
1919: Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, and about 25,000 soldiers of the 1st Division are welcomed home from the Western Front with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.
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