| 103141 | September 10 | Event | 1972 – The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. |
| 103142 | September 10 | Event | 1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal. |
| 103143 | September 10 | Event | 1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176. |
| 103144 | September 10 | Event | 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France. |
| 103145 | September 10 | Event | 1987 – Pope John Paul II starts his 11-day papal visit to Fort Simpson, Canada and afterwards to several southern and western cities in the United States. |
| 103146 | September 10 | Event | 1990 – The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, the largest church in Africa, is consecrated by Pope John Paul II. |
| 103147 | September 10 | Event | 2000 – Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War. |
| 103148 | September 10 | Event | 2001 – Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. |
| 103149 | September 10 | Event | 2001 – Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated. |
| 103150 | September 10 | Event | 2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations. |
| 103151 | September 10 | Event | 2003 – Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day. |
| 103152 | September 10 | Event | 2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999. |
| 103153 | September 10 | Event | 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland. |
| 103154 | September 10 | Event | 2014 – The first Invictus Games took place at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. |
| 103155 | September 10 | Birth | 920 – Louis IV of France (d. 954) |
| 103156 | September 10 | Birth | 1169 – Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1183) |
| 103157 | September 10 | Birth | 1487 – Pope Julius III (d. 1555) |
| 103158 | September 10 | Birth | 1550 – Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish general (d. 1615) |
| 103159 | September 10 | Birth | 1547 – George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1596) |
| 103160 | September 10 | Birth | 1561 – Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Paraguayan-Argentinian soldier and politician (d. 1634) |
| 103161 | September 10 | Birth | 1588 – Nicholas Lanier, English singer-songwriter and lute player (d. 1666) |
| 103162 | September 10 | Birth | 1624 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician and author (d. 1689) |
| 103163 | September 10 | Birth | 1638 – Maria Theresa of Spain (d. 1683) |
| 103164 | September 10 | Birth | 1659 – Henry Purcell, English organist and composer (d. 1695) |
| 103165 | September 10 | Birth | 1714 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774) |
| 103166 | September 10 | Birth | 1753 – John Soane, English architect and academic, designed the Royal Academy and Freemasons' Hall (d. 1837) |
| 103167 | September 10 | Birth | 1758 – Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840) |
| 103168 | September 10 | Birth | 1786 – Nicolás Bravo, Mexican soldier and politician, 11th President of Mexico (d. 1854) |
| 103169 | September 10 | Birth | 1786 – William Mason, American surgeon and politician (d. 1860) |
| 103170 | September 10 | Birth | 1788 – Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and author (d. 1868) |