Updated September 9, 2012, 2:28 pm
On Sept. 10, 1919, New York City welcomed home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who had served in the United States 1st Division during World War I.
On Sept. 10, 1934, Roger Maris, the professional baseball player who held the record for home runs in a single season from 1961 to 1998, was born. Following his death on Dec. 14, 1985, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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Historic Birthdays
Roger Maris 9/10/1934 – 12/14/1985 American professional baseball player.Go to obituary »
? Alonso Perez Medina-Sidonia 9/10/1550 – ?/?/1619
Spanish naval commander83 Sir John Soane 9/10/1753 – 1/20/1837
English Neoclassical architect74 William Torrey Harris 9/10/1835 – 11/5/1909
American public school educator and philosopher92 John Lynch 9/10/1847 – 11/2/1939
American politician; served in Mississippi legislature and U.S. Congress during Reconstruction64 Carl Van Doren 9/10/1885 – 7/18/1950
American novelist, biographer and critic54 Franz Werfel 9/10/1890 – 8/26/1945
German Expressionist poet, playwright and novelist83 Elsa Schiaparelli 9/10/1890 – 11/13/1973
Italian-born French dress designer69 Arthur Holly Compton 9/10/1892 – 3/15/1962
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1927)71 Cyril Connolly 9/10/1903 – 11/26/1974
English critic, novelist and founder of Horizon magazine
