Schumacher wins Italian Grand Prix
2000 - A tearful Michael Schumacher delivered a dream result for Ferrari’s fanatical fans when he won his third Italian Grand Prix in a race marred by multiple crashes on the first lap. The race was marred by the death of a fire safety official, struck on the head by a flying tyre after a spectacular six-car crash on the first lap. The official, Paolo Ginslinberti, 30, was given heart massage at the track side and taken by helicopter to hospital where he died later. Seven cars dropped out as the field was forced to drive behind the safety car for the next 10 laps. Schumacher, in a Ferrari, took his sixth race of the season and 41st of his career as he finished the 53 laps of the 5,792-kilometre Monza Autodrome 3.8 seconds ahead of Mika Hakkinen’s McLaren-Mercedes.
September 10
1844 - France’s war in Morocco ends with the Treaty of Tangier.
1898 - Empress Elizabeth of Austria-Hungary is assassinated by an Italian anarchist in Geneva.
1923 - Ireland is admitted into the League of Nations.
1939 - Canada declares war on Germany during the Second World War.
1977 - Convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
1979 - Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani, the spiritual chief of Tehran, dies at the age of 68.
1990 - Gulf War foes Iran and Iraq agree to resume diplomatic relations and reopen their embassies.
1991 - In Moscow, Mikhail Gorbachev convenes the first human rights conference to be held in the Soviet Union.
1993 - Five Somali employees of Cable News Network are killed and four wounded in clan fighting.
1999 - Three bombs explode in apartment buildings in Moscow and Volgodonsk, in southern Russia, killing at least 229 people.
2000 - Ecuador becomes the first Latin American country to adopt the US dollar officially.
2002 - Switzerland joins the United Nations.
2007 - Pakistan deports former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to Saudi Arabia after his dramatic return from exile.
2008 - Saleh Aridi, a senior member of the Lebanese Democratic Party, is assassinated in Lebanon.
2009 - Sa’ad Hariri steps down as Lebanon’s prime minister-designate, following the opposition’s rejection of his cabinet proposal.
2011 - A ferry capsizes off the popular tourist archipelago of Zanzibar in Tanzania, killing 163.
