Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Sept 10
Reuters
1945 - Vidkun Quisling, head of the puppet government set up by the Nazis in Norway in World War Two, was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death.
1981 - Pablo Picasso's Spanish Civil War painting "Guernica" was returned to Spain from New York's Museum of Modern Art. Picasso had vowed it would not enter Spain until democracy was restored there.
1983 - John Vorster, prime minister of South Africa from 1966-78 and president from 1978-79, died.
1989 - Hungary opened its border to the West, allowing thousands of East Germans to leave in a mass exodus that presaged the toppling of the Berlin Wall.
1993 - The body of former President Ferdinand Marcos was laid to rest on Philippine soil, four years after he died in exile in Hawaii.
2002 - Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations, pledging to respect its traditional neutrality while pursuing human rights and world peace.
2003 - Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was stabbed in Stockholm and died the next day.
2005 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Grammy Award-winning singer and guitarist, died in Texas aged 81.
2006 - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga died in a New Zealand hospital. He was 88.
2007 - Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif arrested as he returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile.
2008 - Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) start up the Large Hadron Collider, a huge particle-smashing machine.
