Reuters Historical Calendar - September 10

London, Sep 9 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on September 10 since 1900: 1919 - The Allied powers and the new republic of Austria signed the Treaty of Saint-Germain, which dissolved the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, recognised the independence of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia and forbade Austria to unite with Germany.

1943 - Nazi German troops occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City in World War Two.

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.

1961 - A President Airlines plane flying from Shannon Airport in Ireland to New Zealand crashed into the River Shannon shortly after take-off, killing all 77 passengers and six crew.

1967 - The people of Gibraltar voted to retain British sovereignty, rejecting Spanish rule.

1974 - Portugal recognised the independence of Guinea-Bissau, under the leadership of Luiz Cabral.

1976 - A British Airways Trident jet and a Yugoslav DC-9 collided over northern Yugoslavia, killing 176 people.

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.

1990 - Arab states agreed to move the headquarters of the deeply divided Arab League back to Cairo from Tunis.

1993 - The body of former President Ferdinand Marcos was laid to rest on Philippine soil, four years after he died in exile in Hawaii.

1995 - NATO sent US cruise missiles into action against Bosnian Serb anti-aircraft emplacements in a campaign to make the Serbs remove their siege guns from Sarajevo.

2001 - Asia had its first reported case of mad cow disease when a dairy cow tested positive in the Chiba area of Japan.

2001 - The UN Security Council ended an arms embargo imposed on Yugoslavia in March 1998, lifting the last international sanctions against Belgrade.

2002 - Japan successfully launched its third new-generation space rocket, the 57-metre H-2A rocket, and deployed two satellites.

2002 - Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations, pledging to respect its traditional neutrality while pursuing human rights and world peace.

2003 - Fired Enron Treasurer Ben Glisan became the first executive sent to prison for his role in the scandal that brought down Enron. He was sentenced to five years in prison.

2003 - In Sweden, Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was stabbed in Stockholm and died the next day.

2004 - Yemeni forces killed cleric Hussein al-Houthi, leader of the ''Believing Youth'' group, and his supporters, ending two months of clashes that left over 200 rebels and troops dead.

**2005 - Clarence ''Gatemouth'' Brown, Grammy Award-winning singer and guitarist, died aged 81.

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