• Today is Tuesday, Sept. 10, the 253rd day of 2013. There are 112 days left in the year.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On September 10, 1813, an American naval force commanded by Oliver H. Perry defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. (Afterward, Perry sent out the message, "We have met the enemy and they are ours.")
• On this date:
• In 1608, John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.
• In 1846, Elias Howe received a patent for his sewing machine.
• In 1912, the jungle character Tarzan made his debut as "Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs was first published in The All-Story magazine.
• In 1919, New York City welcomed home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who'd served in the U.S. First Division during World War I.
• In 1939, Canada declared war on Germany.
• In 1945, Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis (he was executed by firing squad in October 1945).
• In 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, a black student.
• In 1963, twenty black students entered Alabama public schools following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace.
• In 1979, four Puerto Rican nationalists imprisoned for a 1954 attack on the U.S. House of Representatives and a 1950 attempt on the life of President Harry S. Truman were freed from prison after being granted clemency by President Jimmy Carter.
• In 1983, John Vorster (FAWS'-tur), prime minister of white-ruled South Africa from 1966 to 1978, died in Cape Town at age 67.
• In 1987, Pope John Paul II arrived in Miami, where he was welcomed by President and Mrs. Reagan as he began a 10-day tour of the United States.
• In 1993, "The X-Files" premiered on Fox Television.
• Ten years ago: Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, 46, was stabbed in a

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