1935, “We found our houses empty and our people hungry; many of them half-clothed and many of them not clothed at all.” Louisiana’s U.S. Senator Huey Long, the Depression-era populist known as the “Kingfish”, dies 2 days after he is shot in Baton Rouge. Long’s bodyguards gun down his assailant Carl Weiss immediately after reopen fire on the Senator at Louisiana State capitol.

1846, Elias Howe receives a patent for his sewing machine-the device which brings clothing into the modern age .

1955, Gunsmoke premieres on TV, on CBS just a few years after the Popular Western debuts on radio. The TV series staring James Arness and Marshal Matt Dillon runs for the next 20 years.

And 1945, “Feliz Navidad. Feliz Navidad.” Christmas in September? Not quite. Singer and guitarist, Jose Feliciano, whose song “Feliz Navidad” is a Christmas Classic, is born in Puerto Rico.

Today in History. September 10th. Ed Donahue, the Associated Press.