On This Day September 10

After devastating central Greece, Storm Daniel struck Libya, where torrential rains caused two dams to collapse, leaving at least 4,000 people dead and thousands more missing in the coastal city of Derna

Diana Rigg, British actress best known as Emma Peel in the TV series The Avengers, Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones, and the only woman to marry James Bond, in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, died at age 82

Scientists announced the discovery of Homo naledi, a new pre-human species found in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South Africa

Richard Kiel, the towering 7ft 2in tall actor who played the steel-toothed, cable-chomping villain Jaws in two James Bond films – The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979) – died in California aged 74

Scientists found that the so-called “junk” DNA in the human genome links millions of regulators that turn genes on or off to make proteins

Inspired by his Olympic gold medal win, Britain’s Andy Murray beat Novak Djokovic in an intense five-hour, five-set match (7-6, 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2) to win the U.S. Open, his first Grand Slam victory

U.S. actor Cliff Robertson died at age 88, after a film and TV career hat spanned half a century. Notable roles included his portrayal of a young John F. Kennedy in the 1963 film PT 109 -- he was Kennedy’s personal choice to play him -- and the mentally disabled Charlie Gordon in Charly, which won him the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor

As many as 25 murders were recorded in a single day in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s most violent city. Most were related to drug smuggling gangs

The Dubai Metro, the first mass transit system on the Arabian Peninsula, officially opened to the public. More than 110,000 people, almost 10 percent of Dubai’s population, used the Metro in its first two days of operation

Proton beams were successfully circulated in the main ring of Europe’s Large Hadron Collider for the first time, but a major fault caused the operation to be shut down after just nine days

North Korea dismissed reports that leader Kim Jong-il might have suffered a stroke. Speculation grew after the reclusive 66-year-old leader, widely believed to suffer from debilitating illnesses, failed to appear at a parade on Tuesday to mark the country’s 60th anniversary celebrations

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was deported within hours of returning to Pakistan after seven years in exile. After arriving at Islamabad airport he was charged with money laundering and put on a plane to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Sharif planned to challenge President Pervez Musharraf, who ousted him in a 1999 coup, in presidential elections at the end of the year

Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Jane Wyman, the first wife of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, died at her California home at the age of 93. One of Hollywood's biggest stars in the 1940s and 50s, she was nominated for four Oscars, winning for her role as the deaf rape victim in 1948’s Johnny Belinda. She married Reagan, then a fellow actor, in 1940, but they divorced after eight years, with Wyman later revealing that “politics built a barrier” between them

Anita Roddick, founder of ethical cosmetics firm The Body Shop, died at 64 after a major brain haemorrhage. She set up the first Body Shop in 1976, pioneering cruelty-free and ethically-sourced beauty products

Germany’s Michael Schumacher, then the most successful driver in Formula One history, announced his retirement from the sport at the end of the 2006 season