Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 10
This is a list of selected September 10 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Empress Elisabeth of Austria -
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Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, Yamoussoukro
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Battle of Lake Erie -
Striking miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania -
A section of the Large Hadron Collider -
Abebe Bikila winning the marathon
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| National Day in Gibraltar (1967) | outdated |
| 1570 – A party of ten Jesuit missionaries landed on the Virginia Peninsula to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission. | too many citations needed |
| 1798 – At the Battle of St. George's Caye, a small force of British settlers defeated an invading force from Mexico who were attempting to claim what is now Belize for Spain. | needs more footnotes |
| 1813 – War of 1812: American forces led by Oliver Hazard Perry defeated the British on Lake Erie near Put-in-Bay, Ohio. | refimprove section |
| 1898 – In an act of "propaganda of the deed", Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni fatally stabbed Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Geneva, Switzerland. | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| 1960 – Mickey Mantle hit what was originally thought to be the longest home run in Major League Baseball, an estimated 643 feet (196 m). | refimprove section |
| 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi became the last person to be guillotined in France, the official method of execution in that country. France would later abolish the death penalty in 1981. | already featured on April 25 |
| 2007 – Nawaz Sharif, the thirteenth prime minister of Pakistan, returned to the country after being ousted in a coup and exiled eight years earlier. | expansion, too detailed |
| Louis IV of France |d|954 | refimprove section |
| Giovanni Antonio Grassi |b|1775 | TFA for 2021 |
Eligible
- 1547 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces defeated the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie near Musselburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
- 1937 – Led by the United Kingdom and France, nine nations met in the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 1945 – Mike the Headless Chicken was decapitated on a farm in Colorado; he survived another 18 months as part of sideshows before choking to death in Phoenix, Arizona.
- 1960 – Running barefoot in the marathon event at the Rome Olympics, Abebe Bikila became the first person from sub-Saharan Africa to win an Olympic gold medal.
- 1990 – Pope John Paul II consecrated the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, one of the largest churches in the world, in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast.
- 2000 – British forces freed soldiers and civilians who had been held captive by a militia group, contributing to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
- 2008 – CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, was first powered up beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.
- Born/died on this day: William Morgan |d|1604| Harriet Arbuthnot |b|1793| Jeppe Aakjær |b|1866| H.D. |b|1886| Adele Astaire |b|1896| Ho Feng-Shan |b|1901| Glen P. Robinson |b|1923| Erna Mohr |d|1968| Misty Copeland |b|1982| Virginia Satir |d|1988|
September 10: Ganesh Chaturthi begins (Hinduism, 2021)
- 1509 – A strong earthquake occurred in the Sea of Marmara, devastating much of Constantinople and causing at least 1,000 deaths.
- 1897 – A sheriff's posse fired on a peaceful labor demonstration mostly comprising Polish- and Slovak-American anthracite coal miners in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, killing 19 people and wounding many others.
- 1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, India, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu, later Mother Teresa (pictured), experienced what she later described as the "call within the call", directing her to "leave the convent and help the poor while living among them".
- 1961 – At the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, German driver Wolfgang von Trips's car collided with another, causing it to become airborne and crash into a side barrier, killing him and 15 spectators.
- Bob Heffron (b. 1890)
- Gunpei Yokoi (b. 1941)
- Jon Brower Minnoch (d. 1983)