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.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
Staging area
Images
Use only ONE image at a time
-
Empress Elisabeth of Austria -
Empress Elisabeth of Austria -
Empress Elisabeth of Austria -
Mother Teresa -
Battle of Lake Erie -
Striking miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania -
Section of the Large Hadron Collider -
Abebe Bikila winning the marathon
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| National Day in Gibraltar (1967) | outdated |
| Mid-Autumn Festival (traditional Chinese calendar, 2022); | unreffed section |
| 1570 – A party of ten Jesuit missionaries landed on the Virginia Peninsula to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission. | too many citations needed |
| 1711 – The Tuscarora War began in the Province of North Carolina between the Tuscarora people and European settlers with their respective allies. | page numbers 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 |
| 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. | Page numbers needed |
| 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. | refimprove |
| 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 | unreferenced sections |
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 at the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 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".
- 1960 – Running barefoot in the marathon event at the Rome Olympics, Abebe Bikila became the first athlete from sub-Saharan Africa to win an Olympic gold medal.
- 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.
- 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 the militant group the West Side Boys, contributing to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
- 2008 – CERN's Large Hadron Collider (section pictured), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, first began operations beneath the France–Switzerland border.
- Born/died on this day: William Morgan |d|1604| Giovanni Antonio Grassi |b|1775| Harriet Arbuthnot |b|1793| Jeppe Aakjær |b|1866| Mortimer Wheeler |b|1890| Bob Heffron |b|1890| Adele Astaire |b|1896| Ho Feng-Shan |b|1901| Glen P. Robinson |b|1923| Jim Pappin |b|1939| Erna Mohr |d|1968| Misty Copeland |b|1982|Jon Brower Minnoch |d|1983| Virginia Satir |d|1988| Chandra Khonnokyoong|d|2000
Mike the Headless Chicken
- 1509 – The "Minor Judgement Day" earthquake struck in the Sea of Marmara, devastating much of Constantinople and killing more than 1,000 people.
- 1779 – American Revolutionary War: Captain William Pickles of the Continental Navy boarded and captured the British sloop HMS West Florida at the Battle of Lake Pontchartrain.
- 1945 – Mike the Headless Chicken (pictured) was decapitated on a farm in Colorado; he survived another 18 months as part of sideshows before choking to death.
- 1974 – After centuries of Portuguese rule, the country of Guinea-Bissau was formally recognized as independent.
- 1983 – Typhoon Ellen dissipated after destroying hundreds of homes across Hong Kong and the Philippines.
- Empress Matilda (d. 1167)
- Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (b. 1823)
- H.D. (b. 1886)
- Abdul Hamid (d. 1965)
More anniversaries: