Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 10
September 10: National Grandparents' Day in the United States (2006)
- 1813 - War of 1812: An American fleet led by Oliver Hazard Perry scored a decisive victory in the Battle of Lake Erie.
- 1897 - A peaceful labor demonstration made up of mostly Polish and Slovak anthracite coal miners in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, was fired upon by a sheriff's posse comitatus in the Lattimer Massacre.
- 1898 - Empress Elisabeth of Austria (pictured) was fatally stabbed in Geneva, Switzerland.
- 1960 - Mickey Mantle hit what is thought to be the longest home run in major league baseball, an estimated 643 feet.
- 1990 - Africa's largest church, the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, was consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
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