Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 10

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 * 1547 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces defeated the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie near Musselburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
 * 1845 – John Doubleday completed a "masterly" restoration of the Portland Vase, which had been smashed into hundreds of pieces six months prior.
 * 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 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

September 10


 * 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.