September 10: Paryushana begins (Svetambar Jains, 2015)
Striking miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania
- 1570 – A party of ten Jesuit missionaries landed on the Virginia Peninsula to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
- 1897 – A peaceful labor demonstration made up of mostly Polish and Slovak anthracite coal miners (pictured) in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, US, was fired upon by a sheriff's posse in the Lattimer massacre.
- 1945 – Mike the Headless Chicken was decapitated in a farm in Colorado; he survived another 18 months as part of sideshows before choking to death in Phoenix, Arizona.
- 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.
- 2000 – Operation Barras successfully freed six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributed to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
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