Wikipedia:Main Page history/2016 September 10

Blakeney Point

The

Syster Sol

• ... that singer Syster Sol (pictured) won the award for Best Reggae/Dancehall at the 2014 Kingsizegala?
• ... that the Bristol and Bath Science Park includes an open area where children come to skateboard?
• ... that Kansas City Chiefs rookie linebacker Dadi Nicolas played his senior year of college with a broken hand?
• ... that the Jurassic La Negra Formation in northern Chile contains products of submarine volcanism?
• ... that Rangers F.C. did not knowingly sign any Catholic players between the 1920s and 1980s?
• ... that
  Independent Paralympic Athletes Team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
  ?
• ... that
  Bryan Kirkwood believed he had let Tamara Wall down with the initial characterisation of her character Grace Black
  ?
• ... that whilst loading tanks at night on the
  Gilling and Pickering Line
  during World War II, soldiers would stand on either side of the wagons smoking cigarettes to guide the tank drivers?

Artist's impression of OSIRIS-REx

• The 54-kilometre (34 mi) Moscow Ring Railway starts its passenger service.
• North Korea conducts its fifth and largest nuclear test to date.
• NASA launches OSIRIS-REx (artist's impression pictured), a probe sent to return samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu.
• Genetic analysis shows that the genus giraffe, previously thought to contain one extant species, actually consists of four.
• The Summer Paralympics open in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

September 10

Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima

• 1561 – The Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima (pictured), one of the most cherished tales in Japanese military history, the epitome of Japanese chivalry and romance, took place in Shinano Province.
• sheriff's posse in the Lattimer massacre
  .
• 1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu, later Mother Teresa, 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".
• Côte d'Ivoire
  , one of the largest churches in the world.
• 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.