On September 10
On September 10, the Human Saga records one pivotal event: The Large Hadron Collider and the discovery of the Higgs boson (2008).
On this day
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27-kilometre circular particle accelerator straddling the Franco-Swiss border at CERN near Geneva, first circulated proton beams on 10 September 2008.
Also this week in history (Sep 7 – Sep 13)
On 11 September 2001 the militant group al-Qaeda carried out coordinated suicide attacks against the United States, hijacking four passenger airliners.
Over several days in September 9 CE, a coalition of Germanic peoples led by Arminius — a chieftain who had served as a Roman auxiliary officer and held Roman citizenship — ambushed and annihilated three legions (XVII, XVIII and XIX) under…
In July 1683 the Ottoman grand vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha laid siege to Vienna with a great army, hoping to seize the Habsburg capital and open Central Europe to Ottoman power. The city held out for two months under desperate conditions.
On 7 September 1822, beside the Ipiranga brook near São Paulo, Prince Regent Pedro of Braganza proclaimed Brazil's independence from Portugal in the episode remembered as the Grito do Ipiranga ("Cry of Ipiranga").
The Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901) was an anti-foreign, anti-Christian uprising in northern China led by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, whose members—nicknamed 'Boxers' for their martial-arts practices—believed ritual training…
On 11 September 1973 the Chilean armed forces, led by army commander General Augusto Pinochet, overthrew the democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition.
On 13 September 1993, at a ceremony on the White House lawn hosted by US President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat sealed the first Oslo Accord, the…
Speaking at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 7 September 2013, Chinese leader Xi Jinping proposed building a 'Silk Road Economic Belt' linking China across Central Asia to Europe.
In early September 2025, leaderless youth protests erupted across Nepal, ignited by a government ban on major social-media platforms and fuelled by deep anger over entrenched corruption and economic stagnation.