September 10 Did You Know 3 Fascinating Facts From Michelle Carr Crowe
Just for fun, here are three fascinating facts from history for September 10th.
When I take a break from selling houses in San Jose, Cupertino and Santa Clara, Calif., I love learning new facts. Here are three fascinating facts from this date in history, September 10, courtesy of Wikipedia.
- 1608 – Exploerer John Smith of the original Mayflower pilgrims is elected council president of their colonial settlement of Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1846 – Inventor Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
- 1960 – At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, runner Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
- 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
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