Are you like me and enjoy history? Here are five more fascinating facts from September 10. 
1608 – English explorer John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
Sheriff James F. Martin’s posse kill 20 unarmed miners in Pennsylvania. Later Sheriff Martin and 73 deputies were arrested and put on trial.
“I was with the strikers when the shooting occurred. When we approached the Sheriff he walked to the middle of the road and told us to stop. Some few of the men went forward, and I then heard two volleys from the deputies. None of the strikers was armed. I was shot in the right arm and as I started to run I was shot in the right leg, the ball entering from the back and coming out in front.”
Although medical evidence showed that nearly all the strikers had been shot in the back, the sheriff and all 73 of his deputies were acquitted.
1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters' Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her "to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them". She would later become world renowned for her mercy, love and piety as Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India.
1960 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon while racing 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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