10 September in history.

1960

Barefoot to gold. Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila ran the Rome Olympic marathon barefoot and won, the first Olympic gold for a Black African athlete.

Wikipedia: Abebe Bikila

Photo: Anefo Derivative work MagentaGreen / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0 nl)

More from 10 September

1. 

   1845

   The Portland Vase restored

   John Doubleday pieced together the ancient Roman glass vase, smashed into almost 200 pieces by a visitor to the British Museum.

   Wikipedia: Portland Vase

   Photo: Unknown artist / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.5)

2. 

   1846

   The sewing machine patent

   Elias Howe received a US patent for his lockstitch sewing machine.

   Wikipedia: Elias Howe

   Photo: Elias_Howe-Southworth_&_Hawes.jpg : Southwarth and Hawes derivative work: TheCuriou… / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

3. 

   2008

   The LHC switches on

   The first beams went around the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the biggest science machine ever built.

   Wikipedia: Large Hadron Collider

   Photo: Arpad Horvath / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5)

4. 

   2024

   Polaris Dawn

   A private crew launched on Polaris Dawn and went on to make the first spacewalk by people who were not professional astronauts.

   Wikipedia: Polaris Dawn

   Photo: U.S. Space Force photo by Joshua Conti / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Moments chosen for discovery, creativity and courage. Each one links to a source where you can read more; photos are credited to their owners.