Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 10
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- 1813: The Battle of Lake Erie was fought between the United States and the United Kingdom.
- 1897: A peaceful labor demonstration made up of mostly Polish and Slovak anthracite coal miners in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, was fired upon by a sheriff's posse comitatus in the Lattimer Massacre.
- 1898: Empress Elisabeth of Austria (pictured) was fatally stabbed in Geneva, Switzerland.
- 1960: Mickey Mantle hit what is thought to be the longest home run in major league baseball, an estimated 643 feet (160 m).
- 1990: Africa's largest church, the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, was consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
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