WHAT HAPPENED ON 10. SEPTEMBER
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First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium (10. September 1936)

Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea. (10. September 1937)

World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss. (10. September 1939)

World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia. (10. September 1939)

World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign. (10. September 1942)

World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome. (10. September 1943)

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 become known as Mother Teresa. (10. September 1946)

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet. (10. September 1960)

Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari. (10. September 1961)

The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain. (10. September 1967)

The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. (10. September 1972)

Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal. (10. September 1974)

A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176. (10. September 1976)

Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France. (10. September 1977)

Pope John Paul II starts his 11-day papal visit to Fort Simpson, Canada and afterwards to several southern and western cities in the United States. (10. September 1987)

The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, the largest church in Africa, is consecrated by Pope John Paul II. (10. September 1990)

Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War. (10. September 2000)

Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. (10. September 2001)

Antonio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated. (10. September 2001)

Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations. (10. September 2002)