Shimla, Sept. 10 Keekli Bureau
2008
The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, conducted its first test operation.
2000
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats closed after 7,485 performances; it was the longest-running show on Broadway until it was surpassed by Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera in 2006.
1993
The TV series The X-Files, starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, debuted on Fox, and it developed a huge cult following.
1988
By winning the U.S. Open, Steffi Graf completed the Grand Slam of tennis; she was the first woman to accomplish the feat since Margaret Court in 1970.
1974
Guinea-Bissau gained independence from Portugal.
1934
American professional baseball player Roger Maris, who held (1961–98) the record for most home runs (61) in a single season, was born.
1919
Austria and the Allied powers signed the Treaty of Saint-Germain, concluding World War I.
1846
American inventor Elias Howe was granted a patent for his sewing machine, which revolutionized garment manufacture in the factory and in the home.
1721
The Second Northern War (1700–21) was concluded by the Peace of Nystad.
1651
Japanese rebel Yui Shosetsu committed suicide after the failure of his plot against the Tokugawa shogunate.
1419
John the Fearless, second duke of Burgundy, was killed during a meeting with the future king Charles VII at Montereau, France.
