Dig. What happened on October 9th, 2008… nothing.
But… what happened on September 10th, 2008:
"The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland"
Forgot sauce:
https://www.onthisday.com/date/2008/september/10
FWIW, when I read that on the screen I had frickin' goose bumps. The Large Hardon Collider was designed to prove the existence of the GOD particle.