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September 7
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{{PAGENAME}} is the 250th day of the year (251st in
leap years). There are 115 days remaining.
Events
*
1251 BC - A
solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary
Heracles at
Thebes, Greece.
*
70 - A
Roman Empire Roman army under
General Titus occupies and plunders
Jerusalem.
*
1191 -
Third Crusade:
Battle of Arsuf -
Richard I of England defeats
Saladin at
Arsuf.
*
1539 -
Guru Angad Dev ji becomes the second
Guru of the
Sikhs.
*
1776 - World's first
submarine attack. The American submersible craft ''
Turtle (submarine) Turtle'' attempts to attach a
time bomb to the hull of British Admiral
Richard Howe's flagship ''Eagle'' in
New York Harbor.
*
1812 -
Napoleonic Wars:
Battle of Borodino -
Napoleon I of France Napoleon defeats the
Russian army of
Alexander I of Russia Alexander I near the village of
Borodino.
*
1818 -
Charles XIV of Sweden Carl III of
Sweden-Norway is crowned king of
Norway, in
Trondheim.
*
1821 - The
Republic of Gran Colombia (a federation covering much of presentday
Venezuela,
Colombia,
Panama, and
Ecuador) was established, with
Simón BolÃvar as the founding
President and
Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.
*
1822 -
Brazil declares its independence from
Portugal.
*
1860 -
Steamship ''
Lady Elgin (steamship) Lady Elgin'' sinks on
Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 400 lives.
*
1864 -
American Civil War:
Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General
William Tecumseh Sherman.
*
1876 - In
Northfield, Minnesota,
Jesse James 1847 Jesse James and the
James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly killed.
*
1901 - The
Boxer Rebellion in
China officially ends with the signing of the
Peking Protocol.
*
1906 -
Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his
14-bis aircraft at
Bagatelle,
France for the 1st time successfully.
*
1911 -
France French poet
Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the ''
Mona Lisa'' from the
Louvre museum.
*
1915 - Former cartoonist
Johnny Gruelle is given a patent for his
Raggedy Ann doll.
*
1921 - In
Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first
Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
*
1927 - The
UFMG University of Minas Gerais is founded in
Belo Horizonte,
Brazil, by Governor Antônio Carlos.
* 1927 - The first fully electronic
television system is achieved by
Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
*
1940 -
World War II:
The Blitz -
Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on
London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
* 1940 -
Treaty of Craiova:
Romania loses Southern
Dobrudja to
Bulgaria.
*
1943 - A fire at the Gulf Hotel in
Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.
*
1950 - Coal mine collapses in New Cumnock, Scotland - 13 miners dead. 116 rescued.
* 1950 - The gameshow ''
Truth or Consequences'' debuts on
television.
*
1953 -
Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the
Soviet Union Soviet Central Committee.
*
1963 - The
Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in
Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
*
1965 -
China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border.
* 1965 -
Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's
Operation Starlight,
United States Marines and
South Vietnamese forces initiate
Operation Pirahna on the
Batangan Peninsula.
*
1966 - The final new episode of ''
The Dick Van Dyke Show'' airs (the first episode aired on
October 3,
1961).
*
1969 -
Monty Python's Flying Circus airs first episode.
*
1970 - An anti-war rally is held at
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by
John Kerry,
Jane Fonda and
Donald Sutherland.
* 1970 - Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman,
Jordan.
*
1971 - The last new episode of ''
The Beverly Hillbillies'' is aired (the first episode debuted on
September 26,
1962).
*
1977 - The
Torrijos-Carter Treaties between
Panama and the
United States on the status of the
Panama Canal are signed. The US agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the
20th century.
*
1978 - While walking across
Waterloo Bridge in
London, Bulgarian dissident
Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a
ricin pellet fired from in a specially-designed umbrella.
*
1979 - The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (
ESPN) makes its debut.
* 1979 - The
Chrysler Corporation asks the
United States government for
USD $1 billion to avoid
bankruptcy.
*
1986 -
Desmond Tutu becomes the first
Blacks black to lead the
Anglican Communion Anglican Church in
South Africa.
* 1986 - Gen.
Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
*
1988 -
Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first
Afghan people Afghan in
outer space space, returns aboard the
Soviet Union Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the
Mir space station
*
1996 - In
Las Vegas, Nevada, actor and recording artist
Tupac Shakur is shot several times after attending a
boxing match, he dies
September 13 six days later.
*
1997 - The first test flight of the
F-22A Raptor takes place.
*
1998 -
Google is founded.
*
1999 - A major earthquake close to
Athens,
Greece, results to the collapse of few buildings in the area. About 150 people are killed.
*
2004 - The
Serbian
government backs a decision by Minister of Education and Sport
Ljiljana Čolić to require the teaching of both
creationism and
evolution in schools.
*
2005 -
Apple Computer introduced the iPod nano, a revolutionary full-featured iPod that holds 1,000 songs yet is thinner than a standard #2 pencil and less than half the size of competitive players.
* 2005 -
Apple Computer announced iTunes 5.
Births
*
1395 -
Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (d.
1450)
*
1524 -
Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (d.
1583)
*
1533 - Queen
Elizabeth I of England (d.
1603)
*
1615 -
John Birch (soldier) Colonel John Birch, English soldier (d.
1691)
*
1707 -
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (d.
1788)
*
1717 -
Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (d.
1791)
*
1816 -
Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (d.
1880)
*
1829 -
Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (d.
1896)
*
1860 -
Grandma Moses, American painter (d.
1961)
*
1866 -
Tristan Bernard, French writer (d.
1947)
*
1867 -
J. P. Morgan, American financier (d.
1943)
*
1870 -
Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer (d.
1938)
* 1870 -
James Tompkins Jimmy Tompkins, Canadian Catholic priest (d.
1953)
*
1885 -
Elinor Wylie, American writer (d.
1928)
*
1887 -
Edith Sitwell, English poet (d.
1964)
*
1889 -
Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer (d.
1953)
*
1895 -
Brian Horrocks, British general (d.
1985)
*
1900 -
Taylor Caldwell, American author (d.
1985)
*
1908 -
Paul Brown, American football coach (d.
1991)
* 1908 -
Dr. Michael DeBakey, American heart surgeon
*
1909 -
Elia Kazan, Hungarian-born film director (d.
2003)
*
1912 -
David Packard, American electrical engineer and businessman (d.
1996)
*
1913 - Sir
Anthony Quayle, English actor (d.
1989)
* 1913 -
Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (d.
1992)
*
1917 -
John Cornforth, Australian chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate
* 1917 -
Jacob Lawrence, American painter (d.
2000)
*
1923 -
Peter Lawford, English actor (d.
1984)
* 1923 -
Madeleine Dring, English composer and actress (d.
1977)
*
1929 -
Sonny Rollins, American jazz saxophonist
*
1930 - King
Baudouin I of Belgium (d.
1993)
*
1932 -
Paul Getty, American-born philanthropist (d.
2003)
*
1936 -
Buddy Holly, American singer (d.
1959)
*
1937 -
John Phillip Law, American actor
*
1939 -
Donnie Allison, American race car driver
*
1944 -
Robert Laxton, English politician
* 1944 -
Bora Milutinovic, Serbian football coach
* 1944 -
Sam Sloan, chess journalist
*
1945 -
Jacques Lemaire, Canadian hockey player
*
1946 -
Willie Crawford, baseball player (d.
2004)
* 1946 -
Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist (d.
2001)
*
1947 -
Graham Young, British serial killer (d.
1990)
*
1949 -
Lee McGeorge Durrell, American author, television presenter, and zookeeper
* 1949 -
Gloria Gaynor, American singer
*
1951 -
Morris Albert, Brazilian singer
* 1951 -
Chrissie Hynde, American guitarist and singer
* 1951 -
Julie Kavner, American voice actress
*
1952 -
Susan Blakely, American actress
*
1953 -
Benmont Tench, American keyboardist
*
1954 -
Corbin Bernsen, American actor
*
1955 -
Mira Furlan, Croatian actress
*
1958 -
Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer, actor, and songwriter (d.
1993)
*
1962 -
Thomas L. Beard, American musician, composer
*
1963 -
Eazy-E, American rapper (d.
1995)
*
1966 -
Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, German speed skater
*
1968 -
Marcel Desailly, French footballer
*
1976 -
Stevie Case (Killcreek), American video game celebrity
* 1976 -
Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
*
1978 -
Nora Greenwald, American professional wrestler
*
1980 -
Mark Prior, baseball player
* 1980 -
Emre Belozoglu Emre, Turkish footballer
*
1982 -
Lorne Berfield, American actor
*
1984 -
Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player
*
1987 -
Evan Rachel Wood, American actress
Deaths
*
355 -
Claudius Silvanus,
Roman usurper
*
1151 -
Geoffrey of Anjou (b.
1113)
*
1312 - King
Ferdinand IV of Castile (b.
1285)
*
1496 - King
Ferdinand II of Naples (b.
1469)
*
1548 -
Catherine Parr, sixth and final wife of
Henry VIII of England
*
1552 -
Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh Guru (b.
1504)
*
1559 -
Robert Estienne, French printer (b.
1503)
*
1632 - Emperor
Susenyos of Ethiopia
*
1644 -
Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman and historian (b.
1579)
*
1654 -
Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi and liturgical poet (b.
1579)
*
1655 -
François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (b.
1601)
*
1657 -
Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish field marshal and statesman (b.
1606)
*
1719 -
John Harris, English writer
*
1728 -
William Burnet (1688-1728) William Burnet, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (b.
1688)
*
1777 -
Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia
*
1799 -
Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b.
1717)
*
1809 -
Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (b.
1737)
*
1840 -
Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (b.
1765)
*
1881 -
Sidney Lanier, American writer (b.
1842)
*
1892 -
John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet (b.
1807)
*
1951 -
Maria Montez, Dominican actress (b.
1912)
*
1954 -
Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (
Mutt & Jeff)
*
1962 -
Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (b.
1895)
* 1962 -
Isak Dinesen, Danish author (b.
1885)
*
1969 -
Everett Dirksen, U. S. Senator from Illinois (b.
1896)
*
1971 -
Spring Byington, American actress (b.
1886)
*
1976 -
Daniel F. Galouye, American author (b.
1920)
*
1978 -
Keith Moon, English drummer (
The Who) (b.
1946)
*
1982 -
Ken Boyer, baseball player (b.
1931)
*
1985 -
Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1917)
*
1991 -
Edwin Mattison McMillan, American physicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b.
1907)
*
1994 -
James Clavell, Australian-born American author (b.
1924)
*
1997 -
Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire (b.
1930)
*
1999 -
Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist and author, (b.
1949)
*
2001 -
Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b.
1930)
*
2002 -
Erma Franklin, American singer (b.
1938)
*
2003 -
The Great Antonio, Canadian strongman and eccentric (b.
1925)
* 2003 -
Warren Zevon, American musician and songwriter (b.
1947)
*
2004 -
Bob Boyd, baseball player (b.
1925)
*
2005 -
Hope Garber, Canadian actress, hostess, entertainer and singer; also mother of actor
Victor Garber (b. circa 1924)
* 2005 -
Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (b.
1933)
Holidays and observances
*
Calendar of Saints RC Saints -
Saint Regina; Saint Evurtius (Heortius),
St. Cload (Clodoald)
*Also see
September 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*
Public holidays in Brazil Brazil -
Independence day (from Portugal,
1822)
*
Mozambique - Victory Day
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
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September 6 -
September 8 -
August 7 -
October 7 – more
historical anniversaries
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