September 7
is the 250th day of the year (251st in
leap years). There are 115 days remaining.
*
1251 BC - A
solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary
Heracles at
Thebes, Greece.
*
70 - A
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 Sikh.
*
1776 - World's first
submarine attack: the American submersible craft
Turtle attempts to attach a
time bomb to the hull of British Admiral
Richard Howe's flagship
Eagle in
New York Harbor.
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1812 -
Napoleonic Wars:
Battle of Borodino -
Napoleon defeats the
Russian army of
Alexander I near the village of
Borodino.
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1818 -
Carl III of
Sweden-Norway is crowned king of
Norway, in
Trondheim.
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1821 - The
Republic of Gran Colombia (a federation covering much of presentday
Venezuela,
Colombia,
Panama, and
Ecuador) was established, with
Simón Bolívar as the founding
President and
Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.
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1822 -
Brazil declares its independence from
Portugal.
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1860 -
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.
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1876 - In
Northfield, Minnesota,
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
Boxer Protocol.
*
1906 -
Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his
14-bis aircraft at
Bagatelle,
France for the 1st time successfully.
*
1907 -
Cunard Line's
RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from
Liverpool, England to
New York City.
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1909 -
Eugene Lefebvre(1878-1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at
Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered-heavier-than-air-craft.
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1911 -
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
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 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 records 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
black to lead the
Anglican Church in
South Africa.
* 1986 - Gen.
Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
*
1988 -
Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first
Afghan in
space, returns aboard the
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 would later die in the hospital due to his injuries from the shooting on
September 13.
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1997 - The first test flight of the
F-22 Raptor takes place.
*
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 - First presidential election was held in Egypt
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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 -
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)
*
1726 -
François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player (d.
1795)
*
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 -
Jimmy Tompkins, Canadian Catholic priest (d.
1953)
*
1877 -
Mike O'Neill, baseball player (d.
1959)
*
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)
*
1911 -
Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist dictator from 1956 to 1989 (d.
1998)
*
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)
*
1914 -
James Van Allen, American physicist (d.
2006)
*
1917 -
John Cornforth, Australian chemist,
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)
*
1930 -
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
*
1938 -
Susan Stamberg, American radio journalist
*
1939 -
Donnie Allison, American race car driver
*
1944 -
Robert Laxton, English politician
* 1944 -
Bora Milutinovic, Serbian football coach
* 1944 -
Sam Sloan, American 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
*
1950 -
Julie Kavner,
Jewish-American actress *
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
*
1956 -
Diane Warren, American song writer
*
1958 -
Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer, actor, and songwriter (d.
1993)
*
1963 -
Eazy-E, American rapper (d.
1995)
*
1966 -
Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, German speed skater
*
1968 -
Marcel Desailly, French footballer
*
1969 -
Darren Bragg, Baseball player
*
1972 -
Jason Isringhausen, American baseball player
*
1975 -
Harold Wallace, Costa Rican footballer
*
1976 -
Stevie Case, American video game celebrity
* 1976 -
Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
*
1977 -
Nora Greenwald, American professional wrestler
*
1980 -
Mark Prior, American baseball player
*
1980 -
Erik Crosier, American author
* 1980 -
Emre, Turkish footballer
*1980 -
Gabriel Milito, Aregentine footballer
*
1982 -
Lorne Berfield, American actor
*
1984 -
Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer
* 1984 -
Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player
*
1985 -
Alyssa Diaz, American actress
*
1987 -
Evan Rachel Wood, American actress
*
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, final wife of
Henry VIII of England (bc.
1512)
*
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 (b.
1579)
*
1654 -
Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi (b.
1579)
*
1655 -
François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (b.
1601)
*
1657 -
Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish field marshal (b.
1606)
*
1719 -
John Harris, English writer
*
1729 -
William Burnet, British-born American statesman (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)
*
1857 -
William Lewis Herndon, American captain
*
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
*
1959 -
Maurice Duplessis, Québec Prime Minister (b.
1890)
*
1962 -
Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian singer (b.
1895)
*
1962 -
Isak Dinesen, Danish author (b.
1885)
*
1962 -
Morris Louis, American
abstract expressionist painter (b.
1912)
*
1969 -
Everett Dirksen, American politican (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, American baseball player (b.
1931)
*
1985 -
Rodney Robert Porter, British biochemist,
Nobel laureate (b.
1917)
*
1991 -
Edwin Mattison McMillan, American physicist,
Nobel laureate (b.
1907)
*
1994 -
James Clavell, Australian-born American author (b.
1924)
* 1994 -
Godfrey Quigley, British actor (b.
1923)
*
1997 -
Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire (b.
1930)
*
1999 -
Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist (b.
1949)
*
2001 -
Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b.
1930)
*
2002 -
Erma Franklin, American singer (b.
1938)
*
2003 -
The Great Antonio, Canadian eccentric (b.
1925)
* 2003 -
Warren Zevon, American musician (b.
1947)
*
2004 -
Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b.
1925)
*
2005 -
Hope Garber, Canadian actress (b. circa 1924)
* 2005 -
Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (b.
1933)
*
RC Saints -
Saint Regina; Saint Evurtius (Heortius),
St. Cloud (Clodoald)
*Also see
September 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)*
Brazil -
Independence day (from Portugal,
1822)
*
Mozambique - Victory Day
*
BBC: On This DaySeptember 6 -
September 8 -
August 7 -
October 7 – more
historical anniversaries
