September 7

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 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 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 defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.
1818 - 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 Bolívar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.
1822 - Brazil declares its independence from Portugal.
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.
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.
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 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 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 dies six days later.
1997 - The first test flight of the F-22 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 - First presidential election was held in Egypt

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 - 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)
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)
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
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
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, Baseball player
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
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
1729 - 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)
1857 - William Lewis Herndon, Captain of the steamer SS Central America.
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)
1959 - Maurice Duplessis, Québec Prime Minister (b. 1890)
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

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

External links

BBC: On This Day

September 6 - September 8 - August 7 - October 7 – more historical anniversaries

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