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SEPTEMBER 7
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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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)
- 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
- 1978 - Devon Sawa, American actor
- 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
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, 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)
Holidays and observances
External links
September 6 - September 8 - August 7 - October 7 – more historical anniversaries
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