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September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap
years). There are 115 days remaining.
Events
- 1191 - Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf - Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
- 1539 - Guru Angad Dev ji
became the second Guru of the Sikhs
- 1776 - World's first submarine attack.
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.
- 1822 - Brazil declares its independence from
Portugal.
- 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 wiped out.
- 1901 - The Boxer Rebellion
in China officially ends with the signing of the Peking Protocol.
- 1911 - French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of
stealing the "Mona Lisa" from the Louvre museum.
- 1921 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant is held.
- 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.
- 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 - 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,
23 miles south of the Chu Lai Marine
base.
- 1966 - The final new episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show airs (the first episode aired on October 3, 1961).
- 1970 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John
Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
- 1971 - The last new episode of The Beverly Hillbillies is aired (the first episode debuted on September 26, 1962).
- 1977 - 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.
- 1979 - The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.
- 1979 - The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for $1 billion dollars to avoid bankruptcy.
- 1986 - Desmond Tutu becomes the
first black to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
- 1996 - In Las Vegas,
Nevada, actor and recording artist Tupac Shakur is shot several times
after attending a boxing match.
- 1997 - The first test flight of the F/A-22 Raptor takes place.
Births
- 1533 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
- 1701 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, naturalist (d. 1788)
- 1829 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, organic chemist (d. 1896)
- 1860 - Grandma Moses (Anna Mary
Robertson Moses), painter (d. 1961)
- 1866 - Tristan Bernard,
writer (d. 1947)
- 1867 - J. P. Morgan, financier
(d. 1943)
- 1885 - Elinor Wylie, writer
- 1900 - Taylor Caldwell,
author (d. 1985)
- 1908 - Dr. Michael
DeBakey, heart surgeon
- 1908 - Paul Brown, National Football League coach (d. 1991)
- 1909 - Elia Kazan, director
- 1912 - David Packard,
automotive engineer
- 1913 - Sir Anthony Quayle,
actor
- 1923 - Peter Lawford, actor,
member of the Kennedy family (d. 1984)
- 1929 - Sonny Rollins, jazz saxophonist
- 1930 - King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993)
- 1936 - Buddy Holly, singer (d.
1959)
- 1937 - John Phillip Law, actor
- 1938 - Susan Stamberg, National Public
Radio commentator
- 1939 - Donnie Allison, NASCAR driver
- 1946 - Francisco Varela,
biologist
- 1947 - Graham Young, British serial killer, (d. 1990)
- 1949 - Lee McGeorge
Durrell author, television presenter, zookeeper
- 1949 - Gloria Gaynor, singer
- 1951 - Chrissie Hynde,
guitarist, singer
- 1951 - Julie Kavner, voice actress (The Simpsons)
- 1952 - Susan Blakely,
actress
- 1954 - Corbin Bernsen,
actor
- 1954 - Benmont Tench, keyboardist
- 1955 - Mira Furlan, actress,
Croatia
- 1956 - Michael Feinstein, musician, composer
- 1962 - Thomas L. Beard,
musician, composer
- 1968 - Marcel Desailly,
French footballer
- 1976 - Stevie Case (Killcreek), video game celebrity
- 1976 - Shannon Elizabeth, actress
- 1980 - Mark Prior, baseball pitcher
- 1984 - Vera Zvonareva,
tennis player
Deaths
- 1552 - Guru Angad Dev, Second
Guru of the Sikhs.
- 1548 - Catherine Parr, widow
of Henry VIII of England
- 1559 - Robert Estienne,
early printer of the Bible
- 1892 - John Greenleaf Whitter, poet
- 1951 - Maria Montez, actress
- 1954 - Glenn 'Pop' Warner, American
football coach
- 1962 - Isak Dinesen (Karen
Blixen), author
- 1971 - Spring Byington, actress
- 1976 - Daniel F.
Galouye, science fiction author
- 1978 - Keith Moon, musician
- 1969 - Everett Dirksen,
former Senator from Illinois
- 1982 - Ken Boyer, baseball star
- 1991 - Edwin
Mattison McMillan, physicist
- 1994 - James Clavell,
author
- 1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko,
dictator of Zaire
- 2001 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish television star
- 2002 - Erma Franklin,
singer
- 2003 - Warren Zevon, American musician-songwriter
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8 - August 7 - October 7 - more
historical anniversaries
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