September 7
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September 7 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 114 days remaining until the end of the year.
[change] Events
- 1776 - World's first submarine attack. The American submarine Turtle tried to put a time bomb on the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship Eagle in New York Harbor.
- 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon defeated the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.
- 1818 - Carl III of Sweden-Norway became king of Norway, in Trondheim.
- 1822 - Brazil became independant from Portugal.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
- 1901 - The Boxer Rebellion in China ends with the signing of the Peking Protocol.
- 1911 - French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail. It was believed that he took the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
- 1940 - World War II: The Blitz - Nazi Germany begins to bomb London. This will be the first of 57 nights of bombing.
- 1953 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.
- 1963 - The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio.
- 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.
- 1970 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
- 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.
- 1979 - The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.
- 1986 - Desmond Tutu becomes the first black to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
- 1996 - In Las Vegas, Nevada, actor and rapper Tupac Shakur is shot several times after attending a boxing match.
- 1998 - Google Inc. 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 Ljiljana Colic to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools.
[change] Births
- 1533 - Elizabeth I, Queen of England (d. 1603)
- 1836 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Scottish Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1908)
- 1867 - J. P. Morgan, American banker(d. 1943)
- 1930 - Baudouin I, King of Belgium (d. 1993)
- 1935 - Abdou Diouf, 2nd president of Senegal
- 1936 - Buddy Holly, American singer (d. 1959)
- 1951 - Julie Kavner, American voice actress
- 1954 - Michael Emerson, American actor
- 1987 - Evan Rachel Wood, American actress
[change] Deaths
- 1539 - Guru Nanak Dev, Indian religious leader, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)
- 1783 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1707)
- 1902 - Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Spanish writer and diplomat (b. 1842)
