September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 115 days remaining until the end of the year.
Holidays
- Air Force Day (Pakistan)
- Christian feast day:
- Earliest day on which National Grandparents Day can fall, while September 13 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday after Labor Day. (United States)
- Constitution Day (Fiji)
- Independence Day (Brazil), celebrates the independence of Brazil from Portugal in 1822.
- Military Intelligence Day (Ukraine)
- National Acorn Squash Day (United States)
- National Beer Lover’s Day (United States)
- National Salami Day (United States)
- National Threatened Species Day (Australia)
- Victory Day (Mozambique)
History
In AD 70, A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
In 878, Louis the Stammerer was crowned as King of West Francia by Pope John VIII.
In 1159, Pope Alexander III chosen.
In 1191, Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf – Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
In 1228, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II landed in Acre, Palestine and started the Sixth Crusade, which resulted in a peaceful restitution of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
In 1303, Guillaume de Nogaret takes Pope Boniface VIII prisoner on behalf of Philip IV of France.
In 1571, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots.
In 1630, The Massachusetts town of Trimountaine was renamed Boston. Why they changed it they never say, people just liked it better that way.
In 1652, Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
In 1695, Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end all English trading in India.
In 1706, War of the Spanish Succession: Siege of Turin ends, leading to the withdrawal of French forces from North Italy.
In 1764, Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
In 1776, According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world’s first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
In 1778, American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France’s involvement in the war.
In 1812, French invasion of Russia: The Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought near Moscow and resulted in a French victory. The Russian army under General Kutuzov was heavily defeated by Napoleon at the battle of Borodino 70 miles west of Moscow. Napoleon entered Moscow a week later.
In 1813, Uncle Sam was not created, contrary to popular belief, Thomas Nast did not create Uncle Sam (the male personification of the American people), Columbia (the female personification of American values), or the Democratic donkey, though he did popularize these symbols through his artwork. It is said the character was created in likeness to Sam Wilson who owned a meat packing firm which supplied provisions for soldiers. Barrels were stamped with a large “U.S.” which an Irish watchman thought referred to “Uncle Sam Wilson.” So from then on, “U.S.” meant “Uncle Sam” which became the nickname for the U.S. Government.
In 1818, Carl III of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
In 1822, Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in São Paulo.
In 1825, the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, bade farewell to President John Quincy Adams at the White House.
In 1857, Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers slaughter most members of peaceful, emigrant wagon train.
In 1860, Italian unification: Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Naples.
In 1864, American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
In 1867, President Andrew Johnson extended amnesty to all but a few of the leaders of the Confederacy
In 1873, Emilio Castelar y Ripoll becomes President of the First Spanish Republic.
In 1876, In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob the town’s bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
In 1889, Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of The Engineer’s Thumb” (BG).
In 1893, The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become one of the oldest Italian football clubs, is established by British expats.
In 1895, The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.
In 1901, The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
In 1906, Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
In 1907, Cunard Line‘s RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
In 1909, Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
In 1911, French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
In 1915, a patent is granted to John B. Gruelle, a former cartoonist for the Cleveland Press, for his Raggedy Ann doll.
In 1916, US federal employees win the right to Workers’ compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
In 1920, Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they would serve with the Finnish Air Force, killing both crews.
In 1921, In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
In 1921, The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
In 1922, In Aydın, Turkey, independence of Aydın, from Greek occupation.
In 1922, The Bank of Latvia established.
In 1927, The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
In 1928, The first Tour de Pologne began.
In 1929, Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives are lost.
In 1932, The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.
In 1936, The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
In 1940, Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria.
In 1940, World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.
In 1942, First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
In 1942, World War II: Australian and US forces inflict a significant defeat upon the Japanese at the Battle of Milne Bay.
In 1943, A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, kills 55 people.
In 1943, World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
In 1945, Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
In 1949, Jose Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter, died. Considered one of the greatest mural painters of the 20th century, he decorated many buildings in Mexico and the U.S.
In 1953, Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
In 1953, Mohammed Daoud Khan becomes Premier of Afghanistan.
In 1953, Garfield Todd becomes Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia.
In 1960, Famed painter ANNA (‘GRANDMA’) MOSES marks her 100th birthday, and at a party in her honor dances a jig with her physician.
In 1961, João Goulart becomes President of Brazil.
In 1963, The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
In 1965, China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
In 1965 – Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August‘s Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.
In 1970, Fighting between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
In 1970 – Bill Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden).
In 1972, the Federal grand jury indicted G. Gordon Liddy, James McCord, E. Howard Hunt and four other people involved in the Watergate break-in.
In 1977, The Torrijos–Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
In 1977 – The 300-metre-tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
In 1977, Christine Jorgensen sues United Artists over the marketing of the 1970 movie “The Christine Jorgensen Story.” The studio says it’s a “campy B movie,” while Ms. Jorgensen insists in her lawsuit the film about her infamous sex change surgery is “a classic.”
In 1977, convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy was released from prison after more than four years.
In 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 a specially-designed umbrella.
In 1979 – The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
In 1983, Addressing his fellow foreign ministers in Madrid, Andrei Gromyko of the Soviet Union staunchly defended his country’s downing of Korean Air Lines flight 007, saying the United States was ultimately responsible for the plane’s presence in Soviet airspace.
In 1986, Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
In 1986 – General Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
In 1987, the Rev. Jesse Jackson declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
In 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.
In 1988, Vice President George Bush startled an American Legion audience in Louisville, Kentucky, by referring to September seventh as “Pearl Harbor Day,” which is actually December seventh. (Realizing his mistake, Bush said, “Did I say September seventh? Sorry about that.”)
In 1989, The Senate approved, 76-8, legislation prohibiting discrimination against the handicapped in employment, public accommodations, transportation and communications.
In 1990, Kimberly Bergalis of Fort Pierce, Florida, came forward to identify herself as the young woman who had been infected with AIDS, apparently by her late dentist. (Bergalis died the following year.)
In 1993, Dr. Joycelyn Elders was confirmed by the Senate to be surgeon general. She was fired for, um, let’s say she gave a certain act of human nature a new way of putting it, “Firing the Surgeon General.” This is a family paper, so you can figure it out yourself.
In 1996, Isabel Correa became the 40th person known to have died in the presence of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, less than a day after police burst into a Michigan motel room, interrupting a meeting between her and Kevorkian.
In 1999, A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.
In 1999, Viacom Inc. announces deal to buy CBS Corp. for $37 billion in what would be the biggest media combination ever.
In 2004, Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.
In 2005, Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party presidential election.
In 2007, Trucks owned by Mexican trucking companies and piloted by Mexican drivers were scheduled to hit the pavement of U.S. roadways as early as today, according to an Oregon congressman. U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., late yesterday said what critics call the Bush administration’s “stealth plan” to allow Mexican long-haul rigs to run on roads throughout the United States is being launched. “The Bush administration has indicated to me that tomorrow (Friday) they will open the U.S. border to 100 Mexican-domiciled trucking companies,” DeFazio said. “This is a sad day for America.” faxdc.com
In 2007, Lawmakers questioned Homeland Security officials in Washington about the legal basis for using surveillance satellites for domestic purposes. Last month, the Wall Street Journal released information about plans to share access to satellite imagery to assist U.S. law enforcement for various purposes including monitoring illegal border crossings.
Administration officials say the program can help domestic authorities deal with a range of threats, from illegal immigration and terrorism to hurricanes and forest fires, by providing access to high-resolution, real-time satellite photos. Military sensor technology is so sophisticated that it can peer through clouds and tree canopies, penetrate buildings or detect underground bunkers, tracing electromagnetic, heat, radioactive or chemical signatures. In prepared testimony, DHS chief intelligence officer Charles Allen said that overhead satellite imagery has been used legally for decades to support domestic scientific, federal law enforcement and security uses. It has been employed to create topographic maps, monitor volcanic activity or scout events such as the Super Bowl.
Lawmakers complained that they haven’t been told enough about the satellites’ capabilities, and what safeguards will protect Americans’ civil liberties.
In 2008, The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
In 2010, A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands. The collisions occurred around 10am, after the Japanese Coast Guard ordered the trawler to leave the area. After the collisions, Japanese sailors boarded the Chinese vessel and arrested the captain, Zhan Qixiong.
In 2011, A plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team.
In 2012, A series of earthquakes in Yunnan, China, kills 89 people and injures 800 others.
In 2012 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and ordered the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and alleged rights abuses.
In 2017, The 8.2 Mw 2017 Chiapas earthquake strikes southern Mexico, killing at least 60 people.