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09-07-2010, 05:42 AM
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This Date in History - September 7th
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* 70 A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
* 1191 Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
* 1652 Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebells against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
* 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 HMS 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 present day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador) is established, with Simσn Bolνvar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.
* 1822 Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga creek in Sγo Paulo.
* 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 driven off by armed citizens.
* 1893 The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become the first Italian football club, is established by British expats.
* 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.
* 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 first time successfully.
* 1907 Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
* 1909 Eugene Lefebvre (18781909), 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.
* 1916 Federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by(Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
* 1920 Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en-route to Finland where they would serve with the Suomen Ilmavoimat, killing both crews.
* 1921 In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
* 1922 In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.
* 1927 The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
* 1929 Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Nδsijδrvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives are lost.
* 1936 The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
* 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.
* 1942 Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec.
* 1942 First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
* 1943 A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.
* 1943 World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban River bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
* 1945 Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
* 1953 Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
* 1963 The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
* 1965 China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
* 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.
* 1970 An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
* 1970 Fighting between Arab guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
* 1970 Bill Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden).
* 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.
* 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.
* 1978 British Prime Minister James Callaghan announces that he will not call a general election for October, considered to be a major political blunder (see Winter of Discontent, United Kingdom general election, 1979)
* 1979 The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, better known as ESPN, makes its debut.
* 1979 The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
* 1986 Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man 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 American Hip-Hop star Tupac Shakur is fatally shot four times on the Las Vegas strip after leaving the Tyson-Seldon boxing match. Doctors removed a failing lung and Tupac showed signs of progress in his recovery before passing away six days later due to hemorrhaging that the doctors were unable to stop.
* 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.
* 2004 Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hit Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.
* 2005 First presidential election is held in Egypt.
* 2008 The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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This Date in History - September 7th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 70 A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
* 1191 Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
* 1652 Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebells against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
* 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 HMS 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 present day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador) is established, with Simσn Bolνvar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.
* 1822 Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga creek in Sγo Paulo.
* 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 driven off by armed citizens.
* 1893 The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become the first Italian football club, is established by British expats.
* 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.
* 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 first time successfully.
* 1907 Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
* 1909 Eugene Lefebvre (18781909), 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.
* 1916 Federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by(Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
* 1920 Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en-route to Finland where they would serve with the Suomen Ilmavoimat, killing both crews.
* 1921 In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
* 1922 In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.
* 1927 The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
* 1929 Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Nδsijδrvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives are lost.
* 1936 The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
* 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.
* 1942 Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec.
* 1942 First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
* 1943 A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.
* 1943 World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban River bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
* 1945 Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
* 1953 Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
* 1963 The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
* 1965 China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
* 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.
* 1970 An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
* 1970 Fighting between Arab guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
* 1970 Bill Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden).
* 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.
* 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.
* 1978 British Prime Minister James Callaghan announces that he will not call a general election for October, considered to be a major political blunder (see Winter of Discontent, United Kingdom general election, 1979)
* 1979 The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, better known as ESPN, makes its debut.
* 1979 The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
* 1986 Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man 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 American Hip-Hop star Tupac Shakur is fatally shot four times on the Las Vegas strip after leaving the Tyson-Seldon boxing match. Doctors removed a failing lung and Tupac showed signs of progress in his recovery before passing away six days later due to hemorrhaging that the doctors were unable to stop.
* 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.
* 2004 Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hit Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.
* 2005 First presidential election is held in Egypt.
* 2008 The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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