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Today in History ~ September 7
Independence Day, (National Day) celebrated in Brazil.
Events0070 - Roman army under Titus occupies & plunders Jerusalem
1497 - Sailor Perkin Warbeck becomes [briefly] English King Richard I
1522 - Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completes 1st circumnavigation of globe, expedition begun under Ferdinand Magellan. Magellan did not complete the voyage, having been killed by Philippine natives the previous year.
1599 - Earl of Essex & Irish rebel Tyrone signs treaty
1664 - Without resistance, Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrendered New Amsterdam to a British naval force under Colonel Richard Nicolls, thus effectively ending the Dutch colonial presence in the New World.
1714 - The Holy Roman emperor Charles VI and France signed the Treaty of Baden, putting an end to the War of Spanish Succession.
1776 - American submersible craft Turtle attacks British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship Eagle in the first use of a submarine in warfare. [H]
1800 - Zion AME Church dedicated (NYC)
1812 - Battle at Borodino: Napoleon-Kutuzov
1813 - "Uncle Sam" 1st used to refer to US (Troy Post of NY)
1822 - Prince Pedro declared Brazil's independence from Portugal. (National Day)
1825 - The Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, bade farewell to President John Quincy Adams at the White House.
1860 - Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin" drowns 340 in Lake Michiga
1864 - General William T. Sherman orders all of the residents of Atlanta, Georgia, to evacuate the city. [H]
1867 - President Andrew Johnson extended amnesty to all but a few of the leaders of the Confederacy on this day in 1867.
1876 - Attempting a bold daytime robbery of the Northfield Minnesota bank, the James-Younger gang suddenly finds itself surrounded by angry townspeople and is nearly wiped out (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested)
1888 - Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby placed in an incubator
1892 - James Corbett wins heavyweight boxing title. KOs John Sullivan in the 21st round of a prize fight at New Orleans, the first major fight under the Marquess of Queensberry Rules.
1893 - The Rhine river was officially closed for bathing. It had been determined the Rhine was infected with cholera.
1901 - In China, the Boxer Rebellion came to a formal end with the signing of the Peking Protocol by China, the five Western powers, and Japan.
1911 - French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and jailed on suspicion of stealing Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum in Paris.
1915 - John Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll
1916 - Workmen's Compensation Act passed by Congress
1923 - Interpol forms in Vienna
1934 - Luxury liner "Morro Castle" burns off NJ, killing 134
1936 - Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) begins operation
1940 - German Luftwaffe blitzs London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights. Nazi Germany launched the blitz -- an aerial bombing of London that Adolf Hitler believed would soften Britain for an invasion. The invasion -- "Operation Sea Lion" -- never materialized. The blitz only strengthened Britain's resistance. The defense of London was for the Royal Air Force what Churchill called "their finest hour."
1940 - Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers over England
1943 - Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel kills 45 (Houston Texas)
1944 - SS-general Kurt ("Panzer") Meyer takes Durnal Belgium
1947 - An unholy war -- Battles between Hindus & Moslems in New Delhi
1952 - General Naguib forms Egyptian government /becomes premier
1954 - Integration begins in Wash DC & Balt MD public schools
1963 - 1st US TV appearance of Beatles (Big Night Out-ABC)
1963 - American Bandstand moves to Calif, & airs once a week on Saturday
1963 - The National Professional Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
1970 - Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053 ft Royal George Bridge in Colorado
1974 - "Irene" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 605 performances
1977 - Pres Carter and Gen Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties to turn over the canal 1/1/2000 [H]
1977 - Convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy was released from prison after more than four years.
1979 - The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) made its cable television debut.
1980 - 32nd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ed Asner and Barbara Bel Geddes
1981 - Judge Wapner & People's Court premier on TV
1986 - Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican archbishop of Capetown
1986 - Failed assassination attempt on Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, 5 killed
1988 - Security & Exchange Comm accuses Drexel of violating security laws
1991 - The European Community opened a peace conference in the Netherlands aimed at bringing peace to Yugoslavia.
1992 - Black soldiers in the South African homeland of Ciskei killed 23 people and wounded nearly 200 when they fired on thousands of African National Congress supporters.
1992 - 12 people were killed when a twin-engined plane carrying skydivers crashed in a soybean field in Hinckley, Illinois.
1992 - Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent quit, five days after the game's owners resoundingly voted to ask him to resign.
1993 - President Clinton and Vice President Gore announced a broad program to streamline the government.
1993 - South Africa's ruling National Party agreed to share power with a multi-party council that would be established within two months.
1995 - Sen Bob Packwoord (R-Ore) resigns rather than face expulsion.
1996 - Isabel Correa became the 40th person known to have died in the presence of Dr. Jack"Dr. Death" Kevorkian, less than a day after police burst into a Michigan motel room, interrupting a meeting between Kevorkian and Correa.
1996 - Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and mortally wounded in a drive-by shooting on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later.
1998 - St. Louis Cardinal Mark McGwire equaled Roger Maris' single-season home run record as he hit number 61 during a game against the Chicago Cubs.
1999 - Viacom, the world's largest cable network company, announced plans to buy CBS.
2000 - A jury in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, awarded $6.3 million to a woman and her son who were attacked by Aryan Nations guards outside the white supremacist group's north Idaho headquarters.
Birthdays Today
1533 - Elizabeth I (Queen of England [1558-1603]: daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; the Elizebethan Era was named after her; passed away Mar 24, 1603)
1548 - Catherine Parr, 6th & last wife of Henry VIII
1635 - Pal Esterhazy, composer
1707 - George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon writer on natural history
1726 - Francois-Andre Danican Philidor, France, composer/chess champion
1739 - Joseph Legros, composer
1829 - August Kekule von Stradonitz, discovered structure of benzene ring
1831 - Victorien Sardou, French stage writer (Madame Sans-Gene, Tosca)
1836 - Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, (Liberal) British P.M. (1905-08)
1860 - Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson) (artist: modern, primitive work: The Old Oaken Bucket, Christmas at Home, The Quilting Bee; first painted at age 78; passed away Dec 13, 1961)
1867 - J.P. (John Pierpont) Morgan, Jr. (financier; passed away Mar 13, 1943)
1885 - (Harry) Sinclair Lewis, US, writer (Babbitt, Nobel 1930)
1900 - Taylor Caldwell (author: Dear and Glorious Physician; passed away Sep 2, 1985)
1908 - Dr. Michael E. De Bakey, artificial heart pioneer
1908 - Michael E DeBakey, heart surgery pioneer
1908 - Paul Brown, Norwalk Ohio, NFL hall of famer (Browns, Bengals)
1909 - Elia Kazan (Kazanjoglous) (Academy Award-winning director: Gentleman's Agreement [1947], On the Waterfront [1954]; East of Eden, A Streetcar Named Desire, Splendor in the Grass, Viva Zapata!, Pinky, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
1913 - Anthony Quayle, actor (Anne of 1000 Days Lawrence of Arabia)
1914 - James Van Allen, US physicist (discovered Van Allen radiation belts)
1918 - Chaim Herzog, Israeli president
1921 - Arthur Ferrante (musician: pianist: duo: Ferrante and Teicher: Exodus, Tonight, Theme from The Apartment, Midnight Cowboy)
1923 - Louise Suggs (golf champion: U.S. Open [1949, 1952]; LPGA [1957])
1923 - Peter (Sidney Ernest Aylen) Lawford (actor: Rosebud, Ocean's 11, Mrs. Miniver, The Longest Day, Exodus, The Oscar, Harlow; member: Rat Pack; passed away Dec 24, 1984)
1924 - Daniel Inouye (U.S. Senator from Hawaii; member of U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Japanese-American WWII unit that fought in Europe; lost arm in battle; won Distinguished Service Cross, Bronze Star, Purple Heart)
1928 - Al McGuire (Basketball Hall of Famer: New York Knicks, Baltimore Bullets, Marquette University coach: Coach of the Year [1971, 1974], Belmont Abbey College coach; college color sportscaster for NBC)
1930 - Baudouin I, king of Belgium
1930 - Sonny Rollins, saxophonist
1936 - Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley) (singer: group: The Crickets: That'll Be the Day, Oh, Boy, Peggy Sue, Maybe Baby; solo: It Doesn't Matter Anymore; killed in plane crash Feb 3, 1959) in Lubbock, Texas.
1942 - Richard Roundtree, actor (Shaft Earthquake)
1946 - Joe (Joseph Oden) Rudi (baseball: KC Athletics, Oakland Athletics [World Series: 1972, 1973, 1974/all-star: 1972, 1974, 1975], California Angels, Boston Red Sox)
1949 - Gloria Gaynor (singer: I Will Survive, Never Can Say Goodbye)
1950 - Chrissie Hynde, (Pretenders)
1950 - Peggy Noonan (writer: U.S. President's speeches: "A kinder, gentler nation.")
1950 - Susan Blakely (actress: Towering Inferno, The Concorde: Airport '79, The Lords of Flatbush, Rich Man, Poor Man)
1951 - Bertram Jones (football: Baltimore Colts: NFL MVP [1976]; LA Rams; Sporting News College Player of the Year [1972]: Louisiana State quarterback)
1951 - Chrissie Hynde (musician: guitar, singer, songwriter: group: The Pretenders: Kid, Brass in Pocket, Precious, Private Life, Lovers of Today, 2000 Miles, Back on the Chain Gang)
1951 - Julie Kavner (Emmy Award-winning actress: Rhoda [1977-78], The Simpson's: voice of Marge Simpson; The Tracy Ullman Show, This is My Life, Radio Days, I'll Do Anything, Hannah and Her Sisters)
1953 - Linda Kaye Miller,
1954 - Corbin Bernsen (actor: L.A. Law, Major League, Radioland Murders, Savage Land, Tales from the Hood, The Dentist, Spacejacked, Major League: Back to the Minors, The Dentist II, Time Shifters)
1984 - Tatia Jayne Starkey, her birth made Ringo Starr the first Beatle to be a grandfather.
Famous deaths
1151 - Geoffrey Plantagenet, earl of Anjou/duke of Normandy, dies at 38
1845 - Isabella Colbran, wife of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini,
1871 - Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns
1892 - John G Whittier, US poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies
1969 - Everett McKinley Dirksen ("The Wizard of Ooze"), (Sen-R), dies at 73
1978 - Keith Moon, rock drummer (Who), dies of drug OD at 31
1990 - Alan J P Taylor, British historian (Origins of WW II), dies
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