September
7
Independence
Day
Brazil : September 7 1822
Events
September
7
70
– A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders
Jerusalem.
1191 – Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf – Richard
I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
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.
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.
1652 – Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia
rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
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 to all English trading in India.
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).
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino
– Napoleon wins a Pyrrhic victory over 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 – Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent
from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga
Brook in São Paulo.
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 one of the oldest Italian football
clubs, 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 crashes a new French-built
Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy,
south of Paris, 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.
1921 – Legion of Mary is founded in Dublin,
Ireland.
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 Näsijärvi 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.
1942 – Australian and US forces inflict a
significant defeat upon the Japanese at the
Battle of Milne Bay.
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 – Fighting between Arab guerrillas 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90%
of its buildings.
2005 – Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party
presidential election.
2008 – The US Government takes control of
the two largest mortgage financing companies
in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
2010 – A Chinese fishing trawler collided
with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats
in disputed waters near the 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.
2011 – A plane crash in Russia kills 43 people,
including nearly the entire roster of the
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League
team.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Anastasius the Fuller
Clodoald
Gratus of Aosta
Regina
September 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Independence day, celebrates the independence
of Brazil from Portugal in 1822
National Threatened Species Day (Australia)
Pakistani Air Force Day since 1971. (Pakistan)
Victory Day (Mozambique)
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