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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