Independence
day
Brazil
UN
Day
International
Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies
Events
of the day
70 β A Roman army under
Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
1191 β Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf β
Richard I of England defeats Saladin at
Arsuf.
1228 β 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 β 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 β Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia
rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
1695 β 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 β 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 β Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino
β Napoleon wins a Pyrrhic victory over the
Russian army of Alexander I near the village
of Borodino.
1818 β Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned
king of Norway, in Trondheim.
1822 β Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent
from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga
Brook in SΓ£o Paulo.
1864 β American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia,
is evacuated on orders of Union General
William Tecumseh Sherman.
1876 β 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 β The Genoa Cricket & Athletic
Club, to become one of the oldest Italian
football clubs, is established by British
expats.
1895 β The first game of what would become
known as rugby league football is played,
in England, starting the 1895β96 Northern
Rugby Football Union season.
1901 β The Boxer Rebellion in China officially
ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
1906 β Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis
aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first
time successfully.
1907 β Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets
sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool,
England to New York City.
1909 β 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 β French poet Guillaume Apollinaire
is arrested and put in jail on suspicion
of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre
museum.
1916 β Federal employees win the right to
Workers' compensation by Federal Employers
Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
1920 β 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 β In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the
first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event,
is held.
1921 β Legion of Mary is founded in Dublin,
Ireland.
1922 β In Aydin, Turkey, independence of
Aydin, from Greek occupation.
1927 β The first fully electronic television
system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
1929 β Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on
Lake NΓ€sijΓ€rvi near Tampere in Finland.
136 lives are lost.
1936 β The last surviving member of the
thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone
in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
1940 β World War II: The Blitz β Nazi Germany
begins to rain bombs on London. This will
be the first of 57 consecutive nights of
bombing.
1940 β Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses
Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.
1942 β Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia
(western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo
to death camp in Belzec.
1942 β First flight of the Consolidated
B-32 Dominator.
1942 β Australian and US forces inflict
a significant defeat upon the Japanese at
the Battle of Milne Bay.
1943 β A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston,
Texas, kills 55 people.
1943 β 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 β Japanese forces on Wake Island, which
they had held since December of 1941, surrender
to U.S. Marines.
1953 β Nikita Khrushchev is elected first
secretary of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union.
1963 β The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens
in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
1965 β China announces that it will reinforce
its troops on the Indian border.
1965 β 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 β Fighting between Arab guerrillas
and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
1970 β Bill Shoemaker sets record for most
lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny
Longden).
1977 β 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 β 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 β 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 β The Entertainment and Sports Programming
Network, better known as ESPN, makes its
debut.
1979 β The Chrysler Corporation asks the
United States government for USD $1.5 billion
to avoid bankruptcy.
1986 β Desmond Tutu becomes the first black
man to lead the Anglican Church in South
Africa.
1986 β Gen. Augusto Pinochet, president
of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
1988 β 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 β American Hip-Hop star Tupac Shakur
is fatally shot four times on the Las Vegas
strip after leaving the Tyson-Seldon boxing
match.
1999 β 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 β Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane
hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90%
of its buildings.
2005 β Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party
presidential election.
2008 β The US Government takes control of
the two largest mortgage financing companies
in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
2010 β 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 β 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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