September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 115 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).
NATIONAL BEER LOVER'S DAY
70 – A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem, burning the Second Temple to the ground.
NATIONAL BEER LOVER'S DAY
70 – A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem, burning the Second Temple to the ground.
1228 – Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II lands in Acre, Palestine and starts the Sixth Crusade, which results in a peaceful restitution of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1812 – French invasion of Russia: The Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought near Moscow and resulted in a French victory.
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.
1901 – The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
1911 – French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
1940 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights. The British people held out and, after incurring heavy losses, the Nazis discontinued the Blitz in May 1941.
1945 – Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
1945 – Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
1953 – Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Kruschchev was a hero of WWII (beginning in the Battle of Stalingrad) and rose through the ranks of the Soviet Communist Party. He ruled until he was deposed in October 1964.
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.
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 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.
1988 – Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghani in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.
2005 – Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party presidential election.
2008 – The U.S. Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the U.S. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
2011 – A plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team.
2005 – Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party presidential election.
2008 – The U.S. Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the U.S. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
2011 – A plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team.
2012 – A series of earthquakes in Yunnan, China, kills 89 people and injures 800 others.
2012 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and ordered the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and alleged rights abuses.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1909 – Elia Kazan, Greek-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1912 – David Packard, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (d. 1996)
1936 – Buddy Holly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Crickets) (d. 1959)
1951 – Chrissie Hynde, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Pretenders and The Moors Murderers)
2012 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and ordered the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and alleged rights abuses.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1912 – David Packard, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (d. 1996)
1936 – Buddy Holly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Crickets) (d. 1959)
1951 – Chrissie Hynde, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Pretenders and The Moors Murderers)
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