September 7th

September 7 is the 250th (two hundred and fiftieth) day of the year—the 251st (two hundred and fifty-first) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar. There are 115 days left to end the year.

Events

• 1191: In the present Palestine the forces of Ricardo I of England overcome the troops of Saladin in the battle of Arsuf.
• 1630: The city of Boston is founded on the northeast coast of the United States.
• 1710: Felipe V of Spain gives confirmation to Albacete to celebrate his fair.
• 1812: In the battle of Borodino, Napoleon overcomes the Russian forces during the Napoleonic Wars.
• 1813: The term "Uncle Sam" is used for the first time in the United States to refer to this country.
• 1822: on the banks of the river Ipiranga (Brazil), Prince Peter proclaims independence, thus dissolving the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarve
• 1822: in Buenos Aires the Bank of Buenos Aires begins to operate, then the Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires.
• 1841: In Santiago de Chile is founded the College of Sacred Hearts (Providence), also known as the "French Monjas"
• 1859: In London, the Big Ben comes into operation.
• 1860: in Italy, Garibaldi occupies Naples.
• 1873: In Spain, Nicolás Salmerón Alonso resigns as president of the Spanish Republic I to avoid being forced to sign death sentences.
• 1898: In Buenos Aires the Botanical Garden is open to the public.
• 1902: in the marshland of Trundholm (Denmark), a peasant discovers the trolley of the Trundholm sun (created in 1300 BC).
• 1909: In San Sebastián, Spain, the Real Sociedad football club was founded.
• 1932: In the War of the Chaco (1932-1935) 15 000 Paraguayan soldiers face 650 Bolivians in the battle of Boquerón, which will last 23 days. 7,000 Paraguayans and 150 Bolivians will die.

A marsupial or tilacino wolf.

• 1936: Spain, Civil War. Part by train to Madrid the Column Earth and Freedom, a militia column organized by the CNT-FAI of the districts of Alto Llobregat and Cardoner.
• 1936: in Hobart (Tasmanian island) dies Benjaminthe last tiger of Tasmania known, extinguishing his species.
• 1940: In the battle of England, the Germans begin the massive bombing of London.
• 1941: In the USSR the Soviet Socialist Autonomous Republic of the Germans of the Volga (Autonomous Republic within Soviet Russia) is dissolved by a decree made by Stalin.
• 1946: In Colombia, conservative Mariano Ospina Pérez took over the presidency.
• 1947: in Argentina the law of female vote is sanctioned.
• 1954: in Italy the film is released The stradaFederico Fellini.
• 1955: in Peru women get the right to female vote.
• 1958: in Seville, Spain is inaugurated the Stadium Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán.
• 1961: in Brazil, João Goulart assumes the Presidency of the Republic under the parliamentary regime. The adoption of parliamentarism puts an end to a serious political crisis, begun after the resignation of Jânio Quadros.
• 1967: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 5:45 (local time), the United States detonates its 22 kiloton Yard atomic bomb to 521 m underground. It's the bomb number 519 of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1969: DARPA is created in the United States, an Internet embryo.
• 1970: in Cuenca (Ecuador), the government of José María Velasco Ibarra creates the Catholic University of Cuenca.
• 1977: In the United States the Torrijos-Carter Treaties are signed, by which the sovereignty of the Panama Canal of the United States is gradually transferred to the Republic of Panama.
• 1979: In Japan, Argentina's Youth Team is dedicated to the World Youth Cup.
• 1982: In Afghanistan, the Soviet army deploys its troops.
• 1986: In Chile, the dictator Augusto Pinochet was illustrated by an attack by members of the Patriotic Front Manuel Rodríguez, in which five escorts died and his 10-year-old grandson was travelling.
• 1987: in Maracay (Venezuela), the torrential rains leave more than 200 people dead and about a thousand disappeared.
• 1989: In El Salvador, the Frente Farabundo Martí announced a unilateral ceasefire to facilitate dialogue with the government.
• 1996: in Las Vegas (Nevada) American rapper Tupac Shakur is shot (25). He'll die a week later.
• 1997: The first flight of the F-22 hunting plane takes place in the United States.
• 1998: just a few miles east of the island of Riou – about 20 km southeast of Marseille (France) – a fisherman finds a silver identity bracelet with the name of the writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exuperý. On May 23, 2000, a diver named Luc Vanrell will find the remains of his P-38 Lightning plane.
• 1999: In Greece there is a scale earthquake that causes the death of 143 people.
• 2001: at Madison Square Garden (New York) Michael Jackson gives a concert with his brothers.
• 2003: in Spain, premiere of the television series Here is no one alive.
• 2004: Mexican interpreter Alejandro Fernandez launches his 11th studio album Open heart.
• 2007 The Pumas get bronze medal in front of the local in the world of France Rugby
• 2011: Yak-42 accident of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl.
• 2017: On the coast of Chiapas (Mexico) there is a sism of Magnitude 8.2 in the Magnitude of Moment scale, leaving a balance of more than 103 dead, being one of the strongest earthquakes recorded with sismologic equipment in that country.
• 2019: Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov and 66 other people are released in an exchange of prisoners between Ukraine and Russia.
• 2021: In Acapulco, there is an earthquake of Magnitude 7.1, feeling in 13 entities of the country. The earthquake left the death of 1 person and several moderate damages in Guerrero, Mexico City and Oaxaca.

Births

• 785: Saga, Japanese emperor (f. 842).
• 923: Suzaku, Japanese emperor (f. 952).
• 1533: Elizabeth I, Queen of England between 1558 and 1603 (f. 1603).
• 1650: Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco, aristocrat Spaniard, founder of the Royal Spanish Academy (f. 1725).
• 1683: Mary Anna of Austria, Portuguese consort queen (f. 1754).
• 1705: Matthäus Günther, German painter (f. 1788).
• 1707: Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, naturalist and French philosopher (f. 1788)
• 1726: François-André Danican Philidor, French musician and chess player (f. 1795).
• 1774: Johann Jakob Bernhardi, German physician and botanist (f. 1850).
• 1784: Fray Luis Beltrán, Franciscan and Argentine military religious (f. 1827).

José Laurencio Silva

• 1791: José Laurencio Silva, a soldier of the Venezuelan War of Independence (f. 1873).
• 1792: Mariano Necochea, Argentine military (f. 1849).
• 1795: John William Polidori, British writer (f. 1821).
• 1815: John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (f. 1866).
• 1817: Miguel Blanco Múzquiz, lawyer, military and Mexican politician (f. 1900).
• 1822: Miguel Riofrío, politician, writer, lawyer, educator and Ecuadorian poet (f. 1881).
• 1829: August Kekulé, German chemical (f. 1896).
• 1832: Emilio Castelar, Spanish politician (f. 1899).
• 1836: Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British Prime Minister (f. 1908).
• 1857: Charles Malato, anarchist writer italo-francés (f. 1938).
• 1859: Juan Campisteguy, president of Uruguay (f. 1937).
• 1860: Grandma Moses, American painter (f. 1961).
• 1864: Emile Chautard, French filmmaker (f. 1934).
• 1870: Thomas Curtis, American athlete (f. 1944).
• 1870: Regina de Lamo, Spanish writer, journalist and intellectual (f. 1947).
• 1894: Gala Eluard Dalí, model of Russian art (f. 1982).
• 1894: George Waggner, American filmmaker
• 1895: Brian Horrocks, British military (f. 1985).
• 1895: Jacques Vaché, French writer (f. 1919).
• 1896: Regino Sainz de la Maza, Spanish guitarist (f. 1981).
• 1900: Taylor Caldwell, American writer (f. 1985).
• 1902: Germán López Prieto, producer of Spanish cinema (f. 1979).
• 1905: Rogelio Martínez, Cuban musician (f. 2001).
• 1908: Michael E. DeBakey, a cardiovascular surgeon and an American researcher (f. 2008).
• 1909: Elia Kazan, U.S. nationalized Turkish filmmaker (f. 2003).
• 1909: Antonio Mairena, Spanish flamenco singer (f. 1983).
• 1912: David Packard, American businessman and engineer, founder of Hewlett-Packard (f. 1996).
• 1913: Isabel Lete Landa, a Spanish religious (f. 1941).
• 1913: Anthony Quayle, British actor and theatre director (f. 1989).
• 1914: Lída Baarová, Czech actress (f. 2000).
• 1915: Luisa-María Linares, a Spanish writer (f. 1986).
• 1915: Kiyoshi Itō, Japanese mathematician (f. 2008).
• 1917: John Cornforth, Australian chemical, nobel chemistry award in 1975 (f. 2013).
• 1918: Menchu Quesada, an Argentine actress (f. 2005).
• 1919: Vicente Ramos Pérez, Spanish historian and academic (f. 2011).
• 1923: Peter Lawford, British actor (f. 1984).
• 1924: Daniel Inouye, American military and political (f. 2012).
• 1927: Francisco Farreras, a Spanish painter.
• 1928: Miguel Narros, Spanish theatre director (f. 2013).
• 1929: Félix Ulloa, industrial engineer and Salvadoran academic (f. 1980).
• 1930: Julio César Abbadie, Uruguayan footballer (f. 2014).
• 1930: Balduino I, a Belgian king between 1951 and 1993 (f. 1993).
• 1930: Sonny Rollins, saxophoneist and American jazz composer.
• 1931: José Luis Núñez, entrepreneur and Spanish football leader (f. 2018).
• 1932: Pedrito Rico, Spanish singer (f. 1988).
• 1934: Omar Karami, Lebanese Prime Minister (f. 2015).
• 1934: Waldo de los Ríos, Argentine composer (f. 1977).
• 1934: Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian poet and novelist (f. 2012).
• 1934: Manuel Cardona Castro, Spanish physicist (f. 2014).
• 1935: Jorge Griffa, footballer and Argentine coach.
• 1936: Buddy Holly, American singer (f. 1959).
• 1936: Jorge Porcel, humorist and Argentine singer (f. 2006).
• 1939: Albalucía Angel, Colombian writer.
• 1940: Dario Argento, Italian filmmaker.
• 1940: Giuseppe Giacomini, Italian tenor.
• 1940: Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian President (f. 2009).
• 1942: Gabriele Veneziano, Italian physicist.
• 1943: Gloria Gaynor, American pop music singer.
• 1944: Bora Milutinović, football coach.
• 1946: Juan José Benítez, ufologist and Spanish journalist.
• 1946: Francisco Varela, a Chilean biologist and philosopher (f. 2001).
• 1947: Rosa Conde, sociologist and Spanish politics.
• 1949: Ricardo Piccinini, Argentine-guatemalteco footballer.
• 1950: Julie Kavner, American actress.
• 1951: Chrissie Hynde, American singer and guitarist, from the band The Pretenders.
• 1951: Morris Albert, Brazilian singer and composer
• 1952: Ricardo Tormo, Spanish motorcyclist (f. 1998).
• 1953: Jossart N'Yoka Longo, Congolese singer, Zaïko Langa Langa.
• 1954: Corbin Bernsen, American actor.
• 1954: Michael Emerson, American actor.
• 1955: Look Furlan, singer and actress of Yugoslav origin.
• 1956: Diane Warren, American composer and litrist.
• 1956: Malika Haimeur, French engineer and chemistry.
• 1957: Jermaine Stewart, American singer, of the Culture Club band.
• 1960: Menchu Garcerán, Spanish writer.
• 1962: Siddiq Barmak, Afghan filmmaker
• 1963: Àngels Barceló, a Spanish journalist.
• 1963: W. Earl Brown, American actor.
• 1963: Eazy-E, American rap singer, NWA band (f. 1995).
• 1965: Antonio Lobato, Spanish journalist.
• 1965: Mart'nália, Brazilian singer.
• 1965: Tomáš Skuhravý, Czech footballer.
• 1968: Marcel Desailly, a French footballer of Ghanaian origin.
• 1969: Rudy Galindo, an art skater on American ice.
• 1970: Gao Min, Chinese Jumper
• 1972: Pablo Lavallén, Argentine soccer player.
• 1972: Jean-Jacques Tizié, Ivory footballer.
• 1973: Laura Pamplona, Spanish actress.
• 1973: Shannon Elizabeth, American actress.
• 1974: Antonio McDyess, American basketball player.
• 1974: Stéphane Henchoz, Swiss footballer.
• 1975: Norifumi Abe, a Japanese bike rider (f. 2007).
• 1977: Fedde le Grand, DJ and producer of Dutch origin
• 1978: Devon Sawa, American actor.
• 1980: Gabriel Milito, Argentine soccer player.
• 1980: Javad Nekounam, Iranian footballer.
• 1980: Patxi Usobiaga, Spanish climber.
• 1980: Emre Belözoğlu, Turkish footballer
• 1981: Paul McCoy, American vocalist, 12 Stones band.
• 1982: Christine D'Clario, Christian singer of contemporary music.
• 1983: Pops Mensah-Bonsu, British basketball player.
• 1984: João Miranda, Brazilian footballer.
• 1984: Afton Williamson, American actress
• 1985: Márcio Rafael Ferreira de Souza, Brazilian footballer.
• 1987: Evan Rachel Wood, American actress.
• 1988: Kevin Love, American basketball player.
• 1988: Isabel Burr, Mexican actress.
• 1996: Donovan Mitchell, American basketball player.
• 1998: Roberto Alvarado, Mexican footballer.

Deaths

• 1134: Alfonso I, the WhipperKing of Aragon and Navarre (n. v. 1073).
• 1312: Fernando IV, King of Castile and Leon (n. 1285).
• 1362: Joan of the Tower, queen consort of Scotland (n. 1321).
• 1464: Frederick II of Saxony (n. 1412).
• 1496: Fernando II, Neapolitan king (n. 1469).
• 1539: Gurú Nanak, the Pakistani guru, the founder of Sikhism (n. 1469).
• 1548: Catherine Parr, English queen (n. 1548).
• 1566: Suleimán el Magnífico, sultán otomano (n. 1494).
• 1741: Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral (n. 1689).
• 1799: Louis Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist (n. 1717).
• 1802: Rama I (Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke), Siamese king, founder of the Chakri dynasty (n. 1737).
• 1849: Mariano Paredes and Arrillaga, Mexican politician (n. 1797).
• 1881: Paul Zech, a German writer and poet, who died in Buenos Aires (n. 1881).
• 1886: Lazarus Blanco (22), an Argentine peasant electrocuted by a lightning and converted into deity (n. 1864).
• 1893: Hamilton Fish, American politician (n. 1808).
• 1910: William Holman Hunt, British painter (n. 1827).
• 1922: William Halsted, American surgeon (n. 1852).
• 1924: Cristóbal Benítez, Spanish explorer (n. 1856).
• 1925: Rene Viviani, a French politician (n. 1862).
• 1931: Federico Pelico Tinoco, politician and dictator costarricense (n. 1868).
• 1931: José García Viñas, Spanish anarchist doctor (n. 1848).
• 1933: Edward Grey, British politician (n. 1862).
• 1936: María Domínguez Remón, journalist and politician, first Spanish Republican mayor, shot (n. 1882)
• 1936: Marcel Grossmann, Hungarian mathematician (n. 1878).
• 1940: José Félix Estigarribia, Paraguayan president, in an aviation accident (n. 1888).
• 1944: Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes, Cuban composer and writer (n. 1874).
• 1949: José Clemente Orozco, Mexican muralist (n. 1883).
• 1954: Bud Fisher (69), American hysterist (n. 1885), creator of Mutt and Jeff.
• 1960: Alfonso Ortiz Tirado, tenor and Mexican pathologist (n. 1893).
• 1960: Wilhelm Pieck, German president (n. 1876).
• 1962: Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), Danish writer (n. 1885).
• 1962: Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (n. 1892).
• 1968: Lucio Fontana (69), an Argentine artist (n. 1899).
• 1971: Ludwig Suthaus, German tenor (n. 1906).
• 1978: Keith Moon (32), British drummer, The Who band (n. 1946).
• 1980: José Ortiz Echagüe, engineer, pilot and Spanish photographer (n. 1886).
• 1982: José Cabrero Arnal, French hysterist of Spanish origin (n. 1909).
• 1985: Rodney Robert Porter, British biochemical, nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1972 (n. 1917).
• 1990: Clärenore Stinnes, German motor racing pilot (n. 1901).
• 1991: Edwin Mattison McMillan, American chemical, nobel chemistry award in 1951 (n. 1907).
• 1994: Terence Young, British filmmaker (n. 1915).
• 1996: Gilda, Argentinean singer (n. 1961).
• 1997: Hector Espino, Mexican baseball player (n. 1938).
• 1997: Mobutu Sese Seko, President Zairino (n. 1930).
• 2002: Erma Franklin, American singer (n. 1938).
• 2003: Warren Zevon, American rock musician (n. 1947).
• 2005: Nicolino Locche, Argentine boxer (n. 1939).
• 2005: Reynaldo Mompel, Argentine actor (n. 1920).
• 2007: Yolanda Montecinos, Chilean journalist (n. 1927).
• 2008: Juan Hamilton, Chilean lawyer and politician (n. 1927).
• 2009: José Manuel Pita Andrade, historian of Spanish art (n. 1922).
• 2010: Wilebaldo Solano, a Spanish politician and journalist (n. 1916).
• 2010: Joaquín Soler Serrano, journalist, presenter and Spanish presenter (n. 1919).
• 2011: Gabriel Valdés, lawyer, diplomat and Chilean politician (n. 1919).
• 2013: Marek Špilár, Czechoslovak footballer (n. 1975).
• 2015:
  • Elena Arnedo, a Spanish feminist physician and activist (n. 1941).
  • José María Ruiz-Mateos, entrepreneur and Spanish politician (n. 1931).
  • Maruja Venegas Salinas, Peruvian teacher and speaker (n. 1915).
• 2017: Türkân Akyol, Turkish politics, medical and academic (n. 1928).
• 2018:
  • Julio Blanck, journalist and Argentine political analyst (n. 1954).
  • Mac Miller, American rapper and producer (n. 1992).
• 2019: Robert Axelrod, American actor (n. 1949).
• 2020: Xavier Ortiz, Mexican actor and singer (n. 1962).

Celebrations

• International Clean Air Day for a Blue Sky
• World Day of Consciousness of Duchenne
• World Red Day
• Argentina:
  • Film Worker Day
  • Metalworker Day
• BoliviaBolivia:
  • National Dance Day La Morenada
• Australia:
  • National Day of Threatened Species
• BrazilBrazil:
  • Independence Day
• FiyiFiyi:
  • Constitutional Day
• MozambiqueMozambique:
  • Victoria Day
• PakistanPakistan:
  • Air Force Day
• Ukraine Ukraine:
  • Military Intelligence Day

Catholic saints list

• Santa Regina de Alesia, martyr
• San Sozonte de Pompeyópolis, martyr
• Santos Festo and Desiderio de Benecento, martyrs (s. IV)
• St. Evorce of Orleans, Bishop (IV)
• St. Gratus of Aosta, bishop (s. V)
• Santos Nemorio de Breuil and compañeros, martyrs (s. V)
• Saint Alpino de Chalons, bishop (s. V).
• San Clodoaldo de Nogent, Presbyter (560)
• Holy Virgin of Albi (s. VI)
• Santa Madelberta de Maubeuge, abadesa (705)
• San Hilduardo de Flandes, Bishop (760)
• Saint Gauzlino of Toul, bishop (962)
• Saint John of Lodi, Bishop (1106)
• St. Stephen of Chatillon, Bishop (1208)
• Santos Marcos Crisino, Esteban Pongracz and Melchor Grodziecki, priests and martyrs (1619)
• Blessed Thomas Tsuji, Luis Maki and Juan Maki, martyrs (1627)
• Beatos Randulfo Corby and Juan Duckett, priests and martyrs (1644)
• Blessed Claudio Bernabé Laurent de Mascloux and Francisco d’Oudinot de la Boissière, priests and martyrs (1794)
• Blessed John the Baptist Mazzucconi, priest and martyr (1855)
• Beata Eugenia Picco, virgin (1921)
• Beata Ascension of San José de Calasanz Lloret Marco, virgin and martyr (1936).