About September 7
September 7, 2024 is the 251st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 115 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 144 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 7
- 70 –A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1906 –Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
- 1921 –In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
- 1927 –The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
- 1940 –Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.
- 1942 –First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
- 1942 –Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec.
- 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.
- 1953 –Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1970 –Bill Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden).
- 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 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.
- 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.
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