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
- 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).
- 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.
- 1893 –The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become one of the oldest Italian football clubs, is established by British expats.
- 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.
- 1911 –French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
- 1921 –In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
- 1922 –In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.
- 1936 –The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
- 1945 –Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
- 1963 –The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1986 –Gen. Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
- 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.
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