History Events on September 07

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.

#Thomas_Howard,_4th_Duke_of_Norfolk

Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II lands in Acre, Israel, and starts the Sixth Crusade, which results in a peaceful restoration of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

#Frederick_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor

The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.

#Philo_Farnsworth

Romania returns Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria under the Treaty of Craiova.

#Southern_Dobruja

Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses.

#Canada-Iran_relations

American Civil War: Union troops under Quincy A. Gillmore captures Fort Wagner in Morris Island after a 7-week siege.

#American_Civil_War

Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf: Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.

#Third_Crusade

Guillaume de Nogaret takes Pope Boniface VIII prisoner on behalf of Philip IV of France.

#Guillaume_de_Nogaret

French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.

#Guillaume_Apollinaire

A plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team.

#Lokomotiv_Yaroslavl_plane_crash

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 all English trading in India.

#Henry_Every

The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed.

#Interpol

World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.

#World_War_II

The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.

#Boxer_Rebellion

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.

#French_invasion_of_Russia

World War II: Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.

#Wake_Island

The 8.2 Mw? 2017 Chiapas earthquake strikes southern Mexico, killing at least 60 people.

#2017_Chiapas_earthquake

World War II: Japanese marines are forced to withdraw during the Battle of Milne Bay.

#Special_Naval_Landing_Forces

The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.

#Battle_of_Boquerón_(1932)

Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in São Paulo.

#Pedro_I_of_Brazil

An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo kills seven soldiers and policemen.

#C23_tragedy

A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands.

#2010_Senkaku_boat_collision_incident

A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.

#Roman_Empire

The Berlin Victory Parade of 1945 is held.

#Berlin_Victory_Parade_of_1945

Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. One hundred thirty-six lives are lost.

#SS_Kuru

Louis the Stammerer is crowned as king of West Francia by Pope John VIII.

#Louis_the_Stammerer

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).

#Ezra_Lee

Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town.

#Desmond_Tutu

Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.

#Oleg_Sentsov

In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.

#Atlantic_City,_New_Jersey

Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

#Nikita_Khrushchev

In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens.

#Northfield,_Minnesota

Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.

#Alberto_Santos-Dumont

The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.

#Pro_Football_Hall_of_Fame

The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

#Federal_takeover_of_Fannie_Mae_and_Freddie_Mac

During an Indo-Pakistani War, China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.

#Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1965

Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.

#Eugène_Lefebvre

Italian unification: Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Naples.

#Italian_unification

Election of Stanis?aw August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

#Stanis?aw_August_Poniatowski

American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.

#Atlanta

Rapper and hip hop artist Tupac Shakur is fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. He succumbs to his injuries six days later.

#Tupac_Shakur

US federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)

#Workers'_compensation

The 6.0 Mw? Athens earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring 800-1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.

#1999_Athens_earthquake

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.

#Torrijos-Carter_Treaties

Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlite, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.

#Vietnam_War

Fighting begins between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Jordan.

#Black_September

American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the war.

#American_Revolutionary_War

War of the Spanish Succession: Siege of Turin ends, leading to the withdrawal of French forces from North Italy.

#War_of_the_Spanish_Succession

Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.

#Cunard_Line

Equifax announce a cyber-crime identity theft event potentially impacting approximately 145?1?2 million U.S. consumers.

Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party presidential election.

Maiden flight of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.

Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns to Earth after nine days on the Mir space station.

The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.

While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Gullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.

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.

Bill Shoemaker beats Johnny Longden's record to become the winningest jockey in horse racing history at Del Mar racetrack

World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.

A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston kills 55 people.

The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.

Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they would serve with the Finnish Air Force, killing both crews.

Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers slaughter most members of peaceful, emigrant wagon train.

Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.

Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.

Pope Alexander III is chosen.