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
- 1191 –Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf – Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1909 –Eugene Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first ‘pilot’in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
- 1911 –French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
- 1916 –Federal employees win the right to Workers’ compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
- 1920 –Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en-route to Finland where they would serve with the Suomen Ilmavoimat, killing both crews.
- 1927 –The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
- 1929 –Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives are lost.
- 1940 –World War II: The Blitz – Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
- 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).
- 1979 –The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
- 1979 –The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, better known as ESPN, makes its debut.
- 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.
- 2005 –Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party presidential election.
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