Major Events
- 70 Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem
- 1714 Treaty of Baden is signed by the Holy Roman Empire and France, ending the War of the Spanish Succession; France retains Alsace and Landau, and Austria gains the east bank of the Rhine
- 1812 Battle of Borodino: Napoleon Bonaparte wins a Pyrrhic victory against Russian General Mikhail Kutuzov in the most ferocious battle of the Napoleonic era; 70,000 are killed
- 1822 Pedro I, son of King John VI, declares Brazil’s independence from Portugal (Independence Day)
- 1888 Edith Eleanor McLean is the first baby placed in an incubator at State Emigrant Hospital on Ward’s Island, New York
- 1909 Eugene Lefebvre becomes the first pilot to die in an aircraft while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane at Juvisy
- 1940 Beginning of the Blitz as the German Luftwaffe bombs London for the first of 57 consecutive nights, losing 41 bombers as the Nazis prepare to invade Britain
Sep 7 in Film & TV
- 1980 32nd Emmy Awards, notable for proceeding despite 51 of the 52 nominated performers boycotting the event due to a strike by members of the Screen Actors Guild: “Taxi,” “Lou Grant,” Ed Asner, and Barbara Bel Geddes win
Sep 7 in Music
- 1996 Rapper Tupac Shakur is shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas and dies 6 days later
Sep 7 in Sport
- 1896 A. H. Whiting wins the first automobile race held on a closed-circuit track in Cranston, Rhode Island
Did You Know?
“Uncle Sam” is first used to refer to the US by Troy Post of New York
Fun Fact About September 7
In Australia, the entire nation observes a “day of humiliation” and prays for rain as a terrible drought kills livestock and threatens crops; rain begins to fall on September 10
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