September 7
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[edit] Events
- 70 - Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem
- 1701 - Germany, England and Netherlands sign anti-French covenant
- 1813 - "Uncle Sam" was 1st used to refer to U.S.
- 1822 - Pedro I, son of King Joao VI, declares Brazil independence
- 1901 - Peace of Peking, ends Boxer Rebellion in China
- 1923 - Interpol forms in Vienna
- 1927 - Philo Farnsworth demonstrates television
- 1936 - Boulder Dam, now Hoover Dam, begins operation
- 1940 - Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers over England
- 1947 - Battles between Hindus and Moslems in New Delhi
- 1952 - General Naguib forms Egyptian government
- 1954 - Racial integration begins in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland public schools
- 1966 - Soviet Union performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
- 1977 - President Carter and General Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties
- 1986 - Failed assassination attempt on Chilean leader Pinochet
- 1986 - Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican archbishop of Capetown, South Africa
[edit] Births
- 1533 - Queen Elizabeth I, England, daughter of Henry VIII (d. 1603)
- 1911 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian communist politician
- 1914 - James Van Allen, U.S. physicist
- 1918 - Chaim Herzog, Israeli president
- 1924 - Daniel Inouye, American politician
- 1946 - Joe Klein, American journalist
- 1950 - Peggy Noonan, political commentator, speech writer, author
[edit] Deaths
- 1978 - Keith Moon, rock drummer (Who)
- 2003 - Warren Zevon, singer, songwriter
