On This Day in History - Sep. 07

1251 BC - A solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece.

0070 - A Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem. Over one million Jewish citizens have died in the siege.

0786 - Emperor Saga was born (d. 0842). 52° Emperor of Japan.

1151 - Geoffrey of Anjou dies (b. 1113).

1159 - Orlando Bandinelli is elected Pope Alexander III.

1191 - Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf - Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.

1209 - D. Sancho II was born . King of Portugal (1223-1247).

1312 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile dies (b. 1285).

1438 - Louis II, Landgrave of Hesse was born (d. 1471).

1496 - King Ferdinand II of Naples dies (b. 1469).

1524 - Thomas Erastus was born (1583). Swiss theologian.

1533 - Queen Elizabeth I of England was born († 1603).

1539 - Guru Angad Dev ji became the second Guru of the Sikhs.

1540 - A vila de Faro é elevada a cidade pelo rei D. João III.

1552 - Guru Angad Dev dies (b. 1504). Second Sikh Guru.

1548 - Catherine Parr dies. Queen of Henry VIII of England

1549 - Faro in Portugal is elevated to city by King John III

1559 - Robert Estienne dies (b. 1503). French printer of the Bible.

1615 - Colonel John Birch was born (d. 1691). English soldier.

1644 - Guido Bentivoglio dies (b. 1579). Italian statesman and historian.

1654 - Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller dies (b. 1579). Bohemian rabbi and liturgical poet.

1655 - François Tristan l'Hermite dies (b. 1601). French dramatist.

1657 - Arvid Wittenberg dies (b. 1606). Swedish field marshal and statesman.

1674 - Ernest Augustus was born (d. 1728).

1683 - Mary Anne of Austria was born (d. 1754). Archduchess of Austria and Queen consort of Portugal.

1694 - Johan Ludvig was born (d. 1763). Danish policitian.

1701 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was born (d. 1788). French naturalist.

1705 - Matthäus Günther was born. (d. 1788). German painter.

1707 - Georges-Louis Leclerc was born (d. 1788). French naturalist, biologist and author

1719 - John Harris dies. English writer.

1726 - Philidor was born (d. 31 Aug 1795). French chess player.

1728 - William Burne dies (b. 1688). British Governor of New York and New Jersey.

1740 - Johan Tobias Sergel was born (d. 1814). Swedish sculptor.

1756 - Willem Bilderdijk was born. Author.

1776 - World's first submarine attack. American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship Eagle in New York Harbor.

1777 - Heinrich Stölzel was born (d. 1844). German musician and composer.

1809 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke dies (b. 1737). King of Thailand.

1810 - La Primera Junta de Gobierno de Argentina crea la Biblioteca Pública, por iniciativa de Mariano Moreno.

1810 - Hermann Heinrich Gossen was born (d. 1858). Prussian economist.

1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino - Napoleon defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino 70 miles west of Moscow. Both sides suffer heavy losses, but the defeated Russians manage to retreat to Moscow, where they evacuate the population & retreat again. As Napoleon's forces arrive, the city is set ablaze, leaving Napoleon's large but starving army with no means to survive the coming Russian winter.

1815 - John McDouall Stuart was born (d. 1866). Australian explorer.

1818 - Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.

1819 - Thomas A. Hendricks was born (d. 1885). 21st Vice President of the United States.

1821 - Mexico: The city of Chiapa (Chiapas) proclaims independence from Spain.

1821 - The Republic of Gran Colombia (a federation covering much of present day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador) was established, with Simón Bolívar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.

1822 - D. Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal (National Day) over the shores of the Ipiranga river in São Paulo.

1829 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz was born (d. 1896). German chemist.

1831 - Alexandre Falguière was born (d. 1900). French sculptor and painter.

1833 - Hannah More dies in Bristol. Wrote the two-volume Structures on the Modern System of Female Education.

1836 - August Toepler was born (d. 1912). German physicist.

1842 - Johannes Zukertort was born (d. 1888). German chess master.

1851 - Edward Ashael Birge was born (d. 1950). American pioner for limnology.

1855 - William Friese-Greene was born. British photographer.

1860 - Grandma Moses was born (d. 1961). American painter.

1860 - Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 400 lives.

1863 - José María Medina becomes President of Honduras.

1864 - American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.

1865 - Jerónimo Carrión sworns as President of Ecuador.

1866 - Tristan Bernard was born (d. 1947). French author.

1867 - Camilo Pessanha was born in Coimbra (d. 1926). Portuguese poet / Nasce, em Coimbra, Camilo Pessanha († 1 Mar 1926). Poeta português considerado o mais puro dos simbolistas portugueses.

1867 - Albert Bassermann was born (d. 1952). German actor.

1867 - J. P. Morgan Jr. was born (d. 9 Sep. 1943). American philantropist.

1870 - Aleksandr Kuprin was born (d. 1938). Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer.

1870 - Thomas Curtis was born (d. 1944). American athlete.

1870 - Jimmy Tompkins was born (d. 1953). Canadian Catholic priest.

1872 - Mikhail Bakunin, anarchist nemesis of Karl Marx, is booted from the First International (during the Hague Congress meeting Sept. 2-7).

1876 - In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly wiped out.

1876 - Daniel Brottier was born (d. 28 Feb. 1936). French missionary of The Congregation of The Holy Spirit.

1877 - Mike O'Neill was born (d. 1959). Baseball player.

1880 - US: George Ligowsky of Cincinnati is granted a patent for a device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters.

1881 - Sidney Lanier dies (b. 1842). American writer.

1885 - Elinor Wylie was born (d. 1928). American writer.

1887 - Edith Sitwell was born (d. 1964). English poet and critic, author of The English Eccentrics.

1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb" (BG).

1892 - John Greenleaf Whittier dies in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire (b. 1807). American poet.

1893 - The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become the first Italian football club, is established by British expats.

1894 - Gala Dalí was born in Russia (d. 10 Jun 1982). Wife of Salvador Dalí.

1895 - Brian Horrocks was born (d. 1985). British general.

1897 - José Santos González Vera was born. Chilean writer.

1900 - Taylor Caldwell was born (d. 1985). American author.

1902 - Jacques Couelle was born (d. 1996). French architect.

1901 - The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Peking Protocol.

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.

1907 - Sully Prudhomme (René-François-Armand) dies (b. 16 Mar 1839). French poet who won the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature . A leading figure of the Parnassian movement which sought to restore elegance, balance and aesthetic standards to poetry.

1908 - Paul Brown was born (d. 1991). American football coach.

1908 - Dr. Michael DeBakey was born. American heart surgeon.

1909 - Eugene Lefebvre (b. 1878), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered-heavier-than-air-craft.

1909 - Elia Kazan was born (d. 2003). Hungarian-born film director.

1911 - Todor Zhivkov was born († 1998) . Bulgarian ditator ( 4 Mar 1954 - 10 Nov 1989).

1911 - French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum. Five days later his innocence is proved.

1912 - David Packard was born (d. 1996). American electrical engineer and businessman.

1913 - Germany: Carl Jung presents his typology to the 4th International Congress of Psychoanalysis in Munchen, & breaks his ideological ties to Freud.

1913 - Miguel Rolando Covian was born (d. 1992). Brazilian physiologist.

1913 - Sir Anthony Quayle was born (d. 1989). English actor.

1914 - Graeme Bell was born. Australian pianist and composer.

1914 - James Van Allen was born (d. 2006). American space scientist.

1915 - Former cartoonist Johnny Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.

1916 - Robert Manuel was born (d. 1995). French actor and director.

1917 - Jacob Lawrence was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. American leading painter in chronicling African-American history and urban life. Among his most celebrated works are the historical panels The Life of Toussaint-Louverture and The Life of Harriet Tubman.

1917 - John Cornforth was born. Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1919 - Italy: In Milan 19-year-old Bruno Filippi sets off a bomb in a crowded cafe. Filippi dies in the explosion. His presumed accomplices, the anarchists Guido Villa, Aldo Perego, Elena Melli & Maria Zibardi, are tried in July 1920 and receive harsh sentences.

1920 - Al Caiola was born. American guitarist.

1921 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.

1921 - Josep Lluís Núñez was born. Spanish President of FC Barcelona (1978 - 2000).

1922 - In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.

1922 - Paulo Autran was born (d. 2007). Brazilian actor.

1923 - Peter Lawford was born (d. 1984). English actor.

1925 - Allan Blakeney was born. Canadian politician.

1926 - Erich Juskowiak was born (d. 1983). German footballer.

1927 - The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by Governor Antônio Carlos.

1927 - The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.

1927 - Claire L'Heureux-Dubé was born. French Canadian judge.

1927 - François Malicet (1843-1927) killed by a burglar. French barber, lifelong anarchist, member of "Les déshérités" group in Nouzon.

1929 - Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives were lost.

1930 - Sonny Rollins was born. American jazz saxophonist.

1930 - King Baudouin I of Belgium was born (d. 1993).

1931 - England: Gandhi attends the 2nd India Round-table Conference in London.

1931 - Jean Pierre Hutin was born (d. 1996). French journalist.

1931 - Federico Tinoco Granados dies. President of Costa Rica (1917-1919).

1932 - Paul Getty was born (d. 2003). American-born philanthropist.

1934 - Little Milton was born (d. 2005). American musician.

1934 - Omar Karami was born. Prime Minister of Lebanon.

1934 - Mary Bauermeister was born. German artist.

1936 - The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

1936 - Spain: Josep Renau named Director General of Fine Arts by Jesus Hernández, Minister of Public Instruction in the government of Largo Caballero.

1936 - Apostolos Kaklamanis was born. Greek politician.

1936 - Buddy Holly was born (d. 1959). American singer (The Crickets).

1937 - John Phillip Law was born. American actor.

1937 - Cüneyt Arkın was born. Turkish film actor.

1937 - Oleg Lobov was born. Prime Minister of Russia.

1939 - Donnie Allison was born. American race car driver.

1939 - Kyoka Izumi dies (b. 1873). Japanese novelist.

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.

1940 - Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.

1940 - Dario Argento was born. Italian playwright and producer.

1940 - José Félix Estigarribia dies. President of Paraguay.

1942 - Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec.

1942 - First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.

1943 - A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas kills 55 people.

1943 - Lena Valaitis was born. Lithuanian-German Schlager singer.

1943 - J. P. Morgan, Jr. dies (b. 1867). American financier.

1944 - Bertel Haarder was born. Danish politician.

1944 - Bora Milutinovic was born. Serbian football coach.

1944 - Robert Laxton was born. English politician.

1945 - Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.

1945 - Jacques Lemaire was born. Canadian hockey player.

1945 - Robert Verga was born. American basketball player.

1946 - Mariano Ospina Pérez toma posse como Presidente da República da Colombia.

1946 - Willie Crawford was born (d. 2004). American baseball player.

1946 - Francisco Varela was born (d. 2001). Chilean biologist.

1947 - Graham Young was born (d. 1990). British serial killer.

1947 - Henry Sannier was born. French TV host, journalist and politician.

1949 - Barry Siegel was born. American journalist.

1949 - Gloria Gaynor was born. American singer.

1949 - Lee McGeorge Durrell was born. American author, television presenter, and zookeeper.

1949 - Nancy Cassel was born. American author and astrologer.

1949 - José Clemente Orozco dies. Mexican painter, muralist.

1950 - The gameshow Truth or Consequences debuts on television.

1950 - Coal mine collapses in New Cumnock, Scotland - 13 miners dead. 116 rescued.

1950 - Julie Cavner was born. American Emmy award-winning actress.

1950 - Maria Margarida Gil was born in Covilhã. Portuguese film director and actress.

1951 - Morris Albert was born. Brazilian singer.

1951 - Chrissie Hynde was born. American guitarist and singer (The Pretenders).

1951 - Julie Kavner was born. American voice actress.

1951 - Maria Montez dies (b. 1912). Dominican actress.

1952 - Ricardo Tormo was born (d. 1998). Spanish motocyclist.

1952 - Susan Blakely was born. American actress.

1953 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.

1953 - Benmont Tench was born. American keyboardist.

1953 - Mammootty [Pannaparambil Muhammad Kutty] was born. Award winning, popular, Malayalee Indian film actor.

1954 - Corbin Bernsen was born. American actor.

1954 - Michael Emerson was born. American actor.

1954 - Bud Fisher dies (b. 1885). American cartoonist, Mutt and Jeff.

1955 - En el Perú, se promulga la Ley del sufragio femenino que permitirá que las mujeres participen en los comicios presidenciales de 1956.

1955 - Efim Zelmanov was born. Russian mathematician.

1955 - Mira Furlan was born. Croatian actress.

1955 - Ham Fisher dies (b. 1900). American cartoonist, Joe Palooka.

1956 -Byron Stevenson, British footballer (d. 2007)

1956 - Diane Warren was born. American song writer.

1956 - Morre António dos Santos Graça (n. 16 Jan 1882). Etnógrafo, jornalista e político português.

1957 - Jermaine Stewart was born (d. 1997). American pop singer (Shalamar and Culture Club).

1958 - US: First meeting of the New York Daughters of Bilitis, pioneer lesbian organization.

1958 - Danny Chan was born. Hong Kong singer, actor, and songwriter.

1959 - Béatrice Saubin was born. French prisioner in Malaysia first sentenced to death for trafficking heroin.

1959 - Maurice Duplessis dies (b. 1890). Québec Prime Minister.

1960 - Andrew Voss was born. Australian television personality.

1961 - João Goulart sworns as President of Brazil and begins the first Parlamentar political regimen in the country.

1961 - Jean-Yves Thibaudet was born in Lyon. French pianist.

1961 - LeRoi Moore was born. American saxophonist (Dave Matthews Band).

1962 - Jennifer Egan was born. American novelist.

1962 - Thomas L. Beard was born. American musician, composer.

1962 - Kirstin Flagstad dies (b. 1895). Norwegian soprano.

1962 - Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) dies (b. 1885). Danish author.

1962 - Eiji Yoshikawa dies (b. 1892). Japanese historical novelist.

1963 - Eazy-E was born (d. 1995). American rapper (N.W.A.).

1963 - Eric di Meco was born. French footballar and politician.

1963 - Toni Garrido was born. Brazilian singer (Cidade Negra).

1963 - US: FDA announces that Dr. Steven Durovic's "anti-cancer" drug Krebiozen, administered to over 5,000 patients in 13 years, is really the common amino acid creatine, which has no anti-tumor effects whatsoever.

1963 - Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem's South Vietnamese government arrests 800 high-school student demonstrators (& another 1,000 on September 9).

1963 - The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.

1964 - Pierpoljac was born in Paris. French reggae artist.

1965 - Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Pirahna on the Batangan Peninsula.

1965 - China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border.

1965 - Andreas Thom was born. German footballer.

1965 – Angela Gheorghiu was born. Romanian opera singer

1965 - Darko Pančev was born. Macedonian footballer.

1965 – Uta Pippig was born. German athlete.

1965 - Angela Gheorghiu was born. Romanian opera singer.

1966 - The final new episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show airs (the first episode aired on October 3, 1961).

1967 - Joyce Carol Oates novel A Garden of Earthly Delights is published.

1967 - Toby Jones was born. British actor.

1968 - For the first time, feminist protesters interrupt the Miss America beauty pageant in Atlantic City, N.J. Women's Liberation groups, joined by members of New York NOW, target the Miss America Beauty Contest in Atlantic City.

1968 - Marcel Desailly was born. French footballer.

1969 - Monty Python's Flying Circus records first episode.

1969 - Angie Everhart was born. American model and actress.

1969 - Darren Bragg was born. Baseball player.

1969 - Diane Farr was born. American actress (Numb3rs).

1969 - Little Jimmy Urine was born. American singer (Mindless Self Indulgence).

1969 - Rudy Galindo was born. American skater figure.

1969 - Everett Dirksen dies (b. 1896). U. S. Senator from Illinois.

1970 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.

1970 - Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of the 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado.

1970 - Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.

1970 - Bill Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden).

1970 - Jason Giambi was born. American baseball player.

1970 - Tom Everett Scott was born. American actor.

1971 - The last new episode of The Beverly Hillbillies is aired (the first episode debuted on September 26, 1962).

1971 - Briana Scurry was born. American soccer player.

1971 - Spring Byington dies (b. 1886). American actress.

1972 - Jason Isringhausen was born. American baseball player.

1972 - Matthieu Gonet was born. French musician, pianist and conductor.

1972 – Slug was born. American rapper (Atmosphere).

1973 - Shannon Elizabeth was born. American actress and model.

1974 - Mozambique: Victory Day marks the end of more than a decade of guerilla struggle against Portuguese colonial rule, leading to independence next June. / São celebrados os Acordos de Lusaka entre o governo português e a FRELIMO, que terminaram a Luta Armada de Libertação e que levaram à Independência de Moçambique.

1974 - Jean-Nöel Ferrari was born. French fencer.

1974 - Mario Frick was born. Liechtensteiner footballer.

1974 - Noah Huntley was born. English actor.

1975 - Harold Wallace was born. Costa Rican footballer.

1975 - Norifumi Abe was born. Japanese motorcycle road racer.

1976 - Oliver Hudson was born. American actor.

1976 - Stevie Case (Killcreek) was born. American video game celebrity.

1976 - Daniel F. Galouye dies (b. 1920). American author.

1977 - The Torrijos-Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The US agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.

1977 - Gianluca Grava was born. Italian footballer.

1977 – Jon Macken was born. British footballer.

1977 - Maud Fontenoy was born. French sailor known for her rowings across the Atlantic (2003) and Pacific (2005) oceans.

1977 - Nora Greenwald was born. American professional wrestler.

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 in a specially-designed umbrella.

1978 - Proclamação da República Socialista Democrática do Sri Lanka.

1978 - Devon Sawa was born. Canadian actor.

1978 - Erwin Koen was born. Dutch footballer.

1978 - Matt Cooke was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1978 - Keith Moon dies in London (b. 1946). English drummer (The Who).

1979 - The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.

1979 - The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for $1 billion dollars to avoid bankruptcy.

1979 - Brian Stokes was born. American baseball player.

1979 – Owen Pallett was born. Canadian musician (Final Fantasy)

1979 - Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner were born. Slovak slalom canoers.

1980 - Anita Lazic was born. Serbian journalist and actress.

1980 - Gabriel Milito was born. Argentine footballer.

1980 - Javad Nekounam was born. Iranian footballer.

1980 - Mark Prior was born. American baseball player.

1980 - Sara Carrigan was born. Australian cyclist.

1981 - Hannah Herzsprung was born in Hamburg. German actress.

1981 – Gökhan Zan was born. Turkish footballer.

1981 - Paul McCoy was born. American musician (lead singer of 12 Stones).

1982 - Andre Dirrell was born. American boxer.

1982 - Lorne Berfield was born. American actor.

1982 - Ken Boyer dies (b. 1931). American baseball player.

1983 - Pops Mensah-Bonsu was born. Basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks.

1983 - Annette Dytrt was born. German skater figure.

1983 - Benoît Baby was born. French rugby player.

1983 - Mehmet Topuz was born. Turkisher footballer.

1983 – Philip Deignan was born. Irish cyclist

1983 - Pops Mensah-Bonsu was born. British basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks.

1984 – Farveez Maharoof was born. Sri Lankan cricketer.

1984 - Vera Zvonareva was born. Russian tennis player.

1984 - Joe Cronin dies (b. 1906). American baseball player, manager and executive.

1985 – Adam Eckersley was born. English footballer.

1985 - Rafinha [Márcio Rafael Ferreira de Souza] was born. Brazilian footballer.

1985 - Rodney Robert Porter dies (b. 8 Oct 1917). British biochemist who , with Gerald M. Edelman, received the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his contribution to the exact determination of the chemical structure of an antibody.

1986 - Desmond Tutu becomes the first black to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.

1986 - Gen. Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.

1986 - Colin Delaney was born. American professional wrestler.

1986 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III dies (b. 1914). Sultan of Brunei.

1987 - Más de 200 personas muertas y cerca de un millar de desaparecidas a causa de las lluvias torrenciales caídas en Maracay (Venezuela).

1987 - Aleksandra Wozniak was born in Montreal. Canadian tennis player.

1987 - Evan Rachel Wood was born. American actress.

1988 - Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.

1988 - Kevin Love was born. American basketball player.

1990 - Tanja Kolbe was born. German ice dancer.

1991 - Edwin Mattison McMillan dies (b. 1907). American physicist.

1992 - Tajikistan: Rebels seize Pres. Rakhmon Nabiyev and force him to resign.

1992 - Rafael Solana dies (b. 1915). Mexican writer.

1994 - James Clavell dies (b. 1924). Australian author.

1994 - Godfrey Quigley dies (b. 1923). British actor.

1994 - Terence Young dies (b. 1915). British film director.

1994 - Dennis Morgan dies (b. 1908). American actor.

1996 - In Las Vegas, Nevada, actor and recording artist Tupac Shakur and Marion "Suge" Knoght are shot several times after attending a boxing match. Shakur dies 6 days later.

1996 - Inaugurado o monumento em memórias às vítimas do massacre de Eldorado dos Carajás.

1996 - Joseph F. Biroc dies (b. 1903). American cinematographer.

1997 - The first test flight of the F -22 Raptor takes place.

1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko dies (b. 1930). Dictator of Zaire.

1998 - Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.

1998 - Two derecho events referred to as the labor day storms raced across PA,NY,OH, and Vermont.

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.

1999 - Xanana Gusmão, líder da resistência timorense durante a ocupação indonésia, foi libertado da prisão pela Indonésia.

1999 - Jim Keith dies (b. 1949). American conspiracy theorist.

2001 - Billie Lou Watt dies (b. 1924). American actress.

2001 - Spede Pasanen dies (b. 1930). Finnish television personality.

2002 - US: George W. Bush & British PM Tony Blair meet to drum up international support for war on Iraq, in Camp David.

2002 - UN human-rights chief Mary Robinson accuses the US, Russia & China of hiding behind the war on terrorism to trample civil rights.

2002 - Cyrinda Foxe dies (b. 1952). American model.

2002 – Erma Franklin dies (b. 1938). American singer.

2002 - Katrin Cartlidge dies (b. 1961). British actress.

2002 – Uziel Gal dies (b. 1923). Israeli firearm designer.

2003 - The Great Antonio dies (b. 1925). Canadian strongman and eccentric.

2003 - Warren Zevon dies (b. 1947). American musician and songwriter.

2004 - The Serbian government backs a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Čolić to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools.

2004 - Hurricane Ivan, a force 4 storm hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.

2004 - Mirian Pires dies (b. 1927). Brazilian actress.

2004 - Bob Boyd dies (b. 1925). American baseball player.

2005 - Apple Computer introduced the iPod nano, a revolutionary full-featured iPod that holds 1,000 songs yet is thinner than a standard #2 pencil and less than half the size of competitive players.

2005 - First presidential election was held in Egypt.

2005 - Hope Garber dies (b. circa 1924). Canadian actress.

2005 - Sergio Endrigo dies (b. 1933). Italian singer.

2006 - Robert Earl Jones dies (b. 1910). American actor, father of James Earl Jones.

2008 - The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

2008 - Dino Dvornik dies (b. 1964). Croatian singer.

2008 - Don Haskins dies (b. 1930). American college basketball coach.

2008 - Ilarion Ciobanu dies (b. 1931). Romanian actor.

2008 - Nagi Noda dies (b. 1973). Japanese pop artist and director.

RC Saints - Saint Regina; Saint Evurtius (Heortius), St. Cloud (Clodoald).

Aydın Turkey - Independence day 1922.

Brazil – Independence day (from Portugal, 1822).

Pakistan – Defence Day (Pak-Air-Force Day) Since 1971.

Mozambique – Victory Day.

National Threatened Species Day (Australia).