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0070Sep 7The Roman army under Titus occupied and plundered Jerusalem.
1151Sep 7Geoffrey Plantagenet, earl of Anjou and duke of Normandy, died at 38.
1497Sep 7Sailor Perkin Warbeck became [briefly] England’s King Richard I.
1533Sep 7Elizabeth I, Queen of England, was born in Greenwich. She led her country during the exploration of the New World and war with Spain which destroyed the Spanish Armada. Elizabeth Tudor (d.1603), the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, reigned as Queen of England from 1558 to 1603. She went bald at age 29 due to smallpox.
1599Sep 7Earl of Essex and Irish rebel Tyrone signed a treaty.
1701Sep 7England, Austria, and the Netherlands formed an Alliance against France
1778Sep 7Shawnee Indians attacked and laid siege to Boonesborough, Kentucky
1800Sep 7The NYC Zion AME Church was dedicated.
1807Sep 7Denmark surrendered to British forces that had bombarded the city of Copenhagen for four days.
1813Sep 7The earliest known printed reference to the United States by the nickname “Uncle Sam” occurred in the Troy Post.
1822Sep 7Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.
1825Sep 7The Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, bade farewell to President John Quincy Adams at the White House.
1845Sep 7Isabella Colbran, wife of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, died.
1864Sep 7Union General Phil Sheridan’s troops skirmished with the Confederates under Jubal Early outside Winchester, Virginia.
1867Sep 7President Andrew Johnson extended amnesty to all but a few of the leaders of the Confederacy.
1893Sep 7The Rhine river was officially closed for bathing. It had been determined the Rhine was infected with cholera.
1901Sep 7The Peace of Peking (Beijing) ended the Boxer Rebellion in China.
1907Sep 7The British liner RMS Lusitania set out on its maiden voyage, from Liverpool, England, to New York, arriving six days later. The Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine in 1915.
1912Sep 7French aviator Roland Garros set an altitude record of 13,200 feet.
1915Sep 7John Gruelle patented his Raggedy Ann doll.
1936Sep 7Rock legend Buddy Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas.
1943Sep 7Fire in a decrepit old Gulf Hotel killed 45 in Houston, Texas.
1944Sep 7Nazi SS-General Kurt (“Panzer”) Meyer took Durnal, Belgium.
1947Sep 7Battles took place between Hindus and Moslems in New Delhi.
1952Sep 7The 369-foot passenger liner Princess Kathleen, launched in 1924, ran aground and sank near Juneau, Alaska. There was no loss of life.
1954Sep 7Integration of public schools began in Washington DC and Maryland.
1963Sep 7The Beatles made their 1st US TV appearance on ABC’s Big Night Out.
1967Sep 7The situation comedy “The Flying Nun,” starring Sally Field as a nun who finds that she can fly, debuted on ABC.
1969Sep 7Senate Republican leader Everett McKinley Dirksen (b.1896) of Illinois, (“The Wizard of Ooze”) died at 73 in Washington, D.C.
1970Sep 7Donald Boyles set a record for the highest parachute jump from a bridge by leaping off of 1,053 ft Royal George Bridge in Colorado.
1972Sep 7Pres. Nixon said that he wanted Ted Kennedy covered by a Secret Service spy because he saw him as a political threat.
1980Sep 7The 32nd Emmy Awards were held. Winners included Taxi, Lou Grant, Ed Asner and Barbara Bel Geddes.
1983Sep 7Irish people voted in a referendum to amend the constitution to make abortion illegal. The 8th amendment, banning abortion, was signed into law on Oct 7, 1983.
1987Sep 7The Rev. Jesse Jackson declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1988Sep 7The Security & Exchange Commission accused Drexel of violating security laws.
1989Sep 7The US Senate voted 76-8 to approve the Americans with Disabilities Act, forbid-ding discrimination in employment, public accommodations, transportation and communications.
1990Sep 7President Bush left for his one-day Finland summit with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
1991Sep 7Monica Seles won the U.S. Open in New York, defeating Martina Navratilova 7-6, 6-1.
1993Sep 7President Clinton put forth an ambitious plan to “reinvent government” by reducing the federal bureaucracy.
1994Sep 7U.S. Marines began training on a Puerto Rican island amid talk in Washington of a U.S.-led intervention in Haiti.
1995Sep 7The space shuttle “Endeavour” thundered into orbit with five astronauts on a mission to release and recapture a pair of science satellites.
1998Sep 7In baseball the St. Louis Cardinal’s Mark McGwire hit his 61st home run at Busch Stadium in St. Louis against the Chicago Cubs in the first inning. This tied the 1961 record held by Roger Maris.
1999Sep 7Henry Cisneros, former housing secretary for Pres. Clinton, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of lying to the FBI on payments to a former mistress. He acknowledged payment of $250k. His investigation took 4 years and cost $10 million.
2000Sep 7In SF a US District Judge ruled that federal authorities cannot strip doctors of their license to prescribe medicine if the physicians advise their patients to use marijuana.
2001Sep 7The final “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” TV show aired as Fred Rogers (72) re-tired.
2002Sep 7Serena Williams easily beat Venus Williams 6-4, 6-3 to win the U.S. Open and a third straight Grand Slam title.
2003Sep 7President Bush spoke on national TV and said he would ask Congress for $87 billion to fight terrorism. He cautioned that the struggle “will take time and require sacrifice.”
2004Sep 7The Congressional Budget Office said the US deficit would hit a record $422 bil-lion this year.
2005Sep 7President Bush led the nation in a final tribute to William H. Rehnquist, remembering the 16th chief justice as the Supreme Court’s steady leader and a man of lifetime integrity.
2006Sep 7American officials said the US government has ordered Venezuela to close its military purchasing office in Miami after suspending arms sales to the South American country.
2007Sep 7A US federal judge said Iran must pay $2.65 billion to the families of the 241 US service members killed in the 1983 bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut, in a ruling that left survivors and families shedding tears of joy. A day later Iran rejected the ruling.
2008Sep 7At the MTV Video Music Awards on the show’s 25th anniversary, the network threw its full support behind Britney Spears’ comeback. Spears won a leading three awards, including video of the year for “Piece of Me.”
2009Sep 7In Tennessee 3 people were shot to death at a mobile home near Lafayette.
2010Sep 7George Soros gave $100 million to Human Rights Watch.
2011Sep 7The Obama administration announced charges against 91 people for bilking Medicare out of nearly $300 million and victimizing elderly and disabled people dependent on the federal insurance program.
2012Sep 7The United States confirmed that it has suspended sharing of radar intelligence with Honduras because the Central American nation’s air force shot down two suspected drug planes in violation of agreements with Washington. The radar intelligence was blocked starting in mid-August.
2013Sep 7NASA launched the unmanned LADEE spacecraft from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. It aimed to study the Moon’s atmosphere was the US space agency’s third lunar probe in five years.
2014Sep 7The United States and Georgia moved to expand their defense relationship, including the possible sale of US Black Hawk helicopters to the former Soviet bloc nation.

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