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On this day - September 7
878 — Louis the Stammerer is crowned as king of West Francia by Pope ...
1159 — Cardinal Rolando Bandinelli is elected Pope Alexander III, ...
1191 — Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf: Richard I of England defeats ...
1228 — Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II lands in Acre, Israel, and ...
1303 — Guillaume de Nogaret takes Pope Boniface VIII prisoner on ...
1571 — Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role ...
1620 — The town of Kokkola (Swedish: Karleby) is founded by King ...
1625 — The Treaty of Southampton makes an alliance between England ...
1652 — Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule ...
1695 — Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate ...
1706 — War of the Spanish Succession: Siege of Turin ends, leading to ...
1764 — Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of ...
1776 — According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the ...
1778 — American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the ...
1812 — French invasion of Russia: The Battle of Borodino, the ...
1818 — Carl III of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Norway, in ...
1822 — Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the ...
1856 — The Saimaa Canal is inaugurated.
1857 — Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers slaughter most ...
1860 — Unification of Italy: Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Naples.
1863 — American Civil War: Union troops under Quincy A. Gillmore ...
1864 — American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union ...
1876 — In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger ...
1901 — The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) ...
1903 — The Ottoman Empire launches a counter-offensive against the ...
1906 — Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, ...
1907 — Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden ...
1909 — Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane ...
1911 — French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail ...
1916 — US federal employees win the right to Workers' ...
1920 — Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss ...
1921 — The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay ...
1921 — In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, ...
1923 — The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is ...
1927 — The first fully electronic television system is achieved by ...
1929 — Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere ...
1932 — The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco ...
1936 — The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial, dies alone in its ...
1940 — World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing ...
1940 — Romania returns Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria under the Treaty ...
1942 — World War II: Japanese marines are forced to withdraw during ...
1943 — World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of ...
1943 — A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston kills 55 people.
1945 — The Berlin Victory Parade of 1945 is held.
1945 — World War II: Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had ...
1953 — Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist ...
1963 — The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 ...
1965 — Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation ...
1965 — During an Indo-Pakistani War, China announces that it will ...
1970 — Vietnam Television was established.
1970 — Fighting begins between Arab guerrillas and government forces ...
1977 — The 300-metre-tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, ...
1977 — The Torrijos–Carter Treaties between Panama and the United ...
1978 — While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian ...
1979 — The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for ...
1984 — An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat disposing of ...
1986 — Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet survives an assassination ...
1986 — Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican ...
1995 — Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-69, the second ...
1997 — Maiden flight of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
1999 — The 6.0 Mw Athens earthquake affected the area with a maximum ...
2005 — Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party presidential election.
2008 — The United States government takes control of the two largest ...
2010 — A Chinese fishing trawler collides with two Japanese Coast ...
2011 — The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, ...
2012 — Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing ...
2017 — The 8.2 Mw 2017 Chiapas earthquake strikes southern Mexico, ...
2019 — Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 66 others are released in ...
2021 — The National Unity Government of Myanmar declares a ...
2021 — Bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador.