Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 7
This is a list of selected September 7 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon -
German bomber over London -
Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 bomber over Wapping in September 1940 -
"Benjamin", the last thylacine -
Prise de la Dominique,
engraving by François Godefroy -
Replica of the Turtle -
Philo Farnsworth
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| : Independence Day in Brazil (1822) | refimprove section |
| 1571 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, was arrested for his involvement in a plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots. | refimprove |
| 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Sergeant Ezra Lee made the first documented attack using a submersible when he piloted the Turtle to attempt to attach explosive charges on the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor. | refimprove |
| 1893 – British expatriates in Italy founded the Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, today one of Italy's oldest association football clubs. | unreferenced sections |
| 1927 – American inventor Philo Farnsworth (pictured) transmitted the first images using his all-electronic television system. | refimprove |
| 1965 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Pakistan Navy began a raid on the Indian coastal town of Dwarka in its first engagement against India. | unsourced section |
| 1977 – Panamanian de facto leader Omar Torrijos and U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed the Torrijos–Carter Treaties, agreeing that Panama would retake control of the Panama Canal at the end of the 20th century. | unreferenced section |
| 1979 – The cable television network ESPN made its debut, broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1159 – Pope Alexander III was chosen as the successor of Adrian IV in a disputed election.
- 1652 – Chinese peasants on Formosa (now Taiwan) began a rebellion against Dutch rule which was suppressed four days later.
- 1778 – Anglo-French War: France invaded the Caribbean island of Dominica and captured its British fort before Britain had even learned of the Franco-American alliance.
- 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée and the Imperial Russian Army fought near the village of Borodino during the French invasion of Russia.
- 1901 – With Beijing occupied by foreign troops from the Eight-Nation Alliance, Qing China was forced to sign the Boxer Protocol, an unequal treaty ending the Boxer Rebellion.
- 1940 – Second World War: The Luftwaffe changed their strategy in the Battle of Britain and began bombing London and other cities and towns
- 1984 – An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat that was disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo killed seven soldiers and policemen.
- 1996 – American rapper Tupac Shakur was shot by an unknown assailant in Las Vegas, dying from his injuries six days later.
- 1999 – Three weeks after an earthquake struck northwestern Turkey, a second earthquake struck Athens, causing Greece and Turkey to initiate "earthquake diplomacy".
- 2010 – A Chinese fishing trawler operating in disputed waters collided with Japan Coast Guard patrol boats near the Senkaku Islands, sparking a major diplomatic dispute between the two countries.
- 2011 – Yak-Service Flight 9633, carrying the players and coaching staff of the ice hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, crashed on take-off near Yaroslavl, Russia, resulting in the deaths of 44 of the 45 people on board.
- Born/died this day: | Gregory Bicskei |d|1303| Robert Estienne |d|1559| John Shakespeare |d|1601| Sir John Perceval, 1st Baronet |b|1629| Johan Ludvig Holstein |b|1694| William Burnet |d|1729| Henry Sewell |b|1807| Emil Korytko |b|1813| Thomas Talbot |b|1818| Paul Brown |b|1908| Michael DeBakey |b|1908| Cecil Aronowitz |d|1978
- 1191 – Third Crusade: Crusaders under Richard I of England defeated Ayyubid troops under Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf in present-day Israel.
- 1642 – First English Civil War: Royalist and Parliamentarian forces clashed in the Battle of Babylon Hill, after which both sides claimed victory.
- 1936 – The last thylacine died in captivity in Hobart Zoo, Australia.
- 1986 – Desmond Tutu (pictured) became the first black leader of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
- 2004 – Hurricane Ivan made landfall on Grenada and devastated at least 85 percent of buildings on the island.
- Grandma Moses (b. 1860)
- William Stewart Halsted (d. 1922)
- Regina Martínez Pérez (b. 1963)