September 7 Events in History

2004	American military deaths in the Iraq War reach 1,000
1998	Jerry Lewis' 33rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises
1997	111th U.S. Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats Venus Williams (60 64)
1997	117th U.S. Mens Tennis: Patrick Rafter beats Greg Rusedski (63 62 46 75)
1997	Boone Valley Senior Golf Classic
1997	Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1997	Karrie Webb wins Safeway LPGA Golf Championship
1997	Men's championship at U.S. Tennis Open
1997	Steve Jones wins Canadian Golf Open with a 275
1996	Women's championship at U.S. Tennis Open
1995	12th MTV Awards
1995	STS-69 (Endeavour 9), launches into orbit
1995	Senator Bob Packwoord R-Oregon resigns rather than face expulsion
1994	Jingyi Le/Ying Shan/Ying Le/Bin Lu swimming 4x100 freestyle (3:37.91)
1993	Brazil votes over importing monarchy
1993	Cards Mark Whiten, hits 4 home runs and 12 RBIs in 2nd game of doubleheader
1992	Army of Ciskei homeland kills 28 ANC demonstrators
1992	Baseball commissioner Faye Vincent resigns
1992	Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1991	105th U.S. Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Martina Navratilova (76 61)
1991	1st South African international competition in 25 years, gymnastics
1991	Die Laughing wins Messenger Stakes
1991	Harry Hamlin weds Nicollette Sheridan
1991	Monica Seles (17) defeats Martina Navratilova (34) to win U.S. Open
1991	Ty Detmer of Brigham Young passes NCAA record 11,606 yards
1990	"Street Scene" opens at New York State Theater New York City for 6 performances
1990	Marjorie Judith Vincent (Ill), 25, crowned 64th Miss America 1991
1988	5th MTV Awards
1988	Guy Lafleur, Tony Esposito and Brad Park inducted in NHL Hall of Fame
1988	New York Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist
1988	Security and Exchange Commission accuses Drexel of violating security laws
1987	Jerry Lewis' 22nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $39,021,723
1987	Netherlands routes 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf
1987	Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1987	South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young
1986	100th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Helena Sukova (63 62)
1986	106th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (64 62 60)
1986	Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
1986	Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican archbishop of Capetown
1986	Failed assassination attempt on Chilean dictator Pinochet, 5 killed
1986	Ivan Lendl defeats Miloslav Mecir for U.S. Tennis open title
1986	Cleveland Browns becomes 1st team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31
1985	99th U.S. Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats M Navratilova (76 16 76)
1985	Mary Decker Tabb Slaney runs U.S. 3K female record (8:25.83)
1984	Met Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236
1983	Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s)
1981	Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 57 pass attempts
1981	Jerry Lewis' 16th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,500,000
1981	Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1981	Judge Wapner and People's Court premier on TV
1981	West Tampa Florida defeats Richmand Virgina, 6-4 to win American Legion World Series
1980	100th U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (76 61 67 57 64)
1980	32nd Emmy Awards shown despite boycott
1980	32nd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ed Asner and Barbara Bel Geddes
1980	Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Series of Women's Golf
1980	Cape Verde adopts its constitution
1980	Earnest Gray becomes 2nd New York Giant to score 4 TDs (vs St. Louis)
1980	Oakland A's pitch record 78th complete game of season
1980	Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic
1980	John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg stage one of the greatest U.S. Open finals as 21 year old McEnroe fends off Borg to win his 2nd straight title
1979	5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at MSG, New York
1978	1st game of Boston Massacre, Yankees beat Red Sox 15-3
1977	Ethiopia drops diplomatic relations with Somalia
1977	President Carter and General Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties
1976	U.S. courts find George Harrison guilty of plagiarism (He's So Fine)
1975	95th U.S. Mens Tennis: Manuel Orantes beats Jimmy Connors (64 63 63)
1975	Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1975	Cincinnati Reds, win earliest NL division title
1975	Last day of 1st-class cricket for Hanif Mohammad
1975	Manuel Orantes upsets #1 seed Jimmy Connors to win U.S. Open
1974	"Irene" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 605 performances
1974	Shirley Cothran (Texas), 21, crowned 47th Miss America 1975
1973	Jackie Stewart becomes Formula 1 world champion
1973	Mike Storen becomes American Basketball Association's 4th commissioner
1970	Jerry Lewis' 5th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1970	PLO hijacks 4 planes
1970	White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader and lose both games
1970	Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado
1969	83rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Nancy Richey (62 62)
1969	Carol Mann wins LPGA Molson's Canadian Golf Open
1969	Rod Laver completes his 2nd grand slam winning U.S. Tennis Open
1969	U.S. amateur Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beat Virginia Wade (46 63 60)
1966	KTNE TV channel 13 in Alliance, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966	U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1965	Hurricane Betsy, kills 74 in Florida, Miss and La
1964	Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Valhalla Golf Open
1963	1st U.S. TV appearance of Beatles (Big Night Out-ABC)
1963	American Bandstand moves to California, and airs once a week on Saturday
1963	Pro Football Hall of Fame dedicated in Canton, Ohio
1960	Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3)
1958	72nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene R Hard (36 61 62)
1958	78th U.S. Mens Tennis: A J Cooper beats M J Anderson (62 36 46 108 86)
1957	71st U.S. Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Louise Brough (63 62)
1957	WWL TV channel 4 in New Orleans, Louisiana (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956	Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+
1955	Yankees Whitey Ford is 5th to throw consecutive 1-hitters, beats A's
1954	Integration begins in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland public schools
1953	67th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (62 64)
1953	73rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Elias V Seixas, Jr. (63 62 63)
1953	Roy Campanella sets catcher record of 125 (en route to 142) RBIs
1952	66th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (63 75)
1952	72nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (61 62 63)
1952	Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Tournament
1952	General Naguib forms Egyptian government/becomes premier
1952	Outfielder Don Grate throws a baseball a record 434'1" (Tennessee)
1952	Whitey Ford becomes 5th pitcher to hurl consecutive 1 hitters
1952	New York Yankees Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yankees a 5-1 win at Washington He has now HRed in all 15 major league parks
1950	Monasteries shut down in Hungary
1948	1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron, Ohio
1947	Battles between Hindus and Moslems in New Delhi
1945	Japanese at Rioekioe-islands surrender
1945	Joe Kuhel hits inside-the-park HR, only HR hit by a Senator all season at Washington's Griffith Stadium
1944	SS-general Kurt Meyer takes Durnal Belgium
1944	Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12)
1943	987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1943	Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel kills 45 (Houston Texas)
1942	62nd U.S. Mens Tennis: F Schroeder, Jr. beats F Parker (86 75 36 46 62)
1942	German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle
1942	Transport nr 29 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1941	61st U.S. Mens Tennis: R L Riggs beats Francis Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63)
1940	54th U.S. Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 63)
1940	60th U.S. Mens Tennis: McNeill beats Robert Riggs (46 68 63 63 75)
1940	German Air Force blitz London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights
1940	Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers above England
1939	Radio New York Worldwide-WRUL begins radio transmission
1936	Boulder Dam, now Hoover Dam, begins operation
1934	Luxury liner "Morro Castle" burns off NJ, killing 134
1932	Earl Grace, ends NL catcher record streak of 110 cons errorless games
1928	Sophie Treadwell's "Machinal," premieres in New York City
1927	Philo Farnsworth demonstrates 1st use of TV in SF
1923	Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Philadelphia A's, 4-0
1923	Interpol forms in Vienna
1923	Mary Katherine Campbell (Ohio), 16, crowned 2nd Miss America 1922-23
1916	Giants beat Brooklyn 4-1, to launch New York's record 26-game winning streak
1916	Workmen's Compensation Act passed by Congress
1915	35th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm Johnston beats M E McLoughlin (16 60 75 108)
1915	John Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll
1915	St. Louis Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago (Federal League), 3-0
1914	New York Post Office Building opens to public
1912	Eddie Collins steals record 6 bases in 9-7 Athletics win over Detroit
1907	Sutro's ornate Cliff House in San Francisco destroyed by fire
1903	Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY
1901	Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in China
1897	George Davis (Giants) HR off Sport McAllister (Spiders) in DH
1896	1st closed-circuit auto race, at Cranston, RI
1896	A. H. Whiting wins 1st automobile race held on a track in Cranston, Rhode Island
1892	James Corbett KOs John Sullivan in 21 for heavyweight boxing title
1891	Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria
1889	Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Engineer's Thumb"
1888	Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby place in an incubator
1880	Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters
1876	Bank robbery by James/Younger fails (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested)
1863	Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass
1860	Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin" drowns 340 in Lake Michigan
1822	Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day)
1822	Pedro I, son of king Joao VI, declares Brazil independence
1813	"Uncle Sam" was 1st used to refer to U.S. (Troy Post of New York)
1812	Battle at Borodino: Napoleon-Kutuzov
1800	Zion AME Church dedicated (New York City)
1714	Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine
1701	Germany, England and Netherlands sign anti-French covenant
1652	Battle of Monte Christo: Dutch fleet under J van Galen beat English
1599	Earl van Essex and Irish rebel Tyrone signs treaty
1596	Dutch fleet bombs Banten Java
1543	Duke Willem of Gulik surrenders to emperor Charles V
1525	Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius ends in the Hague
1497	Sailor Perkin Warbeck becomes English King Richard IV
1159	Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope
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