TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: SEPTEMBER 7
70 Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem
1630 The town of Trimountaine in Massachusetts is renamed Boston. It became the state capital.
1778 Shawnee Indians attack and lay siege to Boonesborough, Kentucky.
1812 Battle of Borodino: Napoleon Bonapartre wins a pyrrhic victory against Russian General Mikhail Kutuzov in the most ferocious battle of the Napoleonic era, 70,000 are killed
1813 The earliest known printed reference to the United States by the nickname “Uncle Sam” occurs in the Troy Post. (https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/07/a-new-nickname-for-the-us-emerges-uncle-sam-sept-7-1813-242299 )
1876 The James-Younger gang botches an attempt to rob the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota.
1888 Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby to be placed in an incubator at State Emigrant Hospital on Ward’s Island, New York
1901 The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ended with the signing of the Peking Protocol (Peace of Beijing).
1916 The U.S. Congress passes the Workman’s Compensation Act.
1927 Philo Farnsworth demonstrates 1st use of TV in SF
1936 The Tasmanian Tiger Becomes Extinct
1940 Germans Begin the Blitz over London
1954 Integration of public schools begins in Washington D.C. and Maryland.
1977 Panama and US sign Torrijos-Carter Treaties to transfer control of the Panama Canal from the US to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
1979 ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, made its debut on cable TV.
1983 In Ireland, voters approved a constitutional ammendment that banned abortion.
1989 Legislation was approved by the U.S. Senate that prohibited discrimination against the handicapped in employment, public accommodations, transportation and communications.
2008 US Government assumes conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the country’s two largest mortgage financing companies, during the subprime mortgage crisis
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
