TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: SEPT 7
1251 BC A solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece.
70 Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem
1525 Trial against “heretic” John Pistorius ends in the Hague
1630 The town of Trimountaine in Massachusetts is renamed Boston. It became the state capital.
1714 Treaty of Baden signed by the Holy Roman Empire and France, ending the War of the Spanish Succession; French retain Alsace and Landau, Austria gets east bank of Rhine
1778 Shawnee Indians attack and lay siege to Boonesborough, Kentucky.
1813 The nickname “Uncle Sam” was first used as a symbolic reference to the United States. The reference appeared in an editorial in the New York’s Troy Post.
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
1892 The first heavyweight-title boxing match fought with gloves under Marquis of Queensbury rules ends when James J. Corbett knocks out John L. Sullivan in the 21st round.
1901 The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ended with the signing of the Peking Protocol (Peace of Beijing).
1915 Johnny Gruelle received a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll. (U.S. Patent D47789)
1916 The U.S. Congress passes the Workman’s Compensation Act.
1936 The Tasmanian Tiger Becomes Extinct
1940 Germany’s blitz against London begins during the Battle of Britain.
1948 1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron Oh
1953 Nikita Krushchev elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1965 Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio.
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.
1978 Secret police agent Francesco Gullino assassinates Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in London by firing a ricin pellet from a specially designed umbrella.
1979 ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programing Network, debuts.
1983 In Ireland, voters approved a constitutional ammendment that banned abortion.
1986 President Augusto Pinochet survived an assassination attempt made by guerrillas.
1989 Legislation was approved by the U.S. Senate that prohibited discrimination against the handicapped in employment, public accommodations, transportation and communications.
1995 Sen Bob Packwoord (R-Ore) resigns rather than face expulsion
2012 Canada closes its Iranian embassy and expels Iranian diplomatic staff out of Canada
2017 Consumer credit reporting agency Equifax reports earlier cyberattack could affects 143 million Americans
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
