Today in History, September 7: 70 – A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem. 878 – Louis the Stammerer was crowned as King of West Francia by Pope John VIII. 1191 – Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf – Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf. 1228 – Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II landed in Acre, Palestine and started the Sixth Crusade, which resulted in a peaceful restitution of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. 1571 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots. 1631 – Battle of Breitenfield (Thirty Years War) Swedish troops commanded by Gustavus Adolphus win a decisive victory over Catholic Forces. 1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the worlds first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist). 1812 – French invasion of Russia : The Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought near Moscow and resulted in a French victory. 1864 – American Civil War: Atlanta, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman. 1901 – The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol. 1921 – The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland. 1942 – First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator. 1942 – World War II: Australian and US forces inflict a significant defeat upon the Japanese at the Battle of Milne Bay. 1943 – World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea. 1945 – Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines. 1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1953 – Mohammad Daoud Khan becomes Premier of Afghanistan. 1963 – The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members. 1970 – Fighting between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan. 1977 – The Torrijos–Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century. 1978 – While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella. 1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa. 1986 – General Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination. 1988 – Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station. 2005 – Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party presidential election. 2008 – The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. 2010 – A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands. The collisions occurred around 10am, after the Japanese Coast Guard ordered the trawler to leave the area. After the collisions, Japanese sailors boarded the Chinese vessel and arrested the captain, Zhan Qixiong. 2012 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and ordered the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and alleged rights abuses.
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