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Events on September 7

• 1776 In the American Revolutionary War, a submarine is used for the first time. However, the American revolutionaries' attempt to use the Turtle to attach a gunpowder time bomb to a British warship fails.
• 1788 Goethe and Schiller speak to each other for the first time.
• 1822 Brazil declares its independence from Portugal.
• 1911 In Hamburg, the Elbe Tunnel, the first river tunnel on the European continent, is opened.
• 1940 During the Battle of Britain in the Second World War, the German Luftwaffe begins its day and night attacks on London and other British cities.
• 1949 In Bonn, the 1st German Bundestag and the Federal Council convene for their constituent session. Karl Arnold becomes the first President of the Federal Council and is therefore also the acting head of state until the election of the first Federal President on September 12.
• 1951 The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany is introduced by Federal President Theodor Heuss by means of a foundation decree.
• 1987 The Chairman of the State Council of East Germany, Erich Honecker, arrives in Bonn for an official visit to the Federal Republic of Germany.
• 1987 The news magazine Der Spiegel reports that the SPD lead candidate for the Schleswig-Holstein state parliamentary election, Björn Engholm, was shadowed by detectives. Further investigations by the news magazine trigger the Barschel affair on September 12.
• 1996 An assassination attempt is made against the rapper Tupac Shakur in his car in Las Vegas. On September 13, he dies from his injuries.
• 2004 Wikimedia Commons is launched, a repository for free images, music, videos and spoken texts.
• 2011 In the crash of YAK-Service Flight 9633 near Yaroslavl, 44 people are killed, including almost the entire team of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey club.

Born on September 7

• 1860 Grandma Moses, American painter
• 1911 Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian politician, prime minister, chairman of the State Council
• 1912 David Packard, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard
• 1923 Peter Lawford, British actor
• 1930 Baudouin I., King of Belgium
• 1943 Gloria Gaynor, American singer
• 1951 Chrissie Hynde, American musician, singer, and songwriter
• 1961 Jochen Horst, German actor
• 1971 Caroline Peters, German actress
• 1992 Martin Hinteregger, Austrian football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „7. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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