7 September

The **7t o September** is the 250t day o the year (251st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 115 days bidin.

## Events

* 1159 - Pape Alexander II is chosen.
* 1822 - Brazil declares unthirldom frae Portugal.
* 1853 - German splorer Heinrich Barth enters Timbuktu.
* 1901 - Cheenae's Boxer Rebellion ends wi the signin o the Peking Protocol.
* 1936 - The last Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) dees in a zoo in Hobart, Tasmanie.
* 1940 - Warld War II: German bombin raids are carried oot ower Lunnon.
* 1943 - A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 fowk.
* 1986 - Desmond Tutu becomes the first black Anglican Airchbeeshop o Cape Toun.
* 1996 - Rapper Tupac Shakur is shot; he dees as a result o his injuries sax days later.
* 2004 - Hurricane Ivan hits the island o Grenada, killin 39 fowk, an destroyin 85% o biggins.
* 2011 - 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster: The entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team is kilt in a plane crash.
* 2012 - Canadae breaks aff diplomatic relations wi Iran ower the conflict in Sirie.
* 2013 - Tony Abbott's Leeberal-Naitional Pairty coaleetion wins Australie's general election, ower Kevin Rudd's Labor Pairty.
* 2013 - Tokyo wins the richt tae host the 2020 Simmer Olympics.
* 2017 - The 2017 Chiapas yirdquauk in Mexico occurs ar magnitude 8.4 an kills 60 fowk.
* 2018 - Men's Fitbaw: Scotland loses 4-0 tae Belgium at Hampden Park, in its biggest hame defeat syne a 5-0 loss tae Ingland in 1973.
* 2019 - Amber Rudd demits frae the Unitit Kinrick govrenment ower the expulsions o 21 Conservative Pairty MPs wha votit agin Boris Johnson on the issue o a Nae-Deal Brexit.
* 2019 - Bianca Andreescu become the first tennis player born in the 2000s tae win a Grand Slam singles teetle, defeatin Serena Williams in the weemen's feenal at the US Open.

## Births

* 1533 - Queen Elizabeth I o Ingland (d. 1603)
* 1641 - Tokugawa Ietsuna, Japanese shogun (d. 1680)
* 1707 - Georges Louis Leclerc, Coont o Buffon, French naituralist (d. 1788) 
* 1815 - John McDouall Stuart, Scots splorer in Australie (d. 1866)
* 1836 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1908)
* 1846 - Donald Petrie, Scots botanist (d. 1925)
* 1909 - Elia Kazan, Greek-American director, producer, writer an actor (d. 2003)
* 1911 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarie Communist leader (d. 1998)
* 1917 - John Cornforth, Australie-Breetish chemist (d. 2013)
* 1924 - Daniel Inouye, Unitit States Senator frae Hawaii (d. 2012)
* 1929 - Bobby Johnstone, Scots fitbawer (d. 2001)
* 1930 - Sonny Rollins, American jazz saxophonist
* 1930 - Keeng Baudouin o Belgium (d. 1993)
* 1936 - Buddy Holly, American sangster (d. 1959)
* 1939 - Stanislav Petrov, Soviet-Roushie lieutenant colonel (d. 2017)
* 1940 - Abdurrahman Wahid, 4t Preses o Indonesie (d. 2009)
* 1949 - Gloria Gaynor, American sangster
* 1950 - Julie Kavner, American actress
* 1951 - Chrissie Hynde, American sangster an guitarist
* 1952 - Des Bremner, Scots fitbawer
* 1959 - Rona Munro, Scots writer
* 1959 - Ray Stewart, Scots fitbawer
* 1968 - Marcel Desailly, French fitbawer
* 1976 - Garry Brady, Scots fitbawer
* 1977 - Fedde le Grand, Dutch DJ an house muisic producer
* 1980 - Gabriel Milito, Argentine fitbawer
* 1984 - Vera Zvonareva, Roushie tennis player
* 1987 - Evan Rachel Wood, American actress
* 1987 - Robert Snodgrass, Scots fitbawer
* 1999 - Michelle Creber, Canadian actress an sangster

## Daiths
* 1548 - Catherine Parr, 6t wife o Henry VIII o Ingland (b. 1512)
* 1960 - Wilhelm Pieck, German politeecian (b. 1876)
* 1962 - Karen Blixen, Dens writer (b. 1885)
* 1978 - Keith Moon, Inglis muisicker (b. 1947)
* 1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko, Preses o Zaire (b. 1930)
* 2011 - Derek Grierson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1931)
* 2011 - Ivan Tkachenko, Roushie ice hockey player (b. 1979)
* 2014 - Don Keefer, American actor (b. 1916)

## Halidays

* Naitional Day o Brazil
* Victory Day (Mozambique)
* Endangered Species Day (Australie)