What are the important events that happened on September 7? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

September 7: Facts & Myths About This Day

September 7 is the 251^st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 115 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 25, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 479,352 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectapentacontahenagon’ day.

Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 144 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,278 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 7 Historical Events

• 1652 –
  Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
• 1876 –
  In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town’s bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
• 1916 –
  Federal employees win the right to Workers’ compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
• 1929 –
  Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives are lost.
• 1940 –
  Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.
• 1943 –
  World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban River 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.
• 1979 –
  The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
• 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.
• 1999 –
  A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.

Who were born on September 7?

• 1908 –
  Max Kaminsky (musician), jazz trumpeter and band leader (d. 1994)
• 1926 –
  Don Messick, American voice actor (d. 1997)
• 1963 –
  Eazy-E, American rapper (N.W.A.) (d. 1995)
• 1973 –
  Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
• 1977 –
  Nora Greenwald, American professional wrestler
• 1978 –
  Erwin Koen, Dutch footballer
• 1979 –
  Paul Mara, American ice hockey player
• 1984 –
  Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1987 –
  Aleksandra Wozniak, Canadian tennis player
• 1991 –
  Amar Garibović, Serbian cross country skier (d. 2010)

Who died on September 7?

• 251 –
  Sima Yi, Chinese strategist, general, and politician
• 1655 –
  François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (b. 1601)
• 1891 –
  Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (b. 1820)
• 1956 –
  C. B. Fry, English cricketer, politician, diplomat, academic, teacher, writer, editor and publisher (b. 1872)
• 2002 –
  Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (b. 1961)
• 2002 –
  Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (b. 1923)
• 2004 –
  Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 2005 –
  Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (b. 1933)
• 2011 –
  Victims of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1980)
• 2011 –
  Victims of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: Ruslan Salei, Belorussian ice hockey player (b. 1974)