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 250^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 115 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 25, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,757,203,200 seconds 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 ‘dihectapentacontagon’ 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 163 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 4,643 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 7 Historical Events

• 1818 –
  Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
• 1822 –
  Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in São Paulo.
• 1864 –
  American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
• 1893 –
  The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become one of the oldest Italian football clubs, is established by British expats.
• 1911 –
  French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
• 1929 –
  Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives are lost.
• 1940 –
  World War II: The Blitz – Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
• 1945 –
  Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
• 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.
• 2004 –
  Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.

Who were born on September 7?

• 1801 –
  Sarel Cilliers, Voortrekker leader and preacher (d.1871)
• 1870 –
  Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer and adventurer (d. 1938)
• 1925 –
  Laura Ashley, British designer (d. 1985)
• 1932 –
  Malcolm Bradbury, British writer and academic (d. 2000)
• 1939 –
  Latimore (musician), American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist
• 1956 –
  Byron Stevenson, British footballer (d. 2007)
• 1969 –
  Darren Bragg, American baseball player
• 1983 –
  Piri Weepu, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 –
  Pops Mensah-Bonsu, British basketball player
• 1986 –
  Colin Delaney, American professional wrestler

Who died on September 7?

• 1312 –
  King Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. 1285)
• 1719 –
  John Harris, English writer
• 1949 –
  José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)
• 1962 –
  Graham Walker, British motorcycle racer (b. 1897)
• 1965 –
  Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1978 –
  Cecil Aronowitz, British violist (b. 1916)
• 1978 –
  Charles Williams, British composer (b. 1893)
• 2001 –
  Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b. 1930)
• 2003 –
  The Great Antonio, Canadian eccentric (b. 1925)
• 2011 –
  Victims of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: Alexander Karpovtsev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1970)