'Important' can be a matter of personal opinion, however these are generally considered significant dates in history:

1251 BC - A solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece.

70 - Roman army under Titus occupies & plunders Jerusalem

1159 - Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope

1191 - Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf - Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.

1497 - Sailor Perkin Warbeck becomes English King Richard IV

1525 - Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius ends in the Hague

1533 - Queen Elizabeth I is born

1543 - Duke Willem of Gulik surrenders to emperor Charles V

1596 - Dutch fleet bombs Banten Java

1599 - Earl van Essex & Irish rebel Tyrone signs treaty

1652 - Battle of Monte Christo: Dutch fleet under J van Galen beat English

1701 - Germany, England & Netherlands sign anti-French covenant

1714 - Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI & France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine

1800 - Zion AME Church dedicated (NYC)

1812 - Battle at Borodino: Napoleon-Kutuzov

1818 - Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.

1822 - Pedro I, son of King Joao VI declares Brazil's independence from Portugal (National Day)

1860 - Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin" drowns 340 in Lake Michigan

1863 - Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass

1871 - Bay of Biskaje: English warship HMS Captain capsizes, 500 killed

1876 - Bank robbery by James/Younger fails (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested)

1880 - Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters

1888 - Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby place in an incubator

1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Engineer's Thumb" (BG)

1891 - Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria

1892 - James Corbett KOs John Sullivan in 21 for heavyweight boxing title

1896 - A H Whiting wins 1st automobile race held on a closed-circuit track in Cranston, RI

1897 - George Davis (Giants) HR off Sport McAllister (Spiders) in DH

1901 - Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in China

1903 - Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY

1906 - Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.

1907 - Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF destroyed by fire

1909 - Eugene Lefebvre (1878-1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.

1912 - Eddie Collins steals record 6 bases in 9-7 Athletics win over Detroit

1914 - NY Post Office Building opens to public

1915 - 35th US Mens Tennis: Wm Johnston beats M E McLoughlin (16 60 75 108)

1915 - John Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll

1915 - St Louis Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago (Federal League), 3-0

1916 - Giants beat Brooklyn 4-1, to launch NY's record 26-game winning streak

1916 - Workmen's Compensation Act passed by Congress

1921 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.

1922 - In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.

1923 - Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Phila A's, 4-0

1923 - Interpol forms in Vienna

1923 - Mary Katherine Campbell (Ohio), 16, crowned 2nd Miss America 1922-23

1927 - Philo Farnsworth demonstrates 1st use of TV in SF

1927 - The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by GovernorAntÃ´nio Carlos.

1928 - Sophie Treadwell's "Machinal," premieres in NYC

1932 - Earl Grace, ends NL catcher record streak of 110 cons errorless games

1934 - Luxury liner "Morro Castle" burns off NJ, killing 134

1936 - Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) begins operation

1936 - The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

1939 - Radio NY Worldwide-WRUL begins radio transmission

1940 - 54th US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 63)

1940 - 60th US Mens Tennis: McNeill beats Robert Riggs (46 68 63 63 75)

1940 - German Air Force blitz London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights

1940 - Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers above England

1940 - Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.

1941 - 61st US Mens Tennis: R L Riggs beats Francis Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63)

1942 - 62nd US Mens Tennis: F Schroeder Jr beats F Parker (86 75 36 46 62)

1942 - German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle

1942 - Transport nr 29 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany

1942 - First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.

1943 - 987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp

1943 - Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel kills 45 (Houston Texas)

1944 - SS-general Kurt Meyer takes Durnal Belgium

1944 - Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12)

1945 - Japanese at Rioekioe-islands surrender

1945 - Joe Kuhel hits inside-the-park HR, only HR hit by a Senator all season at Washington's Griffith Stadium

1947 - Battles between Hindus & Moslems in New Delhi

1948 - 1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron Oh

1950 - Monasteries shut down in Hungary

1952 - 66th US Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (63 75)

1952 - 72nd US Mens Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (61 62 63)

1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Tournament

1952 - General Naguib forms Egyptian government/becomes premier

1952 - Outfielder Don Grate throws a baseball a record 434'1" (Tenn)

1952 - Whitey Ford becomes 5th pitcher to hurl consecutive 1 hitters

1952 - NY Yankees Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yanks a 5-1 win at Washington He has now HRed in all 15 major league parks

1953 - 67th US Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (62 64)

1953 - 73rd US Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Elias V Seixas Jr (63 62 63)

1953 - Roy Campanella sets catcher record of 125 (en route to 142) RBIs

1954 - Integration begins in Wash DC & Balt MD public schools

1955 - Yankees Whitey Ford is 5th to throw consecutive 1-hitters, beats A's

1956 - Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+

1957 - 71st US Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Louise Brough (63 62)

1957 - WWL TV channel 4 in New Orleans, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1958 - 72nd US Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene R Hard (36 61 62)

1958 - 78th US Mens Tennis: A J Cooper beats M J Anderson (62 36 46 108 86)

1960 - Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3)

1963 - WCTI TV channel 12 in New Bern, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting

1963 - American Bandstand moves to California, & airs once a week on Saturday

1963 - Pro Football Hall of Fame dedicated in Canton Ohio

1964 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Valhalla Golf Open

1965 - -10] Hurricane Betsy, kills 74 in Florida, Miss & La

1965 - China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border.

1966 - KTNE TV channel 13 in Alliance, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting

1966 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1969 - 83rd US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Nancy Richey (62 62)

1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Molson's Canadian Golf Open

1969 - Rod Laver completes his 2nd grand slam winning US Tennis Open

1969 - US amateur Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beat Virginia Wade (46 63 60)

1970 - Jerry Lewis' 5th Muscular Dystrophy telethon

1970 - PLO hijacks 4 planes

1970 - White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader & lose both games

1970 - Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado

1970 - Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.

1973 - Jackie Stewart becomes Formula 1 world champion

1973 - Mike Storen becomes American Basketball Association's 4th commissioner

1974 - "Irene" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 605 performances

1974 - Shirley Cothran (Texas), 21, crowned 47th Miss America 1975

1975 - 95th US Mens Tennis: Manuel Orantes beats Jimmy Connors (64 63 63)

1975 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open

1975 - Cincinnati Reds, win earliest NL division title

1975 - Last day of 1st-class cricket for Hanif Mohammad

1975 - Manuel Orantes upsets #1 seed Jimmy Connors to win US Open

1976 - US courts find George Harrison guilty of plagiarism (He's So Fine)

1977 - Ethiopia drops diplomatic relations with Somalia

1977 - Pres Carter & Gen Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties

1978 - 1st game of Boston Massacre, Yanks beat Red Sox 15-3

1979 - 5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at Madison Square Garden, NY

1979 - The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.

1980 - 32nd Emmy Awards shown despite boycott

1980 - 32nd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ed Asner & Barbara Bel Geddes

1980 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Series of Women's Golf

1980 - Cape Verde adopts its constitution

1980 - Earnest Gray becomes 2nd NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs St Louis)

1980 - Oakland A's pitch record 78th complete game of season

1980 - Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic

1980 - John McEnroe & Bjorn Borg stage one of the greatest US Open finals as 21 year old McEnroe fends off Borg to win his 2nd straight title (76 61 67 57 64)

1981 - Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 57 pass attempts

1981 - Jerry Lewis' 16th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,500,000

1981 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic

1981 - Judge Wapner & People's Court premier on TV

1981 - West Tampa Fl defeats Rich Va, 6-4 to win American Legion World Series

1983 - Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s)

1984 - Met Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236

1985 - 99th US Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats M Navratilova (76 16 76)

1985 - Mary Decker Tabb Slaney runs US 3K female record (8:25.83)

1986 - 100th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Helena Sukova (63 62)

1986 - 106th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (64 62 60)

1986 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship

1986 - Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican archbishop of Capetown

1986 - Failed assassination attempt on Chilean dictator Pinochet, 5 killed

1986 - Ivan Lendl defeats Miloslav Mecir for US Tennis open title

1986 - Cleveland Browns becomes 1st team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31

1987 - Jerry Lewis' 22nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $39,021,723

1987 - Netherlands routes 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf

1987 - Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic

1987 - South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young

1988 - 5th MTV Awards

1988 - Guy Lafleur, Tony Esposito & Brad Park inducted in NHL Hall of Fame

1988 - NY Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist

1988 - Security & Exchange Comm accuses Drexel of violating security laws

1990 - "Street Scene" opens at NY State Theater NYC for 6 performances

1990 - Marjorie Judith Vincent (Ill), 25, crowned 64th Miss America 1991

1991 - 1st South African international competition in 25 years, gymnastics

1991 - Die Laughing wins Messenger Stakes

1991 - 105th US Womens Tennis Open: Monica Seles (17) defeats Martina Navratilova (34) (76 61)

1991 - Ty Detmer of Brigham Young passes NCAA record 11,606 yards

1992 - Army of Ciskei homeland kills 28 ANC demonstrators

1992 - Baseball commissioner Faye Vincent resigns

1992 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic

1993 - Brazil votes over importing monarchy

1993 - Cards Mark Whiten, hits 4 HRs & 12 RBIs in 2nd game of doubleheader

1994 - Jingyi Le/Ying Shan/Ying Le/Bin Lu swimming 4x100 freestyle (3:37.91)

1995 - 12th MTV Awards

1995 - STS 69 (Endeavour 9), launches into orbit

1995 - Sen Bob Packwoord (R-Ore) resigns rather than face expulsion

1996 - Women's championship at US Tennis Open

1997 - 111th US Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats Venus Williams (60 64)

1997 - 117th US Mens Tennis: Patrick Rafter beats Greg Rusedski (63 62 46 75)

1997 - Boone Valley Senior Golf Classic

1997 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation

1997 - Karrie Webb wins Safeway LPGA Golf Championship

1997 - Men's championship at US Tennis Open

1997 - Steve Jones wins Canadian Golf Open with a 275

1997 - The first test flight of the F-22 Raptor takes place.

1998 - Jerry Lewis' 33rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises

1998 - Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University

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.

2004 - Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hitting Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.

2005 - First presidential election was held in Egypt.

2008 - The US Government takes control of the two largest largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

2011 - Plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team

2012 - US drone attack kills 8 people in Kismayo, south Somalia

2012 - 64 people are killed and 715 injured after a series of earthquakes in south-west China

2012 - Canada closes its Iranian embassy and expels Iranian diplomatic staff out of Canada

Hope this helps P.S. September 7th is my Birthday :D

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