7th September anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1908
  • "Birth of Michael Ellis DeBakey, American surgeon, artificial heart pioneer ."
  • 1909
  • "Birth of Elia Kazan, Turkish-born American director and writer (A Streetcar Named Desire, East of Eden, Gentlemans Agreement, etc)"
• event
  • 1909
  • France
  • "Frenchman Eugene Lefebvre became the first person to die while piloting an aircraft. He crashed a Wright biplane on a test flight at Juvisy, France"
  • 1969
  • First episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus recorded
  • 1979
  • The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) began broadcasting in the USA
  • 1986
  • "Desmond Tutu was appointed Archbishop of Capetown, the first black person to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa"
  • 1994
  • The US Army ended its military presence in Berlin after nearly 50 years
  • 1998
  • "Google was founded – based in a friend’s garage in Menlo Park, California."
  • 1999
  • "Germanys parliament, the Bundestag, held its first session in the restored Reichstag building in Berlin, having moved from Bonn during the summer"
• Death
  • 1809
  • "Death of Rama I, King of Siam (Thailand), founder of the Chakri dynasty"
  • 1907
  • "Death of W H Brown, headmaster of Charterhouse who secured an Act of Parliament to move the school from London to Godalming, Surrey." more
  • 1959
  • "Death of Maurice Duplessis, Premier of Quebec, Canada"
  • 1978
  • "Death of Keith Moon, British rock drummer (‘The Who’) ."
  • 1984
  • "Death of Liam OFlaherty, Irish novelist and short story writer"
  • 1997
  • "Death of Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire"