Today In History - September 7

1822 Brazil declares its independence from Portugal
1860 The Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin" drowns 340 people in Lake Michigan
1863 The Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass
1880 George Ligowsky patents a device to throw clay pigeons for trap shooters
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of The Engineer's Thumb"
1892 James J Corbett KOs John L Sullivan in round 21 of a fight at New Orleans
1896 The first closed-circuit auto race is held at Cranston, RI
1896 A. H. Whiting won the first closed-circuit auto race held
1903 Federation of American Motorcyclists is organized in NY
1927 Philo Farnsworth demonstrates the first use of Television in San Francisco
1934 Luxury liner "Morro Castle" burns off the NJ coast and kills 134 people
1936 Boulder Dam (now called the Hoover Dam) begins operation
1940 German Air Force "Blitz" London for the first of 57 consecutive nights
1943 Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel kills 45 in Houston, Texas
1956 Bell X-2 sets the unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+ (23+ miles)
1963 The first US TV appearance of the Beatles on the Big Night Out on ABC
1963 The Pro Football Hall of Fame is dedicated in Canton Ohio
1970 Donald Boyles sets the record for the highest parachute jump from a bridge: 1,053' Royal George Bridge.
1976 A US courts find George Harrison guilty of plagiarism for He's So Fine
1980 32nd Emmy Awards are shown despite the boycott
1981 Judge Wapner & the People's Court premier on TV
1986 Desmond Tutu is installed to lead the south African Anglican Church
1988 NY Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychatrist
1988 Security & Exchange Commission accuses Drexel of violating security laws
1990 Miss America 1991 is crowned
1991 Actor Harry Hamlin weds actress Nicollette Sheridan
1991 Monica Seles wins the US Open
3114BC Accepted date of origin of the Mayan "long count" calendar system

1533 Queen Elizabeth I England, the daughter of Henry VIII
1836 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
1860 Grandma (Anna Maria) Moses
1891 Roscoe Karns
1900 "Janet" Taylor Caldwell
1908 Dr Michael E DeBakey
1908 Paul Brown
1909 Elia Kazan
1910 John Shea
1913 Anthony Quayle
1914 James Van Allen
1922 Art Ferrante
1923 Peter Lawford
1924 Daniel Inouye
1924 Leonard Rosenman
1929 John Milford
1930 Sonny Rollins
1934 Bill Giles
1936 Buddy Holly
1937 John Phillip Law
1939 S David Griggs
1942 Garrison Keillor
1942 Richard Roundtree
1948 Susan Blakely
1949 Gloria Gaynor
1950 Peggy Noonan
1951 Julie Kavner
1953 Linda G Miller
1954 Corbin Bernsen
1956 Michael J Feinstein
1971 Henry Thomas
1985 Tatia Jayne Starkey (Ringo Starr's first grandchild)