TODAY in HISTORY

Today is Friday, September 7, the 250th day of 2018. There are 115 days left in the year.

1571 Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots.

1695 Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj- iSawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end all English trading in India.

1706 War of the Spanish Succession: Siege of Turin ends, leading to the withdrawal of French forces from North Italy. 1776 According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world’s first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor ( no British records of this attack exist).

1812 French invasion of Russia: The Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought near Moscow and resulted in a French victory.

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

1864 American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.

1901 The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty ( modernday China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.

1911 French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.

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

1953 Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1965 During an IndoPakistani War, China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.

1986 Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town. 1988 Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns to Earth after nine days on the Mir space station.

1999 The 6.0 Mw Athens earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX ( Violent), killing 143, injuring 800– 1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.

2005 Egypt holds its firstever multi- party presidential election.

2008 The US government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. 2010 A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats.