On this day, Sept. 7
1901 The Peace of Beijing ended the Boxer Rebellion in China.
1940 Nazi Germany began its eight-month blitz of Britain during World War II with the first air attack on London.
1943 A fire at the Gulf Hotel, a rooming house in Houston, claimed 55 lives.
1968 Feminists protested outside the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, N.J.
1977 The Panama Canal treaties, calling for the U.S. to eventually turn over control of the waterway to Panama, were signed in Washington by President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos.
1986 Bishop Desmond Tutu was installed as the first Black clergyman to lead the Anglican Church in southern Africa.
1996 Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and mortally wounded on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later.
2008 Troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placed in government conservatorship.
2013 Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Summer Olympics, defeating Istanbul in the final round of secret voting by the International Olympic Committee.
2020 India’s increasing coronavirus caseload made the Asian giant the world’s second-worst-hit country behind the United States.
2022 Myles Sanderson, the 32-year-old suspect in stabbings that killed 11 people and injured 18 in Saskatchewan, Canada three days earlier, was arrested and died in a hospital after showing medical distress.
Today’s birthdays: Jazz musician Sonny Rollins, 93. Singer Gloria Gaynor, 80. Singer Alfa Anderson (Chic), 77. Actor Susan Blakely, 75. Actor Julie Kavner, 73. Rock singer Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders), 72. Actor Corbin Bernsen, 69. Actor Michael Emerson, 69. Pianist Michael Feinstein, 67. Singer/ songwriter Diane Warren, 67. Singer Margot Chapman, 66. Actor J. Smith-Cameron, 66. Actor W. Earl Brown, 60. Actor Toby Jones, 57. Actor-comedian Leslie Jones (TV: “Saturday Night Live”), 56. Model-actor Angie Everhart, 54. Actor Diane Farr, 54. Actor Monique Gabriela Curnen, 53. Actor Tom Everett Scott, 53. Actor Shannon Elizabeth, 50. Actor Oliver Hudson, 47. Actor Devon Sawa, 45. Actor JD Pardo, 44. Actor Benjamin Hollingsworth (TV: “Code Black”), 39. Actor Alyssa Diaz (TV: “Ray Donovan”; “Zoo”), 38. Singer-musician Wes Willis (Rush of Fools), 37. Actor Evan Rachel Wood, 36.