TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Sept. 7, 1940

Nazi Germany began its eight-month blitz of Britain during World War II with the first air attack on London. ALSO ON THIS DATE

1901

The Peace of Beijing ended the Boxer Rebellion in China.

1927

American television pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth, 21, succeeded in transmitting the image of a line through purely electronic means with a device called an “image dissector” at his San Francisco laboratory.

1936

Rock-and-roll legend Buddy Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas.

1963

The National Professional Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, Ohio.

1972

The International Olympic Committee banned Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett of the U.S. from further competition for talking to each other on the victory stand in Munich during the playing of the “Star-Spangled Banner” after winning the gold and silver medals in the 400-meter run.

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. Convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy was released from prison after more than four years.

1979

The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network made its cable TV debut.