DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 7, the 250th day of 2022. There are 115 days left in the year. On this date in:
1901: The Peace of Beijing ended the Boxer Rebellion in China.
1940: Nazi Germany began its eightmonth 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, New Jersey. (The pageant crown went to Miss Illinois Judith Ford.)
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: Desmond Tutu was installed as the first Black clergyman to lead the Anglican
Church in southern Africa.
1996: Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later.
2005: Police and soldiers went house to house in New Orleans to try to coax the last stubborn holdouts into leaving the city shattered by Hurricane Katrina.
2007: Osama bin Laden appeared in a video for the first time in three years, telling Americans they should convert to Islam if they wanted the war in Iraq to end.
2008: Troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placed in government conservatorship.
2015: Hillary Clinton, interviewed by The Associated Press during a campaign swing through Iowa, said she did not need to apologize for using a private email account and server while at the State Department because “what I did was allowed.”
2019: President Donald Trump said he had canceled a secret weekend meeting at Camp David with Taliban and Afghan leaders, just days before the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, after a bombing in Kabul that killed 12 people, including an American soldier.
2020: India’s increasing coronavirus caseload made the Asian giant the world’s second-worst-hit country behind the United States.
Sept. 7 birthdays
Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins is 92. Singer Gloria Gaynor is 79. Singer
Alfa Anderson of Chic is 76. Drummer
Dennis Thompson of MC5 is 74. Actor
Julie Kavner (“The Simpsons”) is 72. Singer Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders is 71. Keyboardist Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is 69. Actor Corbin Bernsen is 68. Actor
Michael Emerson (“Lost”) is 68. Pianist
Michael Feinstein is 66. Songwriter Diane Warren is 66. Singer Margot Chapman (Starland Vocal Band) is 65. Actor W. Earl Brown (“Deadwood”) is 59. Comedian
Leslie Jones (“Supermarket Sweep,” “Saturday Night Live”) is 55. Model Angie Everhart is 53. Actor Diane Farr (“Numb3rs,” “Rescue Me”) is 53. Actor
Monique Gabriela Curnen (“The Dark Knight”) is 52. Actor Tom Everett Scott (“Southland,” “That Thing You Do!”) is 52. Drummer Chad Sexton of 311 is 52. Actor Shannon Elizabeth (“American Pie”) is 49. Actor Oliver Hudson (“Nashville”) is 46.