📜 This Day in History

September 7

• 1159Pope Alexander III was chosen to succeed of Adrian IV in a disputed election.
• 1652Chinese peasants on Formosa (now Taiwan) began a rebellion against Dutch rule which was suppressed four days later.
• 1901With Beijing occupied by foreign troops from the Eight-Nation Alliance, Qing China was forced to sign the Boxer Protocol, an unequal treaty that ended the Boxer Rebellion.
• 1940Second World War: The Luftwaffe changed their strategy in the Battle of Britain and began bombing London and other cities and towns.
• 1999Three weeks after an earthquake struck northwestern Turkey, a second earthquake struck Athens, causing Greece and Turkey to initiate "earthquake diplomacy".
• 2011Yak-Service Flight 9633, carrying the players and coaching staff of the ice hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, crashed on take-off near Yaroslavl, Russia, resulting in the deaths of 44 of the 45 people on board.

Born on this day

• 1533Elizabeth I of England (died 1603)
• 1707Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French mathematician, cosmologist, and author (died 1788)
• 1909Elia Kazan, Greek-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2003)
• 1940Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian journalist and politician, 4th President of Indonesia (died 2009)