September 7
Today in America's Present Past
1813 | First use of “Uncle Sam” to refer to the Federal Government by Troy Post.
1800 | Civil Rights: Zion AME Church was dedicated.
1819 | Vice President Thomas Hendrick was born.
1837 | Captive Olive Oatman was born.
1851 | Cleric David King Udall was born.
1860 | Painter Grandma Moses was born.
1867 | Entrepreneur J.P. Morgan, Jr. was born.
1876 | Outlaw Frank James and his gang are involved in a raid in Northfield, Minnesota.
1881 | Poet Sidney Lanier died.
1892 | Poet John Greenleaf Whittier died.
1901 | America achieved victory in the Boxer Rebellion.
1912 | Entrepreneur David Packard was born.
1914 | Physicist James Van Allen was born.
1922 | Surgeon William Stewart Halsted died.
1923 | Pro Golfer Louise Suggs was born.
1932 | Philanthropist John Paul Getty Jr. was born.
1936 | The Boulder - now Hoover - Dam begins operations.
1936 | Musician Buddy Holly was born.
1943 | Musician Gloria Gaynor was born.
1943 | Orson Welles and Rita Haworth wed.
1950 | Speech writer Peggy Noonan was born.
1954 | Civil Rights: Integration begins in Washington, D.C. & Baltimore, Maryland government public schools.
1958 | Civil Rights: The US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas denied the Little Rock School Board’s petition to suspend its integration program.
1962 | Author Jennifer Egan was born.
1963 | American Bandstand moves to California and begins the weekly broadcast.
1969 | Politician Everett Dirksen died.
1971 | Civil Rights: Santa Fe Fiestas riot in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1977 | POTUS: Democrat President Carter signed the Panama Canal Treaty.
1987 | Actress Evan Rachel Wood was born.
1990 | General Earle E. Partridge died.
1996 | Music artist Tupac is shot six times in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1998 | Writer Edward Robb Ellis died.
2022 | Journalist Bernard Shaw died.