http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=17576#7September 7
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school
3114 BC: Presumed origin of Mayan "long count" calendar system.
1776: The world's first submarine attack occurs when the submersible craft American Turtle attacks the British flagship Eagle in New York harbor. The American Turtle, was large enough to accommodate one operator, and entirely hand-powered. The wooden submarine attached a time bomb to the hull of the Eagle, and departed unnoticed. An explosion results, but no serious damage occurs as the poorly secured bomb had drifted away from the ship.
1822: Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day).
1833: Hannah More dies in Bristol, England. Wrote the two-volume "Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education."
1860: Excursion steamer Lady Elgin and the lumber ship Augusta collided on Lake Michigan, killing nearly 400 persons.
1888: Jesse James' last holdup.
1917: Birth of Jacob Lawrence, Atlantic City, N. J. A leading painter in chronicling African-American history and urban life. Among his most celebrated works will be the historical panels "The Life of Toussaint-Louverture" and "The Life of Harriet Tubman."
1927: Six Marion, N.C. textile workers killed on picket line.
1942: Death of peace activist Edouard de Neulville, France.
1948: Three thousand attend rally in public launch of Peace Council, Melbourne, Australia.
1954: Integration of public schools begins in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Md.
1958: First meeting of the New York Daughters of Bilitis, pioneer lesbian organization.
1960: Positive thinker Rev. Norman Vincent Peale warns that any Catholic President would be under "extreme pressure from the hierarchy of his church."
1963: FDA announces that Dr. Steven Durovic's "anti-cancer" drug Krebiozen, administered to over 5,000 patients in 13 years, is really the common amino acid creatine, which has no anti-tumor effects whatsoever.
1968: For the first time, feminist protesters interrupt the Miss America beauty pageant in Atlantic City, N.J.
1977: Workers in Ghaziabad, India burn factory and lynch two finks; solidarity strike of 40,000 follows.
1977: In Wisconsin's first judicial-recall election, outraged Dane County (Madison) citizens vote judge Archie Simonson from office. He called rape a normal male reaction to provocative female attire and modern society's permissive attitude toward sex, which he said is why he sentenced a 15- year-old to just one year of probation for raping a 16-year-old girl. He is replaced by Moria Krueger, the first woman judge elected in Dane County history.
1978: The Who's drummer, Keith Moon, 31, dies in London after overdosing on Hemenephirin, a prescription drug which was supposed to help him with alcohol.
1987: Solidarity Campaign in Britain ship 100 bicycles to Nicaraguan teachers and health care workers.
1988: New York Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist. Iron Mike explained, "I just needed someone to talk to, someone who'd really listen, someone who'd let me chew their ear off."
1990: Ploughshares Two activists jailed fifteen months for disabling F-111 bomber, Oxford, Britain.
1990: RCMP moves in on First Nations encampment in southern Alberta, ending a month-long native attempt to protect sacred land by diverting the Old Man River around a partially completed dam.
1992: Troops kill nonviolent demonstrators, Ciskei "homeland," South Africa.
1996: Two women are arrested for trespass at the Norfolk (Virginia) Naval Base after walking into the base with a banner reading "Love Your Enemies."
1996: Rapper Tupac Shakur and Marion "Suge" Knight are shot in Las Vegas following a Mike Tyson fight. Shakur dies days later.
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