September 7: Independence Day in Brazil (1822)
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- 1191 – Third Crusade: Forces under Richard I of England defeated Ayyubid troops under Saladin in Arsuf, present-day Israel.
- 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée forced the Russians to withdraw at the Battle of Borodino.
- 1936 – The last thylacine died in captivity in Hobart Zoo in Australia.
- 1986 – Desmond Tutu (pictured) became the first black person to lead the Church of the Province of Southern Africa.
- 1996 – American rapper Tupac Shakur was fatally shot multiple times in Las Vegas, dying from his injuries six days later.
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