Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 7

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 * 1191 – Third Crusade: Crusaders under Richard I of England defeated Ayyubid troops under Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf in present-day Israel.
 * 1652 – Chinese peasants on Formosa (now Taiwan) began a rebellion against Dutch rule which was suppressed four days later.
 * 1778 – Anglo-French War: France invaded the Caribbean island of Dominica and captured its British fort before Britain had even learned of the Franco-American alliance.
 * 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée and the Imperial Russian Army fought near the village of Borodino during the French invasion of Russia.
 * 1916 – World War I: The 'Supreme War Command was established to oversee the armed forces of all the Central Powers.
 * 1936 – The last thylacine died in captivity in Hobart Zoo, Australia.
 * 1940 – Second World War: The Luftwaffe changed their strategy in the Battle of Britain and began bombing London and other cities and towns
 * 1984 – An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat that was disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo killed seven soldiers and policemen.
 * 1986 – Desmond Tutu (pictured) became the first black leader of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
 * 1999 – Three weeks after an earthquake struck northwestern Turkey, a second earthquake struck Athens, causing Greece and Turkey to initiate "earthquake diplomacy".
 * 2004 – Hurricane Ivan made landfall on Grenada and devastated at least 85 percent of buildings on the island.
 * 2010 – A Chinese fishing trawler operating in disputed waters collided with Japan Coast Guard patrol boats near the Senkaku Islands, sparking a major diplomatic dispute between the two countries.
 * 2011 – Yak-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/died this day: | Gregory Bicskei |d|1303| Robert Estienne |d|1559| John Shakespeare |d|1601| Sir John Perceval, 1st Baronet |b|1629| Johan Ludvig Holstein |b|1694| William Burnet |d|1729| Henry Sewell |b|1807| Emil Korytko |b|1813| Thomas Talbot |b|1818| Grandma Moses |b|1860| Paul Brown |b|1908| Michael DeBakey |b|1908| William Stewart Halsted |d|1922| Regina Martínez Pérez |b|1963| Cecil Aronowitz |d|1978

September 7


 * 1652 – Chinese peasants on Formosa (now Taiwan) began a rebellion against Dutch rule which was suppressed four days later.
 * 1778 – Anglo-French War: France invaded the Caribbean island of Dominica and captured its British fort before Britain had even learned of the Franco-American alliance.
 * 1936 – The last thylacine (pictured) died in captivity in Hobart Zoo, Australia.
 * 1940 – Second World War: The Luftwaffe changed their strategy in the Battle of Britain and began bombing London and other cities and towns.
 * 2010 – A Chinese fishing trawler operating in disputed waters collided with Japan Coast Guard patrol boats near the Senkaku Islands, sparking a major diplomatic dispute between the two countries.