The Phenomenon of September 07: A Day Filled with Surprises and Celebrations Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1936  Hoover (Boulder) Dam begins operation   

1936  Buddy Holly, American rock and roll singer is born.   

1939  Radio NY Worldwide-WRUL begins radio transmission.   

1940  German Air Force blitz London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights.   

1940  54th US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 63)   

1940  Edmund Rumpler, Austria auto/airplane builder, dies   

1941  61st US Mens Tennis: R L Riggs beats Francis Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63)   

1942  62nd US Mens Tennis: F Schroeder Jr beats F Parker (86 75 36 46 62).   

1943  Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel results in the deaths of 45 (Houston Texas)   

1943  Italy surrenders to the Allies   

1943  987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp   

1944  SS-general Kurt Meyer takes Durnal Belgium   

1944  Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, composer, dies at 70.   

1945  Japanese at Rioekioe-islands surrender.   

1946  Paul Zech, writer, dies at 65   

1947  Battles between Hindus and Moslems in New Delhi   

1948  The inaugural use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron Oh   

1948  1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron Oh   

1948  Henricus A Poels, Dutch RC theologist/social foreman, dies at 80   

1950  Monasteries shut down in Hungary.   

1951  Maria Montez, actress (Arabian Nights, Sudan), dies at 31   

1952  66th US Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (63 75).   

1953  67th US Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (62 64)   

1954  Integration begins in Wash DC and Balt MD public schools   

1955  Yankees Whitey Ford is 5th to throw consecutive 1-hitters, beats A's.   

1955  Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81   

1956  Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126000'+.   

1956  Charles Burgess Fry, English athlete/cricketer/journalist, dies at 84.   

1957  71st US Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Louise Brough (63 62).   

1958  72nd US Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene R Hard (36 61 62)   

1960  Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3)   

1960  Wilhelm Pieck, president of German DR (1949-60), dies at 84   

1961  Pieter S Gerbrandy, lawyer/premier to London 1940-5, dies at 76   

1962  Karen Blixen-Finecke, baroness/writer (Out of Africa), dies at 77.   

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