Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 7
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September 7: Independence Day in Brazil (1822).
- 1191 - Ayyubid forces under Saladin were defeated in the Battle of Arsuf during the Third Crusade.
- 1821 - The Republic of Colombia , a federation covering much of present-day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador, was established, with Simón Bolívar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.
- 1901 - With Peking occupied by foreign troops after the Boxer Rebellion, Qing China was forced to sign the Boxer Protocol, an unequal treaty with the Eight-Nation Alliance.
- 1940 - The Blitz began when Nazi Germany's bombs landed on London, the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
- 1986 - Desmond Tutu (pictured) became the first black person to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
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