Today in History in 1533 future-Queen Elizabeth I of England is born, as the daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII of England, who had expected a male heir to the throne.

Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 115 days remaining until the end of the year.

EVENTS

70 – A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.

878 – King Louis II of France is crowned by Pope John VIII.

1159 – Pope Alexander II is chosen.

1191 – Third Crusade: Battle of Asruf - Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Asruf.

1228 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor lands at Acre, Palestine, starting the Sixth Crusade.

1533 – Future-Queen Elizabeth I of England is born, as the daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII of England, who had expected a male heir to the throne.

1571 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is arrested for his role in the Ridolf plot to assassinate Elizabeth I of England and replace her on the throne with Mary, Queen of Scots.

1706 – War of the Spanish Succession: Siege of Turin ends, leading to a French withdrawal from Italy.

1764 – Election of Stanislaw August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

1776 – World's first submarine attack. The American submarine Turtle tried to put a time bomb on the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship Eagle in New York Harbor.

1778 – American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the war, on the US' side.

1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon defeated the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.

1818 – Carl III of Sweden-Norway became king of Norway, in Trondheim.

1822 – Brazil becomes independent from Portugal.

1837 – French explorer Jules Dumont D'Urville starts his expedition to Antarctica.

1853 – German explorer Heinrich Barth enters Timbuktu.

1860 – Unification of Italy: Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Naples.

1864 – American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.

1876 – In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James Younger-Gang attempt to rob the town's bank, but are driven off by armed citizens.

1895 – The first game of what later becomes rugby league football is played in England.

1901 – The Boxer Rebellion in China ends with the signing of the Peking Protocol.

1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France successfully.

1907 – The Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her first voyage from Liverpool in the UK to New York City in the US.

1909 – Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, and dies as a result. He becomes the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air flight.

1911 – French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail. It was believed that he took the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum. He is later found to be innocent.

1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America beauty pageant is held.

1922 – In Aydin, Turkey, independence from Greek occupation is declared.

1922 – The Bank of Latvia is founded.

1927 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo T. Farnsworth.

1929 – Finnish passenger steamer Kuru sinks, killing 136 people.

1932 – Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia: Start of the Battle of Boquerón.

1936 – The last-surviving member of the thylacine species dies in the Hobart Zoo, Hobart, Tasmania.

1940 – World War II: The Blitz – Nazi Germany begins to bomb London. This will be the first of 57 nights of bombing.

1940 – Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.

1942 – World War II: Australian and American forces inflict a significant defeat on Japan at the Battle of Milne Bay.

1943 – A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas kills 55 people.

1945 – World War II: Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since 1941, surrender to US Marines.

1949 – The German Bundestag, parliament of West Germany and later the whole of Germany, meets for the first time. So does the Bundesrat, whose leader Karl Arnold is the first acting President of the Federal Republic.

1951 – 2000

1953 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.

1953 – Mohammed Daoud Khan becomes Premier of Afghanistan.

1955 – Floods in India make around 45 million people homeless. It is not known how many people died.

1963 – The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio.

1965 – Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Pirahna on the Batangan Peninsula.

1970 – An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.

1977 – The Torrijos-Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The US agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.

1978 – While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is targeted by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella. He dies as a result of the attack four days later.

1979 – The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.

1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.

1986 – Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet escapes an assassination attempt.

1987 – East German leader Erich Honecker visits West Germany.

1996 – In Las Vegas, Nevada, actor and rapper Tupac Shakur is shot several times after attending a boxing match.

1998 – Google Inc. is founded.

1999 – A major earthquake close to Athens, Greece results to the collapse of few buildings in the area. About 150 people are killed.

2004 – The Serbian government backs a decision by Ljiljana Colic to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools.

2004 – Hurricane Ivan hits Grenada, killing 39 people.

2005 – Egypt holds its first multi-party election.

2008 – The US Government takes over the mortgage financial companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

2011 – A plane carrying the Russian Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team crashes shortly after take-off, killing 43 of the 45 people on board, with one, Alexander Galimov, dying five days later. Some of Europe's leading ice hockey players are among those killed in the crash, as only the flight engineer, Alexander Sizov, survives.

2012 – Several earthquakes strike southern China, with at least 80 people being killed.

2012 – Canada breaks off diplomatic relations with Iran over its stance on the political crisis in Syria.

2013 – The Liberal Party of Australia-led coaltion, under leadership of Tony Abbott, defeats Kevin Rudd's Australian Labor Party in Australia's general election.

2013 – Tokyo wins the right to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.

2017 – The 2017 Chiapas earthquake strikes in Mexico.

2019 – Bianca Andreescu becomes the first tennis player born in the 2000s to win a Grand Slam singles title, winning the Women's Final at the US Open against Serena Williams.