History of 7 September

• 1998 – Mark McGwire set a new major league baseball record for most homeruns hit in a single season. The previous record was 61 set in 1961 by Roger Maris.
• 1999 – Viacom Inc. announced that it had plans to buy CBS Corp.
• 2001 – Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) became the only the fifth player in major league baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season.

• 2008 – The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
• 2010 – A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands.
• 2011 – A plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team.
• 2012 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses.
• 2017 – The 8.2 M_w  2017 Chiapas earthquake strikes southern Mexico, killing at least 60 people.
• 2017 – Equifax announce a cyber-crime identity theft event potentially impacting approximately 145​¹⁄₂ million U.S. consumers.
• 2019 – Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.^[

Celebrating Birthday Today

• 1981 – Gökhan Zan, Turkish footballer
• 1981 – Vangelis, Mexican wrestler
• 1982 – Andre Dirrell, American boxer
• 1982 – George Bailey, Australian cricketer
• 1982 – Emese Szász, Hungarian fencer
• 1983 – Philip Deignan, Irish cyclist
• 1983 – Annette Dytrt, German figure skater
• 1983 – Pops Mensah-Bonsu, English-American basketball player
• 1983 – Piri Weepu, New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 – Ben Hollingsworth, Canadian actor
• 1984 – Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1984 – Miranda, Brazilian footballer
• 1984 – Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player
• 1984 – Pelin Karahan, Turkish actress
• 1985 – Wade Davis, American baseball player
• 1985 – Adam Eckersley, English footballer
• 1985 – Rafinha, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 – Charlie Daniels, English footballer
• 1986 – Colin Delaney, American wrestler
• 1987 – Tommy Elphick, English footballer
• 1987 – Sammy Moore, English footballer
• 1987 – Danny North, English footballer
• 1987 – Evan Rachel Wood, American actress and singer
• 1987 – Aleksandra Wozniak, Canadian tennis player
• 1988 – Alex Harvey, Canadian skier
• 1988 – Kevin Love, American basketball player
• 1990 – Fedor Klimov, Russian figure skater
• 1991 – Dale Finucane, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 – Amar Garibović, Serbian skier (d. 2010)
• 1993 – Taylor Gray, American actor
• 1994 – Elinor Barker, Welsh track cyclist^[
• 1994 – Herman Ese’ese, New Zealand rugby league player^[
• 1994 – Tom Opacic, Australian rugby league player
• 1996 – Donovan Mitchell, American basketball player^[
• 1999 – Laurie Jussaume, Canadian cyclist^[