Today in History.....September 7

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1776, during the Revolutionary War, the American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship Eagle in New York Harbor. It was the first use of a submarine in warfare

1825, the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, bade farewell to President John Quincy Adams at the White House

1864, in preparation for his march to the sea, Union General William T. Sherman orders residents of Atlanta, Georgia, to evacuate the city

1901, the Peace of Beijing ended the Boxer Rebellion in China

1927, American television pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth, 21, succeeded in transmitting the image of a line through purely electronic means with a device called an "image dissector"

1940, Nazi Germany began its initial blitz on London during World War II

1950, lightly more than two months after the United Nations approved a U.S. resolution calling for the use of force to repel the communist North Korean invasion of South Korea, the Security Council rejects a Soviet resolution that would condemn the American bombing of North Korea. The Security Council action was another victory for the United States in securing U.N. support for the war in Korea
1963, the National Professional Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, Ohio

1977, the Panama Canal treaties, calling for the U.S. to eventually turn over control of the waterway to Panama, were signed in Washington

2005, Police and soldiers went house to house in New Orleans to try to coax the last stubborn holdouts into leaving the storm-shattered city.

ALSO: President Bush led the nation in a final tribute to William H. Rehnquist, remembering the 16th chief justice as the Supreme Court's steady leader and a man of lifetime integrity. U.S. troops in Iraq rescued American Roy Hallums, held hostage 10 months