^B{^#!16!7 September^N! National Day of Brazil. Feast day of St Anastasius the Fuller, St Cloud or Clodoald, Saints Alcmund and Tilbert, St Grimonia, St Regina or Reine of Alize, St Sozon, and St John of Nicomedia.
^B{1812^B} The Russians were defeated by Napoleon's forces at the Battle of Borodino, 70 mi west of Moscow. ^B{1838^B} British heroine Grace Darling and her father rescued the crew of the ^I{Forfarshire^I}, a steamer wrecked off the Northumberland coast; she subsequently became a national heroine. ^B{1901^B} The Peace of Peking was signed, ending the Boxer Rising in China. ^B{1904^B} Francis Younghusband led a British expedition to Tibet, where a treaty was signed with the Dalai Lama. ^B{1973^B} Jackie Stewart became world champion racing driver for the third consecutive year. ^B{1986^B} Bishop Desmond Tutu was appointed Archbishop of Capetown, the first black head of South African Anglicans. ^B{1991^B} Peace talks on the Yugoslav civil war opened in The Hague, the Netherlands, under EC sponsorship.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Queen Elizabeth I, ^B{1533^B}; John McDougall Stuart, Australian explorer, ^B{1815^B}; Elia Kazan, US stage and film director, ^B{1909^B}; Anthony Quayle, English actor, ^B{1913^B}; Peter Lawford, English actor, ^B{1923^B}; Sonny Rollins, US saxophonist, ^B{1929^B}; Buddy Holly, US rock singer, ^B{1936^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Catherine Parr, 6th wife of Henry VIII, ^B{1548^B}; Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet, ^B{1907^B}; William Hunt, British painter, ^B{1910^B}; Keith Moon, English rock drummer, ^B{1978^B}; Christy Brown, Irish novelist, ^B{1981^B}; Liam O'Flaherty, Irish novelist, ^B{1984^B}.
