| 101710 | September 7 | Event | 1965 – China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border. |
| 101711 | September 7 | Event | 1965 – Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula. |
| 101712 | September 7 | Event | 1970 – Fighting between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan. |
| 101713 | September 7 | Event | 1970 – Bill Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden). |
| 101714 | September 7 | Event | 1977 – The Torrijos–Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century. |
| 101715 | September 7 | Event | 1977 – The 300-metre-tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed. |
| 101716 | September 7 | Event | 1978 – While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella. |
| 101717 | September 7 | Event | 1979 – The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy. |
| 101718 | September 7 | Event | 1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa. |
| 101719 | September 7 | Event | 1986 – General Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination. |
| 101720 | September 7 | Event | 1988 – Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station. |
| 101721 | September 7 | Event | 1999 – A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless. |
| 101722 | September 7 | Event | 2004 – Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings. |
| 101723 | September 7 | Event | 2005 – Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party presidential election. |
| 101724 | September 7 | Event | 2008 – The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. |
| 101725 | September 7 | Event | 2010 – A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands. The collisions occurred around 10am, after the Japanese Coast Guard ordered the trawler to leave the area. After the collisio |
| 101726 | September 7 | Event | 2011 – A plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team. |
| 101727 | September 7 | Event | 2012 – A series of earthquakes in Yunnan, China, kills 89 people and injures 800 others. |
| 101728 | September 7 | Event | 2012 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and ordered the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and alleged rights abuses. |
| 101729 | September 7 | Birth | 1438 – Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse (d. 1471) |
| 101730 | September 7 | Birth | 1388 – Gian Maria Visconti, Italian son of Gian Galeazzo Visconti (d. 1412) |
| 101701 | September 7 | Event | 1942 – World War II: Australian and US forces inflict a significant defeat upon the Japanese at the Battle of Milne Bay. |
| 101702 | September 7 | Event | 1943 – A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, kills 55 people. |
| 101703 | September 7 | Event | 1943 – World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea. |
| 101704 | September 7 | Event | 1945 – Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines. |
| 101705 | September 7 | Event | 1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| 101706 | September 7 | Event | 1953 – Mohammed Daoud Khan becomes Premier of Afghanistan. |
| 101707 | September 7 | Event | 1953 – Garfield Todd becomes Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia. |
| 101708 | September 7 | Event | 1961 – João Goulart becomes President of Brazil. |
| 101709 | September 7 | Event | 1963 – The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members. |