Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Sept 07
Reuters
1940 - In World War Two, German troops invaded Romania to take control of strategic oilfields.
1959 - Mario Lanza, U.S. tenor and film actor, died aged 38. His films included "The Great Caruso".
1959 - The far side of the moon was photographed for the first time by the Soviet Union's Luna 3 spacecraft.
1981 - Hosni Mubarak became acting president of Egypt following the assassination of Anwar Sadat on October 6.
1985 - Palestinian guerrillas seized the Achille Lauro, an Italian passenger ship, and threatened to blow it up if Israel did not free 50 Palestinian prisoners. Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly wheelchair-bound American, was killed.
1999 - German firms and the government offered six billion marks ($3.3 billion) to compensate hundreds of thousands of Nazi-era slaves and forced labourers.
2001 - U.S. air strikes began against 31 military targets and training camps in Afghanistan, with British involvement. Raids killed the 10-year-old son of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.
2003 - Austrian-born Hollywood actor Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California in a recall election that saw voters throw out Democratic Gov. Gray Davis.
2004 - Several truck bomb attacks killed 34 people and wounded 120 in the Hilton hotel at the Egyptian border resort of Taba and in two other explosions at beaches near the resort.
2005 - The International Atomic Energy Agency and its head Egyptian-born Mohamed ElBaradei won the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting the spread of nuclear weapons.
2006 - Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead at her apartment block in central Moscow. She was 48.
