September 7
1961
Typhoon Nancy (1961)
Typhoon Nancy — dubbed the “Queen of the Western Pacific” by contemporary media — formed in early September 1961 and intensified rapidly over the warm western North Pacific. Reconnaissance aircraft and surface reports in mid‑September described an unusually compact, violent storm that struck the Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa, and later brushed southern and central Japan around September 13–15, 1961. Nancy left a trail of damaged towns, disrupted shipping and fisheries, and a human toll recorded variably in period accounts; it also became a case study in the limits of mid‑20th‑century intensity measurement and in the slow evolution of Japan’s disaster preparedness. Read more
1940
The Start of The Blitz
On September 7, 1940, nearly 1,000 German bombers launched the first major air raid against London, marking the dramatic beginning of the Blitz - a sustained bombing campaign by Nazi Germany that targeted Britain’s cities and civilians for months. The violence changed the face of London overnight and left scars, visible and invisible, for generations. Read more
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