Today In History, 7th September

7th September,

1892 - Under Marquis of Queensbury rule, the first heavyweight title boxing match was fought with gloves and ended with James J. Corbert knocking out John L. Sullivan in the 21st round.

1888 - The first premature infant incubation was carried out

1840 - Regino Garcia, a renowned Filipino artist, botanist, and forester, was born in Manila.
Garcia was with the Manila Botanical Garden, in one or another capacity, since the inception of that institution in 1858, and with the Spanish Forestry Bureau from 1877 to 1898.
In May 1900, he took charge of all work of botanical nature as botanist in the Forestry Bureau of the American Civil Service.
Garcia, also a printing instructor at the University of the Philippines, was also noted for being one of the botanical illustrators. He produced plates for Francisco Manuel Blanco’s Flora de Filipinas, the illustrated version of which was published in Manila between 1877 and 1883.
During the Filipino-American war, he resigned from his job and enlisted in the Philippine Army. Appointed colonel in the engineering corps, Garcia helped supervise the construction of fortification and defense works along the Pampanga River, near Calumpit, Bulacan, and other points.

1996 - American hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. The shooting occurred at 11:15 p.m. local time when the car with Shakur stopped at a red light at East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane. Shakur was hit from a .40-caliber Glock four times, twice in the chest, once in the hand, and once in the thigh. He died from his injuries six days later in the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada. The murder remains officially unsolved.

1973 - Jackie Stewart becomes Formula 1 world champion

1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire dies at 66