2002
Sep 7, Serena Williams easily beat Venus Williams 6-4, 6-3 to win the U.S. Open and a third straight Grand Slam title.

2002
Sep 7, Katrin Cartlidge (41), the spirited English actress who distinguished herself in the movies of Mike Leigh and in the London theater, died of septicemia resulting from pneumonia.
2003
Sep 7, Mamohato Bereng Seeiso (62), the queen mother of the tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho, died after collapsing in a church outside the capital.

2004
Sep 7, An Italian aid organization said that two Italian women were kidnapped from its office in Baghdad.

2007
Sep 7, Portuguese police suggested that Kate McCann (39), the mother of a toddler whose disappearance sparked international headlines, accidentally killed her daughter Madeleine, who disappeared on May 3.

2010
Sep 7, In Mexico 7 women serving prison terms of up to 29 years for the death of their newborns were freed after a legal reform enacted in the state of Guanajuato lowered their sentences.

2014 Sep 7, Japanese film idol Yoshiko Yamaguchi (94) died of heart failure. She was known as Rikoran and symbolized Japan's wartime dreams of Asian conquest. Known as Shirley Yamaguchi in the US she was one of biggest Japanese film stars during and after World War II.


2014
Sep 7, In eastern Ukraine a woman died and at least four people were wounded when fighting flared again overnight. Fighting broke out early today on the northern outskirts of rebel-held Donetsk. Both the rebels and the Ukrainian military insisted they were strictly observing the ceasefire and blamed their opponents for any violations.