This Day In History

September 7
1191
Battle of Arsuf Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
1942
Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec.
1953
Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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.