Events
September
2
44
BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares
her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his
Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark
Antony. He will make 14 of them over the
following months.
31 BC – Final War of the Roman Republic:
Battle of Actium – off the western coast
of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops
under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
421 – Emperor Constantius III dies suddenly
of an illness, his wife Galla Placidia becomes
for the second time widow.
1649 – The Italian city of Castro is completely
destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent
X, ending the Wars of Castro.
1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out
and burns for three days, destroying 10,000
buildings including St Paul's Cathedral.
1752 – Great Britain adopts the Gregorian
calendar, nearly two centuries later than
most of Western Europe.
1789 – The United States Department of the
Treasury is founded.
1792 – During what became known as the September
Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging
mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church
bishops, more than two hundred priests,
and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
1806 – A massive landslide destroys the
town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.
1807 – The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen
with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to
prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet
to Napoleon.
1811 – The University of Oslo is founded
as The Royal Fredericks University, after
Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.
1833 – Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio
is founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philo
P. Stewart.
1856 – The Tianjing Incident takes place
in Nanjing, China.
1859 – A solar super storm affects electrical
telegraph service.
1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham
Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General
George B. McClellan to full command after
General John Pope's disastrous defeat at
the Second Battle of Bull Run.
1864 – American Civil War: Union forces
enter Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the
Confederate defenders flee the city.
1867 – Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan,
marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort
is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since
her death in 1914, she is called by the
posthumous name Empress Shōken.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan
– Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France
and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
1885 – Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs,
Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling
to unionize so they could strike for better
wages and work conditions, attack their
Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding
15 and forcing several hundred more out
of town.
1898 – Battle of Omdurman – British and
Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen
and establish British dominance in Sudan.
1901 – Vice President of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase,
"Speak softly and carry a big stick"
at the Minnesota State Fair.
1935 – Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large
hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing
423.
1939 – World War II: following the start
of the invasion of Poland the previous day,
the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland)
is annexed by Nazi Germany.
1945 – World War II: Combat ends in the
Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender
of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister
Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the
battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
1945 – Vietnam declares its independence,
forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1946 – The Interim Government of India is
formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President
with the powers of a Prime Minister.
1957 – President Ngo Dinh Diem of South
Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of
state to make a state visit to Australia.
1958 – United States Air Force C-130A-II
is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in
Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace
while conducting a sigint mission. All crew
members are killed.
1960 – The first election of the Parliament
of the Central Tibetan Administration, in
history of Tibet. The Tibetan community
observes this date as the Democracy Day.
1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network
television's first half-hour weeknight news
broadcast, when the show is lengthened from
15 to 30 minutes.
1970 – NASA announces the cancellation of
two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo
15 (the designation is re-used by a later
mission), and Apollo 19.
1990 – Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed
a Soviet republic; the Soviet president
Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision
null and void.
1992 – An earthquake in Nicaragua kills
at least 116 people.
1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near
Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people
on board are killed.
1998 – The UN's International Criminal Tribunal
for Rwanda finds Jean Paul Akayesu, the
former mayor of a small town in Rwanda,
guilty of nine counts of genocide.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Syriac
Orthodox Church)
Agricola of Avignon
Antoninus of Pamiers
Castor of Apt
Nonnosus
San Esteban del Rey (Acoma Pueblo)
September 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Democracy Day (Tibet)
Independence day (Transnistria, unrecognized)
Independence day (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic,
unrecognized)
National Day, celebrates the independence
of Vietnam from Japan and France in 1945.
Sedantag (German Empire)
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