September 2
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September 2 is the 245th day of the year (246th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 120 days remaining until the end of the year.
Births [change]
- 1778 – Louis Bonaparte, King of the Netherlands (d. 1846)
- 1830 – William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
- 1838 – Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
- 1850 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (d. 1915)
- 1853 – Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
- 1877 – Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956)
- 1883 – Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Austrian archduchess (d. 1963)
- 1884 – Frank Laubach, American Christian missionary (d. 1970)
- 1901 – Adolph Rupp, American College basketball coach (d. 1977)
- 1913 – Israel Gelfand, Russian mathematician (d. 2009)
- 1913 – Bill Shankly, British football manager (d. 1981)
- 1915 – Meinhardt Raabe, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1917 – Cleveland Amory, author (d. 1998)
- 1923 – Rene Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
- 1924 – Daniel arap Moi, former President of Kenya
- 1926 – Stanley Cavell, American philosopher
- 1926 – Ibrahim Nasir, President of the Maldives (d. 2008)
- 1929 – Hal Ashby, film director
- 1934 – Dominic Chianese, actor
- 1936 – Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer
- 1944 – Al Matthews, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1946 – Billy Preston, American musician (d. 2006)
- 1948 – Terry Bradshaw, American football player
- 1948 – Christa McAuliffe, American schoolteacher and astronaut (d. 1986)
- 1951 – Mark Harmon, American actor
- 1952 – Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
- 1953 – John Zorn, American musician
- 1961 – Eric Dickerson, American football player
- 1961 – Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
- 1964 – Keanu Reeves, American actor
- 1965 – Lennox Lewis, Canadian-British boxer
- 1966 – Salma Hayek, Mexican actress
- 1967 – Andreas Moeller, German footballer
- 1969 – Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, singer
- 1971 – Tommy Maddox, American football player
- 1972 – Sergei Zholtok, hockey player
- 1973 – Mark Shield, Australian football referee
- 1979 – Tomer Ben Yosef, Israeli footballer
- 1982 – Joey Barton, English footballer
- 1986 – Kyle Hines, American basketball player
- 1989 – Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer
Deaths [change]
- 421 – Constantius III, Roman Emperor (b. late 300s)
- 1274 – Prince Munetaka, 6th Kamakura shogun in Japan (b. 1242)
- 1540 – Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
- 1721 - Kwon Sang-ha, politician and Neo Confucian scholar of Korea (b. 1641)
- 1764 – Revd Nathaniel Bliss, British astronomer Royal (b. 1700)
- 1820 – Jiaqing Emperor, Emperor of China (b. 1760)
- 1832 – Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian scientific editor, astronomer (b. 1754)
- 1834 – Thomas Telford, British civil engineer (b. 1757)
- 1872 – Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
- 1898 – Wilford Woodruff, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
- 1910 – Henri Rousseau, French painter (b. 1844)
- 1921 – Anthony Francis Lucas, Croatian-American oil exploration pioneer (b. 1855)
- 1921 – Henry Austin Dobson, poet (b. 1840)
- 1934 – Alcide Nunez, jazz musician (b. 1884)
- 1937 – Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games (b. 1863)
- 1964 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese President (b. 1894)
- 1964 – Alvin York, most decorated American soldier of World War I (b. 1887)
- 1969 – Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese political leader (b. 1890)
- 1981 – Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (b. 1901)
- 1973 – J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
- 1973 – Carl Dudley, American movie director (b. 1910)
- 1976 – Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and dramatist (b. 1934)
- 1991 – Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican politician (b. 1911)
- 1992 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist (b. 1902)
- 1998 – Allen Drury, author (b. 1918)
- 2000 – Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (b. 1905)
- 2000 – Curt Siodmak, science fiction author (b. 1907)
- 2001 – Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)
- 2001 – Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
- 2010 – Shmuel Eisenstadt, Israeli sociologist (b. 1923)
Events [change]
- 44 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
- 31 BC – Roman Civil War: Battle of Actium – Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
- 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 – The United Kingdom adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
- 1789 – United States Department of the Treasury was founded.
- 1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughtered three Roman Catholic Church bishops and more than two hundred priests.
- 1807 – British Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to stop Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon. 70% of the city was destroyed and 2000 citizens were killed.
- 1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Second Bull Run.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Union forces under General William T. Sherman enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city.
- 1867 – Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan marries Ichijo Masako. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko.
- 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces defeat the French armies and take emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner at Sedan.
- 1885 – In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
- 1898 – Battle of Omdurman – British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, thus establishing British dominance in the Sudan.
- 1901 – Vice President 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 hit the Florida Keys killing 423.
- 1939 – Following the invasion of Poland, Freie Stadt Danzig Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) ruled by Nazi leader Forster is annexed to Nazi Germany.
- 1944 – Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz. They arrive three days later.
- 1945 – World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
- 1945 – Vietnam declares its independence forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
- 1963 – CBS Evening News becomes network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
- 1967 – The microstate Principality of Sealand unilaterally declared its independence.
- 1969 – The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York.
- 1987 – In Moscow, the trial of 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May 1987, begins.
- 1991 – The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- 1995 – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 1998 – In Canada, pilots for Air Canada launch the first strike in company's history.
- 1998 – A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner carrying Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia after taking off from New York City en route to Geneva. All 229 people on board are killed.
- 1998 – A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced.
- 2001 – Cartoon Network begins its adult-orientated block, Adult Swim.
