September 2

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September 2 is the 245th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (246th in leap years). There are 120 days remaining.

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1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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Events

44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
44 BC - The first of Cicero’s Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next several months.
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 - 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 and more than two hundred priests.
1807 - British Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
1833 - Oberlin College is founded by John Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
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 enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders flee 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 take French Emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
1885 - In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners 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 establishing British dominance in the 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 - Following the invasion of Poland, Freie Stadt Danzig Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed to Nazi Germany.
1944 - Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.
1945 - World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
1945 - Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
1946 - Ayn Rand began writing Atlas Shrugged.
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.
1967 - The microstate Principality of Sealand unilaterally declares its independence.
1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
1987 - In Moscow, the trial begins of 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna aircraft into Red Square in May 1987.
1990 - Transnistria unilaterally proclaimed as Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
1991 - The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
1995 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio.
1996 - A peace agreement is signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front in Malacañang Palace.
1998 - In Canada, pilots for Air Canada launch the first strike in company's history.
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.

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Births

1243 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (d. 1295)
1548 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (d. 1616)
1675 - William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
1805 - Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (d. 1851)
1810 - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian
1830 - William P. Frye, American politician
1838 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
1850 - Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (d. 1915)
1850 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919)
1853 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
1854 - Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910)
1862 - Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist (d. 1881)
1877 - Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956)
1879 - An Jung-geun, assassin of the Japanese politician Ito Hirobumi (d. 1910)
1884 - Dr. Frank C. Laubach, Christian missionary (d. 1970)
1917 - Cleveland Amory, author (d. 1998)
1923 - Rene Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
1924 - Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya
1929 - Hal Ashby, American film director (d. 1988)
1936 - Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer
1938 - Clarence Felder, American actor
1941 - David Bale, South African-born activist (d. 2003)
1944 - Al Matthews, American actor (d. 2002)
1948 - Terry Bradshaw, American football player
1948 - Christa McAuliffe, American schoolteacher and astronaut (d. 1986)
1950 - Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
1950 - Yuen Wah, Chinese actor and stuntman
1951 - Mark Harmon, American actor
1952 - Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
1953 - John Zorn, American musician
1960 - Sue Foley, American writer
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
1968 - Cynthia Watros, American actress
1969 - Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, American singer
1971 - Tommy Maddox, American football player
1972 - Sergei Zholtok, Latvian hockey player
1976 - Phil Lipscomb, American bassist (Taproot)
1982 - Joey Barton, English footballer
1991 - Andrew Shain, American Idiot, All A's Student, Prince of the Wazunga's

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Deaths

421 - Constantius III, Roman Emperor
1031 - Saint Emeric of Hungary
1274 - Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1242)
1397 - Francesco Landini, Italian composer
1540 - Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
1680 - Per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
1688 - Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631)
1690 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
1764 - Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1700)
1765 - Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719)
1768 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
1790 - Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (b. 1701)
1813 - Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1763)
1820 - Jiaqing, Emperor of China (b. 1760)
1832 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer (b. 1854)
1834 - Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (b. 1757)
1865 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (b. 1805)
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 - Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
1921 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (b.1855)
1934 - Alcide Nunez, American musician (b. 1884)
1937 - Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games (b. 1863)
1948 - Sylvanus Morley, U.S. archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
1953 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (b. 1883)
1964 - Alvin York, most decorated American soldier of World War I (b. 1887)
1969 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese president and prime minister (b. 1890)
1973 - Carl Dudley, American movie director (b. 1910)
1973 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
1976 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and dramatist (b. 1934)
1985 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
1991 - Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)

1992 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1902)
1997 - Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (b. 1902)
1998 - Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1933)
1998 - Allen Drury, American author (b. 1918)
2000 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 1905)
2000 - Curt Siodmak, German-born author (b. 1907)
2001 - Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)
2001 - Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
2002 - Dick Reynolds, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1915)
2004 - Joan Oró, Catalan scientist (b. 1923)
2005 - Bob Denver, American actor (b. 1935)

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Holidays and observances

also see September 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

RC Saints - Saint Sophia
Mauritius - Ganesh Chaturthi
Transnistria - Independence day, note Transnistria is not an internationally recognized independent state
Sedan Day (Sedantag) - traditional national German holiday (see Sedan, France) that commemorates Prussia's victory over France in 1870, making the German Empire a reality.
Vietnam - Independence Day (from France, 1945)