September 2

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

Events

• 31 BC - Battle of Actium between forces of Octavian and Mark Antony, won by Octavian
• 1666 - Start of the Great Fire of London
• 1752 - Britain adopts the Gregorian Calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe
• 1789 - United States Department of the Treasury was founded
• 1898 - Horatio Kitchener captures Sudan
• 1921 - First Miss America pageant held in Atlantic City, New Jersey
• 1944 - Anne Frank is sent to Auschwitz
• 1945 - Japanese surrender ends World War II
• 1945 - Vietnam declares its independence
• 1967 - Micro-state of Sealand is declared
• 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

Births

• 1850 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer
• 1853 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist
• 1866 - Hiram Johnson, former Governor of California and political activist
• 1877 - Frederick Soddy, British chemist
• 1917 - Cleveland Amory[?], author
• 1923 - Rene Thom, French mathematician
• 1929 - Hal Ashby[?], film director
• 1948 - Christa McAuliffe, American teacher, astronaut
• 1948 - Terry Bradshaw, American football player
• 1951 - Mark Harmon[?], actor
• 1952 - Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
• 1961 - Carlos Valderrama, Colombian football player
• 1964 - Keanu Reeves, American actor
• 1965 - Lennox Lewis, Canadian/British boxer
• 1968 - Salma Hayek, Mexican actress

Deaths

• 1832 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Scientific Editor, Astronomer
• 1834 - Thomas Telford, British civil engineer
• 1937 - Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games
• 1953 - US General Jonathan Wainwright, Medal of Honor recipient
• 1964 - Alvin York, most decorated American soldier of World War I
• 1969 - Ho Chi Minh, president of North Vietnam
• 1973 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer
• 1992 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist
• 1998 - Allen Drury[?], author
• 2000 - Curt Siodmak[?], science fiction author
• 2001 - Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon
• 2001 - Troy Donahue[?], actor

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December