'''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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==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.
*1862- First Federal_tax on Tobacco
*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.
* 1984 - Seven Die + Fifteen wounded in a clash between rival bikie gangs the Bandidos + the Comancheros @ the Millpera Tavern Millpera, Sydney.
*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 declares its independence from Moldova; however, Moldova does not recognize it.
*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.
*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.
*2002 - World_Heavyweight_Championship reintroduced to WWE televison.
*2005 - The Kingdom of Lovely is declared in Leicester_Square, London, by King Danny I of Lovely.
==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
*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
*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
==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)
*1981 - Andrija_Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (b.1901)
*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 - 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)
==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)
== External links ==
* BBC: On This Day
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