Today in History
2 September
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2 September |
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| 31 B.C., Mark Anthony's naval force, including a squadron of Cleopatra's, was defeated at Actium by Roman legions under Augustus Caesar. | ||
| 1192 Sultan Saladin & king Richard the lion hearted sign cease fire | ||
| 1519 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico | ||
| 1537 King Christian III publishes "Ordinance on the Danish Church" | ||
| 1644 Battle at Lostwithiel: Robert Devereux' infantry surrenders | ||
| 1661 Georg Bohm, German organist/composer was born | ||
| 1666 The Great Fire of London began in a bakery in Pudding Lane; it raged for four days and destroyed parts of the city. | ||
| 1686 Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks | ||
| 1732 Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome | ||
| 1743 England/Austria/Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms | ||
| 1752 Last Julian calender day in US & England (no Sept 3-Sept 13th) | ||
| 1752 Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies | ||
| 1789 Congress established the U.S. Department of the Treasury. | ||
| 1792 Paris masses remove nobles/clergymen out of jails & slaughter them | ||
| 1796 Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated | ||
| 1806 A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switz, kills 500 | ||
| 1807 The British began bombarding Copenhagen to stop Napoleon from using the Danish fleet against Britain. | ||
| 1814 Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian was born | ||
| 1838 Liliuokalani, [Lydia Paki], last queen of Hawaii (1891-93) was born | ||
| 1850 Albert Spaulding, baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company was born | ||
| 1853 Wilhelm Ostwald, Germany, physical chemist (Nobel 1909) was born | ||
| 1856 Yang Hsiu-ch'ing, commander in chief of Taiping Rebellion was born | ||
| 1859 Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii | ||
| 1864 In the U.S. Civil War, Union forces under General William Tecumseh Sherman occupied Atlanta, Georgia. | ||
| 1866 The general assembly of Crete proclaimed the abolition of the Turkish authority and union with Greece. | ||
| 1867 1st Girl School opens in Haarlem Netherland | ||
| 1870 Napoleon III capitulated to the Prussian forces at the Battle of Sedan, France. This led to the fall of the Second French Empire. | ||
| 1878 Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr was born | ||
| 1894 Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die | ||
| 1898 Lord Kitchener's Anglo-Egyptian forces decisively defeated the Dervishes at the Battle of Omdurman, Sudan. | ||
| 1898 Machine gun 1st used in battle | ||
| 1900 Telegraph use between Germany & US begins | ||
| 1901 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt made his famous speech in which he said America should "speak softly and carry a big stick." | ||
| 1909 English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill | ||
| 1911 Joao Chagas forms Portuguese govt | ||
| 1913 Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas | ||
| 1919 Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago | ||
| 1919 Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation | ||
| 1923 The first elections were held in the Irish Free State after independence from Britain. | ||
| 1926 Italy signs treaty with Yemen | ||
| 1929 Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros | ||
| 1930 Flying their plane "Point d'Interrogation," French aviators Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte completed the first non-stop flight from Europe to the United States. | ||
| 1935 A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423 | ||
| 1936 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight | ||
| 1940 Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated | ||
| 1940 Britain and the United States signed a deal giving Britain 50 aged destroyers in exchange for permission for the United States to use British naval bases in the West Indies. | ||
| 1942 German troops enter Stalingrad | ||
| 1944 Belgium's Emissie bank closes | ||
| 1944 During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane | ||
| 1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz | ||
| 1944 US leaders meet in Belgium | ||
| 1945 The Democratic Republic of Vietnam was proclaimed, with Ho Chi Minh as president. | ||
| 1945 Aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri, Japanese leaders signed the unconditional surrender which ended World War II. | ||
| 1946 Nehru forms governament in India | ||
| 1947 American states signed a treaty of mutual assistance, the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro. | ||
| 1947 President Carlos Mancheno of Ecuador was overthrown in a coup. | ||
| 1949 Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China) | ||
| 1951 Australia, NZ & US sign ANZUS-pact | ||
| 1954 Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20 | ||
| 1956 Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India) | ||
| 1957 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die | ||
| 1958 Henry Verwoerd appointed PM of South Africa | ||
| 1959 US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris | ||
| 1960 Tamara & Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold | ||
| 1962 The Soviet Union agreed to send arms to Cuba to help it meet "threats from aggressive imperialist elements." | ||
| 1963 Alabama Gov. George Wallace stopped public school integration of blacks and whites by encircling Tuskegee High School with a cordon of state troopers. | ||
| 1964 Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia | ||
| 1965 Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends | ||
| 1973 Billy Martin fired as manager of Tiger | ||
| 1978 John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston | ||
| 1986 Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi | ||
| 1987 Philips introduces CD-video | ||
| 1987 West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia | ||
| 1990 Canadian soldiers seized control of an outpost of Mohawk Indians near Montreal, ending a 53-day armed standoff. | ||
| 1992 Nicaragua struck by earthquake/floodings; 118 die | ||
| 1992 US dollar valued at 156.50 guilder (record) | ||
| 1993 The Vatican accepted a Chinese invitation for a high level visit to Beijing, the first such meeting since the 1949 communist takeover. | ||
| 1993 Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed | ||
| 1993 Day of Peace in South Africa | ||
| 1994 The Bulgarian government of Prime Minister Lyuben Berov resigned. | ||
| 1996 Soyuz TM-24, lands | ||
| 1996 Muslim rebels and the Philippines government signed a peace pact ending 24 years of war that killed 125,000 people. | ||
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