What happened on September 2? There are more than 271 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 2
September 2 is the 246th day of the year 2024. There are 120 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 36th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Mobile, Alabama 36641 sunrise occured at 06:29 AM and sunset occured at 07:15 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 149 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 2
- 31 BCFinal War of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium – off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
- 44 BCPharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
- 44 BCCicero launches the first of his Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the following months.
- 421Emperor Constantius III dies suddenly of an illness, his wife Galla Placidia becomes for the second time widow.
- 1649The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
- 1666The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul’s Cathedral.
- 1752Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
- 1789The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
- 1792During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
- 1806A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.
- 1807The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
- 1811The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, after Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.
- 1833Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio is founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
- 1856The Tianjing Incident takes place in Nanjing, China.
- 1859A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
- 1862American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope’s disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
- 1864American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city.
- 1867Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she is called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.
- 1870Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
- 1885Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
- 1898Battle of Omdurman – British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
- 1901Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, “Speak softly and carry a big stick” at the Minnesota State Fair.
- 1935Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
- 1939World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
- 1945Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
- 1945World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
- 1946The Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.
- 1957President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
- 1958United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
- 1960The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
- 1963CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television’s first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
- 1970NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
- 1990Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
- 1991Nagorno Karabakh declares its independence from Azerbaijan forming the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
- 1991The United States recognize the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
- 1992An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
- 1998Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
- 1998The 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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Who Were Born On September 2?
- 1661Georg Böhm, German organist (d. 1733)
- 1675William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
- 1753Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, Italy-born queen consort of France and wife of King Louis XVIII of France (d. 1810)
- 1778Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (d. 1846)
- 1805Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (d. 1851)
- 1810William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (d. 1897)
- 1820Lucretia Hale, American journalist and author (d. 1900)
- 1830William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
- 1838Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
- 1839Henry George, American economist (d. 1897)
- 1847Roger Wolcott, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1900)
- 1850Albert Spalding, American baseball player and co-founder of the A.G. Spalding sporting goods company (d. 1915)
- 1850Eugene Field American writer (d. 1895)
- 1850Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919)
- 1852Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (d. 1935)
- 1853Wilhelm Ostwald, Baltic German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1932)
- 1854Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910)
- 1857Thomas Groube, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
- 1862Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist (d. 1881)
- 1865Simeón Ola, Philippine general (d. 1952)
- 1866Charles Vintcent, South African cricketer (d. 1943)
- 1877Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1956)
- 1878Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat, writer and revolutionary (d. 1920)
- 1878Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (d. 1946)
- 1879An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (d. 1910)
- 1883Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, “The Red Archduchess” (d. 1963)
- 1884Dr. Frank Laubach, American Christian missionary (d. 1970)
- 1894Joseph Roth, Austrian novelist (d. 1939)
- 1901Adolph Rupp, American college basketball coach (d. 1977)
- 1901Andreas Embirikos, Greek surrealist poet (d. 1975)
- 1911Romare Bearden, African American painter (d. 1988)
- 1912Ernest Bromley, Australian cricketer (d. 1967)
- 1913Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (d. 1981)
- 1913Israel Gelfand, Russian mathematician (d. 2009)
- 1914Tom Glazer, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
- 1915Benjamin Aaron, American labor law expert (d. 2007)
- 1915Meinhardt Raabe, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1917Cleveland Amory, American author (d. 1997)
- 1917Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (d. 1995)
- 1919Marge Champion, American actress
- 1923René Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
- 1924Daniel arap Moi, 2nd President of Kenya
- 1925Hugo Montenegro, American composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
- 1927Milo Hamilton, American Hall of Fame sports broadcaster
- 1928Horace Silver, American jazz pianist and composer
- 1929Hal Ashby, American film director (d. 1988)
- 1929Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor
- 1931Clifford Jordan, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1993)
- 1934Chuck McCann, American voice actor.
- 1934Grady Nutt, American humorist (d. 1982)
- 1935D. Wayne Lukas, American horse trainer
- 1936Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer
- 1937Derek Fowlds, British actor
- 1937Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor (d. 2006)
- 1937Peter Ueberroth, American sport executive
- 1938Clarence Felder, American actor
- 1938Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor
- 1938Mary Jo Catlett, American actress
- 1939Sam Gooden, American singer (The Impressions)
- 1940Jimmy Clanton, American singer
- 1941David Bale, South African–born American animal rights activist (d. 2003)
- 1941Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1941John Thompson, Jr., American college basketball coach
- 1943Glen Sather, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
- 1943Joe Simon, American singer
- 1943Rosalind Ashford, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
- 1944Janet Simpson, British track and field athlete (d. 2010)
- 1946Billy Preston, American keyboardist (d. 2006)
- 1946Dan White, American assassin (d. 1985)
- 1946Joe Yamanaka, Japanese singer (Flower Travellin' Band) (d. 2011)
- 1946Luis Avalos, Cuban actor
- 1946Walt Simonson, American comic book artist and writer
- 1947Richard Coughlan, English drummer and percussionist (Caravan)
- 1948Christa McAuliffe, American schoolteacher and astronaut (d. 1986)
- 1948Nate Archibald, American basketball player
- 1948Terry Bradshaw, American football player
- 1949Moira Stuart, British journalist
- 1950Michael Rother, German guitarist and keyboardist (Neu!, Kraftwerk, Harmonia, Cluster)
- 1950Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
- 1950Yuen Wah, Chinese actor and stuntman
- 1951Jim DeMint, American politician
- 1951Jon Feltheimer, American film executive
- 1951Mark Harmon, American actor
- 1951Michael Gray, American actor
- 1952Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
- 1953Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander (d. 2001)
- 1953John Zorn, American composer, arranger and saxophonist
- 1956Angelo Fusco, Northern Irish Provisional Irish Republican Army member
- 1956Mario Tremblay, Canadian hockey player and coach
- 1957Tony Alva, American skateboarder
- 1958Olivier Grouillard, French racing driver
- 1959Guy Laliberté, Canadian founder of Cirque du Soleil
- 1960Eric Dickerson, American football player
- 1960Hideo Yoshizawa, Japanese video game designer and executive, General Manager at Namco Bandai Holdings
- 1960John S. Hall, American poet and spoken-word artist
- 1960Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian politician
- 1960Rex Hudler, American baseball player
- 1961Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
- 1962Eugenio Derbez, Mexican comedian and actor
- 1962Jon Berkeley, Irish author and illustrator
- 1962Prachya Pinkaew, Thai film director
- 1963Sam Mitchell, American basketball player and coach
- 1964Keanu Reeves, Canadian actor
- 1965Lennox Lewis, British-born Canadian boxer
- 1965Partho Sen-Gupta, Indian filmmaker
- 1966Dino Cazares, Mexican-born American guitarist (Fear Factory)
- 1966Marcello Cuttitta, Italian rugby player
- 1966Massimo Cuttitta, Italian rugby player and coach
- 1966Olivier Panis, French race car driver
- 1966Salma Hayek, Mexican actress
- 1966Tuc Watkins, American actor
- 1967Andreas Möller, German footballer
- 1968Cynthia Watros, American actress
- 1968Kristen Cloke, American actress
- 1969Cedric “K-Ci” Hailey, American singer
- 1969Stéphane Matteau, French-Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969Stephen Peall, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1971César Sánchez, Spanish footballer
- 1971Kjetil André Aamodt, Norwegian alpine skier
- 1971Pawan Kalyan, Indian actor
- 1971Shauna Sand, American actress and Playboy Playmate
- 1971Tom Steels, Belgian cyclist
- 1971Tommy Maddox, American football player
- 1972Matthew Dunn, Australian swimmer
- 1972Robert Coles, English golfer
- 1973Indika de Saram, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1973Jason Blake, American ice hockey player
- 1973Katt Williams, American comedian, actor and rapper
- 1974Inari Vachs, American adult film actress
- 1974Steven Johnson, Australian racing driver
- 1975MC Chris, American rapper
- 1976Aziz Zakari, Ghanaian sprinter
- 1976Erin Hershey Presley, American actress
- 1976Phil Lipscomb, American bassist (Taproot)
- 1977Amanda Marcotte, American feminist blogger
- 1977Frédéric Kanouté, Malian footballer
- 1979Alex Chu, Korean singer
- 1979Brian Westbrook, American football player
- 1979Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor
- 1979Tomer Ben Yosef, Israeli footballer
- 1980Dany Sabourin, French-Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- 1980Hiroki Yoshimoto, Japanese racing driver
- 1981Bracha van Doesburgh, Dutch actress
- 1981Chris Tremlett, English cricketer
- 1981Fariborz Kamkari, Iranian film director-producer
- 1982Jason Hammel, American baseball player
- 1982Joey Barton, English footballer
- 1982Mandy Cho, Hong Kong actress
- 1983Aimee Osbourne, English singer, actress and columnist
- 1983Mark Foster, English rugby player
- 1983Rich Boy, American rapper
- 1984Danson Tang, Taiwanese actor, model and singer
- 1984Jack Peñate, English singer
- 1986Kyle Hines, American basketball player
- 1986Rob Ramsay, Canadian Actor
- 1987Scott Moir, Canadian ice dancer
- 1988Ishant Sharma, Indian cricketer
- 1989Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer
- 1989Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian playback singer (d. 2008)
- 1989Marcus Morris, American basketball player
- 1989Markieff Morris, American basketball player
- 1990Marcus Ericsson, Swedish racing driver
- 1996Sungha Jung, South Korean guitar prodigy
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Who Died On September 2?
- 490 BCPheidippides, Greek hero (b. c. 530 BC)
- 421Constantius III, Roman Emperor (birth year unknown)
- 1031Saint Emeric of Hungary (born between 1000 and 1007)
- 1274Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1242)
- 1397Francesco Landini, Italian composer (b. 1325 or 1335)
- 1540Emperor Dawit II of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
- 1680Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
- 1688Sir Robert Viner, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631)
- 1690Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
- 1764Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1700)
- 1765Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719)
- 1768Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
- 1790Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (b. 1701)
- 1813Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1763)
- 1820Jiaqing Emperor of China (b. 1760)
- 1832Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer (b. 1754)
- 1834Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (b. 1757)
- 1865William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (b. 1805)
- 1872Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
- 1877Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician (b. 1793)
- 1896Nat Thomson, Australian cricketer (b. 1839)
- 1898Wilford Woodruff, American fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
- 1910Henri Rousseau, French painter (b. 1844)
- 1921Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born American oil pioneer (b. 1855)
- 1921Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
- 1927Umegatani Tōtarō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 20th Yokozuna (b. 1878)
- 1934Alcide Nunez, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1884)
- 1934James Allan, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1860)
- 1934Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist and actor (b. 1908)
- 1937Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games (b. 1863)
- 1941Lloyd Seay, American stock car driver (b. 1919)
- 1942Tom Williams, Irish republican (b. 1924)
- 1944Bella Rosenfeld, Russian-born American wife of Marc Chagall and subject of many of his paintings (b. 1895)
- 1948Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
- 1953Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (b. 1883)
- 1962William Wilkerson, American founder of the Hollywood Reporter and the Flamingo Hotel and nightclub owner (b. 1890)
- 1964Alvin York, American soldier (b. 1887)
- 1964Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
- 1965Johannes Bobrowski, German writer (b. 1917)
- 1969Hồ Chí Minh, President of North Vietnam (b. 1890)
- 1971Robert Mensah, Ghanaian football goalkeeper (b. 1939)
- 1973Carl Dudley, American film director (b. 1910)
- 1973J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
- 1976Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish writer (b. 1934)
- 1978Fred G. Meyer, American businessman, founder of Fred Meyer, Inc. (b. 1886)
- 1979Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (b. 1903)
- 1984Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (b. 1908)
- 1985Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
- 1985Jay Youngblood, American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
- 1991Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
- 1992Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
- 1994Roy Castle, British entertainer (b. 1932)
- 1996Paddy Clift, Zimbabwean cricketer (b. 1953)
- 1997Rudolf Bing, Austrian-born British opera manager (b. 1902)
- 1997Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
- 1998Allen Drury, American novelist (b. 1918)
- 1998Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (b. 1933)
- 2000Curt Siodmak, German-born American screenwriter (b. 1907)
- 2000Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (b. 1905)
- 2001Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)
- 2001Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
- 2002Dick Reynolds, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
- 2004Eleni Zafeiriou, Greek actress (b. 1916)
- 2004Joan Oró, Catalan biochemist (b. 1923)
- 2005Bob Denver, American actor (b. 1935)
- 2006Bob Mathias, American athlete and congressman (b. 1930)
- 2006Willi Ninja, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
- 2007Franz-Benno Delonge, German game designer (b. 1957)
- 2007Max McNab, Canadian National Hockey League executive (b. 1924)
- 2007Rajae Belmlih, Moroccan singer (b. 1962)
- 2008Bill Meléndez, American character animator (b. 1916)
- 2009Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India (b. 1949)
- 2011Felipe Camiroaga, Chilean character animator, Chile (b. 1966)
- 2011Roberto Bruce, Chilean journalist (b. 1979)
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