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