Notable Historical Events on September 2nd
September 2nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
44 |
Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. |
44 |
The first of Cicero's Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next several months. |
31 |
Final war of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium - off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra. |
BC AD | |
911 |
Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs treaty with Byzantines |
1192 |
Ottoman Sultan Saladin & King Richard the Lion-hearted of England sign treaty over Jerusalem, at end of the Third Crusade |
1519 |
1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico |
1537 |
King Christian III publishes "Ordinance on the Danish Church" |
1644 |
, Cornwall: Robert Devereux's infantry surrenders |
1649 |
The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro. |
1666 |
Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed |
1686 |
Habsburg armies take Buda from Turks |
1732 |
Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome |
1743 |
Britain/Austria/Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms |
1752 |
Last Julian calendar day in Britain and British colonies (no Sept 3-Sept 13th) |
1789 |
US Treasury Department established by Congress |
1792 |
September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers. |
1796 |
Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated |
1806 |
A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switz, kills 500 |
1807 |
The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon. |
1839 |
Salon of Varietes opens in Amsterdam |
1856 |
Tianjing's struggle Incident in Nanjing, China. |
1859 |
Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii |
1859 |
A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service. |
1864 |
Union General William T. Sherman captures and burns Atlanta during US Civil War |
1867 |
1st Girl School opens in Haarlem Neth |
1870 |
Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies |
1885 |
In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who were 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. |
1894 |
-3] Amsterdam Municipal theater opens |
1894 |
Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die |
1897 |
"McCal" magazine first published |
1898 |
Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain |
1898 |
Machine gun 1st used in battle |
1900 |
Telegraph use between Germany & US begins |
1900 |
A large demonstration by Nationalists in Dublin's Phoenix Park demand that Ireland be free of British rule |
1901 |
VP Theodore Roosevelt advises "Speak softly & carry a big stick" |
1902 |
"A Trip To The Moon", the first science fiction film, released |
1908 |
Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
1909 |
King Edward VII signs South Africa Act |
1911 |
Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government |
1913 |
Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas |
1914 |
-3] Gen von Hausen & countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux |
1914 |
The US Treasury Department establishes the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to provide up to $5 million worth of insurance for merchant ships and their crews |
1917 |
Deutsche Vaterlands Partei formed by admiral Tirpitz |
1919 |
Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago |
1919 |
Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation |
1919 |
National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series |
1920 |
W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez" premieres in London |
1922 |
President Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem |
1924 |
44th US Men's Tennis: William Tilden beats William Johnston (6-1 9-7 6-2) |
1924 |
Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in NYC |
1925 |
The airship USS Shenandoah crashes, killing 14. |
1926 |
Italy signs treaty with Yemen |
1927 |
Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers |
1929 |
Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros |
1929 |
WOR (NYC) ends affiliation with CBS radio network |
1930 |
1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs) |
1935 |
A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423 |
1936 |
1st transatlantic round-trip air flight |
1937 |
US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act |
1940 |
23rd PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Hershey CC Hershey Pa |
1940 |
Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated |
1941 |
Academy copyrights Oscar statuette |
1942 |
German troops enter Stalingrad |
1944 |
Belgium's Emissie bank closes |
1944 |
During WW II, George H W Bush ejects from a burning plane |
1944 |
Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz |
1944 |
US leaders meet in Belgium |
1945 |
59th US Womens Tennis: Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz (3-6 8-6 6-4) |
1945 |
Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day) |
1945 |
V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends) |
1946 |
Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager |
1946 |
Nehru forms government in India |
1949 |
Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China) |
1951 |
Australia, NZ & US sign ANZUS-pact |
1952 |
Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery |
1954 |
Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20 |
1954 |
WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Collapse of a rail bridge under a train kills 120 (India) |
1956 |
Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings |
1956 |
Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service |
1957 |
1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die |
1957 |
Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game |
1957 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1958 |
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
1958 |
Hendrik Verwoerd appointed PM of South Africa |
1958 |
KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium |
1958 |
National Defense Education Act was signed |
1958 |
U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost. |
1959 |
US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris |
1960 |
Tamara & Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold |
1960 |
William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres |
1960 |
The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day. |
1962 |
Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1963 |
Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS |
1963 |
CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes |
1963 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Idaho Centennia Golf Tournament |
1964 |
Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia |
1964 |
Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal |
1965 |
Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons) |
1965 |
Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends |
1966 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf |
1967 |
KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates. |
1968 |
Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
1969 |
NY Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated |
1969 |
Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season |
1969 |
The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York. |
1970 |
1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (US Open) (9 pt sudden death) |
1971 |
Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer |
1971 |
Chris Evert & Jimmy Connors win their 1st US Open tennis matches |
1971 |
NY's Electric Circus Club goes out of business |
1971 |
There are further Irish Republican Army bombs set off across the region, including one in Belfast which wrecked the headquarters of the Ulster Unionist Party |
1972 |
Chicago White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits SD Padres, 1-0 |
1972 |
Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec) |
1972 |
Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well) |
1972 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1972 |
The headquarters of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) in Belfast is severely damaged by an IRA bomb |
1973 |
Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers |
1973 |
Netherlands wins hockey world's championship |
1973 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic |
1974 |
Jerry Lewis' 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
1974 |
US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act |
1978 |
Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man |
1978 |
John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston |
1978 |
Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years |
1979 |
"I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 108 perfs |
1979 |
79th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O'Meara |
1980 |
John Arlott commentates on his last game, England v Australia at Lord's |
1981 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1982 |
Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down |
1983 |
Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM |
1984 |
"Zorba" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 362 performances |
1985 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
1985 |
Jerry Lewis' 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000 |
1986 |
Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi |
1987 |
Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan |
1987 |
Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit HRs in a game twice in 1 season |
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 |
1988 |
Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley |
1989 |
Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst |
1990 |
"Grapes of Wrath" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 188 performances |
1990 |
Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, SF |
1991 |
Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657 |
1991 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
1991 |
US officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania |
1992 |
Nicaragua struck by earthquake/floodings; 118 die |
1992 |
US dollar valued at 156.50 guilder (record) |
1993 |
10th MTV Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins |
1993 |
Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed |
1993 |
Day of Peace in South Africa |
1994 |
Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km) |
1995 |
Frank Bruno beats Oliver McCall in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
1995 |
Southern California begins using new area code 562 |
1996 |
Jerry Lewis' 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000 |
1996 |
Michelle McGann wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic |
1996 |
Soyuz TM-24, lands |
1996 |
A peace agreement is signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front in Malacañang Palace. |
1997 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Montreal Canada on CHOM 97.7 FM |
1997 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toronto Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM |
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. |
2012 |
A decades-long ban on veiled female news presenters is lifted from State television in Egypt |
2012 |
15 people are killed by a car bomb attack at a refugee camp in Sbeineh, Palestine |
2017 |
Hurricane Harvey projected to be at least 2nd costliest storm in US history |
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