September 2

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September 2 is the 245th day of the year (246th in leap years). There are 120 days remaining.

Events

31 BC - Roman Civil War: Battle of Actium - Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
1666 - Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in London in the house of Charles II's baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. The fire burns for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral, but only 16 people are known to have died.
1752 - The United Kingdom adopts the Gregorian Calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
1789 - United States Department of the Treasury was founded.
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.
1864 - American Civil War: Union forces under General William T. Sherman enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city.
1885 - In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners in attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
1898 - Battle of Omdurman - British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, thus establishing British dominance in the Sudan.
1935 - Labor Day Hurricane: A large hurricane hit[ the Florida Keys killing 423.
1944 - Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz. They arrive three days later.
1945 - World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz from a delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. But in Japan August 14 is well recognized as the day of the Pacific War ended.
1945 - Vietnam declares its independence forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
1963 - CBS Evening News becomes network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
1967 - Microstate of Sealand is declared.
1969 - The science fiction television series Star Trek airs its final episode after being canceled by NBC. The show premiered on September 8, 1966.
1987 - In Moscow, the trial of 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May 1987, begins.
1995 - 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 - A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner carrying Swissair flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia after taking off from New York City en-route to Geneva. All 229 people on board are killed.
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.