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Today in History ~ September 2
Events31BC - Famous Naval Battle of Actium in the Ionian Sea, between Roman leader Octavian and the alliance of Roman Mark Antony and Cleopatra, queen of Egypt. Octavian soundly defeated Antony's fleet which was burned and 5000 of his men were killed. [H]
0490 - Phidippides of Athens sets out on his famous run that inspired the Marathon. Phidippides was sent to seek troops from Sparta to help against the invading Persian army. Phidippides left Marathon for the city of Sparta, 26 miles away. The Spartans were unwilling to help, until the next full moon, due to religious laws. September 4th, Phidippides returned the 26 miles Marathon without Spartan troops. His feat provided the model for the modern marathon race.
0911 - Viking monarch Oleg of Kiev, Russia signs treaty with Byzantines
1192 - Sultan Saladin & King Richard the Lion Hearted sign cease fire
1620 - The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth with 102 Pilgrims.
1644 - Battle at Lostwithiel: Robert Devereux' infantry surrenders
1666 - Great Fire of London began when Thomas Farrinor, baker to King Charles II, forgot to put out his oven fire inside his home on Pudding Lane. Flames were fanned by strong winds. The fire destroyed 13,000 houses & kills 8. [H]
1732 - Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
1752 - Today is September 2, but tomorrow is September 14
1789 - The United States Treasury Department was founded on September 2, 1789, but its roots can be traced back to the American Revolution. Back in 1775, the Revolutionary leaders were groping with ways to fund the war. Their solution--issuing cash that doubled as redeemable "bills of credit"--raised enough capital to fuel the Revolution.
1792 - "September Masssacres" -- mobs remove nobles/clergymen from jails, slaughtering them
1864 - Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta
1870 - Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies
1885 - 150 white miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, brutally attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15 others, and driving several hundred more out of town
1894 - Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die
1897 - "McCall's" magazine 1st published
1898 - Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
1898 - Machine gun 1st used in battle
1901 - VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly & carry a big stick"
1917 - Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by admiral Tirpitz)
1919 - Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
1920 - W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez," premieres in London
1924 - Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens in NYC
1930 - 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
1931 - Bing Crosby's first radio show, debuts on CBS.
1935 - One of the worst hurricanes to hit the U.S. mainland ripped through the Florida Keys, killing more than 350 people.
1936 - 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
1940 - Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated
1942 - German troops enter Stalingrad
1944 - During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane
1945 - Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day)
1945 - Although Americans had already celebrated V-J Day, for "Victory over Japan," on August 15, the war in the Pacific officially ended on September 2, 1945, aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Foreign Minister Shigemitsu led the Japanese delegation, with General Douglas MacArthur accepting their surrender on behalf of the US government. [H]
1946 - Nehru forms goverment in India
1952 - Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
1963 - Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers.
1964 - Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia
1965 - Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends
1969 - President Ho Chi Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam dies of a heart attack in Hanoi. North Vietnamese officials announced his death the next day.
1974 - President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
1983 - Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM
1983 - Moscow admitted to the Sept. 1 shooting down of a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747, killing all 269 people aboard, but said the jumbo jet intentionally invaded Soviet air space. [H]
1984 - "Zorba" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 362 performances
1986 - Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
1987 - West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, faces trial in Russia
1990 - Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, SF
1991 - US officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
1991 - The European Community-approved plan to end the civil war in Yugoslavia was accepted by the Yugoslav federal presidency. But federal forces renewed their offensive against Croatia.
1992 - More than 100 people were killed when earthquake spawned tidal waves swept Pacific coast villages in Nicaragua.
1992 - Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer defied U.S. warnings and U.N. sanctions against Yugoslavia to begin his first official game in 20 years.
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. [H]
1998 - A Swissair jetliner en route from New York City to Geneva, Switzerland, crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. All 229 people aboard were killed.
1999 - The Clintons announced they were buying a home of their own in the New York suburb of Chappaqua, N.Y., for $1.7 million. The purchase was aimed at establishing residency for first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who later became a U.S. senator representing New York.
Birthdays Today
1716 - Johann Trier, composer
1838 - Liliuokalani, [Lydia Paki], last queen of Hawaii (1891-93)
1850 - Eugene Field, author/journalist (Little Boy Blue)
1904 - Set Svanholm, Vesteras Sweden, tenor (Met Opera/London Convent Garden)
1917 - Cleveland Amory (writer: The Cat and the Curmudgeon, The Cat Who Came for Christmas, TV Guide columnist; passed away Oct 14, 1998)
1918 - Allen Drury (writer: Advise and Consent; passed away Sep 2, 1998)
1918 - Laurindo Almeida, composer/guitarist
1918 - Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General John Mitchell
1919 - Marge Champion, LA Calif, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show)
1937 - Peter Ueberroth (businessperson, promoter: 1984 Summer Olympics in LA; Baseball Commissioner [1984-89])
1940 - Jimmy Clanton (singer, songwriter: Just A Dream, Venus in Blue Jeans, Another Sleepless Night; toured w/Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars; actor: Go, Johnny, Go!)
1942 - Tom Keating (football: Oakland Raiders defensive tackle: Super Bowl II)
1948 - Christa McAuliffe (Sharon Christa Corrigan) (teacher, astronaut: Challenger space shuttle)
1948 - Nate (Nathaniel) 'Tiny' Archibald (Basketball Hall of Famer: Cincinnati Royals, Kansas City-Omaha Kings, New York Nets, Buffalo Braves, Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks; NBA stats [over 14 years]: 16,481 points, 6,476 assists, six NBA All-Star games; elected to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame [1991])
1948 - Terry Bradshaw (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Steelers QB: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV; football sportscaster/analyst: CBS-TV, FOX-TV; actor: Cannonball Run; singer: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry)
1951 - Mark Harmon (actor: Wyatt Earp, Till There Was You, Reasonable Doubts, Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years, St. Elsewhere, Centennial, Flamingo Road, Moonlighting, Sam, 240-Robert; People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive [1986])
1952 - Jimmy Connors (tennis champion: Australian Open [1974], Wimbledon [1974, 1982], U.S. Open [1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983])
1960 - Eric Dickerson (football: NFL individual record for yards gained in a season: LA Rams [1984]: Rookie of Year [1983]; Indianapolis Colts; LA Raiders, Atlanta Falcons)
1964 - Keanu Reeves (actor: Chain Reaction, A Walk in the Clouds, Johnny Mnemonic, Speed, Little Buddha, Bram Stoker's Dracula, My Own Private Idaho, Parenthood, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Dangerous Liaisons, River's Edge, Youngblood, Brotherhood of Justice, Babes in Toyland, Act of Vengeance, Dream to Believe)
Famous deaths
1384 - Louis I, duke of Anjou/king of Naples (Battle of Poitiers),
1547 - Hernan Cortes, Spanish general defeated Aztec Indians
1906 - Guiseppe Giacosa, Ital screenwriter (libretti opera Puccini),
1910 - Henri "le Douanier" Rousseau, French ambassador/painter,
1969 - President Ho Chi Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam dies of a heart attack
1973 - John R R Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbitt), dies of ulcer at 81
1989 - A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commisioner, dies at 51
1995 - Vaclav Neummann, conductor, dies at 74
1997 - Rudolf Bing, opera manager (NY Met Opera), dies at 95
1997 - Viktor Frankl, psychotherapist (Man's Search for Meaning), dies at 92
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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