The 2nt o September is the 245t day o the year (246t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 120 days ower.
Events
1945: Japanese surrender
1967: Sealand
- 1610 - Proushie adopts the Gregorian calendar.
- 1666 - The Great Fire o Lunnon begins.
- 1859 - A solar storm occurs, meanin the Northren Lichts are seen in Hawaii, Havana an Roum.
- 1870 - The Battle o Sedan occurs in the Franco-Proushie War, wi Proushie defeatin the French.
- 1898 - A Breetish force unner Herbert Kitchener defeats the Mahdists in the Battle o Omdurman in Sudan.
- 1935 - A hurricane in the Florida Keys, an island group aff the sooth coast o Florida, kills 423 fowk.
- 1945 - Japan offeecially signs the surrender tae the Unitit States at the end o Warld War II.
- 1945 - Vietnam declares unthirldom.
- 1967 - Paddy Roy Bates creates the micronaition o Sealand aff the Suffolk an Essex coasts.
- 1969 - Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh dees.
- 1990 - Transnistrie declares unthirldom frae Moldovae.
- 1991 - Nagorno-Karabakh, whaur ethnic Armenies mak up the majority o the population, declares unthirldom frae Azerbaijan.
- 1992 - A yirdquauk in Nicaragua kills 116 fowk.
- 1998 - A Swissair plane crashes naur the east coast o Canadae, killin 229 fowk.
- 2008 - Google Chrome is released.
- 2011 - Yoshihiko Noda becomes Prime meenister o Japan.
- 2016 - Uzbekistan's Preses Islam Karimov dees efter speculations ower his ill heal.
- 2018 - The Naitional Museum o Brazil in Rio de Janeiro is hivily damaged bi fire.
- 2019 - The boat "MV Conception" goes on fire an sinks aff Santa Cruz Island, Californie, killin 34 fowk; 5 survive.
Births
Liliuokalani
Jimmy Connors
- 1746 - Henry Scott, 3rd Duke o Buccleuch, Scots nobleman (d. 1812)
- 1778 - Louis Bonaparte, Keeng o Holland (d. 1846)
- 1812 - Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Scots blacksmith an bicycle pioneer (d. 1878)
- 1838 - Liliuokalani, Queen o Hawaii (d. 1917)
- 1853 - Wilhelm Ostwald, Baltic-German chemist (d. 1932)
- 1877 - Frederick Soddy, Inglis radio chemist (d. 1956)
- 1894 - James McCrae, Scots fitbawer (d. 1974)
- 1912 - David Daiches, Scots leeterar historian (d. 2005)
- 1913 - Bill Shankly, Scots fitbaw manager (d. 1981)
- 1922 - Arthur Ashkin, American pheesicist
- 1924 - Daniel arap Moi, Preses o Kenyae (d. 2020)
- 1933 - Mathieu Kérékou, Preses o Benin (d. 2015)
- 1937 - Adam Blacklaw, Scots fitbawer (d. 2010)
- 1948 - Christa McAuliffe, American teacher an astronaut (d. 1986)
- 1951 - Mark Harmon, American actor
- 1952 - Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
- 1961 - Carlos Valderrama, Colombian fitbawer
- 1962 - Sir Keir Starmer, Inglis lawer an politeecian
- 1964 - Keanu Reeves, Lebanese-Canadian actor
- 1965 - Lennox Lewis, Inglis-Canadian boxer
- 1966 - Salma Hayek, Mexican actress
- 1971 - Kjetil André Aamodt, Norwegian skier
- 1974 - Shirley-Anne Somerville, Scots politeecian
- 1982 - Joey Barton, Inglis fitbawer
- 1988 - Javi Martínez, Spaingie fitbawer
- 1989 - Alexandre Pato, Brazilian fitbawer
Daiths
- 1751 - Andrew Gordon, Scots monk, pheesicist an inventor (b. 1712)
- 1834 - Thomas Telford, Scots ingineer (b. 1757)
- 1851 - William Nicol, Scots geologist (b. 1770)
- 1937 - Pierre de Coubertin, French founder o the modren Olympic movement (b. 1863)
- 1969 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese poleetical leader (b. 1890)
- 1973 - J. R. R. Tolkien, Inglis writer (b. 1892)
- 1992 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist (b. 1902)
- 2001 - Christiaan Barnard, Sooth African surgeon (b. 1922)
- 2010 - Jackie Sinclair, Scots fitbawer (b. 1943)
- 2013 - Ronald Coase, Inglis economist (b. 1910)
- 2016 - Islam Karimov, Preses o Uzbekistan (b. 1938)
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