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September 2 - Celebrations
Calendar Adjustment Day - Great Britain and its colonies
adjusted their calendar so that the day following September2, 1752 became
September 14, 1752. This then matched the Gregorian Calendar. Most other
countries adjusted the date in 1582.
Saint Agricola of Avignon Feast Day - He is patron saint of misfortune, and
patron saint of Avignon, France.
V-J Day - This is the anniversary of the official surrender of Japan in
1945. On this day Japan signed a treaty that officially ended the Second
World War.
Yesterday Today - On this day in 1965, the Beatles released their hit single
"Yesterday."
Born on this Day
1661: German organist and composer Georg Bohm
1716: Composer Johann Trier
1731: German playwright Johann F von Cronegk (Olint und Sophronia)
1750: Composer Pehr Frigel
1763: German author Caroline von Schelling
1778: Dutch politician Leopold FJJJ van Sassen Ysselt
1814: German archaeologist and historian Ernst Curtius
1838: Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani, last sovereign (Queen) before
annexation of Hawaii by the United States.
1839: Writer and land reformer Henry George (Progress & Poverty)
1850: Albert Spaulding baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company
1850: Poet Eugene Field (Little Boy Blue)
1853: Wilhelm Ostwald Germany, physical chemist (Nobel 1909)
1869: Hiram Maxim, inventor of the automobile muffler and firearm
silencer
1877: Frederick Soddy, named an isotope and received 1921 Nobel prize
for chemistry
1916: Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney winner of more than 141 US tennis titles
1917: Author-conservationist Cleveland Amory
1918: Author Allen Drury (Advise & Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize)
1918: Martha Mitchell wife of Attorney General John Mitchell
1928: Jazz musician Horace Silver
1937: Former Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth
1939: Rhythm-and-blues singer Sam Gooden (The Impressions)
1940: Singer Jimmy Clanton
1943: Rhythm-and-blues singer Rosalind Ashford (Martha & the
Vandellas)
1943: Singer Joe Simon
1948: Football Hall-of-Famer Terry Bradshaw
1948: Christa McAuliffe, the first civilian passenger on a space
mission. During that mission, she and the six other crew members on the space shuttle
Challenger perished in an explosion shortly after launch
1951: Actor Mark Harmon
1952: Tennis player Jimmy Connors
1955: Actress Linda Purl
1958: Rock musician Jerry Augustyniak (10,000 Maniacs)
1959: Country musician Paul Deakin (The Mavericks)
1964: Actor Keanu Reeves
1968: Actress Salma Hayek
1969: Rhythm-and-blues singer K-Ci (Jodeci)
1974: Singer Tony Thompson
0490: B. C. Phidippides runs 1st marathon, seeking aid
from Sparta vs. Persia
0031: B. C. Battle of Actium - Octavian defeats Antony,
becomes Emperor Augustus
0310: Martyrdom of Habib "the Confessor of
Edessa"
0911: Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs treaty with
Byzantines
1022: Death of Maelsechlainn II "the Great,"
High-King of Ireland
1057: Coronation of Issac Comnenus as Emperor of Byzantium
1192: Peace signed between King Richard I of England
"the Lionhearted," and Saladin; end of 3rd Crusade
1231: Death of St. Brocard
1519: 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador fought
against Mexico
1537: Christian III issues a Lutheran Ordinance for the
Danish Church
1620: The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth with 102
Pilgrims.
1634: Prince Ferdinand's army reaches Noerdlingen
1638: A proclaimation is issued revoking the service-book
in Scotland
1666: The Great Fire of London began. It eventually
destroyed 13,000 houses in four days. Fortunately few lives were lost (an estimated 8
people died).
1758: The first Anglican service of worship to be held on
Canadian soil was led by Rev. Robert Wolfall at Frobisher Bay, on Baffin Island.
1784: English clergyman Thomas Coke, 37, was consecrated,
the first "bishop" of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by founder John Wesley.
Coke afterward journeyed to America, where he and Francis Asbury oversaw Methodism in the
Colonies.
1789: The United States Treasury Department was
established.
1798: The Maltese people revolt against the French
occupation, forcing the French troops to take refuge in the citadel of Valetta in Malta.
1791: A Czech composer named Franz Kotzwara hanged himself
in a London brothel. An elliptically-worded account of the event leaves it unclear whether
the hanging was an intentional suicide or a bawdy escapade that went too far.
1864: During the Civil War, Union General William T.
Sherman's forces occupied Atlanta.
1885: In Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, 28 Chinese
laborers are killed and hundreds more chased out of town by striking coal miners.
1901: Vice President Theodore Roosevelt offered the
advice, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," in a speech at the Minnesota State
Fair.
1910: Alice Stebbins Wells is admitted to the Los Angeles
Police Force as the first woman police officer to receive an appointment based on a civil
service exam.
1919: Communist Party of America organized in Chicago
1929: An opera, composed by Kurt Weill with a libretto by
Berthold Brecht, was in its final minutes when Brecht's wife launched into a speech for
Communism from the stage. A riot broke out and the cops had to be called.
1930: 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37
hrs)
1935: A hurricane slammed into the Florida Keys, claiming
423 lives.
1944 : Troops of the U.S. First Army enter Belgium. More
than 6,000 trucks of the Red Ball Express kept gasoline and other vital supplies rolling
in as American troops and tanks pushed the Germans back toward their homeland.
1944: Anne Frank, is sent to Auschwitz
1944: During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning
plane
1945: Japan signed an unconditional surrender aboard the
U.S. battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, formally ending World War II.
1945: Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam an independent
republic.
1956: Tennessee National Guardsmen halt rioters protesting
the admission of 12 African-Americans to schools in Clinton.
1963: Alabama Governor George C. Wallace prevented the
integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers.
1963: "The CBS Evening News" was lengthened from
15 to 30 minutes.
1969: North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh died.
1973: Death of J.R.R. Tolkien, 81, English Christian
language scholar and novelist. His 1954-55 "Lord of the Rings" trilogy describes
a war between good and evil in which evil is routed through courage and sacrifice. Today's History Focus
1975: Joseph W. Hatcher of Tallahassee, Florida, becomes
the state's first African-American supreme court justice since Reconstruction.
1983: Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir won the
endorsement of the Herut Party in his bid to succeed Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who
had announced his resignation.
1985: It was announced that a US-French expedition had
located the wreckage of the "Titanic" about 560 miles off Newfoundland.
1985: Hurricane Elena barreled ashore along the
Mississippi coast with winds up to 100 mph.
1986: A judge in Los Angeles sentenced Cathy Evelyn Smith
to three years in prison for involuntary manslaughter in connection with the 1982 drug
overdose death of comedian John Belushi.
1987: West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private
plane from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, went on trial in the Soviet capital.
(Rust, who was convicted and given a four-year sentence, was released August third, 1988.)
1988: Democrat Michael Dukakis welcomed back former top
aide John Sasso to his presidential campaign, nearly a year after Sasso resigned because
of his role in torpedoing the campaign of Democratic Senator Joseph Biden.
1989: In Nicaragua, a 14-party opposition coalition chose
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro to be its presidential candidate. (Chamorro went on to win the
election the following February.)
1990: Dozens of Americans reached freedom in the first
major airlift of Westerners from Iraq during the month-old Persian Gulf crisis.
1990: Dave Stieb of the Toronto Blue Jays hurled a
no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians, winning 3-0.
1991: The United States formally recognized the
independence of the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
1991: In Moscow, the Soviet Congress of People's Deputies
opened its first session since the failed coup, taking up proposals aimed at drastically
restructuring the country.
1992: California's 64-day budget deadlock ended with the
approval of a compromise plan.
1992: On the campaign trail, President Bush announced
nearly two billion dollars in new aid for US farmers and a six billion-dollar jet fighter
sale that would largely benefit Texas. Democrat Bill Clinton, meanwhile, charged that Bush
would shortchange middle class students to finance tax cuts for the rich.
1991: President Bush formally recognized the independence
of the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. In Moscow, the Soviet Congress of
People's Deputies opened its first session since the failed coup, taking up proposals
aimed at drastically restructuring the country.
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.
1993: Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic recorded
the Brahms Third Symphony for the Teldec label.
1993: The United States and Russia formally ended decades
of competition in space by agreeing to a joint venture to build a space station.
1994: The government reported the nation's unemployment
rate for August was unchanged from July, at 6.1 percent.
1995: At a military cemetery on a hill high above
Honolulu, President Clinton marked the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, saying
it taught Americans that "the blessings of freedom are never easy or free."
1996: Muslim rebels and the Philippine government signed a
pact formally ending a 26-year insurgency that killed more than 120,000 people.
1997: In London, a grieving human tide engulfed St.
James's Palace, where Princess Diana's body lay in a chapel closed to the public, as the
British monarchy and government prepared for her funeral.
1997: The White House announced that first lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton would attend on behalf of the United States.
1998: President Clinton concluded his Moscow summit with
Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
1998: A Swissair MD-11 jetliner crashed off Nova Scotia,
killing all 229 people aboard.
1998: Pilots for Air Canada began a two-week strike, the
first in the carrier's history.
1999: There goes the neighborhood! It was announced that
President and Mrs. Clinton had signed a contract to purchase a $1.7 million house in
Chappaqua, New York, ending a months-long guessing game over where the couple would live
after leaving the White House.
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