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On this day - September 2
Cicero launches the first of his Philippicae (oratorical attacks) on ...
Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy ...
Final War of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium: Off the western ...
1192 — The Treaty of Jaffa is signed between Richard I of England and ...
1561 — Entry of Mary, Queen of Scots into Edinburgh, a spectacular ...
1601 — 4th Spanish Armada makes landfall in Ireland at Kinsale.
1649 — The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the ...
1666 — The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, ...
1752 — Great Britain, along with its overseas possessions, adopts the ...
1789 — The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
1792 — During what became known as the September Massacres of the ...
1806 — A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, ...
1807 — Napoleonic Wars: The British Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen ...
1856 — The Tianjing incident takes place in Nanjing, China.
1859 — The Carrington Event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on ...
1862 — American Civil War: United States President Abraham Lincoln ...
1864 — American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta as the city ...
1867 — Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, ...
1870 — Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take ...
1885 — Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white ...
1898 — Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops defeat ...
1901 — Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters ...
1912 — Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of ...
1923 — Kantō Massacre: Amid rumors that Koreans had been conducting ...
1935 — The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike ...
1939 — World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland ...
1944 — The last execution of a Finn in Finland takes place when ...
1945 — Communist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the Democratic ...
1945 — World War II: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed ...
1946 — The Interim Government of India is formed, headed by ...
1957 — President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first ...
1958 — A USAF RC-130 is shot down by fighters over Armenia when it ...
1960 — The first election of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. The ...
1963 — CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first ...
1968 — Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War.
1970 — Aeroflot Flight 3630, a Tupolev Tu-124 en route from southern ...
1970 — NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the ...
1984 — Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the ...
1985 — Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former ...
1987 — In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias ...
1990 — Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the ...
1992 — The 7.7 Mw Nicaragua earthquake affected the west coast of ...
1998 — The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds ...
1998 — Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova ...
2008 — Google launches its Google Chrome web browser.
2009 — The Andhra Pradesh, India helicopter crash occurred near ...
2010 — Israel-Palestinian conflict: the 2010 Israeli-Palestinian ...
2013 — The Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay ...
2018 — National Museum of Brazil fire, A massive fire destroys most ...
2019 — The dive boat MV Conception catches fire and sinks near Santa ...
2019 — Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the ...
2022 — Eighteen people are killed and 23 others are injured by a ...
2023 — India's first solar observation mission: The Indian Space ...
2024 — At least 129 inmates are killed and 59 more injured in an ...
2024 — A suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills 6 people and ...
2024 — Four people are killed in a mass shooting targeting homeless ...