September 2

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on September 2. From 1900 until now. September 2 is under the sign of Virgo. Famous birthdays on this day include Keanu Reeves (1964), Salma Hayek (1966) and Mark Harmon (1951). Several movies were released around September 2 over the years, such as Memento in 2000 directed by Christopher Nolan and Rocco and His Brothers in 1960 directed by Luchino Visconti.
But much more happened on September 2 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Mauritius - Ganesh Chaturthi
Also see September 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
RC Saints - Saint Sophia
Sedan Day (Sedantag) - traditional national German holiday (see Sedan, France) that commemorates Prussia's victory over France in 1870, making the German Empire a reality.
Transnistria - Independence day, note Transnistria is not an internationally recognized independent state
Vietnam - National Day (independence from France, 1945)
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Events

2018 A suicide bomber attacks a government building in Mogadishu, Somalia, and causes the collapse of an adjacent school. Three deaths and 14 injuries are reported. (BBC)
2017 Iraqi Civil War: Seven people are killed and 13 are injured after suicide bombers hit a state-run power station near the northern city of Samarra, Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility for the attack. (Reuters)
2016 Sectarianism in Pakistan: Islamic militants attack Christian sections of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, leaving 13 dead in the city of Mardan. (CNN)
2015 Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017): Masked men in military uniforms kidnap 16 Turkish workers in Baghdad. (AP)
2014 Islamist insurgency in Nigeria:: Dozens of people are killed as Boko Haram captures the town of Bama. (Reuters)
2013 Mexican Drug War: Mexican forces arrest Alberto Carrillo Fuentes, the alleged leader of the Juárez Cartel. (The Telegraph)
2012 Syrian civil war:
2011 The South Korean military resumes building a naval base on the island of Jeju-do after police clear the site of protesters. (Yonhap)
2010 10 civilians are killed and 2 others are wounded after being struck by NATO during an election campaign in Rostaq, Afghanistan. Originally, a spokesman had said a ampquotprecision air strikeampquot had hit a militant vehicle. (Reuters)
2009 US drugmaker Pfizer agrees to pay US$2.3 billion in the largest healthcare fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice. The firm was found to have illegally promoted four drugs for uses which had not been approved by medical regulators.
2008 Political crisis in Thailand: Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej of Thailand declares a state of emergency in Bangkok.
2007 The spokewoman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry announces that China will report military expenditures to the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms. (Xinhua)
2006 US military hands over the Abu Ghraib prison to the Iraqi government.
2005 U.S. President George W. Bush tours the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina amidst growing criticism of his lack of leadership. Media reports say he will not visit New Orleans. Bush said order would be restored and New Orleans would emerge from its "darkest days". (BBC)
2004 U.S. presidential election: George W. Bush accepts the Republican nomination for a second term in office as the party's National Convention concludes, signaling the beginning of all-out campaigning by Bush and Senator John Kerry.
2003 Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden says that his organization is working on ampquot''serious projects''ampquot, and that his priority is to use biological weapons against the United States. Al Qaeda may already have such weapons, and be seeking means to transport and launch them.
1998 A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner carrying Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, after taking off from New York City en-route to Geneva. All 229 people on board are killed.
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toronto Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM
1996 Michelle McGann wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1995 Actor Charlie Sheen (30th birthday) marries Donna Peele (25)
1994 Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km)
1993 10th MTV Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins
1992 Nicaragua struck by earthquake / floodings; 118 die
1991 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1990 Grapes of Wrath closes at Cort Theater NYC after 188 performances
1989 Reverend Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst.
1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page New York Times ad lambasting Japan.
1986 Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to three years for death of John Belushi.
1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1984 Zorba closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 362 performances
1983 Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli Prime Minister.
1982 Tom Baker, American actor, dies of a drug overdose at age 42 (born 1940).
1979 I Remember Mama closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 108 performances
1978 George Harrison marries Olivia
1974 Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
1973 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
1972 Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 seconds)
1971 Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors win their 1st US Open tennis matches
1970 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (US Open) (9 pt sudden death)
1969 New York Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated
1967 KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1965 Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons)
1964 Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Idaho Centennia Golf Tournament
1962 The Soviet Union agrees to send arms to Cuba.
1960 Tamara and Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold
1959 US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris
1958 Henry Verwoerd appointed Prime Minister of South Africa
1957 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die
1956 Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
1955 KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
1951 Australia, New Zealand and US sign ANZUS-pact
1949 Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking, China).
1946 Nehru forms government in India
1945 59th US Womens Tennis: Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz (36 86 64)
1944 During WWII, George Bush ejects from a burning plane
1942 German troops enter Stalingrad
1941 Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
1940 23rd PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Hershey Country Club - Hershey, Pennsylvania
1939 The German-American League for Culture in Cleveland, Ohio, representing 103,000 German-Americans, issues a resolution calling on German people to rise up and defeat Adolf Hitler.
1938 Soviet Ambassador to Britain Ivan Maisky calls on Winston Churchill, to tell him that Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov has expressed to the French chargé d'affaires in Moscow that the Soviet Union is willing to fight over the territorial integrity of Czechoslovakia.
1937 US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act
1935 A hurricane slams the Florida Keys killing 423.
1930 First non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hours).
1929 Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union and Lever Bros
1927 Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers
1926 Italy signs treaty with Yemen
1924 44th US Mens Tennis: William Tilden beats William Johnston (61 97 62)
1919 Italy agress to general voting right / proportional representation
1917 Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by Admiral Tirpitz)
1916 British pilot William Leefe-Robinson becomes the first to shoot down a German airship over Britain.
1914 Moronvilliers is occupied by the Germans.
1913 Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas
1911 Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government
1909 English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill
1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1901 VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, Speak softly & carry a big stick
1900 Telegraph use between Germany and US begins
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