September 2: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

September 2nd marks the 245th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 246th in case of leap years). There are 120 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Virgo. Famous birthdays on this day include Peter Ueberroth (1937), Andrew Grove (1936) and Keanu Reeves (1964).
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Holidays

Transnistria - Independence day, note Transnistria is not an internationally recognized independent state
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.
Vietnam - National Day (independence from France, 1945)
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Events

2018 A suicide bomber targets a Somalia government building in Mogadishu and causes the destruction of a nearby school. There are 14 injuries and three deaths.
2017 Iraqi Civil War: Suicide bombers attack a power plant run by the state near Samarra, Iraq. Seven people were killed and thirteen others were injured. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
2016 Sectarianism in Pakistan: Islamic militants attack Christian areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. 13 people were killed in Mardan.
2015 Iraqi Civil War (2014-2017: 16 Turkish workers are kidnapped in Baghdad by masked men wearing military uniforms.
2014 Islamist insurgency:: Dozens are killed when Boko Haram seizes Bama.
2013 Mexican Drug War: Mexican forces arrest Alberto Carrillo Fuentes (the alleged leader the Juarez Cartel).
2012 Civil war in Syria:
2011 After police cleared the area of protesters, the South Korean military has resumed building a naval base at Jeju-do.
2010 Two civilians are injured and 10 civilians were killed in NATO's strike during the Rostaq election campaign. Initial reports stated that a precision air strike had struck a militant vehicle.
2009 Pfizer, a US drugmaker, agrees to pay US$2.3Billion in the largest healthcare fraud settlement ever made by the Department of Justice. Four drugs were illegally promoted by the firm, which was not approved by medical regulators.
2008 Thailand's political crisis: Samak Sundaravej, the Prime Minister of Thailand, declares an emergency in Bangkok.
2007 The spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that China would report its military expenditures to UN Register of Conventional Arms.
2006 The Abu Ghraib prison is handed over to the Iraqi government by the US military.
2005 In the midst of growing criticism for his leadership, George W. Bush visits the areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina. According to media reports, he won't visit New Orleans. Bush claimed that order would be restored, and New Orleans would emerge "from its darkest days".
2004 U.S. presidential elections: George W. Bush accepts Republican nomination for a second term as party's National Convention ends. This signals the start of intense campaigning by Bush (and Senator John Kerry).
2003 Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda leader, says his organization is involved in ampquot''serious project''ampquot and that his priority it to use biological weapons against America. Al Qaeda could already possess such weapons and may be looking for ways to transport them 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
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
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
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
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
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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