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What happened in history on this day: September 2?
On September 2 in ...
- 1789 - Congress establishes US Treasury Department.
- 1864 - USA General William T Sherman captures Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1901 - US Vice President Theodore Roosevelt advises "Speak softly and carry a big stick".
- 1919 - Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1930 - First non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hours).
- 1935 - A hurricane slams the Florida Keys killing 423.
- 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.
- 1940 - The US and Great Britain sign a deal in which the US will gain the lease of naval and air bases in Newfoundland, islands of Bermuda, Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Antigua, and British Guiana, in exchange for fifty naval destroyers.
- 1945 - Japan signs official surrender, accepted by General Douglas MacArthur on the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, off Yokohama. Allied nations participating in the ceremony are USA, China, Great Britain, Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, France, Netherlands, New Zealand. This is the first time in recorded history for Japan to host a successful military invasion from a foreign power.
- 1945 - Total deaths in various countries due to World War II: Soviet Union 20 million, Poland 4.32 million, Germany 4.2 million, China 2.2 million, Yugoslavia 1.7 million, Japan 1.219 million, France 600,000, Romania 460,000, Hungary 420,000, Italy 410,000, USA 406,000, Great Britain 388,000, Czechoslovakia 365,000, Austria 334,000, Netherlands 210,000, Greece 160,000, Belgium 88,000.
- 1954 - Hurricane Edna batters northeast US, killing 20.
- 1963 - Alabama Governor George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee high school.
- 1979 - The Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride opens in Frontierland at Disneyland. It cost US$15.8 million to build.
- 1987 - Donald Trump takes out a full page New York Times ad lambasting Japan.
- 1989 - Reverend Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst.
- 1991 - The United States recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
- 1994 - The National Corvette Museum opens in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA. 4000 Corvettes attend. Over the three-day weekend, 118,000 people visit the museum. The gift shop does US$1 million in business.
- 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.
- 2005 - Kanye West criticizes President George Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina during a televised benefit concert in New York, telling the audience: "George Bush doesn't care about black people."
- 2006 - US military hands over the Abu Ghraib prison to the Iraqi government.
- 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.
- 2019 - 34 people are killed following a fire and subsequent sinking of a dive boat near Santa Cruz Island, California, United States. It is the worst maritime disaster in California in more than 150 years.
Births on September 2
- 1884 - Birth of Frank Laubach in Benton, Pennsylvania, USA; educator, taught reading through phonetics.
- 1904 - Birth of Vera Vague [Barbara Jo Allen] in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Follow the Leader).
- 1906 - Birth of Barbara Jo Allen in New York City, New York, USA; writer/comedienne (radio character Vera Vague, regular spots on Bob Hope's Pepsodent radio programs, appeared in some 60 films, hosted TV show Follow the Leader).
- 1911 - Birth of William Fisk Harrah in South Pasadena, California, USA; created Harrah's Club hotel/casino in Reno, Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas.
- 1916 - Birth of Penny Santon in Greenwich Village, New York, USA; actress (Roll Out, Matt Houston).
- 1917 - Birth of Cleveland Amory in Nahant, Massachusetts, USA; conservationist/TV reviewer (TV Guide).
- 1919 - Birth of Marge Champion in Los Angeles, California, USA; dancer-actress (Marge and Gower Champion Show, Admiral Broadway Revue, Fame).
- 1940 - Birth of Beverly Sanders in Hollywood, California, USA; actress (Lotsa Luck, CPO Sharkey).
- 1940 - Birth of Jimmy Clanton in Baton Rogue, Louisiana, USA; rock vocalist ("Just a Dream").
- 1943 - Birth of John Wilson; American Numismatic Association President.
- 1951 - Birth of Mark Harmon in Burbank, California, USA; actor (Dr Caldwell - St. Elsewhere, NCIS, Chicago Hope).
- 1951 - Birth of Michael Gray in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Ronnie - Brian Keith Show).
- 1955 - Birth of Linda Purl in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA; actress (Gloria - Happy Days, Matlock).
- 1960 - Birth of Eric Dickerson in Texas, USA; NFL halfback (Los Angeles Rams, Indianapolis Colts).
- 1969 - Birth of Mark Brettschneider in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; actor (Jason - One Life to Live).
Deaths on September 2
- 1992 - Death of Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1902).
- 2013 - Death of Frederik Pohl, American writer (born 1919).
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