What are the important events that happened on September 2? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 2: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 2 is the 246th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 120 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 20, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,725,235,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatetracontahexagon’ day.
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Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 149 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,273 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 2 Historical Events
- 44 BC –Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
- 1807 –The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
- 1856 –The Tianjing Incident takes place in Nanjing, China.
- 1870 –Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
- 1935 –Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
- 1945 –Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
- 1945 –World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
- 1958 –United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
- 1998 –Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
- 1998 –The UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
Who were born on September 2?
- 1917 –Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (d. 1995)
- 1924 –Daniel arap Moi, 2nd President of Kenya
- 1941 –John Thompson, Jr., American college basketball coach
- 1951 –Jim DeMint, American politician
- 1951 –Jon Feltheimer, American film executive
- 1951 –Mark Harmon, American actor
- 1951 –Michael Gray, American actor
- 1952 –Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
- 1971 –Pawan Kalyan, Indian actor
- 1983 –Mark Foster, English rugby player
Who died on September 2?
- 1274 –Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1242)
- 1820 –Jiaqing Emperor of China (b. 1760)
- 1941 –Lloyd Seay, American stock car driver (b. 1919)
- 1942 –Tom Williams, Irish republican (b. 1924)
- 1964 –Alvin York, American soldier (b. 1887)
- 1969 –Hồ Chí Minh, President of North Vietnam (b. 1890)
- 1985 –Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
- 1997 –Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
- 2000 –Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (b. 1905)
- 2001 –Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)
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