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 245^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 120 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 20, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,279,520 minutes 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 ‘dihectatetracontapentagon’ day.

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 168 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 4,638 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 2 Historical Events

• 44 BC –
  Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
• 31 BC –
  Final War of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium – off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
• 1666 –
  The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul’s Cathedral.
• 1789 –
  The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
• 1859 –
  A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
• 1867 –
  Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she is called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.
• 1901 –
  Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, “Speak softly and carry a big stick” at the Minnesota State Fair.
• 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.
• 1963 –
  CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television’s first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
• 1992 –
  An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.

Who were born on September 2?

• 1854 –
  Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910)
• 1914 –
  Tom Glazer, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
• 1931 –
  Clifford Jordan, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1993)
• 1938 –
  Mary Jo Catlett, American actress
• 1948 –
  Nate Archibald, American basketball player
• 1963 –
  Sam Mitchell, American basketball player and coach
• 1971 –
  Pawan Kalyan, Indian actor
• 1975 –
  MC Chris, American rapper
• 1976 –
  Erin Hershey Presley, American actress
• 1988 –
  Ishant Sharma, Indian cricketer

Who died on September 2?

• 1680 –
  Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
• 1690 –
  Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
• 1921 –
  Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born American oil pioneer (b. 1855)
• 1934 –
  Alcide Nunez, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1884)
• 1964 –
  Alvin York, American soldier (b. 1887)
• 1971 –
  Robert Mensah, Ghanaian football goalkeeper (b. 1939)
• 1979 –
  Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (b. 1903)
• 1997 –
  Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
• 2006 –
  Bob Mathias, American athlete and congressman (b. 1930)
• 2009 –
  Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India (b. 1949)