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2005-09-02

On this day in History - Sep 02

44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
31 BC - Roman Civil War: Battle of Actium - Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra. / Octávio, um dos membros do triunvirato que governava Roma, derrotou as forças navais de Marco António e de Cleópatra, rainha do Egipto, na Batalha de Actium, ao largo da costa do Épiro na parte ocidental da Grécia.
0421 - Constantius III dies. Roman Emperor .
1192 - Los cruzados, derrotados, firman un armisticio con Saladino, el sultán de Egipto.
1274 - Prince Munetaka dies (b. 1242). Japanese shogun
1397 - Francesco Landini dies. Italian composer
1540 - Lebna Dengel dies (b. 1501). Emperor of Ethiopia
1548 - Vincenzo Scamozzi was born (d. 1616). Italian architect
1649 - The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
1652 - Jose de Ribera (Lo Spagnoletto) dies. Spanish painter.
1666 - The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral.
1675 - William Somervile was born (d. 1742). English poet.
1680 - Per Brahe (the younger) dies (b. 1602). Swedish soldier and statesman
1688 - Robert Viner dies (b. 1631). Lord Mayor of London.
1690 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine dies (b. 1615)
1752 - The United Kingdom adopts the Gregorian Calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
1764- Revd Nathaniel Bliss dies (d. 1700). English Astronomer Royal
1789 - United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
1792 - Nascimento de Vicente Ramón Roca Rodríguez. Presidente do Equador
1792 - During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops and more than two hundred priests.
1805 - Esteban Echeverría was born in Buenos Aires (d. 18 Jan 1851). Argentine poet and politician. [ Consuelos (1834); Rimas (1837) ; Manual de Enseñanza Moral (1846)]
1807 - British Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
1814 - Ernst Curtius was born (d. 11 Jul 1896). German archaeologist; directed the excavation of Olympia
1820 - Jiaqing dies (b. 1760). Emperor of China
1830 - William P. Frye was born. American politician
1832 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach dies (b. 1854). Austrain astronomer
1833 - Oberlin College is founded by John Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
1834 - Thomas Telford dies (b. 1757). Scottish civil engineer.
1836 - Anton Braith was born (d. 1905). German painter
1838 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii was born (d. 1917). Queen of Hawaii
1840 - Giovanni Verga was born in Catania (d. 27 Jan 1922). Italian novelist and playwright
1845 - Bernardino Rivadavia dies. First President of Argentine (1826-1827).
1850 - Albert Spalding was born (d. 1915). Baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer
1853 - Wilhelm Ostwald was born (d. 1932). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1862 - Franjo Krežma was born (d. 1881). Croatian violinist
1862 - American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Second Bull Run.
1864 - American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city.
1865 - William Rowan Hamilton dies (b. 1805)., Irish mathematician
1867 - Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan marries Ichijo Masako. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan - Prussian forces take French Emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
1876 - Morre José Fontana (n. 1841). Um dos fundadores do Partido Socialista. Iniciador do movimento operário em Portugal.
1877 - Frederick Soddy was born (d. 1956). Nobel Prize laureate in 1921.
1882 - Venezuela: Fallece El General De Brigada Francisco Mejia (n. 4 Oct 1798).
1884 - Dr. Frank C. Laubach was born (d. 1970). Christian missionary.
1885 - É inaugurada a cadeia Penitenciária de Lisboa (Portugal).
1885 - In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
1894 - Joseph Roth was born (d. 27 May 1939). Austrian writer
1898 - Battle of Omdurman - British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen establishing British dominance in the Sudan.
1898 - Wilford Woodruff dies (b. 1807). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1900 - Entra em funcionamento um cabo telegráfico entre Borkun e Nova York, que passa pelas ilhas dos Açores.
1901 - Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
1917 - Cleveland Amory was born (d. 1998). Author.
1917 - Laurindo de Almeida was born. Brazilian violonist and composer.
1921 - Julio Adalberto Rivera was born. President of El Salvador (1962 - 1967)
1921 - Anthony Francis Lucas dies (b. 1855). Croatian-American oil exploration pioneer
1921 - Henry Austin Dobson dies (b. 1840). English poet
1923 - Rene Thom was born (d. 2002). French mathematician.
1924 - Daniel arap Moi was born. President of Kenya.
1929 - Hal Ashby was born (d. 1988). American film director.
1930 - O general José Félix Uriburu toma o poder na Argentina, após derrubar o presidente Hipólito Irigoyen.
1932 - Renuncia al cargo de Presidente de México don Pascual Ortiz Rubio.
1932 - Alberto Guerrero Martínez assume a presidência do Equador
1934 - Alcide Nunez dies (b. 1884). American musician
1935 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
1936 - Andrew Grove was born. American computer chip manufacturer.
1937 - Pierre de Coubertin dies (b. 1863). French founder of the modern Olympic Games.
1938 - Nasce, na Figueira da Foz. Eduardo Nery. Pintor ( abstratizante e geometrista) português.
1939 - Following the invasion of Poland, Freie Stadt Danzig Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed to Nazi Germany.
1940 - Regis Debray was born. French writer and politician.
1941 - David Bale was born (d. 2003). South African-born activist.
1943 - José Álvaro Morais was born in Coimbra (d. 30 Jan 2004). Portuguese film director (Quaresma -2003; Peixe-Lua - 2000 aka the Moonfish; Bobo, O -1987 aka The jester)
1944 - Al Matthews was born (d. 2002). American actor.
1944 - Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz. They arrive three days later.
1945 - World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan was accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. / Com a declaração de vitória dos aliados, feita pelo Presidente americano Truman, após a assinatura da rendição incondicional do Japão, a Segunda Guerra Mundial terminou oficialmente
1945 - Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam an Republic independent, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
1947 - Assinatura do Tratado Interamericano de Asistencia Recíproca (TIAR) no Rio de Janeiro.
1948 - Terry Bradshaw was born. American football player
1948 - Christa McAuliffe was born (d. 1986). American schoolteacher and astronaut who died in the Challenger space shuttle explosion .
1950 - Rosanna DeSoto was born. American actress
1951 - Mark Harmon was born. American actor
1952 - Alain Giresse was born. French footballer.
1952 - Jimmy Connors was born. American tennis player
1953 - John Zorn was born. American musician
1953 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV dies (b. 1883). U.S. general
1960 - Arnaldo Antunes was born. Brazilian music and poet.
1961 - Brasil : O Congresso aprova a emenda constitucional que institui o regime parlamentarista. Assim, João Goulart pôde assumir a presidência depois da renúncia de Jânio Quadros.
1961 - Oscar Magrini was born. Brazilian actor.
1961 - Eric Dickerson was born. American football player
1961 - Carlos Valderrama was born. Colombian footballer
1963 - CBS Evening News becomes network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
1964 - Morre Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes (n. 12 Abr 1894). Presidente da República Portuguesa entre 1951 e 1958.
1964 - Keanu Reeves was born. American actor.
1964 - Alvin York dies (b. 1887). Most decorated American soldier of World War I
1965 - Lennox Lewis was born. Canadian-British boxer
1966 - Salma Hayek was born. Mexican actress
1966 - Olivier Panis was born. French F1 car racer
1967 - Andreas Möller was born. Gernman footballer.
1967 - The microstate Principality of Sealand unilaterally declares its independence.
1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York.
1969 - Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey was born. American singer
1969 - Ho Chi Minh dies (b. 1890). Vietmamese president and prime minister.
1970 - O parlamento indiano anula os privilégios dos 279 marajás do país, igualando-os aos cidadãos normais.
1971 - Tommy Maddox was born. American football player
1972 - Sergei Zholtok was born. Latvian hockey player
1973 - John R. R. Tolkien dies (b. 1892). British writer
1973 - Carl Dudley dies (b. 1910). American movie director
1976 - Stanisław Grochowiak dies (b. 1934). Polish poet and dramatist
1976 - Phil Lipscomb was born. American bassist Taproot .
1978 - Juan L. Ortiz dies (b. 11 Jun 1896). Argentine poet. [El agua y la noche" (1924-1932); "El alba sube..." (1933-1936); "El ángel inclinado" (1938); "La rama hacia el este" (1940); "El álamo y el viento" (1947); "El aire conmovido" (1949); "La mano infinita" (1951); "La brisa profunda" (1954); "El alma y las colinas" (1956); "De las raíces y del cielo" (1958); "En el aura del sauce" (Obras completas 1970-1971, incluye "El junco y la corriente", "El Gualeguay" y "La orilla que se abisma"].
1979 - Nascimento de Anderson Corrêa Polga. Jogador brasileiro de futebol que representa actualmente o Sporting Club de Portugal
1980 - Brasil: Ouro Preto, em Minas Gerais, é considerada pela UNESCO como Património Histórico da Humanidade.
1981 - Andrija Maurovic dies (b. 1901). Croatian illustrator
1982 - Robert Hall was born. Bearded gentleman who wouldn't believe me.
1987 - In Moscow, the trial of 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May 1987, begins.
1990 - Transnistria declares its independence from Moldova, however Moldova does not recognize it.
1990 - Iraq invade el emirato de Kuwait. El Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU condena la invasión. 1991 - Alfonso García Robles dies (b. 1911). Mexican diplomat and pacifist; delegate to the United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament; former Secretary for Foreign Affairs and pacifist. He shared The Nobel Peace Prize 1982 with Alva Myrdal
1991 - The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1992 - Barbara McClintock dies (b. 1902). American geneticist .
1995 - Vaclav Neumann dies (b. 29 Sep 1920). Czech conductor.
1995 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio.
1997 - Rudolph Bing dies (b. 1902). Austrian-born opera manager
1998 - Allen Drury dies (b. 1918). American author.
1998 - In Canada, pilots for Air Canada launch the first strike in company's history.
1998 - Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
1998 - A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
2000 - Elvera Sanchez dies (d. 1905). Puerto Rican dancer
2000 - Curt Siodmak dies (b. 1907). German-born author
2001 - Christiaan Barnard dies (b. 1922). South African heart surgeon.
2001 - Troy Donahue dies (b. 1936). American actor.
2001 - Cartoon Network begins its adult-oriented block, Adult Swim.
2002 - Dick Reynolds dies (b. 1915). Australian Rules player and coach
2004 - Joan Oró dies (b. 26 Oct 1923). Catalan scientist
Vietnam - National Day
Mauritius - Ganesh Chaturthi
Transnistria - Independence day, note Transnistria is not a recognized independent state


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