Tukuk-OS📅 September 2
15 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on September 2? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2011 — Bad weather caused a Chilean Air Force aircraft to crash into the Pacific Ocean, killing all 21 people on board.
- 1998 — A fire in the cockpit on Swissair Flight 111, en route from New York City to Geneva, caused the aircraft to crash into the Atlantic Ocean near Canada, killing all 229 people on board.
- 1992 — An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw off the coast of Nicaragua became the first tsunami earthquake to be captured on modern broadband seismic networks.
1992 Nicaragua earthquakeMoment magnitude scaleTsunami earthquake
- 1985 — Hurricane Elena, an unpredictable and damaging tropical cyclone that affected eastern and central portions of the United States Gulf Coast, made landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi, as a Category 3 major hurricane.
Hurricane ElenaTropical cycloneGulf Coast of the United States
- 1967 — Paddy Roy Bates proclaimed HM Fort Roughs, a former World War II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, England, as an independent sovereign state: the Principality of Sealand (pictured).
- 1957 — South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm began an official visit to Australia, the first by a foreign incumbent head of state to the country.
South VietnamNgo Dinh DiemNgo Dinh Diem presidential visit to Australia
- 1946 — The interim government of India, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, was formed to assist the transition of India from British rule to independence.
- 1945 — On the deck of the U.S. Navy battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, representatives from the Empire of Japan and the Allied powers signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender , formally ending World War II.
- 1912 — Arthur Rose Eldred became the first person to attain the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.
- 1901 — U.S. vice president Theodore Roosevelt first publicly used the phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" (cartoon pictured) at the Minnesota State Fair, describing his philosophy of negotiating peacefully while simultaneously threatening to use military force.
- 1885 — White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, attacked Chinese-American immigrants, killing at least 28 Chinese miners and causing approximately $150,000 in property damage.
- 1870 — Franco-Prussian War: Prussian forces captured Napoleon III at the Battle of Sedan, which led to the collapse of the Second French Empire within days.
- 1792 — French Revolution: Due to an overwhelming fear that foreign armies would attack Paris and prisoners would revolt, revolutionaries began the summary execution of more than a thousand prisoners.
- 1789 — The United States Department of the Treasury was founded following financial concerns in the new nation.
- 1666 — A large fire began in London's Pudding Lane and burned for five days, destroying St Paul's Cathedral and the homes of 70,000 of the city's 80,000 inhabitants.
Births
- 2002 — Bradley Barcola, French footballer
- 1998 — Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Canadian basketball player
- 1998 — Choi Ye-bin, South Korean actress
- 1998 — Eetu Luostarinen, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1997 — 645AR, American rapper
- 1997 — Brandon Ingram, American basketball player
- 1996 — Austin Abrams, American actor
- 1995 — Willy Adames, Dominican baseball player
- 1995 — Aleksander Barkov, Russian-Finnish ice hockey player
- 1995 — Deimantas Petravičius, Lithuanian footballer
- 1994 — Ishika Taneja, Indian beautician.
- 1994 — Linda Dallmann, German professional footballer
Deaths
- 2024 — James Darren, American actor (born 1936)
- 2024 — Rodolfo Hernández Suárez, Colombian politician (born 1945)
- 2022 — Frank Drake, American radio astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1930)
- 2022 — T. V. Sankaranarayanan, Indian Carnatic vocalist (born 1945)
- 2021 — Siddharth Shukla, Indian TV and film actor (born 1980)
- 2021 — Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer (born 1925)
- 2018 — Claire Wineland, American activist and author (born 1997)
- 2016 — Jerry Heller, American music manager (born 1940)
- 2016 — Islam Karimov, Uzbek politician, 1st President of Uzbekistan (born 1938)
- 2015 — Ephraim Engleman, American rheumatologist, author, and academic (born 1911)
- 2014 — F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, American lawyer and politician, 20th District Attorney of Philadelphia (born 1930)
- 2014 — Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (born 1911)
Observances & holidays
- Christian feast day: Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Syriac Orthodox Church)
- Christian feast day: Agricola of Avignon
- Christian feast day: Antoninus of Pamiers
- Christian feast day: Brocard
- Christian feast day: Diomedes
- Christian feast day: Eleazar
- Christian feast day: Hieu (abbess)
- Christian feast day: Holy September Martyrs
- Christian feast day: Ingrid of Sweden
- Christian feast day: Justus of Lyon
- Christian feast day: Margaret of Louvain
- Christian feast day: Maxima of Rome
- Christian feast day: Nonnosus
- Christian feast day: William of Roskilde
- Christian feast day: September 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Democracy Day (Tibet)
- Independence Day (Transnistria, unrecognized)
- Independence Day (Artsakh, unrecognized)
- National Blueberry Popsicle Day (United States)
- National Day, celebrates the independence of Vietnam from Japan and France in 1945
- Victory over Japan Day (United States)
- Sedantag (German Empire)
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