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 –
  Cicero launches the first of his Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the following months.
• 1807 –
  The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
• 1811 –
  The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, after Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.
• 1885 –
  Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
• 1898 –
  Battle of Omdurman – British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
• 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.
• 1970 –
  NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
• 1990 –
  Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
• 1992 –
  An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
• 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?

• 1839 –
  Henry George, American economist (d. 1897)
• 1854 –
  Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910)
• 1865 –
  Simeón Ola, Philippine general (d. 1952)
• 1915 –
  Benjamin Aaron, American labor law expert (d. 2007)
• 1934 –
  Grady Nutt, American humorist (d. 1982)
• 1941 –
  Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1952 –
  Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
• 1957 –
  Tony Alva, American skateboarder
• 1971 –
  Tommy Maddox, American football player
• 1976 –
  Phil Lipscomb, American bassist (Taproot)

Who died on September 2?

• 1397 –
  Francesco Landini, Italian composer (b. 1325 or 1335)
• 1540 –
  Emperor Dawit II of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
• 1680 –
  Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
• 1690 –
  Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
• 1832 –
  Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer (b. 1754)
• 1898 –
  Wilford Woodruff, American fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
• 1921 –
  Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
• 1992 –
  Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
• 2005 –
  Bob Denver, American actor (b. 1935)
• 2006 –
  Willi Ninja, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)