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, 487,992 hours 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.
• 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.
• 1811 –
  The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, after Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.
• 1833 –
  Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio is founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
• 1862 –
  American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope’s disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
• 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.
• 1939 –
  World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
• 1945 –
  Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
• 1957 –
  President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.

Who were born on September 2?

• 1865 –
  Simeón Ola, Philippine general (d. 1952)
• 1917 –
  Cleveland Amory, American author (d. 1997)
• 1919 –
  Marge Champion, American actress
• 1929 –
  Hal Ashby, American film director (d. 1988)
• 1938 –
  Clarence Felder, American actor
• 1944 –
  Janet Simpson, British track and field athlete (d. 2010)
• 1958 –
  Olivier Grouillard, French racing driver
• 1962 –
  Jon Berkeley, Irish author and illustrator
• 1965 –
  Lennox Lewis, British-born Canadian boxer
• 1977 –
  Amanda Marcotte, American feminist blogger

Who died on September 2?

• 490 BC –
  Pheidippides, Greek hero (b. c. 530 BC)
• 1397 –
  Francesco Landini, Italian composer (b. 1325 or 1335)
• 1872 –
  Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
• 1877 –
  Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician (b. 1793)
• 1921 –
  Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
• 1942 –
  Tom Williams, Irish republican (b. 1924)
• 1965 –
  Johannes Bobrowski, German writer (b. 1917)
• 1985 –
  Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
• 1997 –
  Rudolf Bing, Austrian-born British opera manager (b. 1902)
• 2006 –
  Willi Ninja, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)