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 246th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 120 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 20, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,725,235,200 seconds 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 ‘dihectatetracontahexagon’ 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 149 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 4,273 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 2 Historical Events
- 421 –Emperor Constantius III dies suddenly of an illness, his wife Galla Placidia becomes for the second time widow.
- 1666 –The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul’s Cathedral.
- 1806 –A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1870 –Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
- 1990 –Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
- 1991 –The United States recognize the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
- 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?
- 1661 –Georg Böhm, German organist (d. 1733)
- 1820 –Lucretia Hale, American journalist and author (d. 1900)
- 1901 –Adolph Rupp, American college basketball coach (d. 1977)
- 1934 –Grady Nutt, American humorist (d. 1982)
- 1940 –Jimmy Clanton, American singer
- 1949 –Moira Stuart, British journalist
- 1951 –Jim DeMint, American politician
- 1960 –Hideo Yoshizawa, Japanese video game designer and executive, General Manager at Namco Bandai Holdings
- 1960 –John S. Hall, American poet and spoken-word artist
- 1986 –Rob Ramsay, Canadian Actor
Who died on September 2?
- 490 BC –Pheidippides, Greek hero (b. c. 530 BC)
- 1274 –Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1242)
- 1768 –Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
- 1872 –Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
- 1964 –Alvin York, American soldier (b. 1887)
- 1964 –Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
- 1973 –Carl Dudley, American film director (b. 1910)
- 1994 –Roy Castle, British entertainer (b. 1932)
- 2004 –Eleni Zafeiriou, Greek actress (b. 1916)
- 2007 –Franz-Benno Delonge, German game designer (b. 1957)
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