Today in History
September 2 - Today in History
By Staff
Sep 2, 2008 - 12:00:00 AM

0031 BC - Battle of Actium; Octavian defeats Antony, becomes Emperor Augustus
0490 BC - Phidippides runs 1st marathon, seeking aid from Sparta vs Persia
1666 - Great Fire of London starts; destroys St Paul's Church
1752 - Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies
1789 - US Treasury Department established by Congress
1806 - A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switz, kills 500
1859 - Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
1864 - Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta
1898 - Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
1901 - VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly & carry a big stick"
1919 Communist Party of America organized in Chicago
1924 - Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in NYC
1927 - Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers
1930 - 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
1935 - A hurricane slams the Florida Keys killing 423
1936 - 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
1944 - Anne Frank (Diary of Anne Frank), is sent to Auschwitz
1944 - During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane
1945 - Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day)
1945 - V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WWII ends)
1946 - Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager
1949 - Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China)
1954 - Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
1956 - Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
1956 - Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings
1956 - Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
1957 - Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game
1963 - Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS
1963 - CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
1964 - Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, CA
1971 - Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer
1972 - Chicago White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits SD Padres, 1-0
1973 - Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers
1978 - George Harrison marries Olivia
1978 - Graham Salmon set the worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man
1978 - John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
1978 - Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years
1983 - Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israelli PM
1986 - Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
1987 - Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
1987 - Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit HRs in a game twice in 1 season
1987 - West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, goes on trial in Russia
1988 - Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley
1989 - Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
1991 - Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45 Million

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