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Events on the 2nd of September in history

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02 Sep 2031 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.
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02 Sep 2044 Cicero launches the first of his Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the following months.
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02 Sep 2047 Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
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02 Sep 0421 Galla Placidia, wife of the Emperor Constantius III, becomes a widow for the second time when he dies suddenly of an illness.
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02 Sep 0911 Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs treaty with Byzantines
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02 Sep 1192 Sultan Saladin and King Richard the lion hearted sign cease fire
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02 Sep 1192 The Treaty of Jaffa is signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, leading to the end of the Third Crusade.
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02 Sep 1519 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs. Mexico
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02 Sep 1537 King Christian III publishes "Ordinance on the Danish Church"
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02 Sep 1649 The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
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02 Sep 1666 Fire in London destroys 13,000 houses and kills 8
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02 Sep 1666 The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral.
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02 Sep 1686 Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks
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02 Sep 1732 Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
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02 Sep 1752 Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies
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02 Sep 1752 Last Julian calender day in US and England (no September 3rd - September 13th)
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02 Sep 1752 Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
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02 Sep 1789 US Treasury Department established by Congress
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02 Sep 1789 The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
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02 Sep 1792 Paris masses remove nobles / clergymen out of jails and slaughter them
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02 Sep 1792 During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
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02 Sep 1796 Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated
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02 Sep 1806 A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switz, kills 500
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02 Sep 1806 A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.
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02 Sep 1807 The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
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02 Sep 1811 The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, after Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.
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02 Sep 1833 Oberlin College is founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart in Oberlin, Ohio.
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02 Sep 1856 The Tianjing Incident takes place in Nanjing, China.
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02 Sep 1859 Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
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02 Sep 1859 A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
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02 Sep 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.
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02 Sep 1864 Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta
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02 Sep 1864 American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city, ending the Atlanta Campaign.
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02 Sep 1867 1st Girl School opens in Haarlem Neth
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02 Sep 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.
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02 Sep 1870 Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies
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02 Sep 1870 Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
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02 Sep 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.
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02 Sep 1894 Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die
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02 Sep 1897 McCall-magazine 1st published
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02 Sep 1898 Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
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02 Sep 1898 Machine gun 1st used in battle
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02 Sep 1898 Battle of Omdurman – British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
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02 Sep 1900 Telegraph use between Germany and US begins
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02 Sep 1901 VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly & carry a big stick"
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02 Sep 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.
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02 Sep 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
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02 Sep 1909 English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill
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02 Sep 1911 Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government
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02 Sep 1912 Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
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02 Sep 1913 Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas
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02 Sep 1917 Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by Admiral Tirpitz)
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02 Sep 1919 Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
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02 Sep 1919 Italy agress to general voting right / proportional representation
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02 Sep 1919 National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series
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02 Sep 1924 44th US Mens Tennis: William Tilden beats William Johnston (61 97 62)
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02 Sep 1926 Italy signs treaty with Yemen
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02 Sep 1927 Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers
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02 Sep 1929 Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union and Lever Bros
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02 Sep 1929 WOR (NYC) ends affiliation with CBS radio network
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02 Sep 1930 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
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02 Sep 1935 A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423
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02 Sep 1935 Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
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02 Sep 1936 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
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02 Sep 1937 US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act
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02 Sep 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.
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02 Sep 1940 23rd PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Hershey Country Club - Hershey, Pennsylvania
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02 Sep 1940 Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated
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02 Sep 1941 Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
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02 Sep 1942 German troops enter Stalingrad
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02 Sep 1944 During WWII, George Bush ejects from a burning plane
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02 Sep 1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz
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02 Sep 1944 US leaders meet in Belgium
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02 Sep 1945 59th US Womens Tennis: Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz (36 86 64)
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02 Sep 1945 Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day)
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02 Sep 1945 V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WWII ends)
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02 Sep 1945 World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
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02 Sep 1945 Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
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02 Sep 1946 Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager
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02 Sep 1946 Nehru forms government in India
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02 Sep 1946 The interim government of India is formed, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.
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02 Sep 1949 Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China)
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02 Sep 1951 Australia, New Zealand and US sign ANZUS-pact
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02 Sep 1952 Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
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02 Sep 1954 Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
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02 Sep 1954 WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
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02 Sep 1955 KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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02 Sep 1956 Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
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02 Sep 1956 Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings
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02 Sep 1956 Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
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02 Sep 1957 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die
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02 Sep 1957 President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
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02 Sep 1958 Henry Verwoerd appointed Prime Minister of South Africa
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02 Sep 1958 KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
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02 Sep 1958 Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium
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02 Sep 1958 National Defense Education Act was signed
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02 Sep 1958 United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
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02 Sep 1959 US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris
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02 Sep 1960 Tamara and Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold
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02 Sep 1960 The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
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02 Sep 1963 Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS
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02 Sep 1963 CBS and NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
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02 Sep 1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Idaho Centennia Golf Tournament
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02 Sep 1963 CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
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02 Sep 1964 Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia
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02 Sep 1964 Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal
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02 Sep 1965 Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons)
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02 Sep 1967 KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
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02 Sep 1968 Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War
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02 Sep 1969 New York Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated
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02 Sep 1969 Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season
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02 Sep 1970 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (US Open) (9 pt sudden death)
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02 Sep 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.
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02 Sep 1971 Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer
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02 Sep 1971 Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors win their 1st US Open tennis matches
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02 Sep 1972 Chicago White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits SD Padres, 1-0
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02 Sep 1972 Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 seconds)
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02 Sep 1973 Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers
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02 Sep 1973 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
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02 Sep 1974 Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
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02 Sep 1978 George Harrison marries Olivia
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02 Sep 1978 Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine)
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02 Sep 1978 Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man
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02 Sep 1978 John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
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02 Sep 1978 Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years
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02 Sep 1979 "I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 108 performances
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02 Sep 1983 Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli Prime Minister
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02 Sep 1984 "Zorba" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 362 performances
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02 Sep 1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
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02 Sep 1986 Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
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02 Sep 1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page New York Times ad lambasting Japan
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02 Sep 1987 Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit HRs in a game twice in 1 season
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02 Sep 1987 Philips introduces CD-video
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02 Sep 1989 Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
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02 Sep 1990 "Grapes of Wrath" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 188 performances
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02 Sep 1990 Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St. Zen Center, San Francisco
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02 Sep 1990 Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
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02 Sep 1991 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
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02 Sep 1991 US officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
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02 Sep 1992 Nicaragua struck by earthquake / floodings; 118 die
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02 Sep 1992 US dollar valued at 156.50 guilder (record)
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02 Sep 1992 An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
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02 Sep 1993 10th MTV Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins
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02 Sep 1993 Central African Republic ex-Emperor Bokassa freed
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02 Sep 1993 Day of Peace in South Africa
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02 Sep 1994 Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km)
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02 Sep 1995 Actor Charlie Sheen (30th birthday) marries Donna Peele (25)
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02 Sep 1995 Frank Bruno beats Oliver McCall in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
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02 Sep 1995 Southern California begins using new area code 562
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02 Sep 1996 Michelle McGann wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
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02 Sep 1996 Soyuz TM-24, lands
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02 Sep 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toronto Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM
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02 Sep 1998 Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
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02 Sep 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.
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02 Sep 2013 The new eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic, being the widest bridge in the world.
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