2nd September anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1705
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Abraham Tucker, English philosopher and moralist." more
  • 1840
  • Italy
  • "Birth of Giovanni Verga, who chronicled the detail of the lives of ordinairy folk in Sicily in his novels and plays" more
  • 1887
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Sir Robert Bruce-Lockhart, footballer, secret agent, writer and scottish patriot." more
  • 1908
  • "Birth of Valentin Glushko, Soviet rocket scientist ."
  • 1948
  • "Birth of Christa McAuliffe, the American teacher who died when space shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986."
• event
  • 1666
  • Great Britain
  • Great Fire of London begins
  • 1898
  • Great Britain
  • Battle of Omdurman when Kitchener reconquered the Sudan more
  • 1906
  • Norway
  • Roald Amundsen completed the first successful navigation of the North West Passage
  • 1939
  • "The National Service Act was passed, making all British men aged between 18 and 41 liable for military service"
  • 1945
  • General MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri
  • 1958
  • China’s first television station ‘Beijing TV’ was launched. The station was later renamed ‘Central China TV’ (CCTV).
  • 1969
  • "The first automatic teller machine (ATM) in the USA went into service at Chemical Bank, Rockville Centre, New York"
• Death
  • 1834
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer who built many notable canals, roads and bridges including the Menai Bridge in Wales"
  • 1910
  • France
  • "Death of Henri Rousseau, painter"
  • 1934
  • "Death of Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist and actor, accidentally shot dead by a friend who struck a match against the stock of a pistol"
  • 1957
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Sir William Alexander Craigie, lexicographer who oversaw the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1933, producing a fifth of the great work himself." more
  • 1969
  • "Death of Ho Chi Minh, President of Vietnam" more
  • 1973
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of J R R Tolkien, writer (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit) and academic." more
  • 1998
  • "Death of Allen Drury, American writer ."