A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on September 2 throughout history.
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31 BC Battle of Actium: Decisive naval battle that effectively ends the Roman Republic. Octavian's forces defeat those under Mark Antony and Cleopatra off the western coast of Greece.
Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart of England sign the Treaty of Jaffa ending the Third Crusade in a compromise neither is happy with. Treaty leaves Jerusalem under Islamic control with Christian pilgrimage rights and restores the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed
September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
US Civil War: Union General William T. Sherman captures and occupies Atlanta, Georgia, ending the Atlanta Campaign in the US Civil War [1]
American crooner Bing Crosby makes his solo radio debut on his "15 Minutes with Bing Crosby" program broadcast on the CBS Network
"The Third Man", directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles, is released in the United Kingdom (Academy Awards Best Cinematography 1950)
Sir Roderick David Stewart is a British singer and songwriter. Known for his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart is among the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 120...
Chicago Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his MLB 400th career HR (off Curt Simmons) in a 5-3 win over St. Louis at Wrigley Field; Simmons also gave up Willie Mays' 400th HR in 1963
US Navy flag officer David Farragut (23) weds Susan Caroline Marchant
Naval officer Robert Scott (40) weds sculptress Kathleen Bruce (30) at the Chapel Royal in London, England
"Gone With The Wind" author Margaret Mitchell (21) weds Berrien "Red" Upshaw; divoce in 1924
American ctress Tammy Grimes (26) divorces Canadian actor Christopher Plummer (30) after 4 years of marriage
Visigoth King Wamba of Hispania successfully puts down a rebellion at Nîmes, the last rebels surrendering from the Roman amphitheatre [1]
Viking Prince of Kiev and founder of the Kievan Rus, Oleg the Wise, signs a treaty with the Byzantines
Robert Devereux's Parliamentarian infantry surrenders to Royalist forces in Battle of Lostwithiel, Cornwall, during English Civil War
The siege of Buda (Hungarian: Buda visszafoglalása, lit. 'Recapture of Buda') was a military engagement during the Great Turkish War, in which forces of the Holy League, led by the Habsburg Monarchy,...
Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States. It is one of 15 current U.S. government departments.
The history of the Jews in the Netherlands largely dates to the late 16th century and 17th century, when Sephardic Jews from Portugal and Spain began to settle in Amsterdam and a few other Dutch...
A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switzerland, kills 500
Salon of Varietes opens in Amsterdam
Northern Daily Times, the first provincial daily newspaper, begins publication in Newcastle, England
Tianjing Incident begins in Nanjing, China, as an internal political conflict within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that contributes to the failure of the Taiping Rebellion
Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a fuel gas such as natural gas, methane, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, or coal gas (sometimes...
1st girls School opens in Haarlem, The Netherlands
Surrey left-arm slow round-arm bowler Ted Barratt takes 10-43 for the Players in Australia's 1st innings in a cricket tour match on his home ground at The Oval; all ten are caught or stumped; Australia wins by 8 runs
In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they can strike for better wages and working conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town
-3] Amsterdam Municipal theater opens
"McCal" magazine first published
A large demonstration by Nationalists in Dublin's Phoenix Park demand that Ireland be free of British rule
Science fiction (or sci-fi) is a film genre that uses speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms,...
Chinese crown discontinues its Imperial Examinations (Golden Lists), civil service recruitment exams that dated back in some form to 581AD and influenced British civil service and beyond [1]
Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government
Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas
-3] Gen von Hausen & countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux
Pan-Germanic and nationalist Fatherland Party (Deutsche Vaterlands Partei) formed by former Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz
Italy agrees to general voting rights and proportional representation
W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez" premieres in London
Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart's operetta "Rose-Marie" opens to rave reviews at the Imperial Theatre, NYC; runs for 577 performances
The Italo-Yemeni Treaty of 1926 (also known as the Treaty of San'a) was a treaty between the Kingdom of Italy and the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen.
Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros
First non-stop airplane flight from Europe to the US (37 hours)
Labor Day hurricane makes landfall in Florida, killing 423 people, the strongest and most intense hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States
First transatlantic "ping-pong" round-trip air flight from New York to England and back begins, piloted by Dick Merrill with Harry Richman
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a national park of the United States in the southeast, with parts in North Carolina and Tennessee.
Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
The Battle of Stalingrad (17 July 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a...
Belgium's Emissie bank closes
Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central Division.
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
American Mike Troy swims 200m butterfly world record 2:12.8 to win the gold medal from Australian Neville Hayes at the Rome Olympics
St. Louis first baseman Stan Musial's records his 3,516th hit in Cards' 4-3 loss v NY Mets; overtakes Tris Speaker into 2nd place behind Ty Cobb on the MLB all-time list
Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia
Joe Auer returns the opening kickoff 95 yards for a Miami touchdown in the Dolphins' first ever NFL regular-season game; Oakland Raiders go on to win 23-14 at the Orange Bowl before 26,776 fans
KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon
Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage New York Yankees at $65,000 a season, then the biggest salary in MLB
Before running for president of the United States in 2016, Donald Trump pursued a career as a businessman, with a focus on renovating skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses.
American breaststroker Cathy Carr swims a world record 1:13.58 to win the 100m gold medal at the Munich Olympics
Billy Martin is fired as Detroit Tigers manager due to continual differences with the front office; goes on to manage Texas, Oakland and NY Yankees (in 5 separate stints)
Jerry Lewis' 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
Yankees right fielder Reggie Jackson hits his 20th HR of the season in a 6-2 home win over Seattle; 19th MLB player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years
US Men's Amateur Golf Championship, Canterbury GC: Mark O'Meara wins 8 & 7 over John Cook
Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons. Estimates of Israel's stockpile range from 90 to 400 warheads, and the country is believed to possess a nuclear triad of delivery options: by...
"Redlands", Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards' country house in West Wittering, Sussex, England, is seriously damaged in a fire, for the second time in 9 years
Jerry Lewis' 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000
Houston outfielder Kevin Bass becomes 1st NL player to switch hit HRs in a game twice in one season in Astros 10-1 win v Cubs
Steven Allen is installed as new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, San Francisco, California; serves for one year
Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657
Nicaragua is struck by an earthquake and flooding; 118 die
Spanish road cyclist Miguel Induráin sets the UCI hour world record of 53.04 kilometers in Bordeaux, France
Jerry Lewis' 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Montreal Canada on CHOM 97.7 FM and in Toronto Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM
The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 is an American trijet wide-body airliner which was manufactured by McDonnell Douglas and later by Boeing.
15 people are killed by a car bomb attack at a refugee camp in Sbeineh, Palestine
Earth's trees number just over 3 trillion according to a study in "Nature" by Thomas Crowther of Yale University
About 400 prisoners escape a jail near Tripoli in Libya during militia fighting
Australia has a highly developed mixed economy. As of 2025, Australia was the 15th-largest national economy by nominal GDP (gross domestic product), the 22nd-largest by PPP-adjusted GDP, and was the...
58 people die as the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the US Northeast with record rains, tornadoes, and flooding; New York and New Jersey declare states of emergency
Attempted assassination of Argentina's vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner fails when the gun jams outside her home in Buenos Aires [1]
American rock band Aerosmith kicks off "Peace Out: The Farewell Tour" with concert at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Joey Chestnut sets a new world record by eating 83 hot dogs in Netflix's "Unfinished Beef" Labor Day Showdown [1]
5.5 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan causes panic and interrupts rescue efforts surrounding a larger earthquake one day earlier
Frederick Soddy, English radiochemist, known for english radiochemist, was born on 1877-09-02.
Daniel arap Moi is born
Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan military leader, known for afghan military leader, was born on 1953-09-02. Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953 – 9 September 2001) was an Afghan military leader and politician.
Andrej Babiš is born
Keir Starmer is born
Keanu Reeves, Canadian actor, known for canadian actor, was born on 1965-09-02. Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor and musician.
Salma Hayek, American american actress, known for mexican and american actress, was born on 1967-09-02. Salma Valgarma Hayek Pinault is a Mexican and American actress and film producer.
Cory Barlog is born
Billy Preston, American musician, known for american keyboardist, singer, and songwriter, was born on 1946-09-02.
Peter Ueberroth, American athlete, known for american sports executive, was born on 1938-09-02.
Nate Archibald, American athlete, known for american basketball player, was born on 1949-09-02. Nathaniel "Tiny" Archibald is an American former professional basketball player.
Jimmy Connors, American athlete, known for american tennis player, was born on 1953-09-02.
Eric Dickerson, American athlete, known for american football player, was born on 1961-09-02.
Lennox Lewis athlete, known for british and canadian boxer, was born on 1966-09-02.
31 BC Battle of Actium: Decisive naval battle that effectively ends the Roman Republic. Octavian's forces defeat those under Mark Antony and Cleopatra off the western coast of Greece.
Visigoth King Wamba of Hispania successfully puts down a rebellion at Nîmes, the last rebels surrendering from the Roman amphitheatre [1]
Viking Prince of Kiev and founder of the Kievan Rus, Oleg the Wise, signs a treaty with the Byzantines
Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart of England sign the Treaty of Jaffa ending the Third Crusade in a compromise neither is happy with. Treaty leaves Jerusalem under Islamic control with Christian pilgrimage rights and restores the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Robert Devereux's Parliamentarian infantry surrenders to Royalist forces in Battle of Lostwithiel, Cornwall, during English Civil War
Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed
The siege of Buda (Hungarian: Buda visszafoglalása, lit. 'Recapture of Buda') was a military engagement during the Great Turkish War, in which forces of the Holy League, led by the Habsburg Monarchy,...
Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States. It is one of 15 current U.S. government departments.
September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
The history of the Jews in the Netherlands largely dates to the late 16th century and 17th century, when Sephardic Jews from Portugal and Spain began to settle in Amsterdam and a few other Dutch...
A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switzerland, kills 500
US Navy flag officer David Farragut (23) weds Susan Caroline Marchant
Salon of Varietes opens in Amsterdam
Northern Daily Times, the first provincial daily newspaper, begins publication in Newcastle, England
Tianjing Incident begins in Nanjing, China, as an internal political conflict within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that contributes to the failure of the Taiping Rebellion
Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a fuel gas such as natural gas, methane, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, or coal gas (sometimes...
US Civil War: Union General William T. Sherman captures and occupies Atlanta, Georgia, ending the Atlanta Campaign in the US Civil War [1]
1st girls School opens in Haarlem, The Netherlands
Frederick Soddy, English radiochemist, known for english radiochemist, was born on 1877-09-02.
Surrey left-arm slow round-arm bowler Ted Barratt takes 10-43 for the Players in Australia's 1st innings in a cricket tour match on his home ground at The Oval; all ten are caught or stumped; Australia wins by 8 runs
In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they can strike for better wages and working conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town
-3] Amsterdam Municipal theater opens
"McCal" magazine first published
A large demonstration by Nationalists in Dublin's Phoenix Park demand that Ireland be free of British rule
Science fiction (or sci-fi) is a film genre that uses speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms,...
Chinese crown discontinues its Imperial Examinations (Golden Lists), civil service recruitment exams that dated back in some form to 581AD and influenced British civil service and beyond [1]
Naval officer Robert Scott (40) weds sculptress Kathleen Bruce (30) at the Chapel Royal in London, England
Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government
Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas
-3] Gen von Hausen & countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux
Pan-Germanic and nationalist Fatherland Party (Deutsche Vaterlands Partei) formed by former Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz
Italy agrees to general voting rights and proportional representation
W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez" premieres in London
"Gone With The Wind" author Margaret Mitchell (21) weds Berrien "Red" Upshaw; divoce in 1924
Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart's operetta "Rose-Marie" opens to rave reviews at the Imperial Theatre, NYC; runs for 577 performances
Daniel arap Moi is born
The Italo-Yemeni Treaty of 1926 (also known as the Treaty of San'a) was a treaty between the Kingdom of Italy and the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen.
Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros
First non-stop airplane flight from Europe to the US (37 hours)
American crooner Bing Crosby makes his solo radio debut on his "15 Minutes with Bing Crosby" program broadcast on the CBS Network
Labor Day hurricane makes landfall in Florida, killing 423 people, the strongest and most intense hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States
First transatlantic "ping-pong" round-trip air flight from New York to England and back begins, piloted by Dick Merrill with Harry Richman
Peter Ueberroth, American athlete, known for american sports executive, was born on 1938-09-02.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a national park of the United States in the southeast, with parts in North Carolina and Tennessee.
Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
The Battle of Stalingrad (17 July 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a...
Belgium's Emissie bank closes
Billy Preston, American musician, known for american keyboardist, singer, and songwriter, was born on 1946-09-02.
"The Third Man", directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles, is released in the United Kingdom (Academy Awards Best Cinematography 1950)
Nate Archibald, American athlete, known for american basketball player, was born on 1949-09-02. Nathaniel "Tiny" Archibald is an American former professional basketball player.
Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan military leader, known for afghan military leader, was born on 1953-09-02. Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953 – 9 September 2001) was an Afghan military leader and politician.
Jimmy Connors, American athlete, known for american tennis player, was born on 1953-09-02.
Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
Andrej Babiš is born
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central Division.
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
American ctress Tammy Grimes (26) divorces Canadian actor Christopher Plummer (30) after 4 years of marriage
American Mike Troy swims 200m butterfly world record 2:12.8 to win the gold medal from Australian Neville Hayes at the Rome Olympics
Eric Dickerson, American athlete, known for american football player, was born on 1961-09-02.
St. Louis first baseman Stan Musial's records his 3,516th hit in Cards' 4-3 loss v NY Mets; overtakes Tris Speaker into 2nd place behind Ty Cobb on the MLB all-time list
Keir Starmer is born
Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia
Chicago Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his MLB 400th career HR (off Curt Simmons) in a 5-3 win over St. Louis at Wrigley Field; Simmons also gave up Willie Mays' 400th HR in 1963
Keanu Reeves, Canadian actor, known for canadian actor, was born on 1965-09-02. Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor and musician.
Joe Auer returns the opening kickoff 95 yards for a Miami touchdown in the Dolphins' first ever NFL regular-season game; Oakland Raiders go on to win 23-14 at the Orange Bowl before 26,776 fans
Lennox Lewis athlete, known for british and canadian boxer, was born on 1966-09-02.
KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
Salma Hayek, American american actress, known for mexican and american actress, was born on 1967-09-02. Salma Valgarma Hayek Pinault is a Mexican and American actress and film producer.
Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon
Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage New York Yankees at $65,000 a season, then the biggest salary in MLB
Before running for president of the United States in 2016, Donald Trump pursued a career as a businessman, with a focus on renovating skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses.
Sir Roderick David Stewart is a British singer and songwriter. Known for his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart is among the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 120...
American breaststroker Cathy Carr swims a world record 1:13.58 to win the 100m gold medal at the Munich Olympics
Billy Martin is fired as Detroit Tigers manager due to continual differences with the front office; goes on to manage Texas, Oakland and NY Yankees (in 5 separate stints)
Jerry Lewis' 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
Cory Barlog is born
John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
Yankees right fielder Reggie Jackson hits his 20th HR of the season in a 6-2 home win over Seattle; 19th MLB player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years
US Men's Amateur Golf Championship, Canterbury GC: Mark O'Meara wins 8 & 7 over John Cook
Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons. Estimates of Israel's stockpile range from 90 to 400 warheads, and the country is believed to possess a nuclear triad of delivery options: by...
"Redlands", Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards' country house in West Wittering, Sussex, England, is seriously damaged in a fire, for the second time in 9 years
Jerry Lewis' 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000
Houston outfielder Kevin Bass becomes 1st NL player to switch hit HRs in a game twice in one season in Astros 10-1 win v Cubs
Steven Allen is installed as new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, San Francisco, California; serves for one year
Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657
Nicaragua is struck by an earthquake and flooding; 118 die
Spanish road cyclist Miguel Induráin sets the UCI hour world record of 53.04 kilometers in Bordeaux, France
Jerry Lewis' 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Montreal Canada on CHOM 97.7 FM and in Toronto Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM
The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 is an American trijet wide-body airliner which was manufactured by McDonnell Douglas and later by Boeing.
Christiaan Barnard, South African african cardiac surgeon, known for south african cardiac surgeon, died on 2001-09-02.
15 people are killed by a car bomb attack at a refugee camp in Sbeineh, Palestine
Earth's trees number just over 3 trillion according to a study in "Nature" by Thomas Crowther of Yale University
About 400 prisoners escape a jail near Tripoli in Libya during militia fighting
Australia has a highly developed mixed economy. As of 2025, Australia was the 15th-largest national economy by nominal GDP (gross domestic product), the 22nd-largest by PPP-adjusted GDP, and was the...
58 people die as the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the US Northeast with record rains, tornadoes, and flooding; New York and New Jersey declare states of emergency
Attempted assassination of Argentina's vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner fails when the gun jams outside her home in Buenos Aires [1]
American rock band Aerosmith kicks off "Peace Out: The Farewell Tour" with concert at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Joey Chestnut sets a new world record by eating 83 hot dogs in Netflix's "Unfinished Beef" Labor Day Showdown [1]
5.5 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan causes panic and interrupts rescue efforts surrounding a larger earthquake one day earlier