Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 2

This is a list of selected September 2 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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  Emperor Napoleon III of the Second French Empire
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  Battle of Actium
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  Sir Horatio Kitchener
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  Great Fire of London
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  Editorial cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt carrying a big stick
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  Bust of Caesarion
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  Shigemitsu signing the Instrument of Surrender

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Democracy Day among Tibetan exiles (1960);	refimprove
47 BC – Caesarion, possibly the son of Julius Caesar, became the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, ruling jointly with his mother Cleopatra.	expand section
31 BC – Final War of the Roman Republic: Troops supporting Octavian defeated the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in the naval Battle of Actium on the Ionian Sea near Actium in Greece.	refimprove
1649 – Forces loyal to Pope Innocent X destroyed the ancient Italian city of Castro, ending the Wars of Castro.	refimprove section
1807 – The British Royal Navy began their bombardment of Copenhagen to capture the Dano-Norwegian navy.	unreferenced section
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Prussian forces captured Napoleon III in Sedan, France; the Second French Empire collapsed within days.	needs more footnotes
1898 – Mahdist War: Forces led by Horatio Kitchener defeated Sudanese tribesmen at the Battle of Omdurman in Khartoum, Sudan, establishing British dominance in northeastern Africa.	unreferenced section
1945 – On the deck of the United States Navy battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, representatives from the Empire of Japan and several Allied Powers signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, formally ending World War II.	unreferenced section
1967 – Paddy Roy Bates proclaimed HM Fort Roughs, a former Second World War Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, England, as an independent sovereign state: the Principality of Sealand.	single source section
1990 – Transnistria unilaterally declared its independence from what was then the Moldavian SSR of the Soviet Union, but it remains only a partially recognised state.	needs to be updated

Eligible

• 1666 – A large fire began on London's Pudding Lane and burned the city for three days, destroying St Paul's Cathedral and the homes of 70,000 of the city's 80,000 inhabitants.
• 1885 – White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, U.S., attacked Chinese immigrants, killing at least 28 Chinese miners and causing approximately US$150,000 in property damage.
• 1901 – U.S. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt first publicly used the phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair, describing his philosophy of negotiating peacefully while simultaneously threatening to use military force.
• 1935 – The Labor Day Hurricane struck the Florida Keys, killing at least 423 people.
• 1985 – Hurricane Elena, an unpredictable and damaging tropical cyclone that affected eastern and central portions of the United States Gulf Coast, made landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi as a Category 3 major hurricane.
• 1998 – Swissair Flight 111, en route from New York City to Geneva, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 229 people on board.

Notes

• Theodore Roosevelt appears on September 14, so Big Stick should not appear in the same year.

September 2: National Day in Vietnam (1945); Victory over Japan Day in the United States

Jawaharlal Nehru

• 1792 – French Revolution: Due to an overwhelming fear that foreign armies would attack Paris and prisoners would revolt, thousands of people were summarily executed.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Union forces entered Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city, bringing the Atlanta Campaign to a close.
• 1946 – The interim government of India, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru (pictured), was formed to assist the transition of India from British rule to independence.
• 1957 – President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam became the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
• 1992 – An estimated magnitude 7.2 earthquake off the coast of Nicaragua was the first tsunami earthquake to be captured on modern broadband seismic networks.

Mary Cecil Allen (b. 1893) · Roekiah (d. 1945) · Barbara McClintock (d. 1992)

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