2. Hāligmōnþes

Se **2. dæȝ Hāligmōnþes** is se 245. dæg (se 246. in hlīepgēarum) þæs gēares in þǣre Gregoriscan gerīmbēc. Heonan sind 120 belīfendra daga (121 in hlīepgēarum).

## Belimpas
* 31 BC - Rōmānisc Ingefeoht: Actium Sæfeoht - Be westen Crecalandes særime, wonne Octauianes ðreat sige ofer wigum ðærof wæs Marcus Antonius heretoga mod his wife Cleopatra.  
* 1666 - The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral.  
* 1752 - Þæt Geanlǣhte Cȳnedōm adopts þā Gregoriscan gerīmbōc, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.  
* 1789 - United States Department of the Treasury was founded.  
* 1807 - British Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denemearc from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon. 70% of the city was destroyed and 2,000 burgƿara ƿurdon gecƿeald.
* 1862 - Americanisc Ingefeoht: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Second Bull Run.  
* 1864 - Americanisc  Civil War: Union forces under General William T. Sherman enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city.
* 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan - Prussian forces defeat þone Frencisc here and take emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner at Sedan. 
* 1885 - In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town. 
* 1898 - Beadu Omdurmanes - British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, thus establishing British dominance in the Sudan.
* 1901 - Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
* 1935 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hit the Florida Keys killing 423.  
* 1939 - Following the invasion of Poland, Freie Stadt Danzig ruled by Nazi leader Forster is annexed to Nazi Germany.
* 1944 - Eallbærnet: Anne francan dægbocwritere and hiere cynn wæron adrifen on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz. They arrive three days later.   
* 1945 - World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. 
*  1945   - Vietnam declares its independence forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).  
* 1963 - *[[CBS Evening News]]* becomes network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.  
* 1967 - The microstate Principality of Sǣland unilaterally declared its independence.  
* 1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York.
* 1987 - In Moscow, the trial of 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May 1987, begins.  
* 1991 - Þā Geānlǣht Underrīcu recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
* 1995 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio.  
* 1998 - In Canada, pilots for Air Canada launch the first strike in company's history.  
*  1998   - A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner carrying Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove in Nīƿe Scotland after taking off from New York City en-route to Geneva. All 229 people on board are killed.  
*  1998   - A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced.
* 2001 - Blizzard Entertainment ābīteþ þæt gamen Ƿoruld þæs Gūþcræftes.

## Byrda
* 1838 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of the Hawaiian Islands (d. 1917)
* 1850 - Albert Spalding, Americanisc baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer
* 1853 - Wilhelm Ostwald, Þēodisc chemist
* 1866 - Hiram Johnson, former Governor of California and political activist
* 1877 - Frederick Soddy, Britisc chemist
* 1884 - Dr. Frank C. Laubach, crīsten missionary and founder of Laubach Literacy
* 1917 - Cleveland Amory, author
* 1923 - Rene Thom, Frencisc mathematician
* 1929 - Hal Ashby, film director
* 1934 - Dominic Chianese, actor
* 1936 - Andrew Grove, co-founder and chairman of Intel
* 1944 - Al Matthews, Americansc actor (d. 2002)
* 1948 - Terry Bradshaw, Americanisc football player
*  1948   - Christa McAuliffe, Americanisc teacher, astronaut (d. 1986)
* 1951 - Mark Harmon, actor
* 1952 - Jimmy Connors, Americanisc tennis player
* 1961   - Carlos Valderrama, Colombian fōtball player
* 1964 - Keanu Reeves, American actor
* 1965 - Lennox Lewis, Canadisc/Britisc boxer
* 1968 - Salma Hayek, Mexicanisc actress
* 1971 - Tommy Maddox, Americanisc fōtball quarterback
* 1972 - Sergei Zholtok, andƿīs īshocig player

## Dēaðas
*  421 - Constantius III, Romanisc cāsere
* 1764 - Revd Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal
* 1832 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Scientific Editor, Astronomer
* 1834 - Thomas Telford, Britisc civil engineer
* 1898 - Wilford Woodruff, foresittend þǣm Cirice of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
* 1921 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-American oil exploration pioneer (b.1855)
* 1921 - Henry Austin Dobson, poet (b. 1840)
* 1934 - Alcide Nunez, jazz musician (b. 1884)
* 1937 - Pierre de Coubertin, Frencisc founder of the modern Olympic Games
* 1953 - US General Jonathan Wainwright, Medal of Honor recipient 
* 1964 - Alvin York, most decorated American soldier of Ǣrest Ƿoruldgūþ
* 1981 - Andrija Maurovic, Croatisc illustrator (b.1901)
* 1973 - J. R. R. Tolkien, Bryttisc ƿrītere and philologist (b. 1892).
*   1973   - Carl Dudley, Americanisc movie director (b. 1910)
* 1976 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polisc poet and dramatist (b. 1934)
* 1992 - Barbara McClintock, Americanisc geneticist
* 1997 - Rudolph Bing, opera manager
* 1998 - Allen Drury, author
* 2000 - Elvera Sanchez, Puertorican dancer
* 2000 - Curt Siodmak, science fiction author
* 2001 - Christiaan Barnard, Sūðaffricanisc heart surgeon
* 2001 - Troy Donahue, actor
* 2004 - Joan Orō, scientist.
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