2 September

The **2nt o September** is the 245t day o the year (246t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 120 days ower.

## Events

* 1610 - Proushie adopts the Gregorian calendar.
* 1666 - The Great Fire o Lunnon begins.
* 1859 - A solar storm occurs, meanin the Northren Lichts are seen in Hawaii, Havana an Roum.
* 1870 - The Battle o Sedan occurs in the Franco-Proushie War, wi Proushie defeatin the French.
* 1898 - A Breetish force unner Herbert Kitchener defeats the Mahdists in the Battle o Omdurman in Sudan.
* 1935 - A hurricane in the Florida Keys, an island group aff the sooth coast o Florida, kills 423 fowk.
* 1945 - Japan offeecially signs the surrender tae the Unitit States at the end o Warld War II.
* 1945 - Vietnam declares unthirldom.
* 1967 - Paddy Roy Bates creates the micronaition o Sealand aff the Suffolk an Essex coasts. 
* 1969 - Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh dees.
* 1990 - Transnistrie declares unthirldom frae Moldovae.
* 1991 - Nagorno-Karabakh, whaur ethnic Armenies mak up the majority o the population, declares unthirldom frae Azerbaijan.
* 1992 - A yirdquauk in Nicaragua kills 116 fowk.
* 1998 - A Swissair plane crashes naur the east coast o Canadae, killin 229 fowk.
* 2008 - Google Chrome is released.
* 2011 - Yoshihiko Noda becomes Prime meenister o Japan.
* 2016 - Uzbekistan's Preses Islam Karimov dees efter speculations ower his ill heal.
* 2018 - The Naitional Museum o Brazil in Rio de Janeiro is hivily damaged bi fire.
* 2019 - The boat "MV Conception" goes on fire an sinks aff Santa Cruz Island, Californie, killin 34 fowk; 5 survive.

## Births

* 1746 - Henry Scott, 3rd Duke o Buccleuch, Scots nobleman (d. 1812)
* 1778 - Louis Bonaparte, Keeng o Holland (d. 1846)
* 1812 - Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Scots blacksmith an bicycle pioneer (d. 1878)
* 1838 - Liliuokalani, Queen o Hawaii (d. 1917)
* 1853 - Wilhelm Ostwald, Baltic-German chemist (d. 1932)
* 1877 - Frederick Soddy, Inglis radio chemist (d. 1956)
* 1894 - James McCrae, Scots fitbawer (d. 1974)
* 1912 - David Daiches, Scots leeterar historian (d. 2005)
* 1913 - Bill Shankly, Scots fitbaw manager (d. 1981)
* 1922 - Arthur Ashkin, American pheesicist
* 1924 - Daniel arap Moi, Preses o Kenyae (d. 2020)
* 1933 - Mathieu Kérékou, Preses o Benin (d. 2015)
* 1937 - Adam Blacklaw, Scots fitbawer (d. 2010)
* 1948 - Christa McAuliffe, American teacher an astronaut (d. 1986)
* 1951 - Mark Harmon, American actor
* 1952 - Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
* 1961 - Carlos Valderrama, Colombian fitbawer
* 1962 - Sir Keir Starmer, Inglis lawer an politeecian
* 1964 - Keanu Reeves, Lebanese-Canadian actor
* 1965 - Lennox Lewis, Inglis-Canadian boxer
* 1966 - Salma Hayek, Mexican actress
* 1971 - Kjetil André Aamodt, Norwegian skier
* 1974 - Shirley-Anne Somerville, Scots politeecian
* 1982 - Joey Barton, Inglis fitbawer
* 1988 - Javi Martínez, Spaingie fitbawer
* 1989 - Alexandre Pato, Brazilian fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1751 - Andrew Gordon, Scots monk, pheesicist an inventor (b. 1712)
* 1834 - Thomas Telford, Scots ingineer (b. 1757)
* 1851 - William Nicol, Scots geologist (b. 1770)
* 1937 - Pierre de Coubertin, French founder o the modren Olympic movement (b. 1863)
* 1969 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese poleetical leader (b. 1890)
* 1973 - J. R. R. Tolkien, Inglis writer (b. 1892)
* 1992 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist (b. 1902)
* 2001 - Christiaan Barnard, Sooth African surgeon (b. 1922)
* 2010 - Jackie Sinclair, Scots fitbawer (b. 1943)
* 2013 - Ronald Coase, Inglis economist (b. 1910)
* 2016 - Islam Karimov, Preses o Uzbekistan (b. 1938)

## Halidays

* Naitional Day o Vietnam
* Democracy Day (Tibet)
* Independence Day (Transnistrie an Nagorno-Karabakh)