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.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signing the Instrument of Surrender
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| National Day in Vietnam (1945) | refimprove 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 |
| 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Prussian forces captured Napoleon III of France 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 Omdurman, Khartoum, Sudan, establishing British dominance in northeastern Africa. | needs more footnotes |
| 1935 – The Labor Day Hurricane struck the Florida Keys, killing at least 423 people. | needs more footnotes |
Eligible
- 1649 – Forces loyal to Pope Innocent X destroyed the ancient Italian city of Castro, ending the Wars of Castro.
- 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.
- 1885 – White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, US, attacked Chinese immigrants, killing at least 28 Chinese miners and causing approximately US$150,000 in property damage.
- 1945 – On the deck of the United States Navy battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, representatives (pictured) from the Empire of Japan and several Allied Powers signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, formally ending World War II.
- 1957 – President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam became the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
- 1990 – Transnistria unilaterally declared its independence from what was then the Moldavian SSR of the Soviet Union, but independence has only been recognized by Abkhazia and South Ossetia, who are also partially recognised states.
- 1998 – Swissair Flight 111, en route from New York City to Geneva, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 229 people on board.
September 2: Father's Day in Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand (2012); Democracy Day in Tibet (1960)
- 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.
- 1901 – U.S. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt first uttered the famous phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" (cartoon pictured) at the Minnesota State Fair, describing his philosophy of negotiating peacefully while simultaneously threatening to use military force.
- 1946 – The interim government of India, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, formed to assist the transition of India from British rule to independence.
- 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.
- 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.