02 September History


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  • 1666    -    The Great Fire of London, which devastates the city, begins.
  • 1789    -    The Treasury Department, headed by Alexander Hamilton, is created in New York City.
  • 1792    -    Verdun, France, surrenders to the Prussian Army.
  • 1798    -    The Maltese people revolt against the French occupation, forcing the French troops to take refuge in the citadel of Valetta in Malta.
  • 1870    -    Napoleon III capitulates to the Prussians at Sedan, France.
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  • 1885    -    In Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, 28 Chinese laborers are killed and hundreds more chased out of town by striking coal miners.
  • 1898    -    Sir Herbert Kitchner leads the British to victory over the Mahdists at Omdurman and takes Khartoum.
  • 1910    -    Alice Stebbins Wells is admitted to the Los Angeles Police Force as the first woman police officer to receive an appointment based on a civil service exam.
  • 1915    -    Austro-German armies take Grodno, Poland.
  • 1944    -    Troops of the U.S. First Army enter Belgium.
  • 1945    -    Japan signs the document of surrender aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II
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  • 1945    -    Vietnam declares its independence and Nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaims himself its first president.
  • 1956    -    Tennessee National Guardsmen halt rioters protesting the admission of 12 African-Americans to schools in Clinton.
  • 1963    -    Alabama Governor George Wallace calls state troopers to Tuskegee High School to prevent integration.
  • 1975    -    Joseph W. Hatcher of Tallahassee, Florida, becomes the state's first African-American supreme court justice since Reconstruction.

  • 02 September Birthdays

  • 1838    -    Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani, last sovereign before annexation of Hawaii by the United States.
  • 1850    -    Eugene Field, poet and journalist.
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  • 1877    -    Frederick Soddy, named an isotope and received 1921 Nobel prize for chemistry.
  • 1901    -    Adolph Rupp, basketball coach at the University of Kentucky who achieved a record 876 victories.
  • 1948    -    Christa McAuliffe, the first civilian passenger on a space mission. During that mission, she and the six other crew members on the space shuttle Challenger perished in an explosion shortly after launch.