Today In History - September 2

31BC Battle of Actium; Octavian defeats Antony and becomes Emperor Augustus
490BC Phidippides runs first the marathon seeking aid from Sparta to fight Persia
1666 Great Fire of London starts
1752 Last day of the Julian calendar in Britain
1789 The US Treasury Department established by Congress
1806 A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switzerlan and kills 500
1859 Gas lighting is introduced to Hawaii
1864 Union General William T. Sherman captures Atlanta
1898 Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
1901 VP Theodore Roosevelt says "Speak softly & carry a big stick"
1919 The Communist Party of America is organized in Chicago
1924 Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens to great reviews in NYC
1930 The first non-stop airplane flight from Europe to the US – it took 37 hours
1935 An unnamed hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423
1936 The first transatlantic round-trip air flight
1944 Anne Frank, author of the Diary of Anne Frank, is sent to Auschwitz
1944 During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane
1945 Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France
1945 V-J Day: the formal surrender of Japan is signed aboard the USS Missouri and WWII ends
1949 Fire in riverfront area of Chungking China kills 1,700
1954 Hurricane Edna hits the northeast US killing 20
1956 Collapse of a railroad bridge under the weight of a train kills 120 people in India
1963 Alabama Governor George C. Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee High School
1963 CBS & NBC expand their network news from 15 to 30 minutes
1964 Norman Manley scores two consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, California
1971 Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slam home run
1978 Graham Salmon set the worlds record for 100 meter dash by a blind man
1983 Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) is endorsed by Menachem Begin for the post of Israeli Prime Minister
1986 Cathy Evelyn Smith is sentenced to serve three years for the death of actor John Belushi
1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page New York Times advertisement attacking Japan
1988 Amnesty International's "Human Rights Now!" tour begins in Wembley
1989 The Reverend Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
1991 Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises a record $45 Million

1838 Queen Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani (last queen of Hawaii)
1850 Albert Spaulding (Spaulding sports company)
1850 Eugene Field
1853 Wilhelm Ostwald
1856 Yang Hsiu-ch'ing
1866 Hiram Johnson
1884 Frank Laubach
1904 Vera Vague
1916 Penny Santon
1917 Cleveland Amory
1918 Allen Drury
1918 Martha Mitchell
1919 Marge Champion
1925 Ronnie Stevens
1927 Trudi Jochum-Beiser
1931 Alan K Simpson
1936 Joan Kennedy
1937 Peter Ueberroth
1940 Beverly Sanders
1940 Jimmy Clanton
1943 Glenn Sather
1944 Claude Nicollier
1948 Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe
1948 Terry Bradshaw
1951 Mark Harmon
1951 Michael Gray
1952 Jimmy Connors
1955 Linda Purl
1958 Marlene Janssen
1960 Eric Dickerson
1964 Keanu Reeves
1969 Mark Brettschneider