History of the Day for:
September 2
- 31BC: Octavian defeated the fleet of Antony and Cleopatra.
- 1752: The Gregorian Calendar replaced the Julian calendar in England and the British colonies.
- 1789: Congress formed the U.S. Treasury Department.
- 1870: Prussian armies defeated Napoleon III.
- 1897: "McCall's" magazine was first published.
- 1898: The machine gun was first used in battle.
- 1937: The U.S. Housing Authority was created by the National Housing Act.
- 1940: The Great Smoky Mountains National Park was dedicated.
- 1944: Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz.
- 1945: Japan formally surrendered to the U.S. on the USS Missouri; Ho Chi Minh broke ties with France and declared Vietnam an independent republic.
- 1952: Dr. Floyd J. Lewis first used the deep freeze technique in heart surgery.
- 1958: The National Defense Education Act was signed.
- 1963: Alabama Gov. George Wallace blocked the integration of Tuskegee High School.
- 1970: NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
- 1973: Writer John Ronald Reuel (J.R.R.) Tolkien ("The Hobbit," "The Lord of the Rings") died in England at age 81.
- 1974: President Gerald Ford signed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
- 1990: Transnistria unilaterally proclaimed as Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
- 1991: The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
- 1996: A peace agreement is signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front in Malacaņang Palace.
- 1998: Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
- 1998: The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
- 2001: www.misterGworld.com was officially up and running.