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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.

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)