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September 2: National Day in Vietnam (1945)
Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signing the Instrument of Surrender
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Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signing the Instrument of Surrender
- 1666 β A large fire began in London's Pudding Lane and burned for five days, destroying St Paul's Cathedral and the homes of 70,000 of the city's 80,000 inhabitants.
- 1885 β White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, attacked Chinese-American immigrants, killing at least 28 Chinese miners and causing approximately $150,000 in property damage.
- 1901 β U.S. vice president Theodore Roosevelt first publicly used the phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair, describing his philosophy of negotiating peacefully while simultaneously threatening to use military force.
- 1945 β On the deck of the U.S. Navy battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, representatives from the Empire of Japan and the Allied powers signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender (pictured), formally ending World War II.
- 2011 β Bad weather caused a Chilean Air Force aircraft to crash into the Pacific Ocean, killing all 21 people on board.
- Jean Victor Marie Moreau (d. 1813)
- Bhaktivinoda Thakur (b. 1838)
- Roekiah (d. 1945)
- Carlos Valderrama (b. 1961)
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