Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
| September 2 | ||
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | |
| Born on September 2 | ||
| 1838 | Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani, last sovereign before annexation of Hawaii by the United States. | |
| 1850 | Eugene Field, poet and journalist. | |
| 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. | |
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