About September 2
September 2, 2025 is the 245th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 120 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 168 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 2
- 44 BC –Cicero launches the first of his Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the following months.
- 31 BC –Final War of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium – off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
- 1666 –The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul’s Cathedral.
- 1752 –Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
- 1789 –The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
- 1806 –A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.
- 1833 –Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio is founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
- 1856 –The Tianjing Incident takes place in Nanjing, China.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city.
- 1898 –Battle of Omdurman – British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
- 1935 –Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
- 1939 –World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
- 1945 –World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
- 1957 –President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
- 1960 –The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
- 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.
- 1990 –Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
- 1991 –The United States recognize the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
- 1992 –An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
- 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.
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