What happend on 2nd September

01.09
03.09
1967

The microstate Principality of Sealand unilaterally declares its independence.

1963

CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.

1946

Ayn Rand began writing Atlas Shrugged.

1945

Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).

1945

World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

1944

Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.

1939

Following the invasion of Poland, Freie Stadt Danzig Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed to Nazi Germany.

1935

Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.

1901

Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.

1898

Battle of Omdurman