Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 2
September 2: Independence Day for Vietnam (1945)
- 31 BC - Forces of Octavian defeated troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra in the Battle of Actium.
- 1752 - The United Kingdom adopted the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
- 1898 - Troops led by Sir Horatio Kitchener defeated Sudanese tribesmen in the Battle of Omdurman, establishing British dominance in northeastern Africa.
- 1945 - The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on the deck of the USS Missouri, formally ending World War II.
- 1963 - CBS Evening News became network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast.
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