Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 2

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  Emperor Napoleon III of the Second French Empire
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  Napoleon III
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  Battle of Actium
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  Sir Horatio Kitchener
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  Principality of Sealand
• Jawaharlal Nehru
  Jawaharlal Nehru
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  Bust of Caesarion
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  Principality of Sealand
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  Japanese men massacring Koreans in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake
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  Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signing the Instrument of Surrender

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Democracy Day among Tibetan exiles (1960);	refimprove
; Victory over Japan Day in the United States	refimprove
47 BC – Caesarion, a possible son of Julius Caesar, became the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, ruling jointly with his mother Cleopatra.	Referencing, OR
31 BC – Final War of the Roman Republic: Troops supporting Octavian defeated the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in the naval Battle of Actium on the Ionian Sea near Actium in Greece.	refimprove
1649 – Forces loyal to [[Pope Innocent X|Pope Template:Nowrap]] destroyed the ancient Italian city of Castro, ending the Wars of Castro.	refimprove section
1864 – American Civil War: Union forces under William T. Sherman entered Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city, bringing the Atlanta campaign to a close.	Close paraphrasing of citations
1898 – Mahdist War: Forces led by Horatio Kitchener defeated Sudanese tribesmen at the Battle of Omdurman in Khartoum, Sudan, establishing British dominance in northeastern Africa.	unreferenced section
1923 – Kantō Massacre: Amid rumors that Koreans had been conducting acts of sabotage in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, lynch mobs of Japanese murdered thousands of ethnic minorities such as Koreans and Chinese over the course of several weeks.	exactly what date?
1935 – The Labor Day Hurricane struck the Florida Keys, killing at least 423 people.	multiple issues
1990 – Transnistria unilaterally declared its independence from what was then the Moldavian SSR of the Soviet Union, but it remains only a partially recognised state.	refimprove section
1998 – A fire on Swissair Flight 111, en route from New York City to Geneva, caused the aircraft to crash into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 229 people on board.	Lots of CNc
Kösem Sultan |d|1651|	Yellow "ibid" banner
Joey Barton |b|1982|	Lots of CN, later career not covered properly

Eligible

• 1789 – The United States Department of the Treasury was founded following financial concerns in the new nation.
• 1792 – French Revolution: Due to an overwhelming fear that foreign armies would attack Paris and prisoners would revolt, revolutionaries began the summary execution of more than a thousand prisoners.
• 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Prussian forces captured Napoleon III at the Battle of Sedan, which led to the collapse of the Second French Empire within days.
• 1912 – Arthur Rose Eldred became the first person to attain the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.
• 1945 – On the deck of the U.S. Navy battleship Template:USS in Tokyo Bay, representatives from the Empire of Japan and the Allied powers signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender , formally ending World War II.
• 1946 – The interim government of India, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, was formed to assist the transition of India from British rule to independence.
• 1967 – Paddy Roy Bates proclaimed HM Fort Roughs, a former World Template:Nowrap Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, England, as an independent sovereign state: the Principality of Sealand (pictured).
• 1985 – Hurricane Elena, an unpredictable and damaging tropical cyclone that affected eastern and central portions of the United States Gulf Coast, made landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi, as a Category 3 major hurricane.
• 1992 – An earthquake registering 7.7 M_w off the coast of Nicaragua became the first tsunami earthquake to be captured on modern broadband seismic networks.
• 2002 – American animated edutainment show Liberty's Kids aired its first episode.
• Born/died: |Constantius III |d|421| Liliʻuokalani |b|1838| Wilhelm Ostwald |b|1853| Mary Cecil Allen |b|1893| Monte Pearson |b|1908| Horace Silver |b|1928| Joshua Soule Zimmerman |d|1962| Barbara McClintock|d|1992| Moustapha Sall|d|2025|

Notes

• Theodore Roosevelt appears on September 14, so Big Stick should not appear in the same year.

September 2: National Day in Vietnam (1945) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1666 – 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 – 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 – U.S. vice president Theodore Roosevelt first publicly used the phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" (cartoon pictured) at the Minnesota State Fair, describing his philosophy of negotiating peacefully while simultaneously threatening to use military force.
• 1957 – South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm began an official visit to Australia, the first by a foreign incumbent head of state to the country.
• 2011 – Bad weather caused a Chilean Air Force aircraft to crash into the Pacific Ocean, killing all 21 people on board.