2. Hāligmōnþes

Þis geƿrit hæfþ ƿordcƿide on Nīƿenglisce.

Se 2. dæȝ Hāligmōnþes is se 245. dæg (se 246. in hlīepgēarum) þæs gēares in þǣre Gregoriscan gerīmbēc. Heonan sind 120 belīfendra daga (121 in hlīepgēarum).

Belimpas

• 31 BC - Rōmānisc Ingefeoht: 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 - Þæt Geanlǣhte Cȳnedōm adopts þā Gregoriscan gerīmbōc, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
• 1789 - United States Department of the Treasury was founded.
• 1807 - British Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denemearc from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon. 70% of the city was destroyed and 2,000 burgwara wurdon gecweald.
• 1862 - Americanisc Ingefeoht: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Second Bull Run.
• 1864 - Americanisc Civil War: Union forces under General William T. Sherman enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city.
• 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan - Prussian forces defeat þone Frencisc here and take emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner at Sedan.
• 1885 - In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
• 1898 - Beadu Omdurmanes - British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, thus establishing British dominance in the Sudan.
• 1901 - Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
• 1935 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hit the Florida Keys killing 423.
• 1939 - Following the invasion of Poland, Freie Stadt Danzig ruled by Nazi leader Forster is annexed to Nazi Germany.
• 1944 - Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz. They arrive three days later.
• 1945 - World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
• 1945 - Vietnam declares its independence forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
• 1963 - CBS Evening News becomes network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
• 1967 - The microstate Principality of Sǣland unilaterally declared its independence.
• 1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York.
• 1987 - In Moscow, the trial of 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May 1987, begins.
• 1991 - Þā Geānlǣht Underrīcu recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• 1995 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1998 - In Canada, pilots for Air Canada launch the first strike in company's history.
• 1998 - A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner carrying Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove in Nīwe Scotland after taking off from New York City en-route to Geneva. All 229 people on board are killed.
• 1998 - A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced.
• 2001 - Blizzard Entertainment ābīteþ þæt gamen Woruld þæs Gūþcræftes.

Byrda

• 1838 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of the Hawaiian Islands (d. 1917)
• 1850 - Albert Spalding, Americanisc baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer
• 1853 - Wilhelm Ostwald, Þēodisc chemist
• 1866 - Hiram Johnson, former Governor of California and political activist
• 1877 - Frederick Soddy, Britisc chemist
• 1884 - Dr. Frank C. Laubach, crīsten missionary and founder of Laubach Literacy
• 1917 - Cleveland Amory, author
• 1923 - Rene Thom, Frencisc mathematician
• 1929 - Hal Ashby, film director
• 1934 - Dominic Chianese, actor
• 1936 - Andrew Grove, co-founder and chairman of Intel
• 1944 - Al Matthews, Americansc actor (d. 2002)
• 1948 - Terry Bradshaw, Americanisc football player
• 1948 - Christa McAuliffe, Americanisc teacher, astronaut (d. 1986)
• 1951 - Mark Harmon, actor
• 1952 - Jimmy Connors, Americanisc tennis player
• 1961 - Carlos Valderrama, Colombian fōtball player
• 1964 - Keanu Reeves, American actor
• 1965 - Lennox Lewis, Canadisc/Britisc boxer
• 1968 - Salma Hayek, Mexicanisc actress
• 1971 - Tommy Maddox, Americanisc fōtball quarterback
• 1972 - Sergei Zholtok, andwīs īshocig player

Dēaðas

• 421 - Constantius III, Romanisc cāsere
• 1764 - Revd Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal
• 1832 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Scientific Editor, Astronomer
• 1834 - Thomas Telford, Britisc civil engineer
• 1898 - Wilford Woodruff, foresittend þǣm Cirice of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
• 1921 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-American oil exploration pioneer (b.1855)
• 1921 - Henry Austin Dobson, poet (b. 1840)
• 1934 - Alcide Nunez, jazz musician (b. 1884)
• 1937 - Pierre de Coubertin, Frencisc founder of the modern Olympic Games
• 1953 - US General Jonathan Wainwright, Medal of Honor recipient
• 1964 - Alvin York, most decorated American soldier of Ǣrest Woruldgūþ
• 1981 - Andrija Maurovic, Croatisc illustrator (b.1901)
• 1973 - J. R. R. Tolkien, Bryttisc wrītere and philologist (b. 1892).
• 1973 - Carl Dudley, Americanisc movie director (b. 1910)
• 1976 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polisc poet and dramatist (b. 1934)
• 1992 - Barbara McClintock, Americanisc geneticist
• 1997 - Rudolph Bing, opera manager
• 1998 - Allen Drury, author
• 2000 - Elvera Sanchez, Puertorican dancer
• 2000 - Curt Siodmak, science fiction author
• 2001 - Christiaan Barnard, Sūðaffricanisc heart surgeon
• 2001 - Troy Donahue, actor
• 2004 - Joan Orō, scientist.

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