TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – SEPT 2
490 -BC- Phidippides runs 1st marathon, seeking aid from Sparta vs Persia
31 BC Battle of Actium: decisive naval battle that effectively ends the Roman Republic. Octavian’s forces defeat those under Mark Antony and Cleopatra off the western coast of Greece.
1192 Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart of England sign treaty over Jerusalem, at end of the Third Crusade
1666 The Great Fire of London, which devastates the city, begins.
1792 September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
1789 The Treasury Department, headed by Alexander Hamilton, is created in New York City.
1798 The Maltese people revolt against the French occupation, forcing the French troops to take refuge in the citadel of Valletta in Malta.
1864 Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta
1885 In Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, 28 Chinese laborers are killed and hundreds more chased out of town by striking coal miners.
1901 Vice President Theodore Roosevelt gave his “speak softly and carry a big stick” speech, regarding foreign policy, at the Minnesota State Fair.
1910 Alice Stebbins Wells is admitted to the Los Angeles Police Force as the first woman police officer to receive an appointment based on a civil service exam.
1945 Vietnam declares its independence and Nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaims himself its first president.
1945 Japan signs the document of surrender aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II
1956 Tennessee National Guardsmen halt rioters protesting the admission of 12 African-Americans to schools in Clinton
1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace calls state troopers to Tuskegee High School to prevent integration.
1963 CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
1992 The US and Russia agree to a joint venture to build a space station.
1996 Muslim rebels and the Philippine government signed a pact formally ending 26-years of insurgency that had killed more than 120,000 people.
1998 Jean Paul Akayesu, former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, found guilty of nine counts of genocide by the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
** history.net, onthisday.com, infoplease.com, timeanddate.com, thepeoplehistory.com, on-this-day.com **
