On This Day: 2 September

2 September in Indian history

• 2023India's first solar observation mission: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1 from Satish Dhawan space centre.India
• 2009The Andhra Pradesh, India helicopter crash occurs near Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles (74 km) from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. Fatalities include Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.India
• 1985Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead.India
• 1946The interim government of India, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, was formed to assist the transition of India from British rule to independence.India

2 September in world history

• 2019Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the Bahamas, killing at least five.
• 2019The dive boat MV Conception catches fire and sinks near Santa Cruz Island, killing 34.
• 1998A fire in the cockpit on Swissair Flight 111, en route from New York City to Geneva, caused the aircraft to crash into the Atlantic Ocean near Canada, killing all 229 people on board.
• 1998The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
• 1985Hurricane 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.
• 1970NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
• 1967Paddy Roy Bates proclaimed HM Fort Roughs, a former World War II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, England, as an independent sovereign state: the Principality of Sealand.
• 1957South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm began an official visit to Australia, the first by a foreign incumbent head of state to the country.
• 1945On the deck of the U.S. Navy battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, representatives from the Empire of Japan and the Allied powers signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender , formally ending World War II.
• 1939World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
• 1912Arthur Rose Eldred became the first person to attain the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.
• 1885Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of to
• 1870Franco-Prussian War: Prussian forces captured Napoleon III at the Battle of Sedan, which led to the collapse of the Second French Empire within days.
• 1752Great Britain, along with its overseas possessions, adopts the Gregorian calendar.

Born on 2 September

• 1988Ishant Sharma, Indian cricketerIndia
• 1987Scott Moir, Canadian ice dancer
• 1973Sudeep, Indian actor, filmmaker and television presenterIndia
• 1960Eric Dickerson, American football player and sportscaster
• 1941Sadhana Shivdasani, Indian actress (died 2015)India
• 1901Andreas Embirikos, Greek psychoanalyst and poet (died 1975)

Died on 2 September

• 2021Siddharth Shukla, Indian TV and film actor (born 1980)India
• 2009Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (born 1949)India
• 1992Barbara McClintock, American geneticist and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
• 1964Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist and scholar (born 1900)

Frequently asked questions

What happened on 2 September in history?

2023: India's first solar observation mission: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1 from Satish Dhawan space centre. 2019: Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the Bahamas, killing at least five. 2019: The dive boat MV Conception catches fire and sinks near Santa Cruz Island, killing 34. 2009: The Andhra Pradesh, India helicopter crash occurs near Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles (74 km) from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. Fatalities include Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

What happened on 2 September in Indian history?

2023: India's first solar observation mission: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1 from Satish Dhawan space centre. 2009: The Andhra Pradesh, India helicopter crash occurs near Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles (74 km) from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. Fatalities include Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. 1985: Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead.

Which famous people were born on 2 September?

Ishant Sharma, Indian cricketer (1988); Scott Moir, Canadian ice dancer (1987); Sudeep, Indian actor, filmmaker and television presenter (1973); Eric Dickerson, American football player and sportscaster (1960).

Which day is observed on 2 September?

Democracy Day (Tibet); Independence Day (Transnistria, unrecognized); Independence Day (Artsakh, unrecognized); National Blueberry Popsicle Day (United States); National Day, celebrates the independence of Vietnam from Japan and France in 1945.