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Events on September 2

• 1666 In the English capital of London, a major fire breaks out that lasts four days and almost completely destroys the medieval City of London within the old Roman city wall.
• 1811 Karl August von Hardenberg, as State Chancellor, lifts the ban on compulsory guild membership by edict and thereby introduces freedom of trade in Prussia.
• 1859 During the Carrington Event, the strongest recorded solar storm paralyzes the world's newly installed telegraph network and leads to auroras that can even be observed in Rome, Havana, and Hawaii.
• 1873 On the newly established Sedan Day, the Berlin Victory Column, built according to a design by Heinrich Strack, is inaugurated.
• 1939 France and Great Britain issue Germany an ultimatum to withdraw immediately from Poland, in accordance with the British-French guarantee declaration made to Poland in the event of an attack.
• 1945 The instrument of Japan's surrender is signed on the US battleship Missouri. This brings the Second World War to an end.
• 1949 The film The Third Man by Carol Reed, based on a screenplay by Graham Greene, is premiered. The lead roles are played by Joseph Cotten and Alida Valli. The character Harry Lime is portrayed by Orson Welles. The music, including the Harry Lime theme, is by Anton Karas
• 1950 The German Gymnastics Federation is re-founded in Tübingen.
• 1969 The September strikes begin in the Ruhr region, a series of successful wildcat strikes.
• 1990 The Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the UN General Assembly on November 20 of the previous year, enters into force.
• 2004 A rapidly spreading fire breaks out in the roof of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar. 50,000 volumes of the library burn, and a further 62,000 are damaged by the fire and the extinguishing water.
• 2006 A Siemens ES64U4-type locomotive sets a new world speed record for conventional electric locomotives with 357 km/h on the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt high-speed line.

Born on September 2

• 1894 Joseph Roth, Austrian writer and journalist
• 1900 Georg Diederichs, German politician, member of the state parliament, state minister, Minister-President of Lower Saxony, one of the fathers of the Basic Law
• 1912 Ingeborg Rapoport, German pediatrician who earned her doctorate at the age of 102
• 1940 Jack White, German music producer and composer
• 1950 Michael Rother, German musician
• 1951 Mark Harmon, American actor
• 1960 Gottfried Curio, German physicist and politician
• 1971 Kjetil André Aamodt, Norwegian ski racer
• 1971 Stephan Grossmann, German actor
• 1992 Jim Gottfridsson, Swedish handball player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „2. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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