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September 2: Day Of The Week

September 2, 2013 is the 245^th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 120 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is lundi.

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Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

September 2 Historical Events

• 44 BC –
  Cicero launches the first of his Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the following months.
• 1752 –
  Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
• 1806 –
  A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.
• 1856 –
  The Tianjing Incident takes place in Nanjing, China.
• 1859 –
  A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
• 1864 –
  American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city.
• 1867 –
  Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she is called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.
• 1885 –
  Rock 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 town.
• 1992 –
  An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
• 1998 –
  Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.

Who were born on September 2?

• 1675 –
  William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
• 1850 –
  Albert Spalding, American baseball player and co-founder of the A.G. Spalding sporting goods company (d. 1915)
• 1937 –
  Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor (d. 2006)
• 1938 –
  Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor
• 1943 –
  Joe Simon, American singer
• 1948 –
  Nate Archibald, American basketball player
• 1949 –
  Moira Stuart, British journalist
• 1965 –
  Lennox Lewis, British-born Canadian boxer
• 1976 –
  Erin Hershey Presley, American actress
• 1989 –
  Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian playback singer (d. 2008)

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