Public Holidays on September 2

• 🌍 National Day (Vietnam)
• 🌍 Quốc khánh (Vietnam)

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On This Day in History — September 2

• 2013 — The Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens at 10:15 PM at a cost of $6.4 billion, after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the old span.
• 2009 — The Andhra Pradesh, India helicopter crash occurred near Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles (74 km) from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. Fatalities included Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian...
• 1998 — Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people onboard are killed.
• 1998 — The 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.
• 1992 — The 7.7 Mw Nicaragua earthquake affected the west coast of Nicaragua. With a Ms-Mw disparity of half a unit, this tsunami earthquake triggered a tsunami that caused most of the damage and casualties, with at least...
• 1990 — Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.

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Notable Births on September 2

• 1996 — Lilla Barzó, Hungarian tennis player
• 1995 — İbrahim Demir, Turkish footballer
• 1995 — Deimantas Petravičius, Lithuanian footballer
• 1994 — Kishen Velani, English cricketer
• 1993 — Tom Anderson, English footballer
• 1993 — Robert Rooba, Estonian ice hockey player

Notable Deaths on September 2

• 2016 — Islam Karimov, Uzbek politician, 1st President of Uzbekistan (b. 1938)
• 2015 — Ephraim Engleman, American rheumatologist, author, and academic (b. 1911)
• 2014 — Peter Carter, Nigerian-English diplomat, British Ambassador to Estonia (b. 1956)
• 2014 — F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, American lawyer and politician, 20th District Attorney of Philadelphia (b. 1930)
• 2014 — Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (b. 1911)
• 2014 — Helena Rakoczy, Polish gymnast (b. 1921)

On This Day in History — September 3

• 2017 — North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test
• 2016 — The US and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally joined the Paris global climate agreement.
• 2001 — In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls. For the next 11 weeks, riot police escort the schoolchildren and their parents through hundreds of protesters, some...
• 1997 — Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev Tu-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
• 1994 — Sino-Soviet split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
• 1987 — In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya.

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Notable Births on September 3

• 1994 — Francis Molo, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1994 — Glen Rea, English-Irish footballer
• 1992 — August Alsina, American singer-songwriter
• 1988 — Jérôme Boateng, Ghanaian-German footballer
• 1988 — Hana Makhmalbaf, Iranian director and producer
• 1987 — Allie, Canadian wrestler

Notable Deaths on September 3

• 2017 — Walter Becker, American musician, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1950)
• 2015 — Adrian Cadbury, English rower and businessman (b. 1929)
• 2015 — Judy Carne, English actress and comedian (b. 1939)
• 2015 — Carter Lay, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1971)
• 2015 — Zhang Zhen, Chinese general and politician (b. 1914)
• 2014 — Aarno Raninen, Finnish singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1944)