Public Holidays on September 1

• 🌍 Quốc khánh (Vietnam)

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On This Day in History — September 1

• 2004 — The Crisis in Beslan commences when armed terrorists take schoolchildren and school staff hostage in North Ossetia (Russia); by the end of the siege three days later more than 385 people are dead (including hostages,...
• 1991 — Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1985 — A joint American-French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
• 1983 — Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
• 1982 — The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
• 1981 — A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.

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Notable Births on September 1

• 1996 — Zendaya Stoermer Coleman, American actress and singer
• 1995 — Nathan MacKinnon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1994 — Anna Smolina, Russian tennis player
• 1994 — Betty Cantrell, Miss America 2016
• 1993 — Mario Lemina, Gabonese footballer
• 1992 — Cristiano Biraghi, Italian footballer

Notable Deaths on September 1

• 2015 — Gurgen Dalibaltayan, Armenian general (b. 1926)
• 2015 — Dean Jones, American actor and singer (b. 1931)
• 2015 — Richard G. Hewlett, American historian and author (b. 1923)
• 2015 — Ben Kuroki, American sergeant and pilot (b. 1917)
• 2014 — Ahmed Abdi Godane, Somali militant leader (b. 1977)
• 2014 — Rogers McKee, American baseball player (b. 1926)

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)