02 SEPTEMBER

31 BC Battle of Actium: decisive naval battle that effectively ends the Roman Republic. Octavian's forces defeat those under Mark Antony and Cleopatra off the western coast of Greece.

1192 Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart of England sign treaty over Jerusalem, at end of the Third Crusade

1792 September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.

1864 Union General William T. Sherman captures and burns Atlanta during US Civil War

1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp

1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (Japanese date, 1st September in US)

Famous Birthday's

Andrew Grove
(1936 - 2016)

Jimmy Connors
65th Birthday

Lennox Lewis
52nd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Pheidippides
( - 490 BC)

J. R. R. Tolkien
(1892 - 1973)

Bob Denver
(1935 - 2005)

Famous Weddings

1824 US Navy flag officer David Farragut (23) weds Susan Caroline Marchant

1908 Naval officer Robert Scott (40) weds sculptress Kathleen Bruce (30) at the Chapel Royal in London, England

1922 "Gone With The Wind" author Margaret Mitchell (21) weds Red Berrien Upshaw

1978 George Harrison marries Olivia

1978 Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine)

Famous Divorces

1960 Actress Tammy Grimes (26) divorces actor Christopher Plummer (30) after 4 years of marriage