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Great Fire of London : 2 September 1666 - This Day in History
On this day in 1666 the Great Fire of London began accidentally in the house of the king's baker; it burned for four days and destroyed a large part of the city, including Old St. Paul's Cathedral and about 13,000 houses.
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1945: World War II came to an end as Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru and General Umezu Yoshijiro signed Japan's formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri.
1945: Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam independent from France.
1898: Anglo-Egyptian forces under Major General Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener (later Lord Kitchener) defeated the Sudanese forces of the Mahdist leader 'Abd Allh in the Battle of Omdurman.
1792: The September Massacresmass killings of prisoners in Parisbegan. The massacres were instigated by beliefs that political prisoners during the French Revolution were going to rise up in their jails to join a counterrevolutionary plot.
31 : Octavian (later Augustus Caesar) won a decisive victory over Mark Antony in the Battle of Actium.
Jimmy Connors: Biography of the Day
American tennis star Jimmy Connors, born this day in 1952, captured the U.S. Open title five times and in 1974 won three grand slam events (U.S., Australian, and Wimbledon) but was barred from competing in the French Open.
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German invasion of Poland: 1 September 1939 - This Day in History
The lethal combination of German blitzkrieg tactics, French inactivity, and Russian perfidy doomed Poland to swift defeat this day in 1939, when Adolf Hitler invaded the country and sparked World War II.
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1985: The wreck of the Titanic was found on the ocean floor at a depth of about 13,000 feet (4,000 metres).
1969: A group of young army officers led by Muammar al-Qaddafi deposed the king and made Libya a republic.
1951: Australia, New Zealand, and the United States signed the ANZUS Pact.
1930: The Young Plan, the second renegotiation of Germany's World War I reparation payments, went into effect.
1923: A great earthquake struck the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area; the death toll from the shock was estimated at 142,800.
1914: The last known passenger pigeon died in the Cincinnati (Ohio) Zoo.
1870: The French army suffered a decisive defeat at the Battle of Sedan in the Franco-German War.
1864: The Charlottetown Conference, the first of a series of meetings that ultimately led to the formation of the Dominion of Canada, convened at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Joaquín Balaguer: Biography of the Day
Lawyer, writer, and diplomat Joaquín Balaguer, born in the Dominican Republic this day in 1907, served as Hector Trujillo's vice president (195760) and subsequently as president of the country (196062; 196678; 198696).
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- Great Fire of London : 2 September 1666 - This Day in History
- Jimmy Connors: Biography of the Day
- Concise Encyclopedia Book and CD-ROM: Special Price from The Britannica Store
- 'Lost years' end for backyard supernova
- Supersolidity flows back
- Supersolidity flows back
- [News of the Week] Embryonic Stem Cells: Controversial Ruling Throws U.S. Research Into a Tailspin
- [News of the Week] Climate Change: Panel Faults IPCC Leadership But Praises Its Conclusions
- [News of the Week] Antarctica: In Ground-Based Astronomy's Final Frontier, China Aims for New Heights
- [News of the Week] ScienceNOW.org: From Science's Online Daily News Site
- [News of the Week] Energy Innovation: Novel Grant Promises Greener Buildings, Regional Growth
- [News of the Week] Newsmaker Interview: Frank Gannon: Ireland's Departing Research Chief on Irish and European Science
- [News of the Week] ScienceInsider: From the Science Policy Blog
- [News Focus] Mammoth-Killer Impact Flunks Out
- [News Focus] Profile: François Nosten: The Dour Frenchman on Malaria's Frontier
- [News Focus] Astrophysics: An Unsettled Debate About the Chemistry of the Sun
- Earth observation aids disaster relief in Pakistan
- Recipe for water: just add starlight
- German invasion of Poland: 1 September 1939 - This Day in History
- Joaquín Balaguer: Biography of the Day