September 2

Today in History
• 1667 - A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people
• 1715 - First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
• 1783 - Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in the United States
• 1792 - Benjamin Banneker first publishes his Farmer's Almanac
• 1867 - US Congress commission looks into "impeachment" of President Andrew Johnson
• 1884 - John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
• 1905 - Telimco makes the 1st ever advertisement for a radio set
• 1920 - 1st Thanksgiving Parade (Philadelphia)


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Calendar Adjustment Day
• Ceuta Day
• Franchise Appreciation Day
• National Day of Vietnam
• National Hummingbird Day
• Spalding Baseball Day
• VJ Day
• World Beard Day

Birthdays
• 1243 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford
• 1753 - Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, queen of France
• 1778 - Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland
• 1810 - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian
• 1838 - Liliuokalani [Lydia Kamaka?eha], last queen of Hawaii (1891-93)
• 1847 - Roger Wolcott, 39th Governor of Massachusetts
• 1877 - Frederick Soddy, radiochemist and Nobel laureate (radioactive substances, isotopes)
• 1884 - Frank Laubach, Benton Pa, educator, taught reading through phonetics