Today: Tuesday - 2 September 2025
| 245
120 |
Today Holidays
Ethiopia: Birth of the Prophet
Mauritania: Birth of the Prophet
Egypt: Birth of the Prophet
Senegal: Birth of the Prophet
Sudan: Birth of the Prophet
Somalia: Birth of the Prophet
Djibouti: Birth of the Prophet
Eritrea: Birth of the Prophet
Comoros: Birth of the Prophet
Nigeria: Birth of the Prophet
Tunisia: Birth of the Prophet
Libya: Birth of the Prophet
Algeria: Birth of the Prophet
Sierra-Leone: Birth of the Prophet
Côte-d'Ivoire: Birth of the Prophet
Guinea: Birth of the Prophet
Mali: Birth of the Prophet
Morocco: Birth of the Prophet
Niger: Birth of the Prophet
The-Gambia: Birth of the Prophet
Vietnam: National Day
Indonesia: Birth of the Prophet
Iraq: Birth of the Prophet
Brunei: Birth of the Prophet
Yemen: Birth of the Prophet
Jordan: Birth of the Prophet
Lebanon: Birth of the Prophet
Malaysia: Birth of the Prophet
Oman: Birth of the Prophet
Afghanistan: Birth of the Prophet
Kuwait: Birth of the Prophet
Syria: Birth of the Prophet
Maldives: Birth of the Prophet
Fiji: Birth of the Prophet
Guyana: Birth of the Prophet

Events

1649 - The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
1666 - The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral.
1752 - Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
1789 - The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
1792 - During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
1807 - The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
1833 - Oberlin College is founded by John Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
1856 - Tianjing Incident in Nanjing, China.
1859 - A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
1862 - American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
1864 - American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city.
1867 - Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she's called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces take French Emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
1885 - Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
1898 - Battle of Omdurman – British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
1901 - Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
1925 - The U.S. Zeppelin the USS Shenandoah crashes, killing 14.
1935 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
1939 - World War II: following the invasion of Poland, Free City of Danzig Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
1945 - Combat in World War II ends in the Pacific Theater: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
1945 - Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1946 - Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President.
1958 - United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost.
1960 - The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
1963 - CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
1967 - The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates.
1969 - The first automated teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York.
1970 - NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
1990 - Transnistria unilaterally proclaimed as Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
1991 - The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
1996 - A peace agreement is signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front in Malacañang Palace.
1998 - Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board 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.

Advertisement
Select

2025

1 FebruaryNew Year's Day
2 FebruaryNew Year's Day
18 AprilGood Friday
21 AprilEaster Monday
25 AprilAnzac Day (ANZAC Day)
5 MayMothers' Day
1 JuneIndependence Day
2 JuneIndependence Day
3 JuneIndependence Day
4 AugustWorkers' Day
8 SeptemberLotu a Tamaiti
25 DecemberChristmas
26 DecemberBoxing Day
Independent State of Samoa
Malo Sa'oloto Tuto'atasi o Samoa, Independent State of Samoa
Independent State of Samoa - FlagIndependent State of Samoa - Coat of arms
Independent State of Samoa - Location
Capital: Pago Pago
Official languages: English, Samoan (national)
Government: Constitutional monarchy
Currency: Tala (WST)
Population: 177 714
Area: 2944 km²
Religion: Christianity (99,7%)
Time Zone: UTC -11
Auto Code: WS
Internet TLD: .ws
Calling code: +685
Corporate Income Tax: <27%
Personal Income Tax: <27%
Value Added Tax: 12,50%
Cookie policy
This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to our use of cookies.