What holiday is celebrated on September 2: important events of this day

Every year on September 2, Ukraine honors its notaries, and the world celebrates the end of World War II. According to the church calendar, Anatoly, Anthony, Vasily, Victor, Vladimir, Ivan, Leonid, Mikhail, Nikolai, Pavel, Peter, Philip, and Stefan celebrate their name days on this day.

OBOZ.UA tells what other holidays fall on September 2. As well as about significant historical events and historical figures and celebrities born on this day.

Holidays on September 2

Day of Remembrance of St. Anthony and Theodosius of the Caves - the Orthodox Church of Ukraine honors the memory of the founders of the Kyiv Cave Monastery and the founders of the monastic traditions in Orthodoxy.

The Day of the End of World War II - on this day, Japan signed the Act of Surrender. The signing ceremony took place on September 2 aboard the USS Missouri battleship. The worst war in human history was brought to an end.

Notary Day of Ukraine - every year on the second day of September, Ukrainian notaries celebrate their professional holiday. The holiday honors the contribution of notaries to the development of the rule of law.

World Coconut Day - for us, this tropical fruit seems like a real exotic. But for the inhabitants of the Asia-Pacific region, it is one of the most important products. Coconut is considered to be an extremely healthy fruit that can enrich any diet, and on this day, various events are organized to promote it.

Calendar Adjustment Day - after the adoption of the British Calendar Act in 1751, Britain switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1752. But to do so, the empire had to literally skip 11 days. Therefore, that year, the people of Britain and the American colonies had a unique experience: they went to bed on September 2 and woke up on September 14. This change also led to the New Year's Eve being celebrated on January 1.

Historical events on September 2

490 BC - The Greek warrior Phytipides ran to Athens to announce his victory over the army of the Persian king Darius I near Marathon. In his honor, at the restored Athens Olympics (1896), a race was held between Marathon and the Greek capital. Since then, the long race, called the marathon, has become a mandatory part of the Olympic program.

31 BC - Battle of Actium. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, the commander of the Roman consul Octavian, defeated the fleet of the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra.

1192 - English King Richard I the Lionheart concluded a peace treaty with Sultan Saladin in Jaffa, and the Third Crusade was completed.

1666 - The Great Fire of London broke out and destroyed 10,000 buildings in three days, including St. Paul's Cathedral.

1789 - the U.S. Treasury Department is founded.

1794 - On the initiative of a French emigrant, Duke Armand Emmanuel du Plessis de Richelieu, the construction of Odesa began on the Black Sea coast.

1831 - The first part of Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka by Ukrainian writer Mykola Gogol is published.

1834 - Samuel Colt patented his revolver.

1870 - After being defeated in the Battle of Sedan, the French army surrendered and was captured by Prussian troops. French Emperor Napoleon III abdicated, and France became a republic again.

1889 - a seaport was opened in Mariupol

1898 - General Horace Kitchener's British troops defeated a 50,000-strong Muslim army in the Battle of Omdurman (one of the British units was commanded by Lieutenant Winston Churchill). The uprising led by Muhammad Ahmed (Magdi) was suppressed.

1935 - George Gershwin completed the opera Porgy and Bess.

1944 - Finland severed diplomatic relations with the Third Reich and demanded that all German troops be withdrawn from its territory by September 15.

1945 - The Act of Surrender of the Japanese Empire in World War II was signed in Tokyo Harbor aboard the battleship Missouri. Representatives of the United States, the Republic of China, Great Britain, the USSR, Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and New Zealand signed the document.

1945 - The Democratic Republic of Vietnam declared independence.

1958 - Television of the People's Republic of China was first broadcast.

1978 - Beatles member George Harrison married Olivia Trinidad Arias.

1987 - The trial of German pilot Matthias Rust, who in May of the same year flew across the Soviet-Finnish border and landed his plane on Red Square in Moscow, began. Rust was sentenced to 4 years in prison for violating the border, but was released on August 3, 1988.

1990 - The unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic was proclaimed in Tiraspol.

1991 - The United States recognized the restoration of independence of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.

1996 - A new currency, the hryvnia, was introduced in Ukraine to replace the karbovanets.

2015 - The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine decided to establish the National Police of Ukraine.

2021 - Ukraine House was opened in Washington, DC, with the participation of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Celebrities born on September 2

1811 - Ivan Vahylevych, Ukrainian poet, folklorist, ethnographer, philologist, public figure, member of the "Russian Trinity"

1835 - Petro Efymenko, Ukrainian ethnographer and historian, brought back from oblivion the last ataman of the Zaporizhzhian Sich, Petro Kalnyshevsky.

1869 - Hiram Percy Maxim, American inventor, creator of the gun silencer.

1838 - Liliuokalani, the last Queen of Hawaii (1891-1893)

1854 - Pierre Viel, French engineer who invented smokeless pyroxylene gunpowder in 1884.

1908 - Valentyn Glushko, Ukrainian designer of the reusable rocket and space complex Energia-Buran.

1940 - Bohdan Soroka, Ukrainian graphic artist, son of Kateryna Zarytska and Mykhailo Soroka.

1959 - Guy Laliberté, Canadian businessman, founder of Cirque du Soleil.

1962 - Keir Starmer, British politician, current Prime Minister of Great Britain.

1964 - Keanu Reeves, American film actor.

1965 - Lennox Lewis, Canadian and British professional boxer in the heavyweight category.

1966 - Salma Hayek, American actress of Mexican descent.

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