This Day In History.

September   2
1991 --  US officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania

1981 --  USSR performs underground nuclear test

1974 --  Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act

1972 --  USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1963 --  Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS

1962 --  USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

1959 --  US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris

1958 --  Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

1958 --  National Defense Education Act was signed

1957 --  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1954 --  Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20

1945 --  V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends)

1945 --  Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day)

1944 --  Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz

1944 --  During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane

1942 --  German troops enter Stalingrad

1941 --  Academy copyrights Oscar statuette

1940 --  Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated

1937 --  US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act

1935 --  A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423

1930 --  1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)

1919 --  Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago

1901 --  VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly & carry a big stick"

1900 --  Telegraph use between Germany & US begins

1898 --  Machine gun 1st used in battle

1897 --  "McCall-magazine 1st published

1894 --  Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die

1864 --  Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta

1859 --  Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii

1796 --  Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated

1792 --  Paris masses remove nobles/clergymen out of jails & slaughter them

1789 --  US Treasury Department established by Congress

1743 --  England/Austria/Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms

1732 --  Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome

1686 --  Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks

1666 --  Fire in London destroys 13,000 houses & kills 8

1519 --  1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico

1192 --  Sultan Saladin & king Richard the lion hearted sign cease fire