Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 2

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 * 1666 – A large fire began in London's Pudding Lane and burned for five days (depicted), destroying St Paul's Cathedral and the homes of 70,000 of the city's 80,000 inhabitants.
 * 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Prussian forces captured Napoleon III at the Battle of Sedan, which led to the collapse of the Second French Empire within days.
 * 1885 – White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, attacked Chinese-American immigrants, killing at least 28 Chinese miners and causing approximately $150,000 in property damage.
 * 1901 – U.S. vice president Theodore Roosevelt first publicly used the phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair, describing his philosophy of negotiating peacefully while simultaneously threatening to use military force.
 * 1912 – Arthur Rose Eldred became the first person to attain the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.
 * 1923 - Kantō Massacre: Amid rumors that Koreans had been conducting acts of sabotage in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, lynch mobs of Japanese murdered thousands of ethnic minorities such as Koreans and Chinese over the course of several weeks.
 * 1945 – On the deck of the U.S. Navy battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay, representatives from the Empire of Japan and the Allied powers signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender (pictured), formally ending World War II.
 * 1985 – Hurricane Elena, an unpredictable and damaging tropical cyclone that affected eastern and central portions of the United States Gulf Coast, made landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi, as a Category 3 major hurricane.
 * 1992 – An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw off the coast of Nicaragua became the first tsunami earthquake to be captured on modern broadband seismic networks.
 * 2011 – Bad weather caused a Chilean Air Force aircraft to crash into the Pacific Ocean, killing all 21 people on board.
 * Born/died: |Constantius III |d|421| Kösem Sultan |d|1651|Jean Victor Marie Moreau |d|1813| Bhaktivinoda Thakur |b|1838| Wilhelm Ostwald |b|1853| Mary Cecil Allen |b|1893| Monte Pearson |b|1908| Roekiah |d|1945  Carlos Valderrama |b|1961