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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48989)	9/2/2005 3:54:40 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (3) of 50167

September 2 This Day in History 1666: Great Fire of London On this day the Great Fire of London began accidentally in the house of the king's baker in Pudding Lane near London Bridge. The fire, which burned for four days, destroyed a large part of the City of London, including most of the civic buildings, Old St. Paul's Cathedral, 87 parish churches, and about 13,000 houses. More events on this day 1945: World War II came to an end as Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru and General Umezu Yoshijiro signed Japan's formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri. 1945: Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam independent from France. 1898: Anglo-Egyptian forces under Major General Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener (later Lord Kitchener) defeated the Sudanese forces of the Mahdist leader 'Abd Allah in the Battle of Omdurman. 1792: The September Massacres—mass killings of prisoners in Paris—began. The massacres were instigated by beliefs that political prisoners during the French Revolution were going to rise up in their jails to join a counterrevolutionary plot. 31 BC: Octavian (later Caesar Augustus) won a decisive victory over Mark Antony in the Battle of Actium.

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