Thursday 2 September 2010

On This Day - 2nd September


1910 - Artist Henri Rousseau dies
1945 - Japanese officials sign the act of unconditional surrender, finally bringing to an end six years of world war.
1948 - Christa McAuliffe born
1951 - British designers hold a fashion show of 40 outfits they plan to show at the Venice Biennale arts festival and Mark Harmon born
1952 - Jimmy Connors born
1964 - Keanu Reeves born
1965 - Lennox Lewis born
1968 - Salma Hayek born
1976 - Erin Hershey born
1979 - Police discover the body of a young woman - thought to be the 12th victim of the "Yorkshire Ripper" - in an alleyway near the centre of Bradford.
1984 - A 14-year-old girl and six bikers are killed in a gun battle between rival gangs in a suburb of Sydney, Australia.
1994 - Entertainer and television presenter Roy Castle dies from cancer at his Buckinghamshire home, just two days after his 62nd birthday.

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