This day in history
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Monday, 1 September 2014
On this day...
September 2
:
National Day
in Vietnam (
1945
)
1792
–
French Revolution
: Due to an overwhelming fear that foreign armies would attack
Paris
and prisoners would revolt, thousands of people were
summarily executed
.
1864
–
American Civil War
:
Union forces
entered
Atlanta, Georgia
, a day after the
Confederate defenders
fled the city, bringing the
Atlanta Campaign
to a close.
1946
– The
interim government of India
, headed by
Jawaharlal Nehru
(pictured)
, was formed to assist the transition of India from
British rule
to independence.
1957
– President
Ngô Đình Diệm
of
South Vietnam
became
the first foreign
head of state
to make a state visit to Australia.
1990
–
Transnistria
unilaterally
declared its independence
from what was then the
Moldavian SSR
of the Soviet Union, but it remains only a
partially recognised state
.
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