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What happened on September 2 in American history
September 2 is the 245th day of the year (the 246th in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 6 stories from September 2 spanning 1789 to 1958. Among them: in 1789, Congress builds a permanent Treasury; a war-debt nation finally gets a bank statement; and in 1862, Lincoln, out of options, hands the beaten army back to McClellan.
1789Member story · 1776 Club
Congress builds a permanent Treasury; a war-debt nation finally gets a bank statement
The act names a Secretary, Comptroller, Auditor, Treasurer, and Register, before anyone knows who will fill the top chair.
1862Member story · 1776 Club
Lincoln, out of options, hands the beaten army back to McClellan
The general he sidelined months earlier is now the only man Washington trusts to hold the line.
1864
Atlanta falls: Mayor Calhoun rides out under a flag of truce and gives up the city
Mayor James Calhoun hands over the city hours after Confederate forces torch what they cannot carry away.
1901
Roosevelt tells a Minnesota crowd: speak softly and carry a big stick
The vice president frames his foreign policy as an old proverb, twelve days before he became president.
1945
Aboard the Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan signs its surrender; the war is over
Foreign Minister Shigemitsu puts his name to the document at dawn; the Japanese delegation is gone within the hour.
1958Member story · 1776 Club
Four Soviet MiGs down a USAF C-130 over Armenia; all seventeen aboard are lost
The plane had cleared Trabzon on a routine radio check minutes before it vanished off the Turkish border.
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