Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 2
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September 2: Independence Day for Vietnam (1945)
- 31 BC: Troops under Octavian defeated the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in the naval Battle of Actium.
- 1870: Franco-Prussian War: Napoleon III of France was captured after the Battle of Sedan.
- 1898: Horatio Kitchener established British dominance in northeastern Africa at the Battle of Omdurman.
- 1945: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on the deck of the USS Missouri, formally ending World War II.
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