THE DAY IN HISTORY · SEPTEMBER 2
September 2 in history
What happened on September 2: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1864 and 1945, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Fall of Atlanta
2 Sep 1864 — After four months of flanking maneuvers and three battles at the city’s edge, Sherman takes the South’s rail hub: “Atlanta is ours, and fairly won.” One telegram remakes a presidential election — see Washington.
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Aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan signs the surrender. Sixty million people have died; the modern world begins.
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