Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Sept 02
Reuters
1910 - The French painter Henri Rousseau died in Paris.
1930 - The French aviators Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte completed the first non-stop flight from Europe to the United States.
1945 - Japanese leaders aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri signed an unconditional surrender, ending World War Two.
1945 - The Democratic Republic of Vietnam was proclaimed with Ho Chi Minh as president.
1973 - J.R.R. Tolkien, South African-born English author, died in Bournemouth, England. He is best known for the fantasy epic "The Lord of the Rings".
1990 - Canadian soldiers seized control of an outpost of Mohawk Indians near Montreal, ending a 53-day armed stand-off.
1996 - Muslim rebels and the Philippine government signed a pact ending 24 years of conflict in which 125,000 people died.
1998 - A Swissair plane crashed into the sea off Nova Scotia, Canada; 229 people were killed.
2001 - The South African heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard died aged 78. He rocketed to world fame in December 1967 when he performed the first human heart transplant.
2002 - Some 103 world leaders gathered in Johannesburg for a formal U.N. meeting about a plan to help the poor and the environment at the Earth Summit.
2017 - German sets world record for carrying beer steins.
