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Anniversaries: Sept 2

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Events

In 490BC Phidippides was sent by the Athenians to Sparta to seek Spartan help for the Athenian army facing a Persian invasion; in 1666 the Great Fire of London began, lasting until September 5; in 1945 the Second World War ended when General Douglas MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender on board the battleship USS Missouri.

Births

William Somerville, poet, 1675; Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland 1806-10, 1778; Giovanni Verga, novelist and playwright, 1840; Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, diplomat and writer, 1887.

Deaths

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Jos? de Ribera, the Spanish painter “Lo Spagnoletto”, 1652; Thomas Telford, Scottish-born civil engineer, 1834; Henri Rousseau, painter, 1910.