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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2" title="September 2">September 2</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_(Vietnam)" title="National Day (Vietnam)">National Day</a></b> in Vietnam (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1789" title="1789">1789</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Treasury" title="United States Department of the Treasury">United States Department of the Treasury</a></b> was founded following financial concerns in the new nation.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1792" title="1792">1792</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>: Due to an overwhelming fear that foreign armies would attack Paris and prisoners would revolt, revolutionaries began the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_Massacres" title="September Massacres">summary execution of more than a thousand prisoners</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946" title="1946">1946</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interim_Government_of_India" title="Interim Government of India">interim government of India</a></b>, headed by <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru" title="Jawaharlal Nehru">Jawaharlal Nehru</a></b>, was formed to assist the transition of India from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British rule</a> to independence.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957" title="1957">1957</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam" title="South Vietnam">South Vietnamese</a> president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem" title="Ngo Dinh Diem">Ngô Đình Diệm</a> began <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem_presidential_visit_to_Australia" title="Ngo Dinh Diem presidential visit to Australia">an official visit</a></b> to Australia, the first by a foreign incumbent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_state" title="Head of state">head of state</a> to the country.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967" title="1967">1967</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Roy_Bates" title="Paddy Roy Bates">Paddy Roy Bates</a> proclaimed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Fort_Roughs" title="HM Fort Roughs">HM Fort Roughs</a>, a former World <span class="nowrap">War II</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Forts#Maunsell_naval_forts" title="Maunsell Forts">Maunsell Sea Fort</a> in the North Sea off the coast of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk" title="Suffolk">Suffolk</a>, England, as an independent sovereign state: the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand" title="Principality of Sealand">Principality of Sealand</a></b>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantius_III" title="Constantius III">Constantius III</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 421); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili%CA%BBuokalani" title="Liliʻuokalani">Liliʻuokalani</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1838); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Silver" title="Horace Silver">Horace Silver</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1928); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock" title="Barbara McClintock">Barbara McClintock</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1992)</p>