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Today in History 09/02 (Battle of Actium)

September 2, 2018 by GµårÐïåñ
Drawing depicting the Battle of Actium (© Universal History Archive/Getty Images)(31 BCE) Sunset of the Roman Republic as Octavian takes Actium
The Ionian Sea boils with 750 warships as Octavian engages Mark Antony in a battle to determine the Roman Republic’s fate. Julius Caesar’s great-nephew defeats Caesar’s former friend, and Octavian will go on to found the Roman Empire and be named Augustus, its first emperor.
The Battle of Actium was the decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic, a naval engagement between Octavian and the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra on 2 September 31 BC, on the Ionian Sea near the promontory of Actium, in the Roman province of Epirus Vetus in Greece. Octavian’s fleet was commanded by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, while Antony’s fleet was supported by the power of Queen Cleopatra of Ptolemaic Egypt.
Date: 31 BC

Map of the Battle of Actium
Map of the Battle of Actium
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(31 BCE) Sunset of the Roman Republic as Octavian takes Actium.
Also on this day,

1666 | Great Fire of London breaks out in Pudding Lane
Cinders from a baker’s oven ignite a woodpile, which then burns the house situated in a warren-like maze of London’s timber-built city center. Strong winds whip the flames into an uncontrollable conflagration that will destroy some 13,000 houses and consume most of the great city.
1935 | The most powerful hurricane in US history makes landfall
Birthed near the Bahamas as a weak tropical depression, a monstrous hurricane packing sustained high winds of 185 mph makes landfall over the upper Florida Keys, where a storm surge 20 feet high swamps the low-lying islands. Upwards of 600 people will perish in the Labor Day hurricane.
1945 | Japan accepts surrender terms as WWII officially ends
Black formal wear and military khaki meet on the deck of the USS Missouri battleship as a signing ceremony ending WWII gets under way. The Japanese foreign minister signs surrender documents, with General Douglas MacArthur signing for the Allies at the close of history’s most destructive war.

Today in History 09/02/17

Lt. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland witnesses the ceremony marking the end of World War II as Foreign Minister Manoru Shigemitsu of Japan signs the surrender document aboard the USS Missouri on Sept 2, 1945 (© C.P. Gorry/AP)(1945) Japan accepts surrender terms as WWII officially ends
Black formal wear and military khaki meet on the deck of the USS Missouri battleship as a signing ceremony ending WWII gets under way. The Japanese foreign minister signs surrender documents, with General Douglas MacArthur signing for the Allies at the close of history's most destructive war.

The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent. Together with the British Empire and China, the United States called for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945—the alternative being "prompt and utter destruction". While publicly stating their intent to fight on to the bitter end, Japan's leaders (the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War, also known as the "Big Six") were privately making entreaties to the still-neutral Soviet Union to mediate peace on terms more favorable to the Japanese. Meanwhile, the Soviets were preparing to attack Japanese forces in Manchuria and Korea (in addition to South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) in fulfillment of promises they had secretly made to the United States and the United Kingdom at the Tehran and Yalta Conferences.

On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM local time, the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Sixteen hours later, American President Harry S. Truman called again for Japan's surrender, warning them to "expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth." Late in the evening of August 8, 1945, in accordance with the Yalta agreements, but in violation of the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and soon after midnight on August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union invaded the Imperial Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. Later in the day, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb, this time on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Following these events, Emperor Hirohito intervened and ordered the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War to accept the terms the Allies had set down in the Potsdam Declaration for ending the war. After several more days of behind-the-scenes negotiations and a failed coup d'état, Emperor Hirohito gave a recorded radio address across the Empire on August 15. In the radio address, called the Jewel Voice Broadcast (玉音放送 Gyokuon-hōsō), he announced the surrender of Japan to the Allies.

On August 28, the occupation of Japan by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers began. The surrender ceremony was held on September 2, aboard the United States Navy battleship USS Missouri, at which officials from the Japanese government signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, thereby ending the hostilities. Allied civilians and military personnel alike celebrated V-J Day, the end of the war; however, some isolated soldiers and personnel from Imperial Japan's far-flung forces throughout Asia and the Pacific islands refused to surrender for months and years afterwards, some even refusing into the 1970s. The role of the atomic bombings in Japan's unconditional surrender, and the ethics of the two attacks, is still debated. The state of war formally ended when the Treaty of San Francisco came into force on April 28, 1952. Four more years passed before Japan and the Soviet Union signed the Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956, which formally brought an end to their state of war.


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Allied landings in the Pacific Theatre of Operations, August 1942 to August 1945

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Posted in: History Tagged: 1666, 1935, 1945, 31 BCE, Battle of Actium, Douglas MacArthur, Great Fire of London, history, Labor Day Hurricane, Mark Antony, Octavian, Pudding Lane, Roman Republic, Surrender of Japan, USS Missouri, World War II

Today in History

September 2, 2016 by GµårÐïåñ
Today in History
(31 BCE) Sunset of the Roman Republic as Octavian takes Actium
31 BCE The Ionian Sea boils with 750 warships as Octavian engages Mark Antony in a battle to determine the Roman Republic’s fate. Julius Caesar’s great-nephew defeats Caesar’s former friend, and Octavian will go on to found the Roman Empire and be named Augustus, its first emperor. .
The Battle of Actium was the decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic, a naval engagement between Octavian and the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra on 2 September 31 BC, on the Ionian Sea near the promontory of Actium, in the Roman province of Epirus Vetus in Greece. Octavian’s fleet was commanded by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, while Antony’s fleet was supported by the power of Queen Cleopatra of Ptolemaic Egypt.

Date: 31 BC
(1666) Great Fire of London breaks out in Pudding Lane
Cinders from a baker’s oven ignite a woodpile, which then burns the house situated in a warren-like maze of London’s timber-built city center. Strong winds whip the flames into an uncontrollable conflagration that will destroy some 13,000 houses and consume most of the great city.. 1666
The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666. The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall. It threatened but did not reach the aristocratic district of Westminster, Charles II’s Palace of Whitehall, and most of the suburban slums. It consumed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, St Paul’s Cathedral, and most of the buildings of the City authorities. It is estimated to have destroyed the homes of 70,000 of the City’s 80,000 inhabitants. The death toll is unknown but traditionally thought to have been small, as only six verified deaths were recorded. This reasoning has recently been challenged on the grounds that the deaths of poor and middle-class people were not recorded, while the heat of the fire may have cremated many victims, leaving no recognisable remains. A melted piece of pottery on display at the Museum of London found by archaeologists in Pudding Lane, where the fire started, shows that the temperature reached 1250 °C.

Start date: Sep 02, 1666
End date: Sep 05, 1666
(1935) The most powerful hurricane in US history makes landfall
1935 Birthed near the Bahamas as a weak tropical depression, a monstrous hurricane packing sustained high winds of 185 mph makes landfall over the upper Florida Keys, where a storm surge 20 feet high swamps the low-lying islands. Upwards of 600 people will perish in the Labor Day hurricane..
The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane is the strongest and most intense hurricane to make landfall in the United States and the Atlantic Basin in recorded history. The second tropical cyclone, second hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 1935 Atlantic hurricane season, the Labor Day Hurricane was the first of three Category 5 hurricanes at landfall that the United States endured during the 20th Century. After forming as a weak tropical storm east of the Bahamas on August 29, it slowly proceeded westward and became a hurricane on September 1. Northeast storm warnings were ordered displayed Fort Pierce to Fort Myers in the September 1, 9:30 AM Weather Bureau advisory. Upon receipt of this advisory the U. S. Coast Guard Station, Miami, FL, sent a plane along the coast to advise boaters and campers of the impending danger by dropping message blocks. A second flight was made Sunday afternoon. All planes were placed in the hangar and its door closed at 10:00 AM Monday morning.

Damages: $6 million USD (1935)
Formed: Aug 29, 1935
Dissipated: Sep 10, 1935
Total fatalities: 408
Affected areas: Florida Keys · Bahamas · Florida Panhandle · South Carolina · North Carolina · Virginia · Georgia
(1945) Japan accepts surrender terms as WWII officially ends
Black formal wear and military khaki meet on the deck of the USS Missouri battleship as a signing ceremony ending WWII gets under way. The Japanese foreign minister signs surrender documents, with General Douglas MacArthur signing for the Allies at the close of history’s most destructive war.. 1945
The surrender of Japan was announced by Imperial Japan on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent. Together with the United Kingdom and China, the United States called for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945—the alternative being “prompt and utter destruction”. While publicly stating their intent to fight on to the bitter end, Japan’s leaders (the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War, also known as the “Big Six”) were privately making entreaties to the still-neutral Soviet Union to mediate peace on terms more favorable to the Japanese. Meanwhile, the Soviets were preparing to attack Japanese forces in Manchuria and Korea (in addition to southern Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) in fulfillment of promises they had secretly made to the United States and the United Kingdom at the Tehran and Yalta Conferences.

On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM local time, the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Sixteen hours later, American President Harry S. Truman called again for Japan’s surrender, warning them to “expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.” Late in the evening of August 8, 1945, in accordance with the Yalta agreements, but in violation of the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and soon after midnight on August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union invaded the Imperial Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. Later in the day, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb, this time on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Following these events, Emperor Hirohito intervened and ordered the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War to accept the terms the Allies had set down in the Potsdam Declaration for ending the war. After several more days of behind-the-scenes negotiations and a failed coup d’état, Emperor Hirohito gave a recorded radio address across the Empire on August 15. In the radio address, called the Jewel Voice Broadcast (玉音放送 Gyokuon-hōsō?), he announced the surrender of Japan to the Allies.

On August 28, the occupation of Japan by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers began. The surrender ceremony was held on September 2, aboard the United States Navy battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), at which officials from the Japanese government signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, thereby ending the hostilities. Allied civilians and military personnel alike celebrated V-J Day, the end of the war; however, some isolated soldiers and personnel from Imperial Japan’s far-flung forces throughout Asia and the Pacific islands refused to surrender for months and years afterwards, some even refusing into the 1970s. The role of the atomic bombings in Japan’s unconditional surrender, and the ethics of the two attacks, is still debated. The state of war formally ended when the Treaty of San Francisco came into force on April 28, 1952. Four more years passed before Japan and the Soviet Union signed the Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956, which formally brought an end to their state of war.
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