On September 2, 1885, 150 white miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, brutally attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15 others, and driving several hundred more out of town.
The miners working in the Union Pacific coal mine had been struggling to unionize and strike for better working conditions for years. But at every juncture the powerful railroad company had bested them. Searching for a scapegoat, the angry miners blamed the Chinese. The Chinese coal miners were hard workers, but the Union Pacific had initially brought many of them to Rock Springs as strikebreakers, and they showed little interest in the miners’ union.
1937
“奧運之父”顧拜旦病逝於日內瓦
皮埃爾·德·顧拜旦(Pierre de Coubertin,1863年1月1日-1937年9月2日),法蘭西巴黎人,現代奧林匹克運動會的發起人,1896年至1925年任國際奧林匹克委員會主席,奧林匹克會徽、奧林匹克會旗設計者。他終生倡導奧林匹克精神,被譽為“現代奧林匹克之父”。顧拜旦不僅是國際體育活動家,同時也是卓有成就的教育學家和曆史學家。1937年9月2日病逝。
Hours after Japan’s surrender in World War II, Vietnamese communist Ho Chi Minh declares the independence of Vietnam from France. The proclamation paraphrased the U.S. Declaration of Independence in declaring, “All men are born equal: the Creator has given us inviolable rights, life, liberty, and happiness!” and was cheered by an enormous crowd gathered in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh Square. It would be 30 years, however, before Ho’s dream of a united, communist Vietnam became reality.
中央電視台(簡稱央視,英語China Central Television,簡稱CCTV),是中華人民共和國國家電視台。1958年5月1日試播,9月2日正式播出。初名北京電視台,1978年5月1日更名為中央電視台。中央電視台是中國重要的新聞輿論機構,是黨、政府和人民的重要喉舌,是中國重要的思想文化陣地,是當今中國最具競爭力的主流媒體之一,具有傳播新聞、社會教育、文化娛樂、信息服務等多種功能,是全國公眾獲取信息的主要渠道,也是中國了解世界、世界了解中國的重要窗口,在國際上的影響正日益增強。
Vietnamese president and communist icon Ho Chi Minh dies
President Ho Chi Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam dies of a heart attack in Hanoi. North Vietnamese officials announced his death the next day.
On September 2, 1969, America’s first automatic teller machine (ATM) makes its public debut, dispensing cash to customers at Chemical Bank in Rockville Centre, New York. ATMs went on to revolutionize the banking industry, eliminating the need to visit a bank to conduct basic financial transactions. By the 1980s, these money machines had become widely popular and handled many of the functions previously performed by human tellers, such as check deposits and money transfers between accounts. Today, ATMs are as indispensable to most people as cell phones and e-mail.