This Day in History September 2

September 2 was by no means a boring day in history. It had a little good and a little bad in it.
It is on this day in 1945 that World War II in the Asian theater came to an end as Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru and General Umezu Yoshijiro signed Japan's formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri. Back in the 1980s Arletta and I went to Bremerton Washington where the USS Missouri was docked. For me it was a great moment to stand on the wooden deck of this great battleship on the spot where the Japanese singed an unconditional surrender to the armies led By General Douglas McArthur.

And for you Roman History buffs this is the day in history in 31 BC when Octavian, later to become Augustus Caesar, defeated Mark Antony at the battle of Actium.