The Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground during a performance of Henry VIII.
2nd September 31 BCE: Marc Antony and Cleopatra defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium
2nd September 2018
The worst fire in the history of the London Underground killed 31 people at Kings Cross St Pancras station.
Beginning at a bakery in Pudding Lane, the catastrophic fire blazed for more than three days and destroyed over 13,000 houses, churches and government buildings.
The 999 service was launched in London on 30 June 1937, and initially covered a 12 mile radius from Oxford Street.
The Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka was burnt down during a violent rampage by an organised mob of ethnic Sinhalese.
Charles VI of France danced in the Bal des Ardents in which four people died after their costumes caught fire.
30th September 1935: The Hoover Dam is dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt
30th September 2020
27th September 1908: First Model T Ford produced in Detroit
27th September 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018