Japan Signs Surrender: How World War II Formally Ended Aboard USS Missouri on September 2, 1945

At 9:02 in the morning on Sunday, September 2, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur stepped to the microphone on the teak deck of the United States Navy battleship USS Missouri, anchore

Battle of Actium: How Octavian Defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra on September 2, 31 BC and Became Master of the Roman World

On the morning of September 2, 31 BC, on the sunlit waters of the Ionian Sea off the promontory of Actium on the western coast of Greece, two of the greatest military and naval for

Korean Air Flight 007 Shot Down: How a Navigational Error and Cold War Paranoia Killed 269 Passengers on September 1, 1983

In the freezing darkness high above the Soviet Far East, at approximately 3:26 in the morning local time on September 1, 1983, a Soviet Air Forces pilot named Major Gennadiy Nikola

Germany Invades Poland: How Adolf Hitler’s September 1, 1939 Attack on Poland Launched World War II and Shattered Europe

In the gray pre-dawn darkness of September 1, 1939, at precisely 4:45 in the morning, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the Polish military transit depot at W