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September 02 in History
Events:
1666 - Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in London in the house of Charles II's baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. The fire burns for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral, but only 16 people are known to have died.
1944 - Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz. They arrive three days later.
1945 - World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz from a delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu
Deaths:
1791 - The composer and musician Frantisek Koczwara from Prague begs a London prostitute to hang him and lower him down again five minutes later, and dies in this process. The prostitute, Susanna Hill, is arrested for murder, but is found not guilty. The protocols of the proceeding and all additional documents are burned to ashes because of their dangerousness for the public moral. Koczwara is the first testified victim of sexual asphyxia. --Dühren, Eugen (Iwan Bloch): „Englische Sittengeschichte“, 1912http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2
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