Historical Events for 2nd September 2022

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1911 - Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government
1914 - The US Treasury Department establishes the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to provide up to $5 million worth of insurance for merchant ships and their crews
1937 - Film "The Prisoner of Zenda" based on the novel and play by Anthony Hope, starring Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is released
1944 - US leaders meet in Belgium
1945 - Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independent from France (National Day)
1956 - San Francisco Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
1982 - Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down
1990 - Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Dave Stieb throws MLB record 9th no-hitter of the season; beats Cleveland, 3-0
1998 - The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide
2019 - Diving boat catches fire at night killing 34 asleep on board off Santa Cruz Island, California

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