Uberazzi

IT WAS ON THIS DAY (02 SEPTEMBER)) IN HISTORY:

- in 1996 British boxer Frank Bruno achieved his dream of becoming world heavyweight champion, wining the WBC title at Wembley Stadium in London.

- in 1974 the sailing boat owned by British prime minister Edward Heath, sinks in the English Channel. Two people are killed - including Heath's godson.

- in 1958 China's first television station opens in Peking.

- in 1945, proclaimation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam with Ho Chi-Minh its first president.

- in 1923 the first elections are held in the Irish Free State following independence from Britain.

- in 1945 the formal Japanese surrender to the Allies at the end of World War II is signed on board the American battleship, the Missouri.

- 1865 marked the end of the Second Maori War in New Zealand.