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Abolitionist, inventor, entrepreneur, James Forten was born in Philadelphia, PA, 1766
U.S. Patent # 304,552
September 2, 1884 Follower-Screw for Tobacco Presses.
Official Gazette of the USPTO v.28, p.883
Professional baseball player, Frank Robinson was named MVP of the American League, 1966
Tennessee National Guard sent to Clinton, Tenn., to quell mobs demonstrating against school integration.
One of the major contributors to the world of art and literature, Romare Bearden, was born on September 2, 1911 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
William Tecumseh Sherman occupied Atlanta. In series of battles around Chaffins Farm in suburb of Richmond, Black troops captured entrenchments at New Market Heights, made gallant but unsuccessful assault on Fort Gilmer and helped repulse Confederate counterattack on Fort Harrison. Thirty-ninth U.S.C.T. won a Congressional Medals of Honor in the engagements.
Japanese surrendered on V-J Day, ending World War II.
