IT HAPPENED ON SEPTEMBER 2ND

Avionews, Italy
Sept 3 2007

Rome, Italy – Voyage in the history (WAPA) – The events and
anniversaries:

Report: 1939 – World War II: following the invasion of Poland, Freie
Stadt Danzig (now Gdañsk, Poland) is annexed to Nazi Germany.

Report: 1945 – Combat in World War II ends in the Pacific theater:
The final official surrender of Japan is accepted aboard the battleship
"USS Missouri" in Tokyo Bay.

Report: 1945 – Vietnam declares its independence, forming the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).

Military Aviation: 1958 – U.S. Air Force C-130A-II aircraft is shot
down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet
airspace while conducting a sigint (SIGnals INTelligence) mission.

All crew lost.

Aerospace: 1970 – NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo
missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation was re-used by a
later mission), and Apollo 19.

Report: 1987 – The process to German pilot Mathias Rust, 19, starts.

He landed on the Red Square with his CESSNA aircraft in May.

Report: 1990 – The Convention of the Right of the Child comes into
effect becoming the world’s most ratified treaty (excluded USA and
Somalia). It was approved by UN General Assembly on November 20th,
1989.

Civil Aviation: 1998 – The Air Canada pilots carry out the first
strike in the airline’s history.

Incidents: 1998 – A Swiss Air aircraft, flight 111, crashes near
Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.

Report: 1998 – The UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda,
guilty of nine counts of genocide.

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress