What day of the week was September 2, 1945?

The day of the week September 2nd, 1945 fell on was a Sunday.

Mason Phelps the American golfer (b. 1885) died on this day in 1945.

World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship in Tokyo Bay. Vietnam declares its independence the forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.