About March 2
March 2, 2024 is the 62nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 304 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 333 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 2
- 986 –Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units arrest the Royal Governor of Georgia James Wright and attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in the Battle of the Rice Boats.
- 1791 –Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
- 1808 –The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
- 1836 –Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.
- 1855 –Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1867 –The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
- 1882 –Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
- 1917 –The enactment of the Jones-Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
- 1919 –The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
- 1939 –Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
- 1943 –World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
- 1949 –Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
- 1949 –The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut.
- 1956 –Morocco gains its independence from France.
- 1965 –The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
- 1969 –Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
- 1983 –Compact Disc players and discs are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had only been available in Japan before then.
- 1990 –Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
- 1998 –Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter’s moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
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