About March 2

March 2, 2025 is the 61st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 304 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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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 352 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On March 2

  • 1127 –
    Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.
  • 1444 –
    Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.
  • 1717 –
    The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
  • 1797 –
    The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.
  • 1807 –
    The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
  • 1855 –
    Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
  • 1877 –
    U.S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
  • 1901 –
    The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
  • 1937 –
    The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
  • 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.
  • 1955 –
    King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit.
  • 1965 –
    The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
  • 1972 –
    The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
  • 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.
  • 1991 –
    Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.
  • 1995 –
    Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
  • 1998 –
    Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter’s moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
  • 2002 –
    U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
  • 2004 –
    War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.

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