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
- 986 –Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
- 1444 –Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.
- 1808 –The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
- 1811 –Argentine War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of revolutionary ships in the Battle of San Nicolás on the River Plate.
- 1815 –Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the King of Sri Lanka.
- 1825 –Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
- 1861 –Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia: Tsar Alexander II signs the emancipation reform into law, abolishing Russian serfdom.
- 1865 –East Cape War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
- 1888 –The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
- 1903 –In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
- 1933 –The film King Kong opens at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
- 1937 –The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
- 1956 –Morocco gains its independence from France.
- 1969 –Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
- 1970 –Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
- 1972 –The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
- 1978 –Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
- 1990 –Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
- 1992 –Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations.
- 2004 –War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
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