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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1797 –The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.
- 1836 –Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.
- 1861 –Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia: Tsar Alexander II signs the emancipation reform into law, abolishing Russian serfdom.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
- 1943 –World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
- 1953 –The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC.
- 1956 –Morocco gains its independence from France.
- 1962 –In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.
- 1962 –Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
- 1978 –Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
- 1989 –Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
- 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).
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