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
- 1444 –Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.
- 1476 –Burgundian Wars: The Old Swiss Confederacy hands Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, a major defeat in the Battle of Grandson in Canton of Neuchâtel.
- 1717 –The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1882 –Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
- 1888 –The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
- 1901 –The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
- 1903 –In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
- 1919 –The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
- 1933 –The film King Kong opens at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
- 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.
- 1969 –In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1989 –Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
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