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.
- 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.
- 1807 –The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
- 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.
- 1825 –Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
- 1855 –Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1867 –The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
- 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.
- 1903 –In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
- 1917 –The enactment of the Jones-Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
- 1946 –Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
- 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.
- 1956 –Morocco gains its independence from France.
- 1962 –Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
- 1965 –The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
- 1969 –In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
- 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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