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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1865 –
    East Cape War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
  • 1867 –
    The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
  • 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.
  • 1933 –
    The film King Kong opens at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1949 –
    The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut.
  • 1955 –
    King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit.
  • 1962 –
    In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.
  • 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.

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