About March 2
March 2, 2023 is the 61st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 304 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 345 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.
- 1797 –The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.
- 1815 –Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the King of Sri Lanka.
- 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.
- 1865 –East Cape War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1953 –The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC.
- 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.
- 1969 –Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
- 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.
- 1989 –Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
- 1990 –Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
- 2004 –War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
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