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
- 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.
- 1791 –Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
- 1807 –The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
- 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.
- 1815 –Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the King of Sri Lanka.
- 1825 –Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1955 –King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit.
- 1965 –The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
- 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.
- 1995 –Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
- 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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