March 2

Holidays

• Blessed Charles the Good, Count of Flanders (+Bruges 1127)
• saint Jovinus
• Saint Abdalon
• Church of England - Saint Chad's Day.
• Texas Independence Day (1836).
• Bah�'f Faith - Beginning of the Fast (sunrise to sunset fast for 19 days).
• Bah�'f Faith - Feast of 'Al� (Loftiness) - First day of the 19th month of the Bah�'f Calendar.
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Events

• 2019 India-Pakistan standoff 2019: Indian and Pakistani forces attack each other's villages and posts in Kashmir, killing at most six civilians and two Pakistani soldiers.
• 2018 2018 Ouagadougou Attacks: Terrorist attack on French Embassy and Military Headquarters in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) leaves 28 dead and more than 50 injured.
• 2017 Palmyra offensive 2017: The Syrian Army and its Allies Recapture Palmyra from Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant.
• 2016 According to the official Xinhua News Agency, one Chinese national was killed and three more were injured in a militant attack on a Chinese-invested firm in Laos.
• 2015 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant : A coalition of Iraqi Armed Forces and militias numbering in the 30,000s launches an offensive against Islamic State positions at Tikrit. Troops take control of al-Tin district and al-Abeid.
• 2014 2014 Crimean crisis, 2014 Ukrainian Revolution: Denis Berezovsky, Ukraine's Navy commander in chief, defected to the Russia-backed Crimea government. (Ria Novosty via inSerbia). Ukraine's acting president Oleksandr Turkchynov claims that Ukraine's airspace is closed to non-civilian aircraft.
• 2013 Protests in Bangladesh 2013: Bangladesh's death toll rises to at most 50 after protests continue following Delwar Hossain Sayeedi's sentencing.
• 2012 Despite having been granted permission to assist 4,000 people earlier, the Red Cross is now denied access to the Baba Amr District of Homs.
• 2011 Libyan civil war 2011
• 2010 Assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh
• 2009 The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops below 7,000 for first time since May 1997. It dropped 299.64 points or 4.24 percent to 6,763.29.
• 2008 High winds caused by high winds almost caused a Lufthansa Airbus 320 to crash while landing in Hamburg. Pilot was able stabilize the plane and successfully landed the plane on the second attempt. Nobody was hurt.
• 2007 In an Atlanta chartered bus crash, five Bluffton University baseball players were killed along with the driver and his wife. The bus was on its way to Sarasota from Florida when the accident occurred.
• 2006 After two extensions, the USA PATRIOT Act was renewed by the United States Senate with a vote of 89-10. Analysts predict that the Act will be renewed by the United States House of Representatives in its next week's vote.
• 2005 The nation's highest award, the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously, is awarded by President George W. Bush to Jackie Robinson's wife. Robinson died in 1972.
• 2004 In its monthly statistical report, the Palestinian Authority's prisoner's affairs ministry stated that there are now approximately 7,500 Palestinian prisoners. There are 336 children among them, 75 of which are girls and 943 who need medical attention. 41% of the 166 prisoner who died were victims of medical negligence and 18% succumbed to torture.
• 2003 Over international waters in the Sea of Japan, four North Korean fighter jets intercepted a United States reconnaissance aircraft.
• 2002 U.S. invades Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda starts (ending March 19, after 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters have been killed, and 11 Western troop deaths).
• 2001 The Taliban begin to destroy the Bamiyan Buddhas.
• 1999 The brand new Mandalay Bay hotel and casino opens in Las Vegas.
• 1998 Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
• 1997 Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia).
• 1996 Copeland swimming pool re-opened by Gladiator
• 1995 Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches
• 1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcast; it is, but he doesn't.
• 1993 Claudette Colbert, suffers a stroke at 89
• 1992 Sandy Dennis, American actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at age 54 (born 1939).
• 1991 Aspects of Love closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 377 performances
• 1990 Greyhound Bus workers go on strike.
• 1989 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000
• 1988 Dutch Liberal Party merges with SDP.
• 1987 American Motors Corporation is acquired by the Chrysler Corporation.
• 1986 Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US.
• 1985 US approves screening test for AIDS.
• 1984 John Long (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
• 1983 Final episode of M*A*S*H; 125,000,000 viewers
• 1982 Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru.
• 1981 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Washington DC
• 1980 3rd Islander scoreless tie - Penguins in Pittsburgh
• 1978 1st broadcast of Dallas on CBS TV
• 1977 1st time Jay Leno appears on Tonight Show
• 1976 Bubbling Brown Sugar opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 766 performances
• 1974 1st class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents
• 1973 Cleo Noel, US ambassador to Sudan, is assassinated.
• 1972 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby.
• 1970 Rhodesia becomes independent Republic
• 1969 Chinese-Russian borders fight (approximately 70 die).
• 1968 Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler and Ford
• 1967 9th Grammy Awards: "Strangers in Night" and Michele win.
• 1966 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam
• 1965 Sound Of Music opens
• 1964 Beatles begin filming Hard Days Night, Harrison meets Patti Boyd
• 1962 Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
• 1961 13 Daughters opens at 54th St. Theater NYC for 28 performances
• 1958 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open.
• 1956 The British deport Archbishop Makarios from Cyprus to the Seychelles.
• 1955 King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit.
• 1953 The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC.
• 1952 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open.
• 1949 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct)
• 1946 Kingman Douglass becomes deputy director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
• 1945 King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government.
• 1944 16th Academy Awards - Casablanca, Jennifer Jones and Paul Lukas win
• 1943 Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, US and Australia win over Japan.
• 1942 14th Academy Awards: How Green was My Valley, Gary Cooper, and Joan Fontaine win.
• 1941 World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
• 1940 Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island, Finland.
• 1939 Massachusetts Legislature votes to ratify the Bill of Rights; 147 years late.
• 1938 Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union.
• 1937 Mexico nationalizes oil.
• 1934 Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha. Nebraska.
• 1933 King Kong, premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy, New York City
• 1930 First US indoor glider flight, Saint Louis Terminal Building.
• 1929 Chicago Black Hawks are shut-out for NHL record 8th straight game.
• 1927 Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year).
• 1925 Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament
• 1923 Time magazine debuts
• 1922 WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions
• 1919 The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
• 1918 New York Yankees purchase first baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers and immediately trades him to Philadelphia Athletics.
• 1917 Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted.
• 1915 British Vice Admiral Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts.
• 1910 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die
• 1907 General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal.
• 1903 Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York City, New York.
• 1900 beginning) ampndash Groups of officials inspect towns around Australia in order to find a location for the new Federal capital.
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Famous Birthday

Who was born on March 2?

• Mikhail Gorbachev

  Russian politician who succeeded Konstantin Chernenko as General Secretary of the Communist Party on 11 March 1985.

• Jon Bon Jovi

  American musician, the superstar leader of "Bon Jovi.

• Daniel Craig

  English actor.

• Lou Reed

  American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer.

• Desi Arnaz

  Cuban-American musician and actor.

• Bryce Dallas Howard

  American actress.

• Jennifer Jones

  American actress who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1943 for her first important role in "The Song of Bernadette.

• Rebel Wilson

  Movie Actress.

• Becky G

  Rapper.

• John Irving

  American novelist, the best-selling author of acclaimed novels including "A Prayer for Owen Meaney," "The Cider House Rules," "The Hotel New...

• Tom Wolfe

  American journalist and author.

• Laraine Newman

  American actress and comedienne who studied with Marcel Marceau for one year, then moved to Los Angeles to do improv.

• John Altman

  British actor of film and TV, starting from 1975, with his strongest series being "EastEnders" from February 1985.

• Ethan Peck
• Blake Anderson

  Comedian.

• Al Waxman

  Canadian actor, very popular in Canada for his appearances in many TV programs.

• John Cullum

  American actor and singer.

• Barbara Lang
• Heather McComb

  American actress.

• Robert Iler

  American actor.

• George Layton

  English actor director and screenwriter.

• Lona Andre

  actress (Case of Baby Sitter).

• Tiger Shroff

  Movie Actor.

• Ben Roethlisberger

  American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).

• BarBara Luna

  American actress.

• Uschi Glas

  German film and television actress.

• Lana Wood

  Actress.

• Chris Eigeman

  Actor.

• Marjorie Weaver

  Crossville, Tennessee -- Actress (Young Mr Lincoln).

• Method Man

  Rapper.

• Alexander Armstrong

  Comedian.

• Chris Martin

  English musician (Coldplay).

• Karen Carpenter

  American musician, a member of a popular brother-sister singing team "The Carpenters," who sold millions of hit records in the early '70s.

• Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Algerian soldier and politician 5th President of Algeria.

• Method Man (actor)
• Alain Chamfort

  French singer and piano-player.

• Rory Gallagher

  Irish singer-songwriter guitarist and producer (Taste) (d. 1995).

• Elizabeth Jagger

  American noted family, the daughter of Mick Jagger and model Jerry Hall.

• Chris Powell (personal trainer)
• Dr Seuss
• Reggie Bush

  American football player.

• James Arthur (singer)
• Laird Hamilton

  American surfer and actor.

• Lisandro López

  Argentinian footballer.

• Stefano Accorsi

  Italian actor, married to French model and actress Laetitia Casta.

• David Skrela
• Eric Ripert
• Christian Morin

  French tv show host and clarinet player, he hosted programs on TF1 & A2: "La Roue de la fortune," "Succès fous", and "Un pour tous".

• Antoine Guérini
• Valérie Donzelli

  French actress.

• Gates McFadden

  American actress of stage, film and TV.

• Federica Ridolfi
• Philippe Jaffré

  French senior official and businessman who died on 5 September 2007.

• Oliver von Dohnányi
• Sonja Kinski
• Elsa Kikoïne
• Daphné Bürki
• Blandine Bellavoir
• Jean-François di Martino
• Jay Osmond

  American singer and drummer (The Osmonds).

• Eduardo Rodríguez
• Debra Marshall

  American professional wrestler and manager.

• Luc Plamondon

  Canadian song writer and lyricist, he has written for many artists such as Robert Charlebois, Céline Dion, Diane Dufresne.

• Kurt Weill

  German-American composer, an important figure in German musical life during the period of the Weimar Republic.

• Serena Reinaldi
• Concorde (supersonic jet): first fly
• Piotr Nardelli
• Ricardo Escobar
• Martine Allain-Regnault
• Dale Bozzio

  American singer, known for her work with Frank Zappa and with her band, Missing Persons, which she formed with her former husband, drummer...

• Piotr Kowalski
• Dave Gorman

  English documentary comedian.

• Belinda Giblin

  Australian actress who gained national attention as the sexy blonde secretary in the sordid TV soap "The Box," 10/1973 to 11/1974.

• Max Hymans

  WWII resistance fighter/Head of Air France, dies at age 60.

• François Villiers
• Dominique Zardi

  French actor (d. 2009).

• Nathalie Emmanuel

  TV Actress.

• Jennifer Delora
• Suitbert Ertel

  German educator, psychologist and astrologer.

• Larry Carlton

  American guitarist.

• Élodie Bourgeois-Pin
• Ricardo Lagos

  Chilean economist lawyer and politician 33rd President of Chile.

• John Gardner (composer)
• Henrik Lundqvist

  Hockey Player.

• Mark Evans (musician)
• Georgy Flyorov
• Jon Finch
• Juan Antonio Marin
• Maurice Bayrou

  French agricultural engineer and deputy for the Socialist Party.

• Imette Saint Guillen

  American murder victim, raped and murdered in New York City in the early hours of February 25, 2006.

• Roger Walkowiak

  French cyclist racer, winner of the Tour de France 1956.

• Odense (Denmark)
• Dai Sijie
• Gabriele Tarquini

  Italian race car driver.

• Judith Wiesner
• John Cowsill

  American singer and drummer (The Cowsills).

• René Cruse
• Ki-hong Lee
• Hajnalka Kiraly-Picot
• Patrice Halgand

  French professional road racing cyclist, one of only three Festina team riders who were named as clean during the Festina doping scandal...

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Famous Deaths

• Serge Gainsbourg

  French singer, an international sex symbol who gained fame in England with his hit record "Je T'Aime," performed with Jane Birkin.

• Martin Denny

  American pianist and composer (d. 2005).

• Anita Morris

  American actress (Born 1943).

• Randolph Scott

  American actor (Fort Worth, Gung Ho, Jesse James), dies at age 89 (born 1898).

• Philip K Dick

  American author (Born 1928).

• Tengiz Abuladze

  filmmaker, dies at age 70.

• Hugo Cole

  Musician / critic, dies at 77.

• King Nicholas

  I of Montenegro (Born 1841).

• Charles Jean de la Vallee-Poussin

  Belgian mathematician (Born 1866).

• Josiah Mwangi Kariuki

  Kenyan politician (Born 1929).

• Milton Katims

  American violist and conductor (Born 1909).

• Charles W Engelhard US silver multi-millionaire

  dies at age 54.

• Bill Lawrence

  news anchor (ABC), dies at age 56.

• James "Cool Papa" Bell

  Negro baseball league great, dies at age 87.

• Freek Zoetmulder

  publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-Nazi, dies.

• Clark Mollenhoff

  US journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies.

• George E Stewart

  American Medal of Honor recipient (Born 1872).

• Rosli Dhobi

  famous Malay Sarawakian (Born 1932).

• Marc-Aurele Fortin

  Canadian painter (Born 1888).

• Gordon Harker

  Actor (Inspector Hornleigh), dies at 81.

• Jose Martinez Ruiz

  Spanish poet and writer (Born 1873).

• Maurice Bambier

  French politician (Born 1925).

• Francois Abadie

  French politician (Born 1930).

• Thomas S Kleppe

  U.

• Winston Spencer-Churchill

  British politician (Born 1940).

• Joao Bernardo ''Nino'' Vieira

  President of Guinea-Bissau (Born 1939).

• Emily Carr

  Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

• Chris Finnegan

  British boxing champion, winner of a Gold Medal for boxing at the Mexico City Olympic Games, November 1968.

• Alexandre Yersin

  Swiss and French physician and bacteriologist.

• David Ackles

  Illinois, United States -- Vocalist / songwriter (American Gothic).

• Rick Mahler

  American baseball player and coach (d. 2005).

• Clem Labine

  American baseball player and manager (d. 2007).

• Salvador Puig Antich

  Spanish anarchist (Born 1948).

• Jean Kurt Forest

  Composer, dies at 65.

• Louis Basile

  Actor (Louie-The Super), dies at 48.

• Floortje Peneder

  Dutch Poet (Diary), dies at 15.

• Paul D Zimmerman

  US screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54.

• Cleo Noel

  US ambassador to Sudan, assassinated.

• Edith Craig

  Actress (Harmony Lane, Smashing Rackets), dies at 71.

• Mollah Mustafa Barzani

  Kurdish leader, dies at 75.

• Janear Hines

  Actress (Roberta-Julia), dies at 30.

• Philip K[indred] Dick

  American author (Hugo-1963, Dr Futurity), dies at age 53 (born 1928).

• D H Lawrence

  English writer (Born 1885).

• Jim Lightbody

  American runner (Born 1882).

• Stanis?aw Taczak

  Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising (Born 1874).

• John Diamond

  British journalist (Born 1953).

• Elisabeth OL [Carmen Sylva]

  Queen of Romania, dies at age 72.

• Harry E Soref

  inventor (padlock), dies at age 70.

• Richie Valens

  rock vocalist ('Donna', 'La Bamba'), killed in plane crash in Iowa at age 17.

• John B Kelly Jr

  chairman US Olympics Committee, dies at age 57.

• Zafer Masri

  mayor of Nablus, murdered.

• Marcel Liebman

  Belgian historian, dies at age 56.

• Donald McKenzie MacKinnon

  philosopher, dies at age 80.

• Jacobo Majluta

  President of Dominican Republic (1982), dies at age 61.

• Fidel Palffy

  Hungarian National socialist (Born 1895).

• Henri Troyat

  Russian-born writer, the prolific and award-winning author of over 100 works, including biographies, novels and plays.

• Howard Carter

  British archaeologist/Egyptologist (King Tut), dies at age 65.

• Melchora Aquino

  Filipino revolutionary hero (Born 1812).

• Ivan Safronov

  Russian journalist and engineer (d. 2007).

• Cormac McAnallen

  Northern Irish Gaelic footballer (Born 1980).

• Ben Harney

  American composer and pianist (Born 1871).

• Champ Clark

  American lawyer and politician 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1921).

• Sandra Schmirler

  Canadian curler and sportscaster (d. 2000).

• Richard Sykes

  British ambassador, assassinated in Holland.

• Marge Schott

  American baseball team owner (Born 1928).

• Christy Ring

  Irish hurler (Born 1920).

• Malcolm Williamson

  Australian pianist and composer (d. 2003).

• Fred Merkle

  American baseball player and manager (d. 1958).

• Gustav Wohlgemuth

  Composer, dies at 73.

• Eric Blore

  English actor (Born 1887).

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2018 Drake - God's Plan
• 2017 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You
• 2016 Rihanna Featuring Drake - Work
• 2015 Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!
• 2014 Katy Perry Featuring Juicy J - Dark Horse
• 2013 Baauer - Harlem Shake
• 2012 Katy Perry - Part Of Me
• 2011 Lady GaGa - Born This Way
• 2010 The Black Eyed Peas - Imma Be
• 2009 Flo Rida - Right Round
• 2008 Flo Rida - Low
• 2007 Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around…Comes Around
• 2006 Beyonce - Check On It
• 2005 50 Cent - Candy Shop
• 2004 Usher - Yeah!
• 2003 Jennifer Lopez - All I Have
• 2002 Ja Rule - Always On Time
• 2001 Joe - Stutter
• 2000 Lonestar - Amazed
• 1999 Monica - Angel Of Mine
• 1998 Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
• 1997 The Spice Girls - Wannabe
• 1996 Mariah Carey - One Sweet Day
• 1995 Madonna - Take A Bow
• 1994 Celine Dion - The Power Of Love
• 1993 Peabo Bryson & Regina Bell - A Whole New World
• 1992 Mr. Big - To Be With You
• 1991 Whitney Houston - All The Man That I Need
• 1990 Janet Jackson - Escapade
• 1989 Debbie Gibson - Lost In Your Eyes
• 1988 George Michael - Father Figure
• 1987 Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
• 1986 Mr. Mister - Kyrie
• 1985 Wham! - Careless Whisper
• 1984 Van Halen - Jump
• 1983 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
• 1982 The J. Geils Band - Centerfold
• 1981 Eddie Rabbitt - I Love A Rainy Night
• 1980 Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
• 1979 Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
• 1978 Andy Gibb - (Love Is) Thicker Than Water
• 1977 Barbra Streisand - Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen)
• 1976 Rhythm Heritage - Theme From S.W.A.T.
• 1975 Eagles - Best Of My Love
• 1974 Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun
• 1973 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song
• 1972 Nilsson - Without You
• 1971 The Osmonds - One Bad Apple
• 1970 Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
• 1969 Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People
• 1968 Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra - Love Is Blue (L'Amour Est Bleu)
• 1967 The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
• 1966 Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets
• 1965 The Temptations - My Girl
• 1964 The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
• 1963 The 4 Seasons - Walk Like A Man
• 1962 Duke Of Earl (Gene Chandler) - Duke Of Earl
• 1961 Chubby Checker - Pony Time
• 1960 Percy Faith - The Theme From A Summer Place
• 1959 Lloyd Price - Stagger Lee
• 1958 The Silhouettes - Get A Job
• 1957 Tab Hunter - Young Love
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 twenty one pilots - Heathens
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 Hozier - Take Me To Church
• 2014 Bastille - Pompeii
• 2013 The Lumineers - Ho Hey
• 2012 The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
• 2011 Cage The Elephant - Shake Me Down
• 2010 Alice In Chains - Your Decision