March 2

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on March 2. From 1900 until now. March 2 is under the sign of Pisces. Famous birthdays on this day include Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Jon Bon Jovi (1962) and Chris Martin (1977). Several movies were released around March 2 over the years, such as What's Up, Doc? in 1972 directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Evil Dead II in 1987 directed by Sam Raimi.
But much more happened on March 2 over the years: find out below

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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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2019 2019 India–Pakistan standoff: Indian and Pakistani soldiers target each other’s posts and villages in Kashmir, killing at least six civilians and two Pakistani troops. (Associated Press)
2018 2018 Ouagadougou attacks: A terrorist attack at the French embassy and military headquarters in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, leaves 28 people dead and at least 50 others injured. (BBC)
2017 Palmyra offensive (2017): The Syrian Army and its allies recapture the ancient city of Palmyra from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (Reuters)(Al-Masdar News)
2016 One Chinese national is killed and three others injured in a possible militant attack on a Chinese-invested company in Laos, the official Xinhua News Agency reports. (Reuters)
2015 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant:: A coalition of Iraqi Armed Forces and militia numbering around 30,000 launches an offensive against Islamic State positions in Tikrit. Troops seize control of the district of al-Tin and al-Abeid. (BBC)
2014 2014 Crimean crisis, 2014 Ukrainian revolution:: Ukraine's Navy commander-in-chief, Denis Berezovsky who was appointed only March 1, defects to the Russia-backed Crimea government. (Ria Novosty via inSerbia)Ukraine's acting president Oleksandr Turchynov says Ukraine's airspace has been closed to any non-civilian aircraft. (Reuters)
2013 2013 Bangladesh protests:: The death toll in Bangladesh rises to at least 50 as protests continue following the sentencing of Delwar Hossain Sayeedi. (Xinhua)
2012 The Red Cross is denied access to the Baba Amr district of Homs following its capture by the Syrian Army despite having been granted permission earlier to provide relief to 4,000 residents. (Sky News) (The New York Times)
2011 2011 Libyan civil war
2010 Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh:
2009 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes below 7,000 for the first time since May 1997, dropping 299.64 points, or 4.24 percent, to 6,763.29.
2008 A Lufthansa Airbus 320 nearly crashes while landing in Hamburg, Germany due to high winds. The pilot was able to stabilize the plane and successfully landed on the second try. No one was injured. (Stern)
2007 Five Bluffton University baseball players and the driver and his wife are killed in a chartered bus accident in Atlanta. The players, Zach Arend, David Betts, Scott Harmon, Cody Holp, and Tyler Williams, were en route to to Sarasota, Florida.
2006 The United States Senate voted 89–10 to renew the USA PATRIOT Act after two extensions. In its vote next week, the United States House of Representatives will likely also vote to renew the Act, analysts say. (MSNBC)
2005 President George W. Bush awards the nation's highest honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, posthumously to Jackie Robinson's widow. Robinson died in 1972.
2004 The Palestinian Authority's prisoners' affairs ministry states in its monthly statistical report that the number of Palestinian prisoners has risen to around 7,500. Of those 336 are children, 75 female and 943 in need of medical treatment. Of the 166 prisoners who died, 41% died as a result of medical negligence, while 18% died as a result of torture. (palestine-info.co.uk) (Jihad Unspun)
2003 Four North Korean fighter jets intercept a United States reconnaissance plane over international waters in the Sea of Japan
2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
2001 The Taliban begins destruction of 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 (GRB)
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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