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What Happened on March 2nd This Day in History

Year	Name
2017	The elements Moscovium, Tennessine, and Oganesson are officially added to the periodic table at a conference in Moscow, Russia.
2012	A tornado outbreak occurs over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities.
2004	War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
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).
1998	Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
1995	Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
1992	Start of the war in Transnistria.
1992	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, all of which (except San Marino) were former Soviet republics, join the United Nations.
1991	Establishment of Kuwait Democratic Forum, center-left political organization in Kuwait.
1991	Battle at Rumaila oil field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.
1990	Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
1989	Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
1983	Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
1978	Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
1978	The late iconic actor Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from his grave in Switzerland.
1977	Libya becomes the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as the General People's Congress adopted the "Declaration on the Establishment of the Authority of the People".
1972	The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
1970	Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
1969	In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
1968	Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country.
1965	The US and Republic of Vietnam Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
1962	In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.
1962	Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
1955	Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
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.
1943	World War II: Allied aircraft defeat a Japanese attempt to ship troops to New Guinea.
1941	World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact.
1939	Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
1937	The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
1932	Finnish president P. E. Svinhufvud gave a radio speech, which four days later finally ended the Mäntsälä Rebellion and the far-right Lapua Movement that started it.[10]
1919	The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
1917	The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
1903	In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
1901	United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
1901	The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
1882	Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick Maclean in Windsor.
1877	Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 U.S. presidential election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote.
1867	The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
1865	East Cape War: The Völkner Incident in New Zealand.
1859	The two-day Great Slave Auction, the largest such auction in United States history, begins.
1855	Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1836	Texas Revolution: The Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico is adopted.
1815	Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the leaders of the Kingdom of Kandy.
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.
1807	The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
1797	The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.
1791	Claude Chappe demonstrates the first semaphore line near Paris.
1776	American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in and around the Savannah River by a small fleet of the Royal Navy in the Battle of the Rice Boats.
1657	The Great Fire of Meireki begins in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, causing more than 100,000 deaths before it exhausts itself three days later.
1498	Vasco da Gama's fleet visits the Island of Mozambique.
1484	The College of Arms is formally incorporated by Royal Charter signed by King Richard III of England.
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.
1458	George of Poděbrady is chosen as the king of Bohemia.
1444	Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.
1331	fall of Nicaea to the Ottoman Turks after a siege.
986	Louis V becomes the last Carolingian king of West Francia after the death of his father, Lothaire.
537	Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his bucellarii are almost cut off.

Famous People Born on March 2

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Year	Name
1930	John Cullum, American actor and singer
1957	Mark Dean, American inventor and computer engineer
1980	Chris Barker, English footballer and manager (d. 2020)
1923	Dave Strack, American basketball player and coach (d. 2014)
1913	Mort Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1958)
1945	Derek Watkins, English trumpet player and composer (d. 2013)
1931	Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian lawyer and politician, the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)
1943	Robert Williams, American painter and cartoonist
1981	Bryce Dallas Howard, American actress
1810	Pope Leo XIII (d. 1903)

Famous People Deaths On March 2

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Date	Name
2012	Lawrence Anthony, South African environmentalist, explorer, and author (b. 1950)
1967	José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish author and critic (b. 1873)
2009	João Bernardo Vieira, Bissau-Guinean politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939)
1729	Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (b. 1662)
2003	Hank Ballard, American singer-songwriter (b. 1927)
2014	Ryhor Baradulin, Belarusian poet and translator (b. 1935)
1797	Horace Walpole, English historian and politician (b. 1717)
1945	Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author (b. 1871)
1333	Wladyslaw I, king of Poland (b. 1261)
2010	Winston Churchill, English journalist and politician (b. 1940)