About March 2
March 2, 2024 is the 62nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 304 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 333 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 2
- 986 –Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
- 1444 –Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.
- 1717 –The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units arrest the Royal Governor of Georgia James Wright and attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in the Battle of the Rice Boats.
- 1797 –The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.
- 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.
- 1825 –Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
- 1836 –Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.
- 1865 –East Cape War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
- 1882 –Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
- 1901 –The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
- 1917 –The enactment of the Jones-Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
- 1946 –Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
- 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.
- 1949 –The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut.
- 1972 –The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
- 1983 –Compact Disc players and discs are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had only been available in Japan before then.
- 1990 –Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
- 1995 –Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
- 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).
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