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

  • 1127 –
    Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1882 –
    Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
  • 1937 –
    The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
  • 1941 –
    World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
  • 1953 –
    The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC.
  • 1956 –
    Morocco gains its independence from France.
  • 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.
  • 1989 –
    Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
  • 1990 –
    Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
  • 1991 –
    Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.
  • 1992 –
    Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations.
  • 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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