Notable Historical Events on March 2nd
March 2nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
986 |
Louis V becomes King of the Franks. |
1121 |
Dirk VI becomes count of Holland |
1127 |
Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders. |
1458 |
Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen king of Bohemia |
1498 |
Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island |
1629 |
English King Charles I dissolves Parliament against opposition, imprisoning 9 members of parliament |
1675 |
Prince William III installed as governor of Overijssel |
1717 |
The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England. |
1776 |
Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston |
1789 |
Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances |
1791 |
Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris. |
1799 |
Congress standardizes US weights & measures |
1807 |
Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808 |
1808 |
The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, was held in Edinburgh. |
1815 |
Signing of Kandyan treaty by British invaders and Sri Lankan King. |
1817 |
1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn |
1819 |
Territory of Arkansas organized |
1819 |
US passed its 1st immigration law |
1824 |
Interstate commerce comes under federal control |
1825 |
1st grand opera in US sung in English, NYC |
1829 |
New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston |
1831 |
John Frazee becomes 1st US sculptor to receive a federal commission |
1836 |
Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico |
1842 |
The Grand National steeplechase at Aintree near Liverpool England is won by Gaylad, ridden by Tom Olliver. |
1853 |
Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Ter |
1855 |
Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia |
1858 |
Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie |
1861 |
Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington |
1861 |
US creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah ter |
1865 |
British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing |
1865 |
Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865 |
1865 |
Conferate General Early's army is defeated at the battle of Waynesboro VA during American Civil War |
1865 |
Second Taranaki War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand. |
1866 |
1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Conn |
1867 |
1st Reconstruction act passed by US Congress |
1867 |
US Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico |
1867 |
US Congress created the Department of Education |
1867 |
Jesse James gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead |
1867 |
US Congress creates the Department of Education |
1868 |
University of Illinois opens |
1872 |
Louis Riel goes into voluntary exile in St. Paul, Minnesota |
1874 |
Baseball batter's box is officially adopted |
1877 |
Rutherford B. Hayes (R) declared president despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory |
1887 |
American Trotting Association organized in Detroit |
1888 |
The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace. |
1889 |
Kansas passes 1st US antitrust |
1890 |
Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 5 km (9:19) |
1893 |
1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features |
1896 |
George Lohmann takes 9-28 v South Africa at Johannesburg |
1898 |
Australia complete a 4-1 series annihilation of England |
1899 |
Pres McKinley signs bill creating Mt Rainier Natl Park (5th in US) |
1901 |
Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens |
1901 |
The United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops. |
1902 |
Jimmy Collins, leaves Boston Beaneaters (NL) club to manage AL's new Boston Somersets |
1903 |
Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in NYC |
1904 |
"Official Playing Rules of Professional Base Ball Clubs" adopted |
1904 |
Gabriele d'Annunzio's "La figlia di Iorio," premieres in Milan |
1907 |
General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal |
1907 |
Georges Feydeaus' "La Puce à l'Oreille," premieres in Paris |
1909 |
Gr Brit, France, Germ & It asks Serbia to set no territorial demands |
1910 |
2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die |
1915 |
British vice adm Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts |
1915 |
Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine |
1917 |
Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted |
1918 |
NY Yankees purchase 1st baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers & immediately trades him to Phila A's |
1919 |
1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin |
1920 |
Karel Capék's "Loupeznik," premieres in Prague |
1922 |
WBAP-AM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting |
1922 |
WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions |
1925 |
Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament |
1925 |
Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage |
1925 |
Nationwide road numbering system & US shield marker adopted |
1925 |
SDAP-Second-Faction of parliament demands drastic disarmament |
1927 |
Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year) |
1929 |
Chicago Black Hawks shut-out for NHL record 8th straight game |
1929 |
Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals |
1930 |
1st US indoor glider flight, St Louis Terminal Building |
1933 |
"King Kong," premieres at Radio City Music Hall & RKO Roxy NYC |
1933 |
Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan |
1934 |
Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha |
1936 |
Bradman scores 369 in 253 mins, SA v Tasmania, 46 fours 4 sixes |
1937 |
Mexico nationalizes oil |
1938 |
Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (Los Angeles California) |
1938 |
Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union |
1939 |
Eugenio Pacelli chosen as Pope Pius XII |
1939 |
Massachusetts Legislature votes to ratify the US Bill of Rights - 147 years late |
1940 |
1st intercollegiate track meet telecast, Madison Square Garden, NYC |
1940 |
Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland |
1941 |
World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact. |
1942 |
14th Academy Awards - "How Green was My Valley," Cooper & Fontaine win |
1942 |
Admiral Helfrich departs Java for Ceylon |
1943 |
1st transport from Westerbork Neth to Sobibor concentration camp |
1944 |
16th Academy Awards - "Casablanca," Jennifer Jones & Paul Lukas win |
1944 |
Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy |
1945 |
8th Air Force bombs Dresden |
1945 |
King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government |
1946 |
Dutch troops land on East Bali |
1946 |
Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam |
1946 |
Kingman Douglass, becomes deputy director of CIA |
1949 |
1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct) |
1949 |
Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at Fort Worth, Tx, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hrs |
1951 |
1st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-94 at Boston |
1952 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
1953 |
The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC. |
1955 |
King Norodom Sihanukh of Cambodia succeeded by his father |
1955 |
William Inge's "Bus Stop," premieres in NYC |
1956 |
Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declares independence from France |
1958 |
1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days |
1958 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
1958 |
Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic |
1961 |
"13 Daughters" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 28 performances |
1962 |
JFK announces US will resume above ground nuclear testing |
1962 |
Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game |
1962 |
In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup. |
1964 |
Beatles begin filming "Hard Days Night," Harrison meets Patti Boyd |
1965 |
"Sound Of Music" opens |
1965 |
Montcalm Community College in Sidney Mich, founded |
1965 |
One of the most popular musical films of all time, "The Sound of Music", starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, is released |
1966 |
215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam |
1967 |
9th Grammy Awards: Strangers in Night, Michele wins |
1967 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1968 |
Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler & Ford (GRB) |
1968 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Belousova & Protopopov (USSR) |
1968 |
Men's Figure Skating Champions in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT) |
1968 |
USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world |
1968 |
USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit |
1968 |
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (US) |
1969 |
1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde |
1969 |
Chinese-Russian borders fight (approx 70 die) |
1969 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 14th Symphony |
1969 |
Phil Esposito becomes 1st NHL Player to score 100 points in a season |
1970 |
American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747 |
1970 |
Rhodesia becomes independent republic |
1970 |
Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years |
1972 |
Jean-Bédell Bokassa appoints himself pres for life of Cent African Rep |
1972 |
Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby |
1973 |
"Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum |
1974 |
16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly, Bette Midler wins |
1974 |
1st class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents |
1974 |
Grand jury concludes Pres Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up |
1974 |
Greg Chappell makes 247* v NZ, 410 minutes, 29 fours 1 six |
1976 |
"Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 766 performances |
1976 |
Bob Lurie becomes CEO of SF Giants |
1976 |
Holgate, Kemp & Lopez' musical premieres in NYC |
1976 |
Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest |
1977 |
1st time Jay Leno appears on Tonight Show |
1977 |
Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award |
1977 |
Future Tonight Show host Jay Leno debuts with host Johnny Carson |
1977 |
Libya amends constitution |
1978 |
1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV |
1978 |
Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6 |
1980 |
3rd Islander scoreless tie-Penguins in Pitts |
1980 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic |
1980 |
Mike Bratz (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games |
1981 |
Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists |
1981 |
Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Wash DC |
1982 |
60th hat trick in Islander history-Bryan Trottier |
1982 |
Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru |
1983 |
Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips & Sony introduced |
1983 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1984 |
Iran offensive against Iraq fails |
1984 |
John Long (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games |
1985 |
US approves screening test for AIDS |
1986 |
1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita |
1986 |
Mary Beth Zimmerman wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational |
1986 |
Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US |
1988 |
30th Grammy Awards: Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley |
1988 |
Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP |
1989 |
12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000 |
1989 |
Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil |
1989 |
Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commercial |
1989 |
NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers win 22nd straight home game |
1989 |
NY Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez |
1990 |
Greyhound Bus goes on strike |
1990 |
Mark Tewsksbury swims world record 50m backstroke (25.06 sec) |
1991 |
"Aspects of Love" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 377 perfs |
1991 |
"La Bete" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 24 performances |
1991 |
Deb Richard wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
1991 |
Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history |
1991 |
NC State Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAAer to get 1,000 assists |
1991 |
UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq |
1991 |
Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings end to the 1991 Gulf War. |
1992 |
Anita Hall swims female world record 200m freestyle (2:25.35) |
1992 |
Moldova joins the United Nations. |
1993 |
Claudette Colbert, suffers a stroke at 89 |
1994 |
Miami begins a latin walk of fame, 1st star for Gloria Estefan |
1994 |
William Natcher, (Rep-D-Ky), casts his 18,401 & last consecutive vote |
1994 |
Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't |
1995 |
"Smokey Joe's Cafe," opens at Virginia Theater NYC |
1995 |
British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC |
1995 |
Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed |
1995 |
Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches |
1996 |
Copeland swimming pool re-opened by Gladiator |
1996 |
Tendulkar scores 137 for Ind v SL in Cricket World Cup, but still lose |
1997 |
Gail Graham wins LPGA Alpine Australian Ladies Masters |
1997 |
Nick Faldo wins Nissan Golf Open |
1997 |
Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5% of Apple |
1997 |
Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia) |
1998 |
Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice. |
2000 |
Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet heads home after being told the UK would not extradite him on torture charges |
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). |
2003 |
The first International Symposium on Taiwan Sign Language Linguistics is held at Chung Cheng University. |
2004 |
Voters in the U.S. state of Georgia vote on a referendum concerning its Confederacy-derived flag. |
2004 |
War in Iraq: Al Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500. |
2008 |
Riots in Yerevan, Armenia concerning the Armenian presidential election, 2008 come to a fatal end, with police forces clashing with civilians in their peaceful protest, resulting in 8 deaths. |
2012 |
Tornadoes kill at least 27 people in the American states of Indiana and Kentucky |
2012 |
The Red Cross is denied access to provide relief to the Baba Amr district in Homs by the Syrian army |
2012 |
New fiscal compact to prevent excessive debt is signed by 25 out of 27 European Union members |
2014 |
86th Academy Awards: "12 Years a Slave," Matthew McConaughey & Cate Blanchett win |
2016 |
UN Security Council approves North Korea sanctions |
2016 |
EU unveils plan for $760M in aid for migrants |
2016 |
After 340 days in space, astronaut Scott Kelly back on Earth |
2016 |
Former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon dies in car crash |
2016 |
Federal grand jury charges Chesapeake ex-CEO McClendon for rigging bids |
2017 |
47 Million Viewers Watched Trump's First Address to Congress |
2017 |
US, South Korea agree to strengthen cooperation on North Korea sanctions |
2017 |
'Beauty and the Beast' will introduce world to first gay Disney character |
2018 |
Toyota says US tariffs on steel, aluminum will substantially raise production costs |
2018 |
Large explosion in Afghan capital kills young girl, wounds 6 |
Keep in touch with us:
beta testing:
nothing here now
