March 2 Historical Events

The following events took place on March 2. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 60 events. Showing 31 - 60.

• 1919
  The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
• 1933
  The film King Kong opens at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
• 1937
  The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
• 1939
  Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
• 1941
  World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact.
• 1943
  World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea: United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
• 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.
• 1955
  Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
• 1956
  Morocco gains its independence from France.
• 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.
• 1965
  The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
• 1969
  In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.

• 1969
  Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
• 1970
  Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
• 1972
  The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
• 1977
  Libya becomes the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as the General People’s Congress adopted the “Declaration of the Establishment of the People’s Authority”.
• 1978
  Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1995
  Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
• 1998
  Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter’s moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
• 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).
• 2004
  War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
• 2012
  A tornado outbreak occurred over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities.