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Events on the 2nd of March in history

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02 Mar 0537 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.
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02 Mar 0871 Battle at Marton: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army
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02 Mar 0986 Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
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02 Mar 1121 Dirk VI becomes the Count of Holland.
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02 Mar 1127 Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.
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02 Mar 1444 Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.
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02 Mar 1458 Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen King of Bohemia
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02 Mar 1458 George of Poděbrady is chosen as the king of Bohemia.
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02 Mar 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.
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02 Mar 1484 The College of Arms is formally incorporated by Royal Charter signed by King Richard III of England.
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02 Mar 1498 Vasco da Gama's fleet visits the Island of Mozambique.
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02 Mar 1561 Mendoza, Argentina is founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro del Castillo.
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02 Mar 1629 English King Charles I leaces house of commons
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02 Mar 1657 Great Fire of Meireki: A fire in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, caused more than 100,000 deaths; it lasted three days
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02 Mar 1675 Prince William III installed as Governor of Overijssel
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02 Mar 1717 The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
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02 Mar 1776 Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston
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02 Mar 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.
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02 Mar 1789 Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances
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02 Mar 1791 Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
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02 Mar 1797 The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.
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02 Mar 1799 Congress standardizes US Weights & Measures
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02 Mar 1807 Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808
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02 Mar 1807 The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
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02 Mar 1808 The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
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02 Mar 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.
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02 Mar 1815 Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the leaders of the Kingdom of Kandy.
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02 Mar 1817 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn
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02 Mar 1819 Territory of Arkansas organized
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02 Mar 1819 US passed its 1st immigration law
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02 Mar 1824 Interstate commerce comes under federal control
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02 Mar 1825 1st grand opera in US sung in English, New York City
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02 Mar 1825 Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
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02 Mar 1829 New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston
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02 Mar 1831 John Frazee becomes 1st US Sculptor to receive a federal commission
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02 Mar 1836 Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico
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02 Mar 1836 Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.
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02 Mar 1853 Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Ter
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02 Mar 1855 Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia
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02 Mar 1855 Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
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02 Mar 1858 Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie
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02 Mar 1861 Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington
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02 Mar 1861 US creates Dakota and Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska and Utah ter
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02 Mar 1865 British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing
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02 Mar 1865 East Cape War: The Völkner Incident in New Zealand.
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02 Mar 1866 1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Conn
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02 Mar 1867 1st Reconstruction act passed by Congress
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02 Mar 1867 Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico
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02 Mar 1867 Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead
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02 Mar 1867 US Congress creates the Department of Education
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02 Mar 1867 The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
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02 Mar 1868 University of Illinois opens
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02 Mar 1877 Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared President despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory
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02 Mar 1877 U.S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
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02 Mar 1882 Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
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02 Mar 1885 Sino-French War: French victory in the Battle of Hòa Mộc near Tuyên Quang, northern Vietnam.
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02 Mar 1887 American Trotting Association organized in Detroit
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02 Mar 1889 Kansas passes 1st US antitrust
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02 Mar 1890 Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 5 km (9:19)
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02 Mar 1893 1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features
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02 Mar 1896 Battle of Aduwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defeats invading Italians
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02 Mar 1896 George Lohmann takes 9-28 vs. South Africa at Johannesburg
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02 Mar 1898 Australia complete a 4-1 series annihilation of England
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02 Mar 1899 President McKinley signs bill creating Mt Rainier National Park (5th in US)
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02 Mar 1901 The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
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02 Mar 1903 Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York City
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02 Mar 1903 In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women].
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02 Mar 1904 "Official Playing Rules of Professional Base Ball Clubs" adopted
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02 Mar 1907 General Louis Botha named Premier of Transvaal
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02 Mar 1909 Gr Brit, France, Germ and It asks Serbia to set no territorial demands
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02 Mar 1910 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die
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02 Mar 1915 British vice Admiral Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts
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02 Mar 1915 Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine
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02 Mar 1917 Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted
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02 Mar 1917 The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
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02 Mar 1918 New York Yankees purchase 1st baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers and immediately trades him to Philadelphia Athletics
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02 Mar 1919 1st Congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin
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02 Mar 1919 The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
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02 Mar 1922 WBAP-AM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
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02 Mar 1922 WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions
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02 Mar 1923 Time magazine debuts
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02 Mar 1925 Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament
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02 Mar 1925 Nationwide road numbering system and US shield marker adopted
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02 Mar 1925 SDAP-Second-Faction of parliament demands drastic disarmament
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02 Mar 1927 Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year)
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02 Mar 1929 Chicago Black Hawks shut-out for NHL record 8th straight game
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02 Mar 1929 Congress creates Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
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02 Mar 1930 1st US indoor glider flight, St. Louis Terminal Building
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02 Mar 1933 "King Kong, " premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy, New York City
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02 Mar 1933 Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan
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02 Mar 1933 The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
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02 Mar 1934 Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha
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02 Mar 1936 Bradman scores 369 in 253 mins, South Africa vs. Tasmania, 46 fours 4 sixes
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02 Mar 1937 Mexico nationalizes oil
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02 Mar 1937 The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
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02 Mar 1938 Landslides and floods cause over 200 deaths (Los Angeles, California)
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02 Mar 1938 Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union
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02 Mar 1939 Eugenio Pacelli chosen as Pope Pius XII
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02 Mar 1939 Mass Legislature votea to ratify the Bill of Rights - 147 years late
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02 Mar 1939 Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
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02 Mar 1940 1st intercollegiate track meet telecast, Madison Square Garden, New York City
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02 Mar 1940 Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland
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02 Mar 1941 World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact.
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02 Mar 1942 14th Academy Awards - "How Green was My Valley, " Cooper and Fontaine win
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02 Mar 1942 Admiral Helfrich departs Java for Ceylon
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02 Mar 1943 1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp
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02 Mar 1943 Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, US and Australia win
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02 Mar 1943 World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea: United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
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02 Mar 1944 16th Academy Awards - "Casablanca, " Jennifer Jones and Paul Lukas win
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02 Mar 1944 Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy
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02 Mar 1945 King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government
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02 Mar 1946 Dutch troops land on East Bali
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02 Mar 1946 Kingman Douglass, becomes Deputy Director of CIA
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02 Mar 1946 Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
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02 Mar 1949 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct)
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02 Mar 1949 Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round-the-world flight at Fort Worth, Tx, covering 23,452 miles in 94 hours
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02 Mar 1949 The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut.
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02 Mar 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.
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02 Mar 1951 1st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-94 at Boston
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02 Mar 1952 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
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02 Mar 1955 King Norodom Sihanukh of Cambodia succeeded by his father
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02 Mar 1955 Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
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02 Mar 1956 Morocco gains its independence from France.
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02 Mar 1958 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days
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02 Mar 1958 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
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02 Mar 1958 Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic
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02 Mar 1961 "13 Daughters" opens at 54th St. Theater NYC for 28 performances
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02 Mar 1962 JFK announces US will resume above ground nuclear testing
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02 Mar 1962 Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game
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02 Mar 1962 Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
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02 Mar 1962 In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.
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02 Mar 1964 Beatles begin filming "Hard Days Night, " Harrison meets Patti Boyd
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02 Mar 1965 "Sound Of Music" opens
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02 Mar 1965 Montcalm Community College in Sidney Mich, founded
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02 Mar 1965 The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
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02 Mar 1966 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam
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02 Mar 1967 9th Grammy Awards: Strangers in Night, Michele wins
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02 Mar 1968 Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler and Ford (GRB)
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02 Mar 1968 Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Belousova and Protopopov (USSR)
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02 Mar 1968 USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world
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02 Mar 1968 USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit
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02 Mar 1968 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (US)
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02 Mar 1969 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde
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02 Mar 1969 Chinese-Russian borders fight (approximately 70 die)
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02 Mar 1969 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 14th Symphony
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02 Mar 1969 Phil Esposito becomes 1st NHL Player to score 100 points in a season
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02 Mar 1969 Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
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02 Mar 1969 In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
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02 Mar 1970 Rhodesia becomes independent Republic
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02 Mar 1970 Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years
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02 Mar 1970 Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
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02 Mar 1972 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby
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02 Mar 1972 The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
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02 Mar 1973 "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum
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02 Mar 1974 16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly, Bette Midler wins
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02 Mar 1974 1st class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents
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02 Mar 1974 Grand jury concludes President Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up
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02 Mar 1976 "Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 766 performances
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02 Mar 1976 Bob Lurie becomes CEO of SF Giants
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02 Mar 1976 Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest
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02 Mar 1977 1st time Jay Leno appears on Tonight Show
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02 Mar 1977 Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive Life Achievement Award
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02 Mar 1977 Future Tonight Show host Jay Leno debuts with host Johnny Carson
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02 Mar 1977 Libya amends constitution
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02 Mar 1978 1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV
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02 Mar 1978 Soyuz 28 carries 2 Cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
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02 Mar 1978 Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
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02 Mar 1980 3rd Islander scoreless tie - Penguins in Pittsburgh
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02 Mar 1980 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic
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02 Mar 1980 Mike Bratz (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
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02 Mar 1981 Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists
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02 Mar 1981 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Washington DC
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02 Mar 1982 60th hat trick in Islander history-Bryan Trottier
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02 Mar 1982 Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru
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02 Mar 1983 Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips and Sony introduced
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02 Mar 1983 Final episode of M*A*S*H; 125,000,000 viewers
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02 Mar 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.
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02 Mar 1984 Iran offensive against Iraq fails
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02 Mar 1984 John Long (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
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02 Mar 1985 US approves screening test for AIDS
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02 Mar 1986 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita
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02 Mar 1986 Mary Beth Zimmerman wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
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02 Mar 1986 Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US
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02 Mar 1988 30th Grammy Awards: Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley
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02 Mar 1988 Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP
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02 Mar 1989 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000
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02 Mar 1989 Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil
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02 Mar 1989 New York Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez
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02 Mar 1989 Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
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02 Mar 1990 Greyhound Bus goes on strike
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02 Mar 1990 Mark Tewsksbury swims world record 50m backstroke (25.06 seconds)
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02 Mar 1990 Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
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02 Mar 1991 "Aspects of Love" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 377 performances
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02 Mar 1991 Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history
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02 Mar 1991 NC State Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAAer to get 1,000 assists
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02 Mar 1991 UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq
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02 Mar 1991 Battle at Rumaila oil field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.
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02 Mar 1992 Anita Hall swims female world record 200m freestyle (2:25.35)
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02 Mar 1992 Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations.
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02 Mar 1993 Claudette Colbert, suffers a stroke at 89
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02 Mar 1993 Salman Rushdie divorces Marianne Wiggins
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02 Mar 1994 Miami begins a latin walk of fame, 1st star for Gloria Estefan
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02 Mar 1994 William Natcher, (Rep-D-Ky), casts his 18,401 and last consecutive vote
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02 Mar 1995 British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC
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02 Mar 1995 Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed
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02 Mar 1995 Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches
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02 Mar 1995 Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
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02 Mar 1996 Copeland swimming pool re-opened by Gladiator
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02 Mar 1997 Gail Graham wins LPGA Alpine Australian Ladies Masters
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02 Mar 1997 Nick Faldo wins Nissan Golf Open
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02 Mar 1997 Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5% of Apple
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02 Mar 1997 Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia)
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02 Mar 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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02 Mar 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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02 Mar 2004 War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
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02 Mar 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.
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