On This Day in History - March 2 |
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| What Happened On This Day In History - March 2 |
1717 March 2
1717-03-02
The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
1791 March 2
1791-03-02
The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
1836 March 2
1836-03-02
Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.
1865 March 2
1865-03-02
East Cape War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
1866 March 2
1866-03-02
1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Connecticut
1882 March 2
1882-03-02
Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
1901 March 2
1901-03-02
Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens
1903 March 2
1903-03-02
In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
1933 March 2
1933-03-02
Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan
1941 March 2
1941-03-02
World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
1943 March 2
1943-03-02
World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
1949 March 2
1949-03-02
1st automatic street light (New Milford CT)
1956 March 2
1956-03-02
Morocco gains its independence from France.
1965 March 2
1965-03-02
The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
1969 March 2
1969-03-02
Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
1983 March 2
1983-03-02
Compact Disc players and discs are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had been available only in Japan before then.
1992 March 2
1992-03-02
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations.
1998 March 2
1998-03-02
Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
2002 March 2
2002-03-02
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).
