Historical events on March 2
MARCH 2, 1901
U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation and once the world's largest producer of steel, was founded by financier J. P. Morgan.
The United States Steel Corporation is an American steel company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It maintains production facilities at several additional locations
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MARCH 2, 1791
French inventor Claude Chappe and his brothers first demonstrated the semaphore telegraph, a system to convey information by means of visual signals, using towers with pivoting crossarms.
Claude Chappe was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France. His system
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MARCH 2, 1943
World War II: Australian and U.S. air forces attacked and destroyed a large Japanese naval convoy in the Bismarck Sea, north of Papua New Guinea.
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all
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MARCH 2, 1865
New Zealand Wars: Carl Sylvius Völkner, a Protestant missionary, was killed by Hauhau militants in Ōpōtiki for working as an agent for New Zealand governor-general George Grey.
The New Zealand Wars took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side,
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MARCH 2, 1836
Texas Revolution: At a convention of delegates in Washington-on-the-Brazos, the Mexican state of Texas adopted a declaration of independence, establishing the Republic of Texas.
The Texas Revolution was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos against the centralist government of Mexico in the
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MARCH 2, 1444
The League of Lezhë, an alliance of regional chieftains, was established in Venetian Albania with Skanderbeg as their commander.
The League of Lezhë, also commonly referred to as the Albanian League, was a military and diplomatic alliance of the Albanian aristocracy,
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MARCH 2, 1965
Vietnam War: The American and South Vietnamese air forces began Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam that eventually became the most intense air–ground battle waged during the Cold War period.
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies.
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MARCH 2, 1962
Led by General Ne Win, the Burmese military seized power in a coup d'état.
Ne Win, born Shu Maung, was a Burmese army general and politician who served as Prime Minister of Burma from 1958 to
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MARCH 2, 1949
The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II landed in Fort Worth, Texas, to complete the first non-stop circumnavigation of the world by airplane.
The Boeing B-50 Superfortress is an American strategic bomber. A post–World War II revision of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, it was fitted
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MARCH 2, 2022
Russian forces captured the city of Kherson, the only regional capital to be taken during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The battle of Kherson took place on 1 March 2022 on the southern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian forces
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MARCH 2, 1877
The Electoral Commission awarded twenty disputed electoral votes to Rutherford B. Hayes, thus assuring his victory in the 1876 U.S. presidential election.
The Electoral Commission, sometimes referred to as the Hayes-Tilden or Tilden-Hayes Electoral Commission, was a temporary body created by the United States
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MARCH 2, 1776
American Revolutionary War: Patriot militiamen from Georgia and South Carolina attempted to resist the British action to seize and remove supply ships anchored at Savannah, Georgia.
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was the armed conflict that comprised the
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MARCH 2, 1970
The internationally unrecognised Rhodesia abolished their monarchy and declared themselves a republic.
Rhodesia, officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979. Rhodesia
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MARCH 2, 1978
As a cosmonaut on Soyuz 28, Czechoslovak military pilot Vladimír Remek (pictured) became the first person from outside the Soviet Union or the United States to go into space.
An astronaut is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member
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MARCH 2, 1859
The Great Slave Auction, the largest single sale of slaves in U.S. history, with more than 400 people sold, began in Georgia.
The Great Slave Auction was an auction of enslaved Americans of African descent held at Ten Broeck Race Course, near Savannah, Georgia,
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MARCH 2, 1995
Researchers at Fermilab in Illinois announced the discovery of the top quark, the most massive of all observed elementary particles.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics.
MARCH 2, 1484
The College of Arms, one of the few remaining official heraldic authorities in Europe, was incorporated by royal charter in the City of London.
The College of Arms, or Heralds' College, is a royal corporation consisting of professional officers of arms, with jurisdiction over England, Wales,
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