What are the important events that happened on March 2? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 2: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 2 is the 62nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 304 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 18, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 474,816 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexacontadigon’ day.
Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 333 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,089 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 2 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1717 –The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
- 1815 –Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the King of Sri Lanka.
- 1861 –Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia: Tsar Alexander II signs the emancipation reform into law, abolishing Russian serfdom.
- 1946 –Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
- 1949 –The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut.
- 1965 –The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
- 1969 –Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
- 1989 –Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
- 1992 –Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations.
Who were born on March 2?
- 1545 –Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (d. 1613)
- 1902 –Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (d. 1972)
- 1942 –Luc Plamondon, Canadian lyricist
- 1954 –Eddie Johnstone, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973 –Trevor Sinclair, English footballer
- 1976 –JJ Fernandez, Malaysian radio personality
- 1977 –Jay Gibbons, American baseball player
- 1980 –Vincent Walker, American musician (Suburban Legends)
- 1983 –Kolawole Agodirin, Nigerian footballer
- 1985 –Robert Iler, American actor
Who died on March 2?
- 1316 –Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1296)
- 1793 –Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born artist
- 1797 –Horace Walpole, English politician and writer (b. 1717)
- 1835 –Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
- 1864 –Ulric Dahlgren, American Unionist colonel (b. 1842)
- 1930 –D. H. Lawrence, English writer (b. 1885)
- 1946 –Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian National socialist (b. 1895)
- 1953 –James Lightbody, American middle distance runner (b. 1882)
- 2000 –Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (b. 1963)
- 2007 –Henri Troyat, French writer, dean of the Académie française (b. 1911)
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