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 61st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 304 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 17, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 483,576 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 ‘hexacontahenagon’ day.
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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 352 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 4,454 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 2 Historical Events
- 986 –Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
- 1717 –The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
- 1791 –Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
- 1807 –The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
- 1815 –Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the King of Sri Lanka.
- 1867 –The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
- 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.
- 1939 –Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
- 1970 –Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
- 1995 –Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
Who were born on March 2?
- 1923 –Robert H. Michel, American politician
- 1938 –Lawrence Payton, American singer and songwriter (The Four Tops) (d. 1997)
- 1942 –Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Last Prime Minister of Iran
- 1950 –Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (d. 1983)
- 1955 –Terrence Stone, Irish-American voice actor
- 1960 –Debra Marshall, American professional wrestler and manager
- 1978 –Giannis Skopelitis, Greek footballer
- 1978 –Tomáš Kaberle, Czech ice hockey player
- 1988 –Nicola Geuer, German tennis player
- 1989 –Toby Alderweireld, Belgian footballer
Who died on March 2?
- 1572 –Mem de Sá, Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil
- 1729 –Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (b. 1662)
- 1791 –John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703)
- 1930 –D. H. Lawrence, English writer (b. 1885)
- 1950 –Rosli Dhobi, famous Malay Sarawakian (b. 1932)
- 1953 –James Lightbody, American middle distance runner (b. 1882)
- 1958 –Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (b. 1888)
- 2004 –Marge Schott, American baseball team owner (b. 1928)
- 2004 –Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (b. 1916)
- 2005 –Martin Denny, American musician (b. 1911)
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