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, 28,488,960 minutes 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
- 1791 –Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
- 1797 –The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.
- 1867 –The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
- 1903 –In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
- 1919 –The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
- 1941 –World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
- 1946 –Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
- 1992 –Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations.
- 1998 –Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter’s moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
- 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).
Who were born on March 2?
- 1459 –Pope Adrian VI (d. 1523)
- 1859 –Sholom Aleichem, Russian novelist (d. 1916)
- 1897 –Minor Hall, American jazz musician (d. 1959)
- 1909 –Mel Ott, American baseball player (d. 1958)
- 1913 –Mort Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1958)
- 1932 –Gun Hägglund, Swedish news presenter (d. 2011)
- 1939 –BarBara Luna, American actress
- 1943 –Claude Larose, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1955 –Terrence Stone, Irish-American voice actor
- 1973 –Dejan Bodiroga, Serbian basketball player
Who died on March 2?
- 1729 –Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (b. 1662)
- 1791 –John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703)
- 1829 –Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, conspirator and supporter of the Mexican War of Independence (b. 1768)
- 1945 –Emily Carr, Canadian artist (b. 1871)
- 1960 –Stanisław Taczak, Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising (b. 1874)
- 1962 –Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1866)
- 1982 –Philip K. Dick, American author (b. 1928)
- 2005 –Martin Denny, American musician (b. 1911)
- 2007 –Clem Labine, American baseball player (b. 1926)
- 2007 –Henri Troyat, French writer, dean of the Académie française (b. 1911)
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