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On this day - March 2

537 — Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the ...

986 — Louis V becomes the last Carolingian king of West Francia after ...

1331 — Fall of Nicaea to the Ottoman Turks after a siege.

1444 — Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the ...

1458 — George of Poděbrady is chosen as the king of Bohemia.

1476 — Burgundian Wars: The Old Swiss Confederacy hands Charles the ...

1484 — The College of Arms is formally incorporated by Royal Charter ...

1498 — Vasco da Gama's fleet visits the Island of Mozambique.

1657 — The Great Fire of Meireki begins in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, ...

1776 — American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units attempt to ...

1791 — Claude Chappe demonstrates the first semaphore line near Paris.

1797 — The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound ...

1807 — The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of ...

1811 — Argentine War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a ...

1815 — Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders ...

1836 — Texas Revolution: The Declaration of independence of the ...

1855 — Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.

1859 — The two-day Great Slave Auction, once thought to be the ...

1865 — East Cape War: The Völkner Incident in New Zealand.

1867 — The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.

1877 — Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares ...

1882 — Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by ...

1901 — The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the ...

1901 — United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a ...

1903 — In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming ...

1917 — The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans ...

1919 — The first Communist International meets in Moscow.

1932 — Finnish president P. E. Svinhufvud gives a radio speech, which ...

1933 — The film King Kong premieres in Radio City Music Hall and RKO ...

1937 — The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective ...

1939 — Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name ...

1941 — World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after ...

1943 — World War II: During the Battle of the Bismarck Sea Allied ...

1949 — Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky ...

1955 — Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in ...

1962 — Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the ...

1962 — In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a ...

1965 — The US and Republic of Vietnam Air Force begin Operation ...

1968 — Baggeridge Colliery closes, marking the end of over 300 years ...

1969 — In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French ...

1970 — Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links ...

1972 — The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, ...

1977 — Libya becomes the Socialist People's Libyan Arab ...

1978 — The late iconic actor Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen ...

1978 — Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Soviet or ...

1983 — Compact discs and players are released for the first time in ...

1986 — Aeroflot Flight F-77 crashes near Bugulma Airport, killing all ...

1989 — Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production ...

1990 — Nelson Mandela is elected deputy president of the African ...

1991 — Battle at Rumaila oil field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.

1991 — Establishment of Kuwait Democratic Forum, center-left ...

1992 — Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San ...

1992 — Start of the war in Transnistria.

1995 — Space Shuttle Endeavour launches from the Kennedy Space Center ...

1995 — Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top ...

1998 — Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that ...

2002 — U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, ...

2004 — War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in ...

2006 — In Monterrey, Mexico, a man identified as Diego Santoy ...

2012 — A tornado outbreak occurs over a large section of the Southern ...

2014 — The Oscar Selfie, regarded as one of the most influential and ...

2017 — The elements Moscovium, Tennessine, and Oganesson are ...

2022 — Russian forces capture the city of Kherson during the Russian ...