The March 2nd is the 61e Jour of the Année (62e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

10th century

13th century

15th century

  • 1458 : Bohemia: Georges de Podiebrady, regent since 1452, is elected king de Bohême.

16th century

  • 1584 : The Marshal of Matignon, governor of Guyenne, in the presence of his/her friend Michel de Montaigne, mayor of Bordeaux, places the order of the Phare of Cordovan to Louis de Foix, engineer-architect.

  • 1585 : The catholic Ligue declares Henri IV inapt to go up on the throne of France.

17th century

18th century

  • 1791 : The Loi of Allarde removes the Corporation S and proclaims the principle of the freedom to the work, the trade and industry.

  • 1796 : The Directoire names Napoleon Bonaparte commander-in-chief of the army of Italy.

19th century

  • 1807 : The Britanniques prohibit the trade of slaves between the Africa and the America. They invite the other European nations to make in the same way and launch out in a checking campaign of the suspectés boats.

  • 1825 : A Séisme kills 7.000 people with Blida, Algérie.

  • 1829 : Opening to Boston of the first school for blind men in America.

  • 1836 : Declaration of independence of the Texas hitherto under the Mexican domination .

  • 1839 : France: The coalition triumphs with the elections with the Room, obtaining two hundred and forty three votes against two hundreds with the partisans of Molé. The king calls Soult to form a ministry.

  • 1848 :

    • Limitation of the working time in France (10 hours with Paris, 11 hours in province).
    • Swiss: In twenty-and-unième canton, Neuchâtel, the patriotic party proclaims the Republic.

20th century

  • 1909 : The European powers intervene to prevent a austro-Serb war.

  • 1917 : A law makes Porto Rican American citizens .

  • 1919 : Moscow: The revolution Bolshevik of October 1917 being imposed, Lénine invites thirty-nine socialist parties to hold an international communist conference. Joined together with Moscow, this day , this assembly is constituted in Internationale Communist or Kominterm. The higher authority is the world congress, convened at least every two years. Each national party is subjected to the directives of delegated Komintern.

  • 1925 : Tokyo: The Japan, up to that point had a Suffrage censitaire, adopts the Vote for all, for the men. This law, promulgated the May 5th, quadruple the number of voters. On this occasion, the newspaper Asahi organizes, this day , a contest of posters. The selected drawing represents a boat that each oarsman advances with his ballot paper.

  • 1929 : Emile Pladner beats Frankie Gerano by K.O and becomes world champion of boxing weight-fly.

  • 1938 : Moscow: Stalin engages the lawsuit of the “ block of the droitiers and the trotskists ”: revolutionary blackjacks veterans, whose Nikolaï Boukharine and Alexeï Rykov is with the dock; all will be condemned the March 15th, some carried out at once.

  • 1939 : The Pacelli cardinal becomes the pope Pie XII.

  • 1941 : In Libya, the colonel Leclerc and his men, Free French Army, lend oath not to cease the combat until the release of Strasbourg.

  • 1944 : In Italy, the 526 passengers of a train fallen broken down into a Tunnel close to Salerno succumb to the emanations of coal smoke.

  • 1949 : A American superforteress B-50, Lucky Lady II, is posed with the Texas after having achieved the first flight around the world without stopover.

  • 1956 :

    • Declaration of independence of the Morocco hitherto under the French domination.
    • the king Hussein of Jordan raises the general Glubb Pasha of the command of the Arab Legion.
    • the Pakistan decides to remain in the the British Commonwealth.

  • 1958 : The British polar forwarding of Vivian Fuchs makes a success of the first crossing of the the Antarctic.

  • 1962 : The general Win shift the mode of the Prime Minister U Naked during a military Putsch in Burma.

  • 1965 : First sending of the American troops in the South Vietnam.

  • 1966 : Washington recognizes that a American bomber B-52 lost a bends “H” above the Spain and that one second bomb spread radioactive substances on a small surface.

  • 1969: The supersonic aircraft Franco-English “Concorde” accomplishes its first flight with Toulouse. The first commercial flight takes place later 7 years.

  • 1970 : The Rhodesia proclaims its independence unilaterally.

  • 1972 : The American Space probe Pioneer 10 is launched in direction of Jupiter.

  • 1977 : Jeans Kjaer Jension is content: fallen 6 years earlier in a solid mass from thorn-bush, one will have needed 248 meetings in 6 years to remove it from its 32.131 spines…

  • 1978 : With the cemetery of Corsier, in Swiss, the body of Charlie Chaplin is stolen by an extortioner; he will be found three months later.

  • 1984 : The the Moon is with 406.623 kilometers of the Ground; it is the longest distance to which it will have been of our planet during the century in progress.

  • 1986 : Teheran shows Iraqi planes to have released chemical bombs on the Kurdish locality of Baneh, in the North-East of the Iran, causing many victims among the civil population.

  • 1987 : A Séisme shakes the Ecuador and keep silent several thousands of people.

  • 1991 : The Brittany becomes the first French area with being victim of the " Mad cow ".

  • 1995 :

    • the former president of the Italian Council Giulio Andreotti is accused of collusion with the Mafia.
    • the withdrawal of Somalia of the American, Italian soldiers and of the blue helmets of the United Nations is completed, after an intervention of two years which cost the life 100 of them and two billion dollars.
    • Nick Leeson, broker of the Baring Brothers, is stopped with Frankfurt. He is shown bankruptcy of the bank of the Queen of England.
    • the Monegasque millionaire Venturi Gildo Pallanca-Pastor reaches 296,34 km/h on ice on board the Bugatti EB110 Supersport.

  • 1996 : the Tower of Money, one of oldest and more prestigious restaurants of the world, loses its 3e star in the edition 1996 of the gastronomical guide Michelin. Founded in 1582, the Parisian establishment held the supreme distinction since 1933.

  • 1999 : Eight foreign tourists are killed and seven others released, at the time of the attack of the police force against Rwandan kidnappers, in Uganda.

  • 2000 : Augusto Pinochet escapes, for health reasons, with Spanish justice, after the rejection by the British Minister for the Interior, Jack Straw, of its extradition towards the Spain; it is brought back in its country to edge of a medicalized Chilean Boeing.

21e century

  • 2001 :

    • the Court of Assizes of Paris condemns by contumacy Aloïs Brunner, former head of the camp of internment of Drancy of 1943 with 1944, with the life imprisonment for Crimes against humanity.
    • the India, estimating that the Afghan project to destroy the pre-Islamic statues is a “ regression towards moyenâgeuse cruelty ”, proposes to save all these works of Article
    • Épidémie of Foot-and-mouth disease: In France, it is interdict to import animals of the significant species coming from Ireland, as well as seeds, ovules and embryos of animals of these species. Always by precautionary measure, prohibition on the national territory to transport sensitive animals towards the centers of gathering, the markets, the fairs or the exposures, as from the March 6th.

  • 2002 :

    • the space probe Mars Odyssey of NASA found traces of ice on the red planet, which could conceal great quantities of water; this discovery starts again the scientific assumption according to which forms of life existed on Mars.
    • Mikulas Konopka, athlete, are controlled positive with the Stanozolol.
    • the authorities of Macedonia announce to have killed seven people, including two Pakistani, armies of grenades and rocket launchers, who were on the point of making attacks with Skopje.

  • 2003 :

    • the president Jacques Chirac receives a triumphal reception at the first day of its visit of State in Algérie.
    • the Suisse becomes the first European country to gain the Coupe of America with its sailing ship Alinghi.
    • the Iraq states to have destroyed its rockets Al-Samoud 2 .

  • 2004 :
    • the national Advisory committee of ethics decides against the total Clerc's Office of face but considers the possibility of a partial graft reconstituting the triangle stop-nose.
    • the rocket ARIANE 5 place on orbit the probe Rosetta for an historical mission towards the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, on which a module will be released in 2014 to conclude a mission of scientific observations for the European space agency (ESA).
    • Of water ran on Mars? The proof was reported by the two robots of the NASA, Spirit and Opportunity, sent to explore the red planet in January 2004 with for mission of finding if Mars had known a wet environment of long life which could have allowed the appearance of forms of life.

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