History Events on March 02

In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.

#Myanmar

The College of Arms is formally incorporated by Royal Charter signed by King Richard III of England.

#College_of_Arms

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).

#War_in_Afghanistan_(2001-present)

United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.

#U.S._Steel

Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.

#Compact_disc

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

#Rumaila_oil_field

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

#Vasco_da_Gama

Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.

#Skanderbeg

Argentine War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of revolutionary ships in the Battle of San Nicolás on the River Plate.

#Argentine_War_of_Independence

Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.

#Roberto_Cofresí

The enactment of the Jones-Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.

#Jones-Shafroth_Act

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.

#Burgundian_Wars

Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.

#Norodom_Sihanouk

Start of the war in Transnistria.

#Transnistria_War

Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.

#Czechoslovakia

The first Communist International meets in Moscow.

#Communist_International

The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.

#Platt_Amendment

John F. Kennedy announces the creation of the Peace Corps in a nationally televised broadcast.

#John_F._Kennedy

American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units arrest the Royal Governor of Georgia James Wright and attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in the Battle of the Rice Boats.

#American_Revolutionary_War

Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.

#Rhodesia

War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.

#Iraq_War

World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea: United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.

#World_War_II

Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.

#Fermilab

Louis V becomes King of the Franks.

#Louis_V_of_France

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations.

#Armenia

Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.

#Wilt_Chamberlain

Mendoza, Argentina is founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro del Castillo.

#Mendoza,_Argentina

Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.

#Alexander_II_of_Russia

Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.

#Nelson_Mandela

The US and Republic of Vietnam Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

#United_States_Air_Force

World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact.

#World_War_II

A tornado outbreak occurred over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities.

#Tornado_outbreak_of_March_2-3,_2012

George of Pod?brady is chosen as the king of Bohemia.

#George_of_Pod?brady

Texas Revolution: The Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico is adopted.

#Texas_Revolution

Libya becomes the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as the General People's Congress adopted the "Declaration on the Establishment of the Authority of the People".

#Libya

Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.

#Queen_Victoria

The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.

#United_States_Congress

Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.

#Ho_Chi_Minh

The two-day Great Slave Auction, the largest such auction in United States history, begins.

#The_Great_Slave_Auction

The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.

#Pioneer_10

The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.

#King_Kong_(1933_film)

The Battle of Adwa - The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.

#Battle_of_Adwa

In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.

#Toulouse

Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the leaders of the Kingdom of Kandy.

#Kandyan_Convention

The elements Moscovium, Tennessine, and Oganesson were officially added to the periodic table at a conference in Moscow, Russia.

Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.

Yahoo! is incorporated.

Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.

Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country.

Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.

Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.

The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.

In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.

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.

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

East Cape War: The Völkner Incident in New Zealand.

The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.

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

Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.

The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.

Great Fire of Meireki: A fire in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, caused more than 100,000 deaths; it lasted three days

Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.

Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his bucellarii are almost cut off.