his day in history On March 2 1807 The U.S. Congress passed an act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States... from any foreign kingdom, place or country. 1877 In the U.S., Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election by the U.S. Congress. Samuel J. Tilden, however, had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876. 1901 The U.S. Congress passed the Platt amendment, which limited Cuban autonomy as a condition for withdrawal of U.S. troops. 1917 Citizens of Puerto Rico were granted U.S. citizenship with the enactment of the Jones Act. 1923 The first issue of TIME magazine appears on newsstands. 1925 State and federal highway officials develop a nationwide route-numbering system and adopt the shield-shaped, number marker. 1946 Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese Communist leader, is elected the first president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. 1962 Wilt The Stilt Chamberlain scores a record 100 points in an NBA game, leading the Philadelphia Warriors over the New York Knicks, 169-147. 1972 The first outer-planetary probe, Pioneer 10, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. On December 3, 1973 the probe sent back the first close-up images of Jupiter. 1974 First class postage stamps go up in price from eight to ten cents. 1998 The United Nation’s Security Council endorses U.N. chief Kofi Annan’s deal to open Iraq’s presidential palaces to arms inspectors. 1998 Images from the American spacecraft Galileo indicated that the Jupiter moon, Europa, has a liquid ocean and a source of interior heat. 2000 In Great Britain, Chiles former President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was freed from house arrest and allowed to return to Chile. Britains Home Secretary Jack Straw had concluded that Pinochet was mentally and physically unable to stand trial. Belgium, France, Spain and Switzerland had sought the former Chilean leader on human-rights violations. 2003 Over the Sea of Japan, there was a confrontation between four armed North Korean fighter jets and a U.S. RC-135S Cobra Ball. No shots were fired in the encounter in international airspace about 150 miles off North Koreas coast. The U.S. Air Force announced that it would resume reconnaissance flights on March 12. 2004 NASA announced that the Mars rover Opportunity had discovered evidence that water had existed on Mars in the past.
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