Today in history. March 2 986 Louis V becomes King of the Franks. 1127 Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders. 1444 Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë. 1476 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. 1484 The College of Arms was formally incorporated by Royal Charter signed by King Richard III of England. 1717 The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England. 1776 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. 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. 1807 The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country. 1808 The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh. 1811 Argentine War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of revolutionary ships in the Battle of San Nicolás on the River Plate. 1815 Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the King of Sri Lanka. 1825 Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities. 1836 Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico. 1855 Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia. 1861 Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia: Tsar Alexander II signs the emancipation reform into law, abolishing Russian serfdom. 1865 East Cape War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand. 1867 The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act. 1877 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. 1882 Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor. 1901 The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops. 1903 In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women. 1917 The enactment of the Jones-Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship. 1919 The first Communist International meets in Moscow. 1933 The film King Kong opens at New Yorks Radio City Music Hall. 1937 The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry. 1939 Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII. 1941 World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact. 1943 World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships. 1946 Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam. 1949 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. 1949 The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut. 1955 King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit. 1956 Morocco gains its independence from France. 1962 In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup détat. 1962 Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points. 1965 The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam. 1969 In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted. 1969 Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River. 1970 Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown. 1972 The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets. 1978 Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28. 1983 Compact Disc players and discs are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had been available only in Japan before then. 1989 Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century. 1990 Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress. 1991 Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War. 1992 Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations. 1993 1993 Storm of the Century begins to form over the North Atlantic Ocean. 1995 Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark. 1998 Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiters 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). 2004 War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500. 2012 March 2–3, 2012 tornado outbreak: A tornado outbreak occured over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities.
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