The 2nt o Mairch is the 61st day o the year (62nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 304 days ti come.
Events
1899: Mount Rainier
1956: Banner o Morocco
2012: Tornado damage in West Liberty, Kentucky
- 986 – Louis V becomes King o the Franks.
- 1316 – Marjorie Bruce dees gien birth tae futur King Robert II o Scotland.
- 1825 – A yirdquauk strikes Blida, Algerie, killin 7,000 fowk.
- 1855 – Alexander II becomes Tsar o Roushie.
- 1861 – The Dakota Territory is creatit.
- 1877 – Rutherford B. Hayes is declared the winner o the disputit 1876 US Preses election.
- 1899 – Mount Rainier Naitional Pairk is creatit in the US state o Washington.
- 1933 – A yirdquauk in Sanriku, Japan, kills 3,000 fowk.
- 1935 – Prajadhipok abdicates as King o Siam (nou Thailand); 9-year-auld Ananda Mahidol succeeds him.
- 1939 – Pape Pius XII is electit.
- 1956 – Morocco gains unthirldom frae Fraunce.
- 1962 – Basketbaw: Wilt Chamberlain sets an NBA record o 100 pynts in a single gemme.
- 1969 – The fiirst test flicht o Concorde is carriet oot in Toulouse.
- 1970 – Rhodesie (nou Zimbabwe) declares issel a republic.
- 1972 – The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched fae Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 1992 – Armenie, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldovae, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan an Uzbekistan jyn the Unitit Naitions.
- 2004 – John Kerry becomes the Democrat candidate for Preses o the Unitit States.
- 2004 – Suicide bombins in Kerbela, Iraq, kill 270 fowk.
- 2006 – Nintendo DS goes on sale in Japan.
- 2006 – Menzies Campbell becomes the seicont consecutive Scot, efter Charles Kennedy, tae lead the Breetish Leeberal Democrats.
- 2008 – Dmitry Medvedev is electit Preses o Roushie.
- 2012 – Tornadoes sweep across the Sooth-Central Unitit States, killin 40 fowk.
- 2017 – Walin tae the Northren Ireland Assembly tak place, efter the collapse o the pouer-sharin govrenment.
- 2019 – The SpX-DM1 space mission is launched; it later successfully docks wi the Internaitional Space Station.
- 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: Andorrae, Indonesie, Jordan, Latvie, Morocco, Portugal, Saudi Arabie, Senegal an Tunisie record thair first COVID-19 cases.
Births
Mikhail Gorbachev
Billy McNeill
- 1316 – Robert II o Scotland (d. 1390)
- 1459 – Pape Adrian VI (d. 1523)
- 1793 – Sam Houston, Preses o the Republic o Texas (d. 1863)
- 1810 – Pape Leo XIII (d. 1903)
- 1824 – Bedrich Smetana, Czech componer (d. 1884)
- 1865 – James McCall, Scots fitbawer (d. 1925)
- 1876 – Pape Pius XII (d. 1958)
- 1894 – Alexander Oparin, Roushie biochemist (d. 1980)
- 1895 – Hughie Ferguson, Scots fitbawer (d. 1930)
- 1904 – Dr. Seuss, American writer (d. 1991)
- 1917 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-American actor an muisicker (d. 1986)
- 1919 – Jennifer Jones, American actress (d. 2009)
- 1931 – Mikhail Gorbachev, Preses o the Soviet Union
- 1937 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, umwhile Preses o Algerie
- 1938 – Ricardo Lagos, umwhile Preses o Chile
- 1940 – Billy McNeill, Scots fitbawer (d. 2019)
- 1942 – Lou Reed, American muisicker (d. 2013)
- 1947 – Harry Redknapp, Inglis fitbaw manager
- 1950 – Karen Carpenter, American sangster (Carpenters) (d. 1983)
- 1962 – Jon Bon Jovi, American sangster (Bon Jovi)
- 1963 – Henry Bolton, Inglis politeecian, umwhile leader o the UK Unthirldom Pairty
- 1968 – Daniel Craig, Inglis actor
- 1971 – Norbert Hofer, Austrick politeecian
- 1972 – Mauricio Pochettino, Argentine fitbawer an manager
- 1977 – Chris Martin, Inglis sangster (Coldplay)
- 1982 – Mark Kerr, Scots fitbawer
- 1989 – Toby Alderweireld, Belgian fitbawer
- 1998 – Tua Tagovailoa, American fitbawer
Daiths
- 1316 – Marjorie Bruce, Queen Consort o Scots (b. 1296)
- 1619 – Anne o Denmark, Queen o Scots (b. 1574)
- 1835 – Francis II, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
- 1855 – Nicholas I o Roushie (b. 1796)
- 1878 – John Cochrane, Scots chess player an lawer (b. 1798)
- 1895 – John Stuart Blackie, Scots scholart (b. 1809)
- 1895 – Berthe Morisot, French penter (b. 1841)
- 1930 – D. H. Lawrence, Inglis writer (b. 1885)
- 1939 – Howard Carter, Inglis archaeologist (b. 1874)
- 1985 – Alexander Watt, Scots botanist an plant ecologist (b. 1892)
- 1991 – Serge Gainsbourg, French sangster (b. 1928)
- 1992 – Jackie Mudie, Scots fitbawer (b. 1930)
- 2015 – Dave Mackay, Scots fitbawer (b. 1934)
- 2017 – Tommy Gemmell, Scots fitbawer (b. 1943)
Halidays
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