Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 2

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• Claude Chappe
  Claude Chappe
• Replica of one of Claude Chappe's semaphore towers
  Replica of one of Claude Chappe's semaphore towers
• King Kong film poster
  King Kong film poster
• João Bernardo Vieira
  João Bernardo Vieira
• Vladimír Remek
  Vladimír Remek
• Carl Sylvius Völkner
  Carl Sylvius Völkner
• Wilt Chamberlain
  Wilt Chamberlain

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1917 – U.S. president Woodrow Wilson signed the Jones–Shafroth Act into law, granting United States citizenship to every citizen of Puerto Rico.	expansion, refimprove section
1933 – The film King Kong premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.	refimprove, expansion
1939 – Italian Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected as Pope and took the name [[Pope Pius XII|Template:Nowrap]].	neutrality issues
1970 – Rhodesia formally broke its links with the British crown and declared itself a republic.	refimprove section
1992 – By virtue of gaining membership to the United Nations, Moldova gained international recognition as an independent nation.	refimprove
2009 – President of Guinea-Bissau João Bernardo Vieira was assassinated in an attack by a group of soldiers on his private residence in Bissau.	refimprove section

Eligible

• 1444 – The League of Lezhë, an alliance of regional chieftains, was established in Venetian Albania with Skanderbeg as their commander.
• 1791 – French inventor Claude Chappe and his brothers first demonstrated the semaphore telegraph, a system to convey information by means of visual signals, using towers with pivoting crossarms.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: At a convention of delegates in Washington-on-the-Brazos, the Mexican state of Texas adopted a declaration of independence, establishing the Republic of Texas.
• 1859 – The Great Slave Auction, the largest single sale of slaves in U.S. history, with more than 400 people sold, began in Georgia.
• 1865 – New Zealand Wars: Carl Sylvius Völkner, a Protestant missionary, was killed by Hauhau militants in Ōpōtiki for working as an agent for New Zealand governor-general George Grey.
• 1877 – The Electoral Commission awarded twenty disputed electoral votes to Rutherford B. Hayes, thus assuring his victory in the 1876 U.S. presidential election.
• 1901 – U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation and once the world's largest producer of steel, was founded by financier J. P. Morgan.
• 1919 – Communist, revolutionary-socialist, and syndicalist delegates met in Moscow to establish the Communist International.
• 1937 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, the precursor of the United Steel Workers of America, had a major success when it signed a collective-bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel.
• 1943 – [[World War II|World Template:Nowrap]]: Australian and U.S. air forces attacked and destroyed a large Japanese naval convoy in the Bismarck Sea, north of Papua New Guinea.
• 1962 – Led by General Ne Win, the Burmese military seized power in a coup d'état.
• 1962 – Playing for the Philadelphia Warriors, American basketball player Wilt Chamberlain (pictured) scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks, which remains an NBA record.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: The American and South Vietnamese air forces began Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam that eventually became the most intense air–ground battle waged during the Cold War period.
• 1965 – The Sound of Music is released in American theatres; it later became the highest grossing film of all time.
• 1970 – The internationally unrecognised Rhodesia abolished their monarchy and declared themselves a republic.
• 1978 – As a cosmonaut on Soyuz 28, Czechoslovak military pilot Vladimír Remek (pictured) became the first person from outside the Soviet Union or the United States to go into space.
• 1995 – Researchers at Fermilab in Illinois announced the discovery of the top quark, the most massive of all observed elementary particles.
• 2017 – A naming ceremony for the chemical elements moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson took place at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

• Born/died: | Hasan ibn Ali |b|625| Charles the Good |d|1127| George Sandys |b|1578| William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield |b|1705| Louis-Gabriel Suchet |b|1770| Susanna M. Salter |b|1860| James A. Gilmore |b|1876| Grete Hermann |b|1901| Lothar de Maizière |b|1940| Gisela Januszewska |d|1943| Lionel Matthews |d|1944| Chris Martin |b|1977| Dusty Springfield |d|1999

March 2: Adwa Victory Day in Ethiopia, Independence Day in Texas Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1484 – The College of Arms, one of the few remaining official heraldic authorities in Europe, was incorporated by royal charter in the City of London.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot militiamen from Georgia and South Carolina attempted to resist the British action to seize and remove supply ships anchored at Savannah, Georgia.
• 1949 – The [[Boeing B-50 Superfortress|Template:Nowrap Superfortress]] Lucky Lady II landed in Fort Worth, Texas, to complete the first non-stop circumnavigation of the world by airplane.
• 1969 – The maiden flight of Concorde, the Anglo-French supersonic jet, was conducted in Toulouse, France using a prototype aircraft with the registration Template:Nowrap.
• 2022 – Russian forces captured the city of Kherson, the only regional capital to be taken during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.