2nd March anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1859
  • Russian Federation
  • "Birth of Sholom Aleichem, popular Russian-Jewish writer and humorist"
  • 1908
  • Germany
  • "Birth of Walter Bruch, German engineer, invented the PAL colour television system."
  • 1950
  • United States
  • "Birth of Karen Carpenter, Singer" more
• event
  • 1882
  • Great Britain
  • "An eighth (and final) attempt was made to assassinate Queen Victoria. This time the would-be assassin was Roderick Maclean, a budding poet from Scotland, who fired a revolver into her carriage at Windsor station, but missed the Queen"
  • 1933
  • United States
  • The movie ‘King Kong’ had its world premiere in New York .
  • 1939
  • Italy
  • Italian Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected Pope Pius XII
  • 1949
  • United States
  • US Air Force Captain James Gallagher completed the first non-stop round the- world flight in 94 hours and one minute
  • 1958
  • Great Britain
  • "The British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic expedition, led by Dr Vivian Fuchs, completed the first surface crossing of the Antarctic."
  • 1969
  • France
  • "Maiden flight of Concorde, at Toulouse"
  • 1978
  • Switzerland
  • Charlie Chaplin’s coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery .
  • 1989
  • 12 European nations agreed to ban the production of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century. (CFCs damage the Earths ozone layer)
  • 1998
  • Data from the Galileo space probe indicated that Jupiter’s moon Europa might have a liquid ocean beneath its ice crust.
• Death
  • 1758
  • France
  • "Death of Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal ."
  • 1939
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Howard Carter, British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen"
  • 1987
  • United States
  • "Death of Randolph Scott, American film actor"
  • 1999
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Dusty Springfield, British pop singer"