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Mar 2, Battle at Marton (Maeretun): Ethelred van Wessex (d.871) beat
the Danish invasion army. Ethelred died in April and his brother
Alfred (22) took over. Alfred became Alfred the Great and ruled
until 899.
(PCh, 1992, p.72)(SC, 3/2/02)
986 Mar 2, Lotharius (44), King
of France (954-86), died.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1121 Mar 2, Dirk VI became
count of Holland.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1122 Mar 2, Floris II, the fat
one, count of Holland, died.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1127 Mar 2, Charles the Good,
Count of Flanders, was murdered. Flemish towns (Ghent, Bruges and
Ypres) forced the selection of Thierry of Alsace as the new count
despite Louis VI’s choice of the son of Normandy’s Robert Curthose.
(PCh, 1992, p.92)(SC, 3/2/02)
1316 Mar 2, Robert II the
Steward, King of Scotland (1371-90), was born.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1333 Mar 2, Wladyslaw IV, the
Short One, Great, duke, king of Poland, died.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1402 Mar 2, In
Marienburg Svitrigaila crossed over to the Knights of the Cross and
promised to uphold the Salyn treaty that was broken by Vytautas.
(LHC, 3/1/03)
1458 Mar 2, Hussite George van
Podiebrad was chosen king of Bohemia.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1459 Mar 2, Adrian VI [Adriaan
F Boeyens], Netherlands, Pope (1522-23), was born.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1481 Mar 2, Franz von
Sickingen, German knight, was born.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1498 Mar 2, Vasco da Gama's
fleet visited Mozambique Island.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1629 Mar 2, English King
Charles I fleeced the house of commons.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1675 Mar 2, Prince William III
was installed as Governor of Overijssel.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1725 Mar 2, George F. Handel’s
opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" premiered in London.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1776 Mar 2, Americans began
shelling British troops in Boston. Henry Knox had managed to drag 58
canon and mortars from Fort Ticonderoga to the Dorchester Heights
above Boston.
(HN, 3/2/99)(WSJ, 5/20/05, p.W10)
1776 Mar 2, The American Secret
Committee of Correspondence appointed Connecticut lawyer Silas Deane
as a special envoy to negotiate with the French government for aid.
(AH, 2/06, p.59)
1789 Mar 2, Pennsylvania ended
the prohibition of theatrical performances.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1793 Mar 2, Sam Houston, the
first president of the Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44), was
born near Lexington, Va. He fought for Texas' independence from
Mexico; President of Republic of Texas; U.S. Senator; Texas governor
(AP, 3/2/98)(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)(SC, 3/2/02)
1797 Mar 2, The Directory of
Great Britain authorized vessels of war to board and seize neutral
vessels, particularly if the ships were American.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1797 Mar 2, Horace [Horatio]
Walpole (79), British horror writer, died.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1799 Mar 2, Congress
standardized US weights and measures.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1807 Mar 2, US Congress banned
slave trade effective January 1, 1808. The further importation of
slaves was abolished but an inter-American slave trade continued.
(V.D.-H.K.p.276)(WSJ, 12/16/97, p.A18)(WSJ,
10/19/98, p.A24)(SC, 3/2/02)
1810 Mar 2, Leo XIII (Vincenzo
G Pecci), 256th Catholic Pope (1878-1903), was born.
(HN, 3/2/99)(SC, 3/2/02)
1815 Mar 2, To put an end to
robberies by the Barbary pirates, the United States declared war on
Algiers.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1817 Mar 2, The 1st US
Evangelical church building was dedicated in New Berlin, PA.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1819 Mar 2, Territory of
Arkansas was organized. [see Jul 4]
(SC, 3/2/02)
1819 Mar 2, US passed its 1st
immigration law.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1824 Mar 2, Bedrich Friedrich
Smetana (1884), Czech, Bohemian composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau),
was born.
(WUD, 1994, p.1345)(WSJ, 10/4/96, p.A7)(SC,
3/2/02)
1824 Mar 2, In the Supreme
Court case of Gibbons v Ogden held that the power to regulate
interstate commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause
of the Constitution. The Court found that New York's licensing
requirement for out-of-state operators was inconsistent with a
congressional act regulating the coasting trade. Gibbons had hired
Cornelius Vanderbilt as captain of his boat, Bellona, which operated
under a federal license.
(Econ, 4/18/09, p.90)(ON, 6/12, p.2)
1825 Mar 2, The 1st grand opera
in US sung in English was in NYC.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1829 Mar 2, Carl Schurz, was
born. He was a Civil War general, political reformer and
anti-imperialist.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1829 Mar 2, New England Asylum
for the Blind, 1st in US, was incorporated in Boston.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1831 Mar 2, John Frazee becomes
1st US sculptor to receive a federal commission.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1836 Mar 2, Texas declared its
independence from Mexico on Sam Houston's 43rd birthday. The first
vice-president was Lorenzo de Zavala. Mexico refused to recognize
Texas but diplomatic relations were established with the US, Britain
and France. Texas was an independent republic until 1845.
(WSJ, 11/21/95, p.A-12)(WP, 6/29/96, p.A15)(SFC,
4/28/97, p.A3)(AP, 3/2/98)(HN, 3/2/99)
1836 Mar 2, Mexican forces
under General Jose de Urrea defeated Texan forces at the Battle of
Agua Dulce.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliad_Campaign)
1853 Mar 2, The Territory of
Washington was organized after separating from Oregon Territory.
Pres. Franklin Pierce appointed Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818-1862) as
the first governor of the Washington Territory. Stevens served as US
Congressman from the territory (1857-1858), and as a major general
in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He died at the
Battle of Chantilly.
(HN, 3/2/99)(SC,
3/2/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Stevens)
1858 Mar 2, Frederick Cook, New
Orleans, patented a cotton-bale metallic tie.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1861 Mar 2, The Territory of
Nevada was created by an act of Congress. The first elected governor
of the state was Henry G. Blasdel. US Congress created the Dakota
& Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah territories
(LVRJ, 11/1/97, p.1B)(SFEC, 7/9/00, DB p.67)(SC,
3/2/02)
1862 Mar 2, Gen’l. Frederick W.
Lander (b.1821), transcontinental engineer and Union General, died
of “congestion of the brain" at Paw Paw, Virginia. He was the chief
engineer of the Central Overland route. In 2000 Gary L. Ecalbarger
authored “Frederick W. Lander: The Great Natural American Soldier."
(www.picturehistory.com/find/p/16832/mcms.html)(ACC, 2004)
1863 Mar 2, The US Congress
passed the False Claims Act to protect the government from being
ripped off by suppliers outfitting the Union army. It is often
referred to as the "Lincoln Law," because it was passed under the
administration of President Abraham Lincoln.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Claims_Act)(Econ, 8/30/14, p.22)
1863 Mar 2, Congress authorized
track width of 4'-8½" for Union Pacific RR.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1864 Mar 2, Russian Czar
Alexander II upheld reforms in Poland that gave landholders
ownership of their lands.
(LHC, 3/1/03)
1865 Mar 2, Freedman's Bureau
was founded for Black Education.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1865 Mar 2, General Lee
proposed peace to Grant. President Abraham Lincoln rejected
Confederate General Robert E. Lee's plea for peace talks, demanding
unconditional surrender.
(HFA, ‘96, p.22)(HN, 3/2/99)
1865 Mar 2, General Early's
army was defeated at Waynesborough.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1865 Mar 2, British newspaper
"Morning Chronicle" began publishing.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1866 Mar 2, Excelsior Needle
Company of Wolcottville, Connecticut, began making sewing machine
needles, the 1st US company to make sewing needles.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)(SC, 3/2/02)
1867 Mar 2, The first
Reconstruction Act was passed by Congress.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1867 Mar 2, Congress abolished
peonage in New Mexico.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1867 Mar 2, US Congress created
the Department of Education.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1867 Mar 2, Howard University,
Washington DC, was incorporated. General Oliver Otis Howard, Union
Civil War commander, co-founded Howard Univ.
(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov20.html)(ON, 4/07, p.8)
1867 Mar 2, Jesse James-gang
robbed a bank in Savannah MO, 1 dead.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1868 Mar 2, University of
Illinois opened.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1873 Mar 2, George Smith,
British Assyriologist, arrived at the ruins of Nineveh outside Mosul
(Iraq). Over the next few weeks he found tablets referring to more
pieces of the Gilgamesh story, a record of kings in the Babylionian
dynasties, as wellas lists of cuneiform symbols.
(ON, 11/07, p.5)
1874 Mar 2, Baseball batter's
box was officially adopted.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1876 Mar 2, Pius XII [Eugenio
MGG Pacelli], 260th Pope (1939-58), was born to an aristocratic
Roman family accustomed to serving the Catholic Church.
(SFEC, 9/26/99, BR p.3)(SC, 3/2/02)
1877 Mar 2, Republican
Rutherford B. Hayes was declared winner of the 1876 presidential
election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won
the popular vote 50.1 to 47.95%. A special US congressional panel
had awarded Florida’s electors to Rutherford B. Hayes.
(PCh, 1992, p.542)(AP, 3/2/98)(WSJ, 12/11/00,
p.A18)
http://condor.stcloudstate.edu/~brixr01/theTIMEMACHINE.html
1879 Mar 2, Julia Martha Thomas
(55), a wealthy widow, was killed by her housekeeper Kate Webster
(29) very close to Park Road in well-to-do Richmond, England, but
her head was never found. Webster was tried and executed, but
Thomas’ head was never found until it was unearthed in October,
2010, by workmen building an extension at the home of David
Attenborough, the face of BBC natural history programs for more than
50 years. In 2011 the skull was formally recognized as that of Julia
Martha Thomas.
(AFP, 7/6/11)
1887 Mar 2, The American
Trotting Association was organized in Detroit, Mich., on this day.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1889 Mar 2, Congress passed the
Indian Appropriations Bill, proclaiming unassigned lands in the
public domain; the first step toward the famous Oklahoma Land Rush.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1889 Mar 2, Kansas passed 1st
US antitrust legislation.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1893 Mar 2, 1st federal
railroad legislation was passed; required safety features.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1895 Mar 2, Berthe Morisot
(b.1841) French impressionist painter, died of pneumonia.
(NMWA, 12/04, p.10)
1896 Mar 2, Bone Mizell, the
famed cowboy of Florida, was sentenced to two years of hard labor in
the state pen for cattle rustling. He would only serve a small
portion of the sentence.
(HN, 3/2/00)
1897 Mar 2, President
Cleveland vetoed legislation that would have required a literacy
test for immigrants.
(AP, 3/2/98)
1899 Mar 2, President McKinley
signed a measure creating the rank of Admiral of the Navy for Adm.
George Dewey.
(AP, 3/299)
1899 Mar 2, Congress
established Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state, the
nation's 5th national park.
(AP, 3/2/98)(SFC, 8/14/99, p.A6)
1900 Mar 2, Kurt Weill,
composer (The Threepenny Opera), Brecht collaborator, was born in
Dessau, Germany.
(HN, 3/2/01)(SC, 3/2/02)
1901 Mar 2, US Congress passed
the Platt amendment, which limited Cuban autonomy as a condition for
withdrawal of US troops. Washington retained the right to intervene
militarily in Cuba as a condition of ending the postwar US
occupation. The US did in fact intervene several times, and American
business and mafia gangs came to dominate many aspects of the island
in the run-up to the 1959 revolution.
(HN, 3/2/99)(AP, 2/15/13)
1901 Mar 2, Hawaii's 1st
telegraph company opened.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1903 Mar 2, The Martha
Washington Hotel opened for business in New York City. The hotel
featured 416 rooms and was the first hotel exclusively for women.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1904 Mar 2, Henry Dreyfuss,
industrial designer of everything from telephones to the interior of
the Boeing 707, was born.
(HN, 3/2/01)
1904 Mar 2, Theodor Seuss
Geisel [Dr. Seuss] was born in Springfield, Mass. He was the
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Cat in the Hat," "Green Eggs
and Ham," "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" and other children's
books.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)(HN, 3/2/99)(SSFC, 5/26/02,
Par p.8)
1904 Mar 2, "Official Playing
Rules of Professional Base Ball Clubs" was adopted.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1904 Mar 2, Gabriele
d'Annunzio's "La figlia di Iorio" premiered in Milan.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1907 Mar 2, Georges Feydeaus'
"La Puce à l'Oreille" premiered in Paris, France.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1907 Mar 2, General Louis Botha
was named premier of Transvaal.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1908 Mar 2, An international
conference on arms reduction opened in London.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1908 Mar 2, Gabriel Lippman
introduced the new three-dimensional color photography at the
Academy of Sciences.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1909 Mar 2, Great Britain,
France, Germany and Italy asked Serbia to set no territorial
demands.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1915 Mar 2, British Vice
Admiral Carden began bombing of Dardanelles forts.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1915 Mar 2, Vladmir Jabotinsky
formed a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1917 Mar 2, President Woodrow
Wilson signed the Jones-Shafroth Act giving Puerto Ricans US
citizenship. The Jones Act separated the Executive, Judicial, and
Legislative branches of Puerto Rican government, provided civil
rights to the individual, and created a locally elected bicameral
legislature. The two houses were a Senate consisting of 19 members
and a 39-member House of Representatives. However, the Governor and
the President of the US had the power to veto any law passed by the
legislature. Also, the US Congress had the power to stop any action
taken by the legislature in Puerto Rico.
(www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/jonesact.html)(AP,
3/2/98)
1917 Mar 2, Desi Arnaz
(Desiderio Alberto Arnez y de Acha III) was born in Santiago, Cuba.
His father was the mayor of Santiago.
(www.youns.com/lucy/desiarnaz.asp)
1918 Mar 2, Hubert Bancroft
(b.1832) San Francisco-based historian and ethnologist, died in SF.
His work included compiling and editing a 39-volume chronicle that
traced the saga of the Pacific Coast from the Spanish conquistadors
to the Gold Rush. The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley was named in
his honor after UC purchased his book collection in 1905. In 2014
his great-great granddaughter reduced and published his 800-page
autobiography as a 225-page book.
(SFC, 5/27/14,
p.E1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Howe_Bancroft)
1919 Mar 2, The 1st congress of
Communist Int’l. opened at the Kremlin.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1920 Mar 2, Karel Capek’s
"Loupeznik" premiered in Prague.
(www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/year-1920/theater-film)
1923 Mar 2, Doc Watson, blue
grass singer and guitarist, was born.
(HN, 3/2/01)
1923 Mar 2, The first issue of
the weekly periodical, "TIME" appeared on newsstands. The first
issue, dated March 3, was 32 pages and featured a charcoal sketch of
Congressman Joseph Gurney Cannon on the cover. It was the United
States’ first modern newsmagazine. The worldwide Time Magazine was
conceived by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden (d.1929) in 1922. Luce and
Hadden had just graduated from Yale. In 2006 Isaiah Wilner authored
“The Man Time Forgot," a biography of Hadden.
(www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19230303,00.html)(WSJ, 1/11/00,
p.B1)
1923 Mar 2, In Italy, Mussolini
admitted that women have a right to vote, but declares that the time
was not right.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1925 Mar 2, State and federal
highway officials developed a nationwide route numbering system and
adopted the familiar U.S. shield-shaped, numbered marker. For
instance, in the east, there is U.S. 1 that runs from New England to
Florida and in the west, the corresponding highway, U.S. 101, from
Tacoma, WA to San Diego, CA.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1925 Mar 2, Japan's House of
Representatives recognized male suffrage.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1925 Mar 2, SDAP-Second-Faction
(Dutch Socialists) of parliament demanded drastic disarmament.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1927 Mar 2, Babe Ruth signed a
3-year contract with the New York Yankees for a guarantee of $70,000
a year, thus becoming baseball's highest paid player.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1929 Mar 2, US Congress created
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1929 Mar 2, The San
Mateo-Hayward Bridge, then called the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge,
opened. The $7.5 million, 7.1-mile span was for the time the longest
in the world. The initial toll was 45 cents per car with an
additional nickel for each passenger. On hand were Gov. C.C. Young,
SF Mayor James Rolph Jr., and San Mateo Mayor Fred Beer. Pres.
Coolidge pressed a button in the white House that sparked the final
connection.
(SFEC, 3/8/98, p.W31)(Ind, 3/30/02, 5A)
1930 Mar 2, SF took possession
of the Spring Valley Water Co. The company had its headquarters in a
7-storey building at 425 Mason St.
(SFC, 12/17/04, p.F2)(SSFC, 8/24/14, p.C2)
1930 Mar 2, Harry Kuchins made
the first indoor glider flight inside the St. Louis, MO, Terminal
Building. We laugh hysterically at this and we know you think we
make this stuff up, but we don't. It really happened.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1930 Mar 2, Novelist D.H.
Lawrence died of tuberculosis in a sanitarium in Vence, France, at
the age of 45.
(HN, 3/2/01)
1931 Mar 2, Tom Wolfe,
journalist, author (Right Stuff), was born in Richmond, VA.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1931 Mar 2, Mikhail Gorbachev,
Soviet Secretary-General (1985-91), was born. He was responsible for
restructuring the Soviet economy (perestroika) and openness and
information (glasnost). Mikhail Gorbachev rose through the ranks of
the Communist Party as an expert in agricultural affairs. Born to a
peasant family, Gorbachev worked on a farm as a combine operator
before going to Moscow State University in 1950. He joined the party
in 1952 and, upon graduation with a law degree in 1955, he became a
full-time party official. In 1967 he graduated from the Stavropol
Agricultural Institute and was named to the party’s Central
Committee in 1971. He was promoted to the party Secretariat in 1978,
earning a reputation as an innovator as party secretary of
agriculture.
(HN, 3/2/99)(HNQ, 6/17/99)(WSJ, 12/1/07, p.A8)
1933 Mar 2, Hollywood
premiered "King Kong" in New York featuring Fay Wray. The film,
directed by Meriam C. Cooper, used stop-motion photography and an
18-inch model for Kong. The film saved RKO Studios from bankruptcy.
It was re-released in 1938 with a scene excised of Kong ripping at
Fay Wray’s dress and then sniffing his finger. It was rated #43 by
the Amer. Film Inst. in 1998. In 2001 it was rated the #12 most
thrilling film.
(SFC, 4/13/96, p.E5)(SFC, 11/15/97, p.C6)(AP,
3/2/98)(WSJ, 3/19/98, p.R4)
1933 Mar 2, Most powerful
earthquake in 180 years hit Japan.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1934 Mar 2, Doug Watkins jazz
musician (bass: Pepper-Knepper Quintet, Hank Mobley Quartet, Horace
Silver and the Jazz Messengers), was born.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1934 Mar 2, Union Pacific
tested a light-weight high-speed passenger train in Omaha.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1935 Mar 2, King
Prajadhipok abdicated and left for England. He was replaced by
Ananda Mahidol (1925-1946), who became Rama VIII.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_Mahidol)
1938 Mar 2, Landslides and
floods cause over 200 deaths in Los Angeles, CA.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1938 Mar 2, Trials of Soviet
leaders began in the Soviet Union.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1939 Mar 2, The Massachusetts
legislature voted to ratify the Bill of Rights, 147 years after the
first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution had gone into effect.
(AP, 3/2/98)
1939 Mar 2, Roman Catholic
Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected Pope; he took the name Pius
XII.
(WSJ, 4/25/97, p.A18)(WSJ, 5/8/97, p.A23)(AP,
3/2/98)
1939 Mar 2, Howard Carter,
archeologist, died in London at age 62. He led the discovery of the
Tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922.
(ON, 5/00, p.8)
1940 Mar 2, The first televised
intercollegiate track meet was seen by TV viewers in New York City
as W2XBS presented the action live from Madison Square Garden. New
York University won the meet.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1940 Mar 2, Soviet armies
conquered Tuppura Island, Finland.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1942 Mar 2, John Irving,
novelist (The World According to Garp), was born.
(HN, 3/2/01)
1942 Mar 2, Lou Reed [Louis
Firbank], vocalist, guitarist (Walk on the Wild Side, Velvet
Underground), was born in Freeport, NY.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1942 Mar 2, 14th Academy
Awards: "How Green was My Valley", Gary Cooper and Joan Fontaine
won.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1942 Mar 2, Admiral Helfrich
departed Java for Ceylon.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1943 Mar 2, George Benson,
jazz, blues guitarist (Breezin', This Masquerade), was born.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1943 Mar 2, The battle of the
Bismarck Sea began. US and Australian warplanes were able to inflict
heavy damage on a Japanese convoy.
(AP, 3/2/07)
1943 Mar 2, The center of
Berlin was bombed by the RAF. Some 900 tons of bombs were dropped in
a half hour.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1943 Mar 2, 1st transport of
Jews from Westerbork, Netherlands, to Sobibor concentration camp.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1944 Mar 2, Lou Reed (Firbank)
was born. (singer, songwriter, guitarist: group: Velvet Underground;
solo: Walk on the Wild Side, Charley's Girl; I Love You Suzanne;
appeared in Paul Simon film: One Trick Pony)
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1944 Mar 2, In the 16th Academy
Awards presentation moved from a banquet hall to Graumann's Chinese
Theatre in Los Angeles this night. Jennifer Jones (24) won an Oscar
for Best Actress in the film, "The Song of Bernadette". Jack Benny
was the host that year. Best film was "Casablanca," Paul Lukas won
for best actor.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)(SC, 3/2/02)
1944 Mar 2, In Salerno, Italy,
fumes from a locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocated 521 people.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A15)(AP, 2/18/04)
1945 Mar 2, The American flag
is raised again over Corregidor, with General Douglas MacArthur and
members of his staff present. MacArthur, commander of U.S. Army
Forces in the Far East, reluctantly fled his headquarters on the
rocky Philippine island of Corregidor in March 1942 as the Japanese
closed in. MacArthur praised the gallant but futile defense of
Corregidor as “an inspiration to carry on the struggle until the
Allies should fight their way back" and vowed to return one day. On
February 16, 1945, elements of the U.S. Sixth Army began the assault
on Corregidor, and after furious fighting, MacArthur made good on
his promise.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1945 Mar 2, 8th Air Force
bombed Dresden.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1945 Mar 2, King Michael of
Romania gave in to Communist government.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1946 Mar 2, Kingman Douglass
became deputy director of CIA.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1946 Mar 2, Dutch troops landed
on East Bali.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1946 Mar 2, Ho Chi Minh was
elected president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1949 Mar 2, The Lucky Lady II
(USAF B-50 Superfortress), landed at Fort Worth, Texas, after
completing the first non-stop, round-the-world flight: 23,452-mis in
94 hours.
(AP, 3/2/98)(SC, 3/2/02)
1949 Mar 2, 1st automatic
street light was in New Milford, CT.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1950 Mar 2, Karen Carpenter was
born. (drummer, singer: Grammy Award-winning group: The Carpenters:
Best New Artist, Group w/Vocal: Close to You [1970], We've Only Just
Begun, Top of the World, Please Mr. Postman)
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1950 Mar 2, Silly Putty was
introduced to the public. Silly Putty was accidentally invented in
1943 by James Wright of General Electric.
(www.sillyputty.com/silly_science/silly_science.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/zwree)
1951 Mar 2, In the 1st NBA
All-Star Game: East beat West 111-94 at Boston.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1951 Mar 2, The U.S. Navy
launched the K-1, the first modern submarine designed to hunt enemy
submarines.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1955 Mar 2, The William Inge
play “Bus Stop" opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York.
(AP, 3/2/02)
1955 Mar 2, Claudette Colvin
refuses to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months b
Rosa Parks' famous arrest for the same offense.
(HN, 3/2/00)
1955 Mar 2, King Norodom
Sihanouk of Cambodia put his father on the throne and assumed the
position of prime minister.
(SC, 3/2/02)(WSJ, 5/15/03, p.A8)
1956 Mar 2, Morocco tore up the
Treaty of Féz and declared independence from France. A protocol on
Moroccan independence was signed in Paris.
(HN, 3/2/99)(EWH, 1968, p.1244)(SC, 3/2/02)
1957 Mar 2, Boxer Carlos Ortiz
won a technical knockout against Lou Filippo (1925-2009). Filippo
was originally awarded a victory in the 1st bout against Ortiz after
being hit after the bell, but a Times reporter questioned a member
of the California State Athletic Commission about that ruling, and
the no-contest decision was invoked. Filippo lost the next fight to
Ortiz about a month later, and retired at 23-9-3 with 8 knockouts
and one no-contest. Both were later named to the Boxing Hall of
Fame. Filippo went on to play a role in all five of the “Rocky"
movies.
(www.badlefthook.com/2009/11/5/1117708/lou-filippo-1925-2009)(SFC,
11/6/09, p.C5)
1958 Mar 2, Chart Toppers:
Sweet Little Sixteen, Chuck Berry; At the Hop, Danny & the
Juniors; Oh Julie, Crescendos; Don't, Elvis Presley.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1958 Mar 2, A multinational
expedition led by British geologist and explorer Vivian Fuchs
(d.1999 at 91) completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica
by way of the South Pole in 99 days.
(SFC, 11/13/99, p.A22)(AP, 3/2/08)
1958 Mar 2, Yemen announced it
will join the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria).
(SC, 3/2/02)
1959 Mar 2, Miles Davis began
recording “Kind of Blue" with John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderly,
Philley Joe Jones, Paul Chambers and Bill Evans. Modes rather than
chords formed the basis for improvisation on “So What" and “Flamenco
Sketches." In 2000 Ashley Kahn authored “Kind of Blue," The Making
of the Miles Davis Masterpiece. Eric Nisenson authored “The Making
of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and His Masterpiece."
(SFC, 8/24/98, p.B1)(SFEC, 11/5/00, BR p.1)
1961 Mar 2, "13 Daughters"
opened at 54th St Theater NYC for 28 performances.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1962 Mar 2, Jon Bon Jovi (John
Bongiovi) was born. (singer, musician, songwriter: You Give Love a
Bad Name, Living on a Prayer)
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1962 Mar 2, Wilt "The Stilt"
Chamberlain (d.1999 at 63) scored 100 points and broke an NBA record
as the Philadelphia Warriors beat the New York Knicks 169-147 in
Hershey Pa. before 4,124 fans. Chamberlain broke NBA marks for the
most field goal attempts (63), most field goals made (36), most free
throws made (28), most points in a half (59), most field goal
attempts in a half (37), most field goals made in a half (22), and
most field goal attempts in one quarter (21). The 316 total points
scored tied an NBA record. The basketball used for the game was
stolen by Kerry Ryman (14) after he shook Chamberlain’s hand.
Ryman’s ball was auctioned in 2000 for $551,844.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)(SFC, 10/13/99, p.A13)(SFC,
4/29/00, p.A2)
1962 Mar 2, JFK announced US
will resume above ground nuclear testing.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1964 Mar 2, Beatles began
filming "A Hard Day's Night."
(SC, 3/2/02)
1965 Mar 2, The movie version
of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical “The Sound of Music," starring
Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, had its world premiere at New
York’s Rivoli Theater. The musical, about the Trapp Family, was a
hit on the Great White Way for 3-1/2 years and one of the most
popular motion pictures of all time. It remains a classic even
today. The movie brought instant stardom for Miss Andrews, who went
on to star in other singing roles in the theatre, on television, in
movies and as a popular recording artist.
(AP, 3/2/05)
1965 Mar 2, More than 150 U.S.
and South Vietnamese planes bombed two bases in North Vietnam in the
first of the "Rolling Thunder" raids.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1966 Mar 2, Milton Obote stage
a coup against Pres. Edward Mutesa (d.1969) and had himself declared
president of Uganda. Mutesa, the Baganda king and non-executive
president of Uganda, was burned out of his palace and exiled. Mutesa
fled Obote’s army and went to London where his son, Ronald Muwenda
Mutebi was enrolled in boarding school.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Obote)(WSJ,
12/19/94, A-1,6)(Econ, 7/26/08, p.58)
1966 Mar 2, There were some
215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam. Gen. Westmoreland called for 325,000
by July and 410,000 by December.
(SC, 3/2/02)(Econ, 7/11/09, p.88)
1967 Mar 2, At the 9th Grammy
Awards: “Strangers in Night" by Frank Sinatra won Record of the Year
and “Michele" by the Beatles won Song of the Year. The song
"Winchester Cathedral" by the New Vaudeville Band won the Grammy
best contemporary recording category.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Awards_of_1967)
1967 Mar 2, The US performed a
nuclear test at its Nevada Test Site. The Rivet III test was part of
Operation Latchkey.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Operation_Latchkey)
1968 Mar 2, The Poor Peoples'
March on Washington, envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a
means of dramatizing the plight of the poor of all races, got under
way.
{USA, Black History}
(www.project1968.com/in-the-news-may-2-1968.html)
1968 Mar 2, In Switzerland the
World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva was won by
Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov (USSR). The Ladies Figure
Skating Championship was won by Peggy Fleming (USA). The Men's
Figure Skating Championship was won by Emmerich Danzer (Austria).
(SC,
3/2/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Figure_Skating_Championships)
1968 Mar 17, The siege of Khe
Sanh was the longest and bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War. During
the siege Manny Babbit was wounded. Babbit in 1980 killed a
78-year-old woman in Sacramento, Ca., and was convicted and
sentenced to death. He was awarded his Purple Heart while on death
row in 1998.
(SFC, 3/20/98, p.A1)
1968 Mar 2, The USSR launched
space probe Zond 4. It failed to leave Earth orbit.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zond_4)
1969 Mar 2, Dmitri
Shostakovich, Russian composer, completed his 14th Symphony.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._14_(Shostakovich))(http://tinyurl.com/66tpar)
1969 Mar 2, Phil Esposito of
the Boston Bruins became the 1st NHL Player to score 100 points in a
season.
(www.nhl.com/history/030269.html)
1969 Mar 2, The Concorde
jetliner's 1st test flight took place in Bristol, England.
(www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20031013/026200.html)
1969 Mar 2, Chinese and Russian
soldiers clashed on Damansky Island and approximately 70 died. The
Soviet and Chinese border troops had been skirmishing since 1959
along the 2,500 mile border. Recent skirmishes were along the Ussuri
River border. The Soviets used a full scale tank assault to repulse
a Chinese attack on the island of Damansky. A border treaty in the
1990s gave the island to China.
(www.jstor.org/pss/1957173)(WSJ, 11/19/96,
p.A1)(SFC, 12/28/96, p.A13)(WSJ, 12/16/05,
p.A1)(http://tinyurl.com/n43dsd4)
1970 Mar 2, The US Supreme
Court set age 23 as the cut-off for prosecuting men who fail to
register for the draft on their 18th birthday.
(http://tinyurl.com/4urpvk)
1972 Mar 2, Pioneer 10 was
launched from Cape Kennedy. It carried a plaque designed by Carl
Sagan and Frank Drake showing some details of human civilization on
Earth. The craft headed to Jupiter and then continued into deep
space long past expectations. In 2001 contact was re-established
with the craft 7.29 billion miles distant and enroute toward the
constellation Taurus. Contact was again made in 2002. Pioneer was
expected to reach the red star Aldebaran in Taurus in about 2
million years.
(SFC, 3/4/96, p.A5)(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A14)(SFC,
4/30/01, p.A7)
1972 Mar 2, Jean-Bédel Bokassa
appointed himself President for life of the Central African
Republic.
(www.etat.sciencespobordeaux.fr/_anglais/chronologie/centralafrican.html)
1972 Mar 2, In Jamaica Michael
Manley (1924-1997, Socialist and champion of the nonaligned
movement, was sworn in as prime minister.
(SFC, 3/8/96,
p.A21)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Manley)
1973 Mar 2, Federal forces
surrounded Wounded Knee, South Dakota, which was occupied by members
of the militant American Indian Movement who were holding at least
10 hostages.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1973 Mar 2, Arab commandos,
"Black September" terrorists, led by Abu Jihad executed 3 hostages:
US ambassador Cleo A. Noel (54), deputy George Curtis Moore (47) and
Belgian charge d’affaires Guy Eid (38), in Khartoum, Sudan. Pres.
Nixon refused their demands. The operation was later reported to
have been organized by Yasser Arafat.
(WSJ, 1/10/02,
p.A12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartoum_diplomatic_assassinations)
1974 Mar 2, In the 16th Grammy
Awards Roberta Flack won for the song “Killing Me Softly" &
Bette Midler won as Best New Artist. Stevie Wonder got five Grammy
Awards for his album, "Innervisions" and his hit songs, "You Are The
Sunshine of My Life" and "Superstition".
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Awards_of_1974)
1974 Mar 2, US 1st class
postage stamps rose from 8 cents to 10 cents.
(www.akdart.com/postrate.html)
1974 Mar 2, In Spain Catalan
activist Salvador Puig (b.1948) became the world’s last person to be
garroted. He was executed by the Francoist regime after being tried
by a military tribunal and found guilty of the death of a Spanish
gendarme.
(SFC, 1/1/15,
p.D1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Puig_Antich)
1975 Mar 2, Linda McCartney
(1941-1998) was arrested in Los Angeles with possession of
marijuana.
(www.philbrodieband.com/music_trivia-yesterdays_march.htm)
1975 Mar 2, Madeleine Vionnet
(b.1876), French dressmaker, died at age 98. In 1999 Betty Kirke
published the biography: "Madeleine Vionnet."
(SFEC, 5/16/99, BR
p.8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Vionnet)
1976 Mar 2, The musical revue
Bubbling Brown Sugar" opened at ANTA Theater in NYC for 766
performances.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbling_Brown_Sugar)
1976 Mar 2, Bob Lurie (b.1929),
real estate magnate, led a group to acquire ownership of the San
Francisco Giants baseball club.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lurie)
1977 Mar 2, Bette Davis
(1908-1989) became the 1st woman to receive Life Achievement Award.
(www.worldofquotes.com/history/3_2/7/index.html)
1977 Mar 2, Future Tonight Show
host Jay Leno debuted with host Johnny Carson.
(www.lvol.com/bios/e136.html)
1977 Mar 2, The U.S. House of
Representatives adopted a strict code of ethics.
(AP, 3/2/00)
1977 Mar 2, Libya amended its
constitution and changed its name from The Libyan Arab Republic to
The Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahirya.
(http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dr_ibrahim_ighneiwa/libyans.htm)
1978 Mar 2, Sam Shepard’s play
"Curse of the Starving Class" premiered at the New York Shakespeare
Festival.
(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB
p.37)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Starving_Class)
1978 Mar 2, Soyuz 28 carried 2
cosmonauts to Salyut 6. Czech pilot Vladimir Remek became the first
non-Russian, non-American in space.
(HN,
3/2/99)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_28)
1980 Mar 2, Snow fell in
Florida.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_snow_events_in_Florida)
1981 Mar 2, Howard Stern began
broadcasting on WWDC in Washington DC.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1981 Mar 2, The United States
planned to send 20 more advisors and $25 million in military aid to
El Salvador.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1981 Mar 2, A Pakistan Airways
Boeing 720 was hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists. The passengers
and crew were released March 15 in Syria.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/15/newsid_2818000/2818437.stm)
1982 Mar 2, Philip K. Dick
(53), science fiction writer, died. His work included dozens of
novels and over 100 short stories. His novel "Valis" (Vast Active
Living Intelligence System) was an autobiographical work. In 1989
Lawrence Sutin wrote the biography: "Divine Invasions: A Life of
Philip K. Dick." The 1982 film Blade Runner was loosely based on his
novel: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep." The 2003 film
"Paycheck" was based on his 1953 same name novel. In 2004 Emmanuel
Carrere authored “I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey Into the
Mind of Philip K. Dick.
(WSJ, 4/27/99, p.A20)(SFC, 6/25/02, p.D1)(SFC,
12/27/03, p.D1)(Econ, 4/17/04, p.83)
1982 Mar 2, The French term
"région" was officially created by the Law of Decentralization, when
by the same act their legal status was conferred. The first direct
regional elections for representatives took place on 16 March 1986.
France is administratively divided into 26 regions (French:
régions), of which 22 are on mainland France, and four are overseas.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_France)
1982 Mar 2, In Peru over 50
Shining Path terrorists attack the prison of Ayacucho, releasing
drug traffickers and 54 terrorists held there. The leader of the
attack, Edith Lagos, was killed in the battle.
(www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2246_sendero.html)
1983 Mar 2, The USSR launched
spacecraft "TKS-M" to "Salyut-7" space station, which was named
"Cosmos-1443".
(www.videocosmos.com/calendar-march0110.shtm)
1984 Mar 2, One of the first
McDonald's franchises was closed in Des Plaines, IL.
(http://tinyurl.com/28tp6z)
1985 Mar 2, Country singer,
Gary Morris hit #1 on the country charts for the first time with
"Baby Bye Bye" from his album, "Faded Blue". Other chart toppers
included: Careless Whisper, Wham! featuring George Michael;
California Girls, David Lee Roth; Can't Fight this Feeling, REO
Speedwagon.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_in_country_music)(http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id201.htm)
1985 Mar 2, The US government
approved a screening test for AIDS that detected antibodies to the
virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood to be excluded from the
blood supply.
(AP, 3/2/98)
1985 Mar 2, The Gordo cartoon
strip, one of the first in the US to celebrate Mexican culture,
ended. Gus Arriola (1917-2008) had begun the strip in 1941.
(SSFC, 2/3/08, p.B1)
1985 March 2, The tug
Willamette Pilot III sank in heavy seas off the coast of Mendocino,
Ca. 6 crew members died.
(SSFC, 3/7/10, DB p.46)
1985 Mar 2, Three Assyrians
were executed by the Baath regime of Iraq for distributing
literature against the Arabization policies of the government.
(www.unpo.org/article.php?id=741)
1986 Mar 2, Protesters tried to
stop the sale of the Land Rover Motor Co. to a US owner.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1987 Mar 2, Two sets of
quintuplets were born on the same day in the USA as Rosalind Helms
delivered a basketball team of bouncing babies in Peoria, IL and
Robin Jenkins became the mother of five in Las Vegas, NV.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1987 Mar 2, US government
officials reported that the median price for a new home had topped
$100,000 for the first time. The new six-figure price of $110,700
was up from $94,600.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1987 Mar 2, The Macintosh II
computer was introduced. The 1st color Mac had a CPU speed of 16 MHz
and sold for $3,898.
(SFC, 1/24/04,
p.A12)(www.applematters.com/index.php/section/history/2006/03/02/)
1988 Mar 2, In the 30th Grammy
Awards: Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley won.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1988 Mar 2, Dutch Liberal Party
merged with SDP.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1988 Mar 2, The U.N. General
Assembly voted overwhelmingly to order the United States to submit
to binding arbitration its plan to close the observer mission of the
Palestine Liberation Organization. A federal court later stopped the
U.S.
(AP, 3/2/98)
1989 Mar 2, Madonna's "Like a
Prayer" premiered on worldwide Pepsi commercial.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1989 Mar 2, Gloria Estefan
(b.1957) and the Miami Sound Machine received the 1st star on the
Latin Star Walk on Calle Ocho, the main street of Little Havana in
Miami, Fl.
(http://tinyurl.com/czkup)
1989 Mar 2, Exxon Houston ran
aground in Hawaii and spilled 117,000 gallons of oil.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1989 Mar 2, Representatives
from the 12 European Community nations agreed to ban all production
of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) by the end of this century.
(AP, 3/299)
1989 Mar 2, A grenade attack
in downtown Panama killed a U.S. soldier and injured 28 other people
at the My Place discotheque on Via Espania and Calle 50. [AP posted
this event as 1990, the EW posted it as 1989]
(AP, 3/2/00)(EW)
1990 Mar 2, More than 6,000
drivers went on strike against Greyhound Lines Inc. The company,
later declaring an impasse in negotiations, fired the strikers.
(AP, 3/2/00)
1990 Mar 2, A grenade attack
in downtown Panama killed a U.S. soldier and injured 28 other people
at the My Place discotheque on Via Espania and Calle 50. [AP posted
this event as 1990, the EW posted it as 1989]
(AP, 3/2/00)(EW)
1991 Mar 2, "Aspects of Love"
closed at Broadhurst Theater in NYC after 377 performances.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1991 Mar 2, "La Bete" closed at
Eugene O'Neill Theater in NYC after 24 performances.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1991 Mar 2, Serge Gainsbourg
(b.1928), French singer-songwriter, actor and director, died of a
heart attack. His extremely varied musical style and individuality
make him difficult to categorize. His legacy has been firmly
established, and he is often regarded as one of the world's most
influential popular musicians.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Gainsbourg)
1991 Mar 2, The UN Security
Council adopted a resolution dictating allied demands that Iraq had
to meet before a formal-cease fire was declared in the Persian Gulf
War. Iraq released CBS newsman Bob Simon and his crew, held captive
for nearly six weeks.
(AP, 3/2/01)
1991 Mar 2, Shiite Muslims in
southern Iraq and the Kurds rose up against Iraqi forces but were
crushed by Iraqi armor that killed 50,000 and forced more than a
million Kurds to flee to Turkey and Iran.
(SFC, 9/4/96, p.A7)(SFC, 9/4/96, p.A8)
1991 Mar 2, Following the
Kuwait cease-fire a retreating Iraqi unit stumbled into the Gen.
McCaffrey’s 24th infantry division and some 400 Iraqis were reported
killed. Army investigations concluded that the Iraqis started the
Rumaylah battle.
(SFC, 5/15/00, p.A3)(WSJ, 5/19/00,
p.A38)(www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYqoaT0RTFU)
1991 Mar 2, A Tiger car bomb in
Colombo, Sri Lanka, killed deputy defense minister Ranjan Wijeratne.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1992 Mar 2, A jury was seated
in Simi Valley, Calif., in the assault trial of four Los Angeles
police officers charged with beating motorist Rodney King.
(AP, 3/2/02)
1992 Mar 2, Actress Sandy
Dennis died in Westport, Conn., at age 54.
(AP, 3/2/02)
1992 Mar 2, The 47th session of
the UN General Assembly welcomed eight former Soviet republics and
San Marino as its newest members. Kazakhstan’s Pres. Nursultan
Nazarbayev proposed to the UN General Assembly an annual reduction
of military budgets by 1% and using the money to fund and strengthen
UN peace projects.
(AP, 3/2/02)(Econ, 12/16/06, p.81)
1993 Mar 2, In the third day of
a standoff between federal agents and Branch Davidians near Waco,
Texas, local radio stations broadcast a taped statement in which the
group's leader, David Koresh, promised to surrender; however, the
standoff continued.
(AP, 3/2/98)
1994 Mar 2, The government of
Mexico and Indian rebels reached a tentative accord on most
insurgent demands for the ending the rebellion, including sweeping
political reforms.
(AP, 3/299)
1995 Mar 2, The US Senate
rejected the balanced-budget amendment; the vote, 65-35, was two
votes shy of the two-thirds majority needed for passage.
(AP, 3/2/00)
1995 Mar 2, Ted Truman, a top
int’l. staffer at the Federal Reserve, reported to Alan Greenspan
that massive dollar sales were driving down the US currency. In
response the Fed and Treasury bought $600 million in marks and yen
and repeated the action next day joined by 13 central banks.
(WSJ, 1/18/05, p.A13)
1995 Mar 2, "Smokey Joe's
Café," previewed on Feb 9, opened at Virginia Theater in NYC.
(www.jimsdeli.com/theater/1997-before/smokey-joes-cafe.htm)
1995 Mar 2, The space shuttle
STS-67 (Endeavour 8) blasted off to study the far reaches of the
universe.
(AP, 3/2/00)
1995 Mar 2, Ferry boat sank off
Sumbe, Angola, and over 42 people were killed.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1995 Mar 2, British trader Nick
Leeson, blamed for the collapse of Barings PLC, was detained in
Germany.
(AP, 3/2/00)
1995 Mar 2, The last U.N.
peacekeepers in Somalia were evacuated.
(AP, 3/2/00)
1996 Mar 2, Senate Majority
Leader Bob Dole reignited his presidential campaign with an
overwhelming victory in the South Carolina Republican primary.
(AP, 3/2/01)
1996 Mar 2, In Australia the
first conservative government in 13 years was elected in a landslide
victory. John Howard with a pro-business coalition defeated the
reformist labor party of Paul Keating.
(WSJ, 3/4/96, p. A-1)(SFC, 11/27/98, p.A16)
1996 Mar 2, Jacobo Majluta
(61), President of Dominican Republic (1982), died.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1997 Mar 2, It was revealed
that Vice President Gore had raised millions of dollars for the 1996
campaign through direct telephone solicitations, and that some of
the calls were made on special phones installed in government
buildings for that purpose.
(AP, 3/2/98)
1997 Mar 2, Saudi Arab
billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal acquired 5% of Apple.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1997 Mar 2, A storm hit
Arkansas with as many as 20 tornadoes and caused major flooding in
the Ohio Valley. At least 41 people were killed.
(SFEC, 3/3/97, p.A3)
1997 Mar 2, A state of
emergency was declared in Albania and at least 4 demonstrators were
killed in Vlora in clashes with police. The Adriatic town of Sarande
was sacked by rioters.
(SFEC, 3/3/97, p.A12)(WSJ, 3/3/97, p.A1)
1997 Mar 2, In China Premier Li
Peng asked the National People’s Congress for a 12.7% increase in
the defense budget for a total of $9.68 billion.
(WSJ, 3/3/97, p.A1)
1997 Mar 2, The Russian Soyuz
TM-24 returned to Earth.
(http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/machines/stm24.sht)
1997 Mar 2, In Spain matadors
across the country went on strike as the bullfighting season opened.
They favored a policy of shaving bull’s horns that was opposed by
the government.
(SFEC, 3/3/97, p.A12)
1997 cMar 2, In Turkey the
military submitted a 20-measure package to Prime Minister Erbakan
that called for some new laws and stricter application of existing
laws to protect secular principles.
(SFC, 3/5/97, p.A8)
1998 Mar 2, Henry Steele
Commager (b.1902), American historian and champion of the
Constitution, died in Amherst, Mass. He and R.B. Morris edited the
40-volume series "The Rise of the American Nation."
(WSJ, 3/3/98, p.A1)(SFC, 3/3/98, p.D8)
1998 Mar 2, Natascha Kampusch
(10) vanished in Vienna, Austria, on her way to school, triggering a
massive search that extended into neighboring Hungary. In 2006
Kampusch, who had been held captive in a cellar, managed to escape.
Wolfgang Priklopil (44), her alleged abductor, committed suicide by
jumping in front of a train. In 2007 Natascha’s mother, Brigitta
Sirny authored: "Desperate Years: My life Without Natascha." In 2008
Herwig Haidinger, the former head of Austria's Federal Criminal
Investigations Bureau, accused authorities of ignoring a tip in
April 1998 from a local policeman that pointed to Priklopil. He also
alleged that Interior Ministry officials refused to look into that
accusation once Kampusch reappeared, so to avoid a scandal before
parliamentary elections that fall.
(AP, 8/24/06)(AP, 8/8/07)(AP, 2/11/08)
1998 Mar 2, U.N. Security
Council unanimously endorsed Secretary-General Kofi Annan's deal to
open Iraq's presidential palaces to arms inspectors.
(AP, 3/299)
1998 Mar 2, Serb police clashed
with 30,000 protesting Albanians in Kosovo.
(WSJ, 3/3/98, p.A1)
1999 Mar 2, Conservative
commentator Pat Buchanan launched a third presidential bid.
(AP, 3/2/00)
1999 Mar 2, Texas Governor
George W. Bush announced he was forming a presidential exploratory
committee.
(AP, 3/2/00)
1999 Mar 2, Hewlett-Packard
announced that it would split its non-computer business into a
separate company.
(SFC, 3/3/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 2, In England Dusty
Springfield (59), pop-soul singer, died from breast cancer. Her hits
included ""You Don't Have to Say You Love Me," "I Just Don't Know
What to Do With Myself" and "Son of a Preacher Man."
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.D2)
1999 Mar 2, Israeli leaders
made campaign promises to leave Lebanon within a year.
(SFC, 3/3/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 2, In Atyrau,
Kazakhstan, 26 inmates stabbed themselves in the stomach in an
attempted mass suicide to protest prison conditions. All survived.
(SFC, 3/5/99, p.D2)
1999 Mar 2, In Kosovo KLA
leader Adem Demaci announced that he would step down but would
continue to oppose the peace plan. Meanwhile Yugoslav tank and
mortar fire pounded rebel positions in the hillsides of the
Macedonian border. Demaci was replaced by Hashim Thaci (29).
(SFC, 3/3/99, p.A8)(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 2, In Sierra Leone the
Kamajors militia won the battle for Moyamba after 6 days of heavy
fighting. They reported that 200 rebels were killed.
(SFC, 3/3/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 2, In Uganda Hutu
rebels killed 8 hostages and 4 Ugandans. Among the dead were
Americans Robert Haubner and Susan Miller of Hillsboro, Ore. They
were there to track the mountain gorillas. Uganda insisted that the
2 Americans, 4 Britons and 2 New Zealanders died in a police rescue
bid.
(SFC, 3/3/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/3/99, p.A1)(SFEC,
3/7/99, p.T14)
2000 Mar 2, A federal jury in
Washington convicted Maria Hsia, a friend and political supporter of
Vice President Al Gore, for arranging more than $100,000 in illegal
donations during the 1996 presidential campaign. Hsia was later
sentenced to three months of home confinement.
(AP, 3/2/01)
2000 Mar 2, Merck pledged a
$100 million donation of Hepatitis B vaccine to inoculate children
in poor nations.
(WSJ, 3/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 2, Dr. Larry C. Ford
committed suicide just days after a botched assassination attempt on
his business partner at Biofem Inc., of Irvine, Calif. Ford had met
with scientists from South Africa's Project Coast in the 1980s to
discuss chemical and biological warfare under Wouter Basson, head of
the project. Project Coast, which has been accused of trying to
create deadly bacteria that would only affect blacks, poisoning
opponents' clothing and stockpiling cholera, HIV and anthrax, opened
an offshore bank account to pay Ford. In 2002 former FBI informant
Peter Fitzpatrick told "60 Minutes" that Ford passed a bag filled
with cholera, typhoid, botulism, anthrax and bubonic plague to a
South African military doctor during a meeting at the house of the
South African trade attache in California.
(AP, 11/3/02)
2000 Mar 2, In Chechnya rebels
ambushed Russian troops outside Grozny and killed at least 20 police
commandos.
(SFC, 3/4/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 2, Former Chilean
dictator General Augusto Pinochet left Britain for his homeland,
hours after he was ruled mentally unfit to stand trial on charges of
human rights abuses.
(AP, 3/2/01)
2000 Mar 2, In Israel commandos
killed as many as 3-4 Palestinian Hamas militants at Taibeh. They
said that 4 simultaneous bombings were scheduled in crowded areas of
major cities.
(SFC, 3/3/00, p.A14)(WSJ, 3/3/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 2, In Kosovo French
peacekeepers forced their way through Serb protestors to return 41
Albanians to their homes across the Ibar River.
(SFC, 3/4/00, p.A10)
2000 Mar 2, In the Philippines
some 40 rebels of the New People's Army killed 10 soldiers at
Balilihan in Bohol province.
(SFC, 3/3/00, p.D4)
2000 Mar 2, Zimbabwe ordered
black war veterans to quit white-owned farms.
(WSJ, 3/3/00, p.A1)
2001 Mar 2, In Afghanistan the
Taliban began the destruction of the giant Buddha of Bamiyan despite
int’l. protests. The United Nations tried in vain to persuade
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban to reverse its decision to destroy a
pair of giant, ancient statues of Buddha and other Buddhist relics
that the regime considered idolatrous.
(SSFC, 3/4/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D3)(AP,
3/2/02)
2001 Mar 2, In China 37 members
of the banned Falun Gong were sentenced to prison terms of 3-10
years. Most had been convicted of “using a cult to obstruct the
law."
(SFC, 3/3/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 2, In France Alois
Brunner, former deputy of Adolf Eichmann, was sentenced to life
imprisonment for war crimes against humanity. He was believed to be
still alive in Syria, where he fled in 1954.
(SFC, 3/3/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 2, In Indonesian some
7,000 Madurese refugees escaped from Borneo while some 13,000 still
waited in camps for boats. The killing appeared to have stopped.
(SFC, 3/3/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 2, In Israel the Labor
Party chose 8 members to serve in the Cabinet of Ariel Sharon.
Shimon Peres was named foreign minister and Benjamin Ben-Eliezer as
defense minister.
(SFC, 3/3/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 2, In the Philippines
the Supreme Court affirmed the legitimacy of Pres. Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo and denied immunity to former Pres. Estrada.
(SFC, 3/3/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 2, In Thailand a bomb
blast gutted a Thai Airways Boeing 737-400 in Bangkok just before PM
Shinawatra was to board. One crew member was killed. It was later
reported that the empty center fuel tank of the plane had exploded.
(SFC, 3/5/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 6/26/08, p.A12)
2002 Mar 2, US and Afghan
forces attacked hundreds of suspected al Qaeda and Taliban fighters
in eastern Afghanistan. 1 US soldier was killed.
(SSFC, 3/3/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 2, From Brazil it was
reported that at least 23 people had died from dengue fever in Rio
de Janeiro and that officially some 52,000 had become ill.
(SFC, 3/2/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 2, In Colombia the
bodies of Sen. Martha Catalina Daniels, her driver, Carlos Lozano,
and Ana Maria Medina, the wife of a local politician, were found
outside Zipacon, 35 miles north of Bogota. FARC was suspected.
(SFC, 3/4/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 2, Egypt’s Pres.
Mubarek (73) began a 4-day visit to the US.
(SSFC, 3/3/02, p.A19)
2002 Mar 2, Rioting spread as
the death toll in India's religious strife reached 408.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2002 Mar 2, In Jerusalem a
suicide bomber killed himself and 9 others including several
children. In the West Bank gunmen opened fire on Israeli motorists
and killed 9 people.
(SSFC, 3/3/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 2-3, Macedonia police
killed 7 men who allegedly attempted an ambush near Butel, a suburb
of Skopje. Police said the attackers were probably Pakistanis.
Foreign officials later discounted these assertions and suspected
that they were illegal immigrants. A 2 year investigation followed
in the so-called "Rastanski Lozja" action, and revealed police
staged the killing to show they were participating in the U.S.-led
campaign against terrorism. A bomb blast at the Macedonia consulate
in Karachi on Dec 5, 2002, killed 3 people in apparent retaliation.
(SSFC, 3/3/02, p.A15)(WSJ, 3/8/02, p.A8)(SFC,
4/5/02, p.H1)(AP, 4/30/04)(SFC, 5/1/04, p.A7)
2003 Mar 2, Fidel Castro
offered to mediate with North Korea over its nuclear program, though
he acknowledged Cuba's ability to stem the growing crisis was
limited.
(AP, 3/2/03)
2003 Mar 2, In Estonia a
center-left party depicting itself as a champion of the poor barely
won the popular vote in parliamentary elections, which could make it
difficult to form a coalition government.
(AP, 3/3/03)
2003 Mar 2, Iraq crushed
another six Al Samoud II missiles, as ordered by UN weapons
inspectors. Iraqi scientist Mahmud Faraj Bilal al-Samarrai,
implicated in Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (WMD),
surrendered to the CIA. He was freed in 2012.
(AP, 3/2/08)(AFP, 4/15/12)
2003 Mar 2, Israeli
troops backed by tanks and helicopters raided a Gaza Strip town,
killing two Palestinians in fierce fighting and demolishing an
apartment building and the exterior wall of a hospital.
(AP, 3/2/03)
2003 Mar 2, Netherlands,
the world's 4th largest poultry exporter, discovered a bird flu in
some its poultry for the 1st time in 30 years.
(WSJ, 3/6/03, p.A11)
2003 Mar 2, In Karachi,
Pakistan, religious coalitions joined tens of thousands of others in
a march to protest a possible U.S.-led war against Iraq.
(AP, 3/3/03)
2003 Mar 2, North Korea
deployed 4 MiGs to intercept a US RC-135S spy plane some 150 miles
off its coast.
(WSJ, 3/4/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 2, Landlocked
Switzerland became the first European country to win the America's
Cup as "Alinghi" swept Team New Zealand in five races.
(AP, 3/2/04)
2003 Mar 2, Syria
reportedly finished pulling 4,000 troops out of Lebanon in an effort
to reduce tensions and keep radical Sunni groups from attacking
Israel.
(SSFC, 3/2/03, A6)
2003 Mar 2, In northern
Uganda rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army fighting a 16-year war
called a cease-fire and asked to meet Pres. Yoweri Museveni.
(AP, 3/3/03)
2003 Mar 2, The United
Arab Emirates won support from Kuwait and Bahrain in its call for
Saddam Hussein to quit power to avert a war.
(AP, 3/3/03)
2004 Mar 2, Alan Greenspan said
interest rates are too low for long term economic stability, but did
not indicate when they would be raised. The DJIA closed at 10,592.
(WSJ, 3/3/04, p.A3)
2004 Mar 2, John Kerry won the
10-state Super Tuesday series and knocked the fight out of his
spirited rival, John Edwards.
(AP, 3/3/04)
2004 Mar 2, Californians voters
approved Proposition 57, Gov. Schwarzenegger's $15 billion bond
measure, to be repaid over the next 9 to 14 years. Prop 58 to
prohibit future deficit financing also passed.
(SFC, 3/03/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 2, Residents of
Killington, Vermont, voted to join New Hampshire due to a dispute
over property taxes.
(ST, 3/2/04, p.A5)(AP, 3/2/04)
2004 Mar 2, Bernard Ebbers,
former WorldCom CEO, was indicted on federal charges in the
multibillion-dollar accounting scandal at the telecommunications
giant. Scott Sullivan, his top financial officer, pleaded guilty and
agreed to testify against him.
(AP, 3/2/04)(WSJ, 2/18/05, p.A1)
2004 Mar 2, NY state filed
charges against the mayor of New Paltz for marrying gay couples.
(WSJ, 3/3/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 2, NASA scientists
reported that the Mars rover Opportunity had discovered evidence
that water was once present on the surface.
(SFC, 3/03/04, p.A2)
2004 Mar 2, Mercedes
McCambridge (85), Academy Award-winning actress, died in San Diego.
(AP, 3/2/05)
2004 Mar 2, Marge Schott (75),
the controversial former owner of the Cincinnati Reds, died.
(AP, 3/2/05)
2004 Mar 2, In Chechnya rebel
attacks and land mines killed five Russian soldiers.
(AP, 3/3/04)
2004 Mar 2, In China
authorities shut down water supplies after a combination of
synthetic ammonia and nitrogen from the Sichuan General Chemical
Factory leaked into the Tuo River. Nearly 1 million people were left
without water for drinking and bathing.
(AP, 3/5/04)
2004 Mar 2, Haiti rebel leader
Guy Philippe declared himself the new chief of Haiti's military,
which had been disbanded by ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
(AP, 3/2/04)
2004 Mar 2, Attacks on Shiite
Muslims in Iraq killed at least 180 people as multiple explosions
hit Shiite shrines in Baghdad and Karbala on the Shia festival of
Ashura. An Iranian vice president blamed al-Qaida for the attacks.
(AP, 3/3/04)(SSFC, 2/20/05,
p.A14)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2004)
2004 Mar 2, In Pakistan firing
and suicide attack on Shiite Muslims in an Ashura procession in
Quetta claimed 45 lives.
(http://archives.dawn.com/2004/03/04/top1.htm)
2004 Mar 2, Khalil al-Zaben
(59), a close associate of Yasser Arafat, was assassinated in Gaza
City by unidentified gunmen. Separately Arafat agreed to a new
system for paying his security forces.
(SFC, 3/03/04, p.A8)
2004 Mar 2, Russian authorities
said they have confirmed that a man killed in the Dagestan region a
few days earlier was Ruslan Gelayev, one of the Chechnya's most
powerful rebel warlords.
(AP, 3/2/04)
2004 Mar 2, In Venezuela
demonstrators hurled rocks and gasoline bombs at soldiers as
protests intensified after the elections council ruled against an
opposition petition to force a presidential recall referendum.
(AP, 3/3/04)
2005 Mar 2, President Bush
demanded in blunt terms that Syria get out of Lebanon.
(AP, 3/2/05)
2005 Mar 2, The number of U.S.
military deaths in Iraq reached 1,500.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2005 Mar 2, Alan Greenspan
warned that US federal budget deficits are unsustainable and urged
Congress to cut spending.
(SFC, 3/3/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 2, The US Treasury
proposed rules for a new Roth 401(k).
(SFC, 3/3/05, p.C1)
2005 Mar 2, The woman who
accused NBA star Kobe Bryant of rape settled her lawsuit against
him, ending the case.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2005 Mar 2, It was reported
that the Palm Beach, Fla., hedge fund KL Financial, with assets of
$200 million, had run out of funds.
(WSJ, 3/2/05, p.C1)
2005 Mar 2, In Florida dozens
of dolphins beached on the Florida Keys. Sonar from a US submarine
was later suspected.
(SSFC, 3/6/05, p.A3)
2005 Mar 2, In Tennessee a
school bus driver was shot and killed by a 14-year old student, who
was recently disciplined by the driver for using snuff.
(WSJ, 3/3/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 2, In Afghanistan
Pres. Karzai appointed Habiba Sarobi as governor of Bamiyan
province, making her Afghanistan’s 1st female governor.
(SFC, 3/3/05, p.A10)
2005 Mar 2, In eastern
Afghanistan a gunbattle between U.S.-led coalition forces and
militants left three militants and two civilians dead.
(AP, 3/5/05)
2005 Mar 2, Australia’s central
bank raised interest rates to 5.5% from 5.25%. The 2004 annual
growth rate was reported to be 1.5%.
(WSJ, 3/3/05, p.A11)
2005 Mar 2, In Azerbaijan Elmar
Huseinov, founder and editor of the opposition magazine Monitor, was
shot to death in the entryway of his Baku apartment building.
(AP, 3/3/05)
2005 Mar 2, Brazil's lower
house of Congress overwhelmingly approved a law creating a framework
to legalize biotech seed sales for genetically modified crops.
(AP, 3/3/05)
2005 Mar 2, In northern China a
cache of explosives at the home of a coal mine manager blew up in
Kecheng, killing him and at least 10 others including 2 children at
a nearby school.
(AP, 3/3/05)(SFC, 3/3/05, p.A6)
2005 Mar 2, Queen Elizabeth II
dubbed Bill Gates (49) an honorary noble.
(SFC, 3/3/05, p.A2)
2005 Mar 2, France's newly
appointed Finance Minister Thierry Breton pledged to keep a tight
lid on public spending in an effort to rein in the budget deficit.
(AP, 3/2/05)
2005 Mar 2, Two car bombs
killed at least 14 Iraqi soldiers in separate attacks, and the
al-Qaida group in Iraq claimed responsibility for one.
(SFC, 3/3/05, p.A6)(WSJ, 3/3/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 2, Pakistani police
arrested a man wanted in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter
Daniel Pearl and already sentenced to death in absentia for a hotel
bombing that killed 11 French engineers.
(AP, 3/2/05)
2005 Mar 2, Former Serbian army
chief Gen. Momcilo Perisic, a one-time ally of ex-president Slobodan
Milosevic, said that he has been indicted by the UN war crimes court
and will surrender next week.
(AP, 3/3/05)
2005 Mar 2, In a new book
entitled "Mari, the Metropolis of the Euphrates," Jean-Claude
Margueron said the third millennium BC city, in modern day Syria,
was "one of the first modern cities of humanity.
(AP, 3/2/05)
2005 Mar 2, It was reported
that the bodies of at least 34 men found in Venezuela's central
Guarico state in the past three years had burns, bruises and cuts
suggesting they were tortured before being executed.
(AP, 3/2/05)
2006 Mar 2, On his first trip
to India, President Bush and his Indian counterpart agreed on a
landmark nuclear energy agreement that deepens ties between the
world's oldest and largest democracies.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 2, The Senate voted to
renew the USA Patriot Act.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2006 Mar 2, "Killer nurse"
Charles Cullen, who'd killed at least 29 patients, was sentenced in
Somerville, N.J., to spend the rest of his life in prison. In 2010 a
jury awarded $95 million in damages to families of 8 people who
claimed their loved ones were among those killed by Cullen.
(AP, 3/2/07)(SFC, 3/11/10, p.A8)
2006 Mar 2, LA prosecutors said
19 people, many of them former police officers or with police
connections, have been charged with staging home robberies in
Southern California to steal drugs, money and weapons.
(Reuters, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 2, The US Federal
Reserve began shipping a new colorized $10 bill to commercial banks.
(WSJ, 3/3/06, p.C3)
2006 Mar 2, It was reported
that Thomas Monaghan, founder of Domino’s Pizza, hoped that the new
town of Ave Maria in southwestern Florida would be governed under
strict Roman Catholic principles. The town was being constructed
around Ave Maria Univ. east of Naples. The town and university,
bankrolled by Monaghan with $250 million, were set to open in 2007.
(SFC, 3/2/06, p.A2)
2006 Mar 2, General Motors
Corp. said it has made major steps in developing a commercially
viable hydrogen-powered vehicle and expects it can get the
emission-free cars into dealerships in the next four to nine years.
(AFP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 2, An oil spill in
Alaska curtailed Prudhoe Bay production. At least 265,000 gallons
spilled onto the tundra from a British Petroleum (BP) line handling
100,000 barrels per day. The spill of 5,000 barrels was the largest
in the field’s 29-year history. In 2011 a $25 million settlement was
reached with a BP subsidiary for the spill.
(WSJ, 3/3/06, p.A1)(SFC, 3/11/06, p.A4)(SSFC,
8/13/06, p.A18)(SFC, 5/4/11, p.A6)
2006 Mar 2, Garrett Scott (37),
documentary film maker, died in Coronado, Ca., of cardiac arrest.
His 2005 film “Occupation: Dreamland" was based on footage shot with
co-director Ian Olds, while embedded with the 82nd Airborne in
Fallujah, Iraq.
(SFC, 3/7/06, p.B5)
2006 Mar 2, In Bangladesh
Shaikh Abdur Rahman, the fugitive leader of an Islamic militant
group wanted for a deadly wave of bombings. surrendered to police
after a 33-hour siege. Rahman, who fought in the Afghan war after
graduating from Medina University in Saudi Arabia, formed the
Jamayetul Mujahideen in the late 1990s.
(AFP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 2, Belarussian
President Alexander Lukashenko defiantly told his Western critics to
stay out of his country's affairs, while an opposition rival for the
presidency was beaten by security forces and detained.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 2, In Croatia 8 former
soldiers were convicted of torturing ethnic Serbs in a wartime
prison, four years after they were cleared of the same charges in a
trial later annulled as being flawed.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 2, It was reported
that Cuban academics hoping to attend a gathering of Latin America
experts in Puerto Rico had been denied visas by the American
government, marking the latest in the current US administration's
trend of shutting out Cubans.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 2, The European
Central Bank raised its key interest rate by a quarter percentage
point to 2.5 percent amid worries about inflation.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 2, Haiti's newly
elected Pres. Rene Preval met with Dominican Republic President
Leonel Fernandez in Santo Domingo amid rising tensions between their
countries over immigration and security.
(AP, 3/3/06)
2006 Mar 2, A bomb ripped
through a vegetable market in a Shiite section of Baghdad killing 38
people. A leading Sunni politician escaped an attack on his convoy
as unrelenting violence pushing Iraq toward civil war.
(AP, 3/2/06)(WSJ, 3/3/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 2, John Pace, the
former UN human rights chief in Iraq said human rights abuses in
Iraq are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein. It was
reported that sectarian evictions by Sunnis and Shiites were growing
in Baghdad neighborhoods
(AP, 3/2/06)(SFC, 3/2/06, p.A12)
2006 Mar 2, Tommaso Onofri, a
17-month-old epileptic boy, was kidnapped from his home in
Casalbaroncolo, near Parma, Italy. His body was found April 1. He
was killed by blows to the head with a shovel. Suspects Mario
Alessi, a construction worker, and Salvatore Raimondi have been
accusing each other of killing the child shortly after the
kidnapping. A woman was accused of complicity in the kidnapping.
(AP, 3/7/06)(AP, 4/3/06)
2006 Mar 2, In Kenya masked
gunmen identifying themselves as police raided the country's oldest
newspaper and its sister television station, two days after three
journalists were detained for a story about Kenya's president. The
closures of The Standard and the Kenya Television Network, ordered
by security minister John Michuki, appeared to mark the first time a
Kenyan government has shut down the operations of a major media
company.
(AP, 3/2/06)(Econ, 3/25/06, p.52)
2006 Mar 2, Kosovo's president,
Fatmir Sejdiu, issued a statement calling on Lt. Gen. Agim Ceku
(44), a former leader of the now disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army,
to become prime minister and form a new government.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 2, Libya released all
84 jailed members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood movement who had
been held since the late 1990s.
(AFP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 2, North and South
Korea opened high-level military talks for the first time in almost
two years, aiming to reduce tension along the world's most heavily
fortified border and prevent accidental naval skirmishes.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 2, In Pakistan a
suicide attacker rammed a car packed with explosives into a vehicle
carrying an American diplomat in Karachi, killing diplomat David Foy
and 3 other people before President Bush's visit to Pakistan.
Fifty-two people were wounded. An Uzbek national, arrested in
Pakistan in July, told interrogators that Al-Qaeda had organized the
suicide attack.
(AFP, 7/26/06)(AP, 3/2/07)
2006 Mar 2, Palestinian leader
Mahmoud Abbas said in a published interview that the al-Qaida terror
network has infiltrated the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 2, Puerto Rico's Gov.
Anibal Acevedo Vila signed into law a ban on smoking in enclosed
public places, the toughest anti-tobacco prohibition in the
Caribbean.
(AP, 3/3/06)
2006 Mar 2, In South Africa
early results put the ruling African National Congress well ahead in
local elections, despite voter unhappiness with the rate of progress
in improving the lives of poor blacks.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 2, South Africa joined
a growing list of countries inviting Hamas leaders for talks,
raising Israeli concerns that the international front against the
Islamic militants is crumbling.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 2, Venezuela's VP Jose
Vicente Rangel said that the US was the world's biggest consumer of
illegal drugs and had no "moral authority" to criticize Venezuela
for failing to control narcotics.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 2, Vietnam announced
it has commuted the death sentence of Nguyen Van Chinh (45), a
convicted Australian drug trafficker, to life imprisonment after
heavy lobbying by the Australian government.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2007 Mar 2, US Defense
Secretary Robert Gates fired Army Secretary Francis Harvey as the
Bush administration scrambled to respond to an outcry over poor
treatment for veterans at the Army's top hospital.
(Reuters, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 2, The US Energy and
Defense departments chose Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to
design the country’s first new nuclear warhead since the Cold War.
(SFC, 3/3/07, p.A1)
2007 Mar 2, A charter bus
carrying a college baseball team from Ohio’s Mennonite-affiliated
Bluffton University plunged off a highway ramp in Georgia and
slammed into the pavement below, killing six people, injuring 29 and
scattering sports equipment across the road. A 7th player died from
his injuries on Mar 9.
(AP, 3/2/07)(AP, 3/9/07)
2007 Mar 2, Checkpoint Systems
Inc. said it will provide Reno GmbH with RFID (radio frequency
identification) tags and store tagging systems. Reno GmbH plans to
embed wireless chips in shoes sold at hundreds of stores across the
continent.
(http://tinyurl.com/2cpo45)
2007 Mar 2, Scientists scanning
the deep interior of Earth have found evidence of a vast water
reservoir beneath eastern Asia that is at least the volume of the
Arctic Ocean.
(www.livescience.com/environment/070228_beijing_anomoly.html)
2007 Mar 2, In western
Afghanistan insurgents attacked a police post, leaving one police
officer dead and two wounded. A mortar round landed on a US military
outpost in the same Herat province, wounding 12 civilian Afghan
workers and two Afghan soldiers.
(AP, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 2, Brazilian police
arrested 18 people accused of allowing illegal logging in the Amazon
rain forest and were searching for 19 others, including
environmental protection agents.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 2, The British
Broadcasting Corp. said that it has signed a deal with Google Inc.'s
YouTube that will allow the popular Web site to show excerpts of the
broadcaster's news and entertainment programs.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 2, Bulgaria's
Socialist-led government survived a no-confidence on a motion filed
by the opposition, claiming that the government was unable to cope
with a health care crisis.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 2, Chechnya's
parliament approved Ramzan Kadyrov, a widely feared former security
chief as president of the war-battered Russian republic in a nearly
unanimous vote.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 2, China demanded the
United States scrap a planned sale of hundreds of missiles to
Taiwan, warning the deal would harm regional stability and bilateral
ties.
(AFP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 2, In Colombia
prosecutors ordered the arrest of Alvaro Araujo Noguera, a prominent
political boss, for alleged involvement in a kidnapping at the heart
of a scandal tying the country’s political elite to right-wing
paramilitary groups.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 2, Henri Troyat (95),
French writer, died. He fled Russia's revolution as a child and went
on to become one of France's most prolific, popular and respected
authors.
(AP, 3/5/07)
2007 Mar 2, An al-Qaida-linked
Sunni group said that it kidnapped 18 government workers and
soldiers in retaliation for the alleged rape of a Sunni woman by
members of the Shiite-dominated police force. Hours later, the
government said the bodies of 14 security officers had been found.
In Baghdad, a pair of car bombs killed 11 people in separate
attacks.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 2, In Italy Premier
Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament,
formally ending Italy's political crisis.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 2, Moammar Gadhafi
said in an unusual debate that it was time for his long-isolated
nation to open up to the world and that one day Libya won't need him
as leader. Still, he insisted that the ruling ideology he has
entrenched here for three decades is superior to Western democracy.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 2, In Morocco 12
Islamic militants were convicted of terrorism-related charges,
including eight with alleged ties to al-Qaida who had volunteered to
fight in Iraq.
(AP, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 2, In Nigeria 7 people
were shot dead and 10 others were seriously wounded when gunmen
opened fire in a crowded district of Port Harcourt.
(AP, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 2, In eastern Pakistan
a bomb rigged to a bicycle exploded near a car carrying a judge,
seriously wounding him and killing at least three people in Multan.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 2, People caught
smoking in bars and restaurants in Puerto Rico faced fines as a ban
on lighting up in enclosed public spaces took effect.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 2, Ivan Safronov, a
Russian military affairs writer for the daily Kommersant, fell to
his death from a fifth-story window in Moscow. On Mar 6 his
newspaper said he had received threats while gathering material for
a report claiming Russia planned to provide sophisticated weapons to
Syria and Iran.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 2, An explosion in a
Slovakian ammunition factory killed two people, left six missing and
injured 45, five seriously.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 2, In Somalia 4 mortar
explosions rocked Mogadishu, wounding six people, including two
children.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 2, South Korea delayed
a full resumption of aid shipments to North Korea until the
communist regime shuts down its main atomic reactor under an
international agreement to take steps toward abandoning its nuclear
weapons program. A South Korean activist said 80 North Korean
refugees are hiding in various Asian countries and preparing to seek
asylum in the United States. North and South Korea agreed to resume
reunions of families that have been separated by their divided
border.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 2, In the jungles of
southern Thailand soldiers killed five suspected Muslim insurgents
during a raid on a weapons training camp.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 2, Venezuela accused
US anti-drug agents of collaborating with traffickers and rejected
Washington's allegations that rampant corruption has allowed illegal
drug smuggling to thrive in the South American country.
(AP, 3/3/07)
2008 Mar 2, Ayman al-Zawahri,
Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader, published "Exonerations," with al-Sahab,
al-Qaida's media wing, on militant Islamic Web sites. The book slams
radical militants who have disavowed armed struggle and turned their
backs on violence.
(AP, 3/2/08)
2008 Mar 2, In southern
California Jamiel Shaw II (17) was gunned down by Pedro Espinoza, a
19-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, in Arlington Heights, LA
County. On Nov 2, 2012, Espinoza was sentenced to death.
(http://tinyurl.com/n2oyxdn)
2008 Mar 2, Blind jazz
guitarist Jeff Healey (41), known for his blues-based rock and his
distinctive playing style, died in a Toronto hospital after a
life-long battle with cancer.
(Reuters, 3/3/08)
2008 Mar 2, Amaro da Costa, a
senior East Timorese rebel soldier, surrendered. He was accused of
being involved in last month's attacks on the country's president
and prime minister.
(Reuters, 3/2/08)
2008 Mar 2, In northern
Honduras 8 people were shot dead at a billiards hall by gunmen
disguised as policemen in San Pedro Sula, a city plagued by violent
gangs and drug traffickers. Honduras last month began a nationwide
effort to halt a rising wave of violence and stem the flow of guns
on the street.
(AP, 3/3/08)
2008 Mar 2, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his landmark visit to Iraq opened a new
chapter in "brotherly" relations between the two countries, which
were once bitter enemies. 13 gunmen were killed and eight were
injured in clashes with American and Iraqi forces in the town of Tal
Afar. 2 police officers were also killed and four were injured. In
two other separate attacks in Diyala, police reported that five
people were killed when a roadside bomb hit a bus, while another
assault killed a patrolling police officer. The US military found a
grave in Samarra with 14 bodies, believed to be members of the Iraqi
security forces executed by al-Qaida in Iraq. A car bomb in Samarra
had killed four people, including one child. Police in Samarra,
however, reported that at least seven people were killed and 10
people were injured. In central and northern Iraq US and Iraqi
forces killed 9 suspected insurgents and detained 44 others in raids
targeting al-Qaida. 3 Iraqi troops were killed in one of the
operations. During the operation, the SWAT teams found bomb-making
materials, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, rifles, grenades, a
landmine and ammunition.
(AP, 3/2/08)(AP, 3/3/08)(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 2, Israeli aircraft
sent missiles slamming into the office of the prime minister of
Hamas-ruled Gaza before dawn, pressing forward with an offensive
that has killed nearly 70 Palestinians in two days of fighting. A
21-month-old girl was among the dead in new violence. The Israeli
onslaught failed to stop rockets from battering southern Israel. 9
were fired at southern Israel by midday, including one that struck a
house in Sderot.
(AP, 3/2/08)
2008 Mar 2, In northwestern
Pakistan a suicide bomber blew himself up at a large meeting called
by tribal elders pushing for peace, killing at least 40 people and
injuring more than 100 in Darra Adam Khel in North West Frontier
Province about 25 miles south of Peshawar.
(AP, 3/2/08)
2008 Mar 2, Russians voted for
a new president in an election likely to hand victory to First
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, President Vladimir Putin's
chosen successor, but criticized by the opposition for a lack of
real competition. With 99.45 percent of the votes counted, Medvedev
had 70.23 percent.
(Reuters, 3/2/08)(AP, 3/3/08)
2008 Mar 2, In Sri Lanka
artillery exchanges left at least 25 Tamil rebels and two Sri Lankan
soldiers dead as Pres. Rajapakse vowed to destroy the separatist
guerrillas.
(AFP, 3/3/08)
2008 Mar 2, Thais went to the
polls to vote in the country's first elections for the upper house
of Parliament since a 2006 military coup ousted elected PM Thaksin
Shinawatra.
(AP, 3/2/08)
2008 Mar 2, Venezuela and
Ecuador ordered troops to their borders with Colombia, sharply
raising tensions after Colombia killed a top rebel leader on
Ecuadorean soil. Ecuadorean troops recovered the seminude bodies of
15 rebels in their jungle camp. Soldiers also found three wounded
women at the camp, a Mexican philosophy student injured by shrapnel
and two Colombians, who were evacuated by helicopter to be treated.
(AP, 3/3/08)
2009 Mar 2, The Obama
administration threw open the curtain on years of Bush-era secrets,
revealing anti-terror memos that claimed exceptional
search-and-seizure powers and divulging that the CIA destroyed
nearly 100 videotapes of interrogations and other treatment of
terror suspects.
(AP, 3/2/09)
2009 Mar 2, The US government
unveiled a revamped rescue package to insurance giant American
International Group (AIG) and will provide the troubled company with
another $30 billion in taxpayer money on an "as needed" basis. The
DJIA fell 299.64 to close at 6763.29, falling below 7,000 for the
first time in 12 years.
(AP, 3/2/09)(WSJ, 3/3/09, p.A1)
2009 Mar 2, A massive late
winter snow storm roared out of the Southeast and into the Northeast
overnight, idling hundreds of flights and making the morning rush
treacherous as motorists contended with nearly a foot of snow in
spots. Some 950 flights were canceled at the three main New York
area airports, an almost 300 canceled in Philadelphia.
(AP, 3/2/09)(SFC, 3/3/09, p.A5)
2009 Mar 2, An asteroid named
2009 DD45, about the size of one that blasted Siberia a century ago,
buzzed by Earth. It measured between 69 feet and 154 feet in
diameter and came to 48,800 miles from Earth.
(AP, 3/4/09)
2009 Mar 2, A study by Oceana,
a worldwide environmental group, said food supplies for large ocean
fish were dwindling due to industrial fishing to supply fish farms.
An estimated 4 to 11 pounds of prey fish were being consumed to
produce one pound of farmed salmon.
(SFC, 3/3/09, p.B1)
2009 Mar 2, In southern
Australia rescuers used jet skis, backhoes and human muscle to save
dozens of whales and dolphins stranded on Naracoopa Beach on
Tasmania state's King Island. Rescuers refloated 54 whales and five
bottlenose dolphins. A total of 194 pilot whales and seven dolphins
became stranded the previous evening.
(AP, 3/2/09)(AP, 3/3/09)
2009 Mar 2, A Chinese man said
he was the mystery collector behind winning bids for two imperial
bronzes auctioned last week at Christie's over Beijing's objections,
and that he made the bogus offers to protest any sale of the looted
relics. The sculptures disappeared from the Summer Palace on the
outskirts of Beijing when French and British forces sacked and
burned it at the end of the second Opium War in 1860. The sculptures
date to the early Qing Dynasty, established by invading Manchu
tribesmen in 1644. The Christie's catalog said they were made for
the Zodiac fountain at the imperial palace.
(AP, 3/2/09)
2009 Mar 2, In China a top
justice official said courts will accept the cases of hundreds of
families with children sickened in last year's tainted milk scandal.
(AP, 3/3/09)
2009 Mar 2, Cuban President
Raul Castro's ousted powerful officials close to his brother Fidel
in the biggest government shakeup since he took power a year ago.
(AP, 3/3/09)
2009 Mar 2, At a donor’s
conference in Egypt Palestinian Pres. Mahmoud Abbas, seeking to
shore up his position against rival Hamas, asked international
donors to funnel millions of dollars through his government to
rebuild the devastated Gaza Strip. The gathering aimed to raise at
least $2.8 billion from 80 donor nations and international
organizations.
(AP, 3/2/09)
2009 Mar 2, In Guinea-Bissau
soldiers assassinated President Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira in his
palace hours after a bomb blast killed his rival. A pre-dawn
gunfight at the palace erupted hours after armed forces chief of
staff Gen. Batiste Tagme na Waie, a longtime rival of the president,
was killed by a bomb blast at his headquarters. The military
insisted no coup was taking place.
(AP, 3/2/09)
2009 Mar 2, Iran dismissed US
concerns about how much fissile material the country has produced,
saying it isn't developing a nuclear bomb and that any effort to
make weapons-grade uranium would be difficult under the eyes of
international inspectors.
(AP, 3/2/09)
2009 Mar 2, In Iraq Ali Hassan
al-Majid, aka “Chemical Ali," was sentenced to death for a 3rd time,
following his conviction relating to the Feb 19, 1999, death of
ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr. Previous convictions related the
killing of Kurds in the late 1980s and the 1991 crackdown on Shiites
in southern Iraq.
(SFC, 3/3/09, p.A3)
2009 Mar 2, In Morocco Hassan
Al Haski (41), a Moroccan man already convicted over the 2004 Madrid
bombings, was sentenced on appeal to 10 years in jail for his role
in suicide attacks the year before in Casablanca that killed 45
people.
(AFP, 3/3/09)
2009 Mar 2, In Pakistan a
suicide bomber killed at least five people and wounded seven others
at a religious school in southwestern Kili Karbala village in Pishin
district.
(AFP, 3/2/09)
2009 Mar 2, In Peru's southern
province of Puno 10 people were killed dead and 16 left missing at a
remote mining camp buried by a mudslide.
(AP, 3/3/09)
2010 Mar 2, The Washington DC
council voted to censure ex-mayor Marion Barry over a report
accusing him of helping award a $15,000 city contract to a woman
with whom he had a sexual relationship.
(SFC, 3/3/10, p.A6)
2010 Mar 2, In California Jerry
Brown, former 2-term Democrat state governor (1975-1983), announced
that he would run for a 3rd term as governor.
(SFC, 3/2/10, p.A1)
2010 Mar 2, In Darien, Ill.,
the bodies of 3 family members were found shot to death. Prosecutors
later said Johnny Borizov (28) had persuaded Jacob Nodarse (23) to
kill the mother of his son, Angela Kramer, her parents and a brother
over a custody dispute. Nodarse was arrested the next day in
Florida.
(SFC, 3/8/10, p.A8)(http://tinyurl.com/yaejaep)
2010 Mar 2, In southeast New
Mexico two employees at a Navajo oil refinery were killed and two
others critically injured after a storage tank exploded into flames.
(AP, 3/2/10)
2010 Mar 2, In Rhode Island the
Central Falls Teachers’ Union pledged to support reforms. The school
board had voted last week to fire 93 teachers and staff from the
high school after the end of the school year. On May 16 the school
district announced that it had reached an agreement with the union
to return all staffers.
(SFC, 3/4/10, p.A8)(SFC, 5/17/10, p.A4)
2010 Mar 2, The Afghan
government denied that it had banned live media coverage of
insurgent attacks, saying it was developing guidelines, not
restrictions, to prevent live footage from aiding fighters at the
scene.
(AP, 3/2/10)
2010 Mar 2, In Australia Seth
Enslow, an American motorcycle stuntman twice, broke the world
record for the longest distance jumped on a Harley-Davidson
motorcycle, sailing through the air near Australia's Sydney Harbor
to shatter the previous 10-year-old record. Bubba Blackwell set the
previous record with a 157 foot (47.85 meters) jump in Las Vegas in
1999.
(AP, 3/2/10)
2010 Mar 2, In London, England,
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, a former Pakistani lawmaker and the leader
of a global Muslim movement, issued a fatwa, or religious edict,
that he calls an absolute condemnation of terrorism. The 600-page
fatwa bans suicide bombing "without any excuses, any pretexts, or
exceptions." The religious scholar is the founder of
Minhaj-ul-Quran, a worldwide movement that promotes a nonpolitical,
tolerant Islam.
(AP, 3/2/10)
2010 Mar 2, The BBC volunteered
to become smaller.
(Econ, 3/6/10, p.74)
2010 Mar 2, Egyptian newspapers
reported that former UN atomic chief Mohamed ElBaradei has called
for constitutional changes in his first statement since forming an
opposition group.
(AFP, 3/2/10)
2010 Mar 2, French authorities
arrested Agathe Habyarimana, the widow of the former Rwandan
president killed in a plane crash, on a Rwandan warrant issued on
genocide-related charges. She was soon freed on bail. The crash is
widely considered the event that sparked the east African country's
1994 genocide. In 2004 France rejected her request for political
asylum, alleging she was at the heart of the regime responsible for
the genocide.
(AP, 3/2/10)(Econ, 3/6/10, p.65)
2010 Mar 2, Germany’s Federal
Constitutional Court overturned a law that let anti-terror
authorities retain data on telephone calls and e-mails, saying it
marked a “grave intrusion" into personal privacy rights.
(SFC, 3/3/10, p.A2)
2010 Mar 2, Guatemalan
authorities arrested Nelly Bonilla, the country’s anti-drug czar,
Police Chief Baltazar Gomez, and police officer Fernando Carrillo,
in a case involving stolen cocaine and slain police.
(AP, 3/2/10)
2010 Mar 2, In Ingushetia
Russian forces killed Alexander Tikhomirov, also known as Said
Buryatsky, in a gun battle near Nazran.
(Reuters, 3/6/10)
2010 Mar 2, In Iran the kaleme
opposition Web site reported that an appeals court has upheld the
death sentence for Mohammad Amin Valian (20), a student who took
part in an anti-government rally in December that left eight people
dead. Valian was found guilty of Moharebeh, a religious offense that
translates as defiance of God, a crime punishable by death under
Iranian law.
(AP, 3/3/10)
2010 Mar 2, Mexico's interior
department said prosecutors have detained 10 Mexican immigration
agents and three airline workers at Cancun's international airport
on suspicion of trafficking Chinese migrants. Oscar Arriola, reputed
to have led a cartel that smuggled two tons of cocaine a month into
the US before authorities dismantled the ring around 2004, was
handed over to US officials and extradited to Colorado.
(AP, 3/2/10)(Reuters, 3/3/10)
2010 Mar 2, The Moroccan state
security service announced that police have dismantled a terrorist
network “of six people imbued with Takfirist ideology," that was
active in several towns in the northeast. Takfiris, a tiny minority
of Muslims in Morocco, believe that society and its leaders have
turned away from the narrow path of what they see as true Islam.
(AFP, 3/2/10)
2010 Mar 2, In Nigeria planted
explosives in the Niger Delta damaged the Kokori oil flow station
operated by Royal Dutch Shell PLC, marking the latest attack in a
region supposedly brought under control by a government amnesty
program.
(AP, 3/3/10)
2010 Mar 2, Ian Paisley (83),
the hard-line Northern Ireland evangelist who led Protestants into
power-sharing with Catholics, announced he will retire from the
British Parliament after a 40-year career.
(AP, 3/2/10)
2010 Mar 2, It was reported
that Spanish investigators, working with private computer-security
firms, have arrested the three alleged ringleaders of the so-called
Mariposa botnet, which appeared in December 2008 and grew into one
of the biggest weapons of cybercrime. The Mariposa botnet infected
almost 13 million computers across 190 countries. More arrests were
expected soon in other countries.
(AP, 3/2/10)(SSFC, 3/14/10, p.D1)
2010 Mar 2, South Sudan’s 17
rival political parties signed an election code of conduct,
committing themselves to ensure upcoming polls in April are free and
fair.
(AFP, 3/3/10)
2010 Mar 2, Tajikistan's main
opposition party said it plans to sue the Central Asian nation's
elections board amid claims it abetted fraud in this weekend's
parliamentary vote.
(AP, 3/2/10)
2010 Mar 2, In Ukraine PM Yulia
Tymoshenko's pro-Western "Orange" coalition dissolved, losing its
majority in parliament and paving the way for the new president to
consolidate his power.
(AP, 3/2/10)
2010 Mar 2, In Uganda overnight
landslides in the mountainous region of Bududa buried three villages
and killed at least 92 people with 250 still missing.
(AP, 3/2/10)(AP, 3/3/10)
2010 Mar 2, In Uzbekistan an
independent think-tank and a rights group claimed that authorities
have instructed health workers to surgically sterilize women as part
of a government campaign to reduce the birth rate.
(AP, 3/2/10)
2010 Mar 2, In southern Yemen a
three-story building collapsed when explosives stored in its
basement went off, killing at least eight people. Officials said the
basement was used by an arms dealer to store dynamite and other
explosives.
(AP, 3/2/10)
2011 Mar 2, Pres. Obama signed
a bill to continue government operations for 2 more weeks. The bill
included $4 billion in spending cuts.
(SFC, 3/3/11, p.A5)
2011 Mar 2, The US Supreme
Court, in an endorsement of free speech, decided 8-1 that anti-gay
protesters, who picket funerals of US soldiers, cannot be sued.
(SFC, 3/3/11, p.A5)
2011 Mar 2, The US Army filed
22 new charges, including aiding the enemy, against Pvt. 1st Class
Bradley E. Manning, suspected of leaking sensitive and classified
documents to WikiLeaks.
(SFC, 3/3/11, p.A4)
2011 Mar 2, The US Fish and
Wildlife Service declared the eastern cougar to be extinct,
confirming a widely held belief among wildlife biologists that
native populations of the big cat were wiped out by man a century
ago.
(AP, 3/2/11)
2011 Mar 2, In the Bahamas a
fire destroyed a shantytown, leaving nearly 700 people homeless,
most of them Haitian migrants.
(AP, 3/3/11)
2011 Mar 2, Bangladesh's
government ordered Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus from his post as
head of his microfinance bank, a humiliating blow for an activist
whose revolutionary idea of giving out small loans lifted many out
of poverty. The Grameen Bank said he remained in charge and that it
would fight the decision.
(AP, 3/2/11)
2011 Mar 2, Britain seized £100
million ($160 million, 117 million euros) of Libyan currency found
on a Libya-bound ship after escorting the vessel to an English port.
(AFP, 3/4/11)
2011 Mar 2, In Germany a gunman
shot dead 2 US airmen at Frankfurt airport. The gunman was
identified as Arid Uka (21), a Kosovo national who was working on a
short-term contract at the Frankfurt international postal center.
The airmen were later identified as Senior Airman Nick Alden (25) of
South Carolina and Airman 1st Class Zachary R. Cuddeback (21) of
Virginia. On Feb 10, 2012, Uka was convicted and sentenced to life
in prison.
(AP, 3/2/11)(Reuters, 3/3/11)(AP, 3/10/11)
2011 Mar 2, Jerusalem officials
approved new housing for Jews in the heart of an Arab neighborhood,
infuriating Palestinians who see the growing Jewish presence in the
city's war-won eastern sector as undermining their aspirations to
statehood. Israel closed the Karni Crossing east of Gaza City citing
security concerns. This left only the Kerem Shalom checkpoint for
commercial crossing.
(AP, 3/2/11)(SFC, 3/3/11, p.A2)
2011 Mar 2, Libyan strongman
Moamer Kadhafi warned "thousands" would die if the West intervened
to support the uprising against him. Government troops briefly
captured Marsa El Brega, an oil export terminal, before being driven
back by rebels. Shells splashed in the Mediterranean and a warplane
bombed a beach where rebel fighters were charging over the dunes. At
least five people were killed in the fighting. Thousands of
Bangladheshi migrant workers, desperate to leave Libya, pressed up
against the gates of the Tunisia frontier, angry at their government
for sending no help. Britain, Spain, France and others launched
emergency airlifts along Libya's borders, trying to prevent racially
charged attacks on the tens of thousands of foreign workers try to
flee.
(AFP, 3/2/11)(Reuters, 3/2/11)(AP, 3/2/11)
2011 Mar 2, In Libya Andrei
Netto of the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo, was detained
in Zawiyah. He had been travelling with Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, an Iraqi
national who has been reporting from western Libya for the past two
weeks. Abdul-Ahad was last in touch with the Guardian newspaper
through a third party on March 6. Netto was released on March 10.
(AFP, 3/10/11)(AP, 3/11/11)
2011 Mar 2, Nepalese
authorities banned the sale of marijuana during a popular Hindu
festival at which holy men traditionally smoke the drug and share it
with young men and women.
(AP, 3/3/11)
2011 Mar 2, In the Netherlands
prosecutors at the International Criminal Court said they will open
a formal investigation into possible crimes against humanity in
Libya.
(AP, 3/2/11)
2011 Mar 2, In Pakistan
assailants purportedly sent by al-Qaida and the Taliban killed
Shahbaz Bhatti (42), the only Christian member of Pakistan's federal
Cabinet, spraying his car with bullets outside his mother's home in
Islamabad.
(AP, 3/2/11)
2011 Mar 2, The Philippine
military deployed two warplanes near a disputed area in the South
China Sea after a ship searching for oil complained it was harassed
by two Chinese patrol boats. The Chinese vessels later left without
confrontation at the Reed Bank, which is near the disputed Spratly
Islands that are claimed by the Philippines, China and other
nations.
(AP, 3/3/11)
2011 Mar 2, In St. Lucia three
gay men from Atlanta were beaten and robbed after masked bandits
broke into their mountain rental home in Soufriere. Police later
arrested two suspects in the assault and looked for three more.
(AP, 3/14/11)
2011 Mar 2, In Sudan at least
70 people were killed and two villages razed in two days of fighting
in the flashpoint oil-producing border district of Abyei.
(AFP, 3/2/11)
2011 Mar 2, Leading human
rights activists condemned Venezuelan authorities for sentencing
union leader Ruben Gonzalez to prison for launching a strike, saying
more than 100 other unionists also face charges after participating
in protests.
(AP, 3/3/11)
2011 Mar 2, In southern Yemen
security forces fired tear gas and shot at hundreds of protesters.
Two protesters were shot and killed in Sadr, Lahaj province. A
coalition of Yemeni opposition groups proposed a plan to end the
country's political crisis that would involve embattled Pres. Saleh
stepping down by the end of the year.
(AP, 3/2/11)(AP, 3/3/11)
2011 Mar 2, Zimbabwe’s Pres.
Mugabe threatened to boycott Western products before seizing
companies from countries that have imposed sanctions against him and
his allies.
(AFP, 3/2/11)
2012 Mar 2, US authorities
charged 29 people who were conspiring to illegally import
counterfeit luxury fashion goods and deadly drugs worth hundreds of
millions of dollars from China and Taiwan. Some 20 arrests took
place in New Jersey, Florida, Texas, New York, and in the
Philippines, as part of an international investigation.
(AFP, 3/2/12)
2012 Mar 2, In California
police and federal agents seized 750 pounds of methamphetamine from
a San Jose apartment. Street value was estimated at $34 million.
(SSFC, 3/4/12, p.C1)
2012 Mar 2, A string of violent
storms scratched away small towns in the South and Midwest as an
early season tornado outbreak left 39 people in 5 states, including
14 in Indiana, 19 in Kentucky, 3 in Ohio and one each in Alabama and
Georgia.
(AP, 3/3/12)(http://tinyurl.com/6u9f2bp)(SFC,
3/5/12, p.A9)
2012 Mar 2, BP reached a
partial settlement in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill trial in which
tens of billions are at stake. Terms of the settlement with a
committee representing thousands of private claimants such as
fishermen and coastal businesses were not released. There was no
word on the status of BP's negotiations with the US government.
(AFP, 3/3/12)
2012 Mar 2, James Q. Wilson,
social scientist (b.1931), died in Boston. His books included
“Bureaucracy" (1989). In 1982 he and George L. Kelling introduced
their broken windows theory, a criminological theory of the norm
setting and signaling effect of urban disorder and vandalism on
additional crime and anti-social behavior. It was implemented in NYC
under Mayor Giuliani (1994-2001), and led to a plunge in violent
felonies.
(SSFC, 3/4/12,
p.C9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory)(Econ,
3/10/12, p.106)
2012 Mar 2, In Afghanistan a
suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a NATO convoy in the
Kandahar province, wounding seven people including four soldiers.
(AFP, 3/2/12)
2012 Mar 2, Norman St
John-Stevas (82), a gay British academic and Conservative politician
died.
(Econ, 3/10/12, p.70)
2012 Mar 2, Danish prosecutors
charged four people with terrorism for allegedly planning a shooting
attack on a newspaper that had printed cartoons of the Prophet
Muhammad. The 4 men from Sweden were arrested on Dec 29, 2010.
(AP, 12/30/10)(AP, 3/2/12)
2012 Mar 2, Leaders of 25 EU
countries signed a new treaty in Brussels designed to limit
government overspending. Spain’s PM Mariano Rajoy said he would miss
deficit targets this year to spare his country from austerity
overload.
(SFC, 3/3/12, p.A2)
2012 Mar 2, France said it is
closing its embassy in Syria, a day after two French journalists
escaped to Lebanon.
(AP, 3/2/12)
2012 Mar 2, In India rampaging
lawyers at a court complex in Bangalore, India's software hub,
assaulted TV camera crews and pelting onlookers and police with
furniture and bottles during a brawl. The journalists said they were
attacked because of their coverage of a lawyers' street protest last
month against an alleged police assault on a fellow advocate. The
brawl erupted during a trial involving a mining fraud in Karnataka,
of which Bangalore is the state capital.
(AFP, 3/3/12)
2012 Mar 2, It was reported
that thousands of male Indonesian civil servants had their monthly
pay transferred to their wives' bank accounts this week in a bid by
a local government to stop men having affairs.
(AFP, 3/2/12)
2012 Mar 2, Iranians voted in
their first national poll since the disputed 2009 re-election of
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, choosing a new parliament they hope
will fix their country's sanctions-hit economy. Overall, the new
parliament looked to be virtually entirely conservative, with the
previous 60 reformist MPs winnowed down to a bare handful following
the boycott of the main reformist blocs in the elections.
(AFP, 3/2/12)(AFP, 3/4/12)
2012 Mar 2, In Ivory Coast a
military court put on trial 28 paramilitary police accused of crimes
in the period last year when former president Laurent Gbagbo tried
to cling to power.
(AFP, 3/2/12)
2012 Mar 2, Kenya launched the
construction of a massive port, railway and refinery near a
UNESCO-listed Indian Ocean island in a project it bills as the
biggest ever in an African nation. Residents of the coastal island
of Lamu had protested against the planned port.
(AP, 3/2/12)(AFP, 3/2/12)
2012 Mar 2, Mozambique's
government said it has refused to let mining giant Rio Tinto use the
Zambezi River to transport coal to the Indian Ocean for export. For
now the Sena railway line to Beira in the center of the country and
the Nacala line in the north were the preferred export routes for
coal.
(AFP, 3/2/12)
2012 Mar 2, In northern Nigeria
gunmen shot dead a soldier in the city of Kano.
(AFP, 3/3/12)
2012 Mar 2, Pakistan's ruling
party made gains in the country's upper house of parliament in
legislative elections. The PPP won 19 seats, increasing its majority
to 41 in a much-needed boost for Zardari's weakened administration.
(AP, 3/2/12)(AFP, 3/3/12)
2012 Mar 2, In northwest
Pakistan a suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of a rival
insurgent group, killing 23 Lashkar-e-Islam supporters in an
outbreak of factional fighting in the Tirah valley. Lashkar-e-Islam
fighters had earlier attacked military post killing 10 soldiers. 23
militants were also killed in the fighting. Fighter jets left at
least 15 militants dead in the Orakzai tribal agency.
(AP, 3/2/12)(SFC, 3/3/12, p.A4)
2012 Mar 2, In Somalia African
Union-backed Somali government troops attacked and seized positions
of hardline Shebab insurgents in the war-torn capital Mogadishu.
(AFP, 3/2/12)
2012 Mar 2, It was reported
that the UN-backed Somali government spent only $1 million on social
services despite having $58 million in revenue, according to an
unpublished report by Abdirazak Fartaag, a former Somali government
official.
(AP, 3/3/12)
2012 Mar 2, Syrian activists
accused regime forces of carrying out execution-style killings and
burning homes as part of a scorched-earth campaign in a restive
neighborhood of Homs, while the Red Cross headed to the area
following a bloody, monthlong siege to dislodge rebel forces. The
Observatory said 10 people were killed in the town of Rastan near
Homs when a mortar landed near marchers. The LCC said 16 were killed
in the same event, among 52 reported dead nationwide.
(AP, 3/2/12)
2012 Mar 2, Thai police said
they confiscated over 4 million methamphetamine tablets near the
border with Myanmar, where much of it is produced.
(SFC, 3/3/12, p.A2)
2012 Mar 2, In Tunisia
protesters began camping outside the offices of Wataniya in Tunis,
demanding the "cleansing" of the national broadcaster and jeering at
journalists. On April 25 they ended their protest after the
government promised to address their concerns and asked them to
leave.
(AFP, 4/25/12)
2012 Mar 2, In Yemen massive
crowds gathered across the country, demanding that officers loyal to
ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh be purged from the country's
armed forces.
(AP, 3/2/12)
2013 Mar 2, President Barack
Obama pressed Congress to work with him on a compromise to halt a
fiscal crisis he said was starting to "inflict pain" on communities
across the United States.
(Reuters, 3/2/13)
2013 Mar 2, In Wyoming Ildiko
Freitas (40) and her parents were killed by two intruders at her
home in Cody. Stephen Hammer (19) and Tanner Vanpelt (18) were soon
arrested and charged with murder and robbery.
(SFC, 3/6/13, p.A5)
2013 Mar 2, Bangladesh security
forces killed two people and injured dozens as they clashed with
demonstrators for a 3rd day in violence triggered by a death
sentence given to Delwar Hossain Sayedee.
(SSFC, 3/3/13, p.A5)
2013 Mar 2, Chad's military
chief announced that his troops deployed in northern Mali had killed
Moktar Belmoktar, the terrorist who orchestrated the attack on a
natural gas plant in Algeria that left 36 foreigners dead.
(AP, 3/2/13)
2013 Mar 2, China’s Xinhua News
Agency reported that a massive sulfuric acid leak at a warehouse in
Liaoning province has killed at least 3 people.
(SSFC, 3/3/13, p.A5)
2013 Mar 2, In Egypt Hossam
Eldin Abdullah Abdelazim, was killed when an armored police vehicle
crushed him to death during clashes between protesters and police in
Mansoura. A police car in Port Said hit five protesters along a main
road and sped off. The violence came as US Secretary of State John
Kerry was in Cairo talking with opposition figures ahead of his
meeting with the president and defense minister on March 3.
(AP, 3/2/13)
2013 Mar 2, German property
developer Maik Uwe Hinkel rejected calls to halt work to remove one
of the last remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall, despite angry
protests against the plan.
(AP, 3/2/13)
2013 Mar 2, A Libyan security
official said 50 Egyptians, who were arrested in Benghazi last week
for allegedly spreading Christianity, are being charged with
illegally entering and working in the country and will be deported.
(AP, 3/2/13)
2013 Mar 2, Violent ethnic
riots rattled Macedonia's capital, culminating with hundreds raging
through the city center, clashing with police, overturning cars and
attacking a bus station. At least 22 people were injured, 13 of them
police officers.
(AP, 3/2/13)
2013 Mar 2, In Malaysia gunmen
ambushed and killed six policemen as fears mounted that armed
intruders from the southern Philippines had slipped into at least
three coastal districts on Borneo island. 6 gunmen were also killed
in the fighting.
(AP, 3/3/13)(Econ, 3/9/13, p.51)
2013 Mar 2, In Mali a French
soldier died in an assault on jihadists in the Adrar des Ifoghas
mountains along the Algerian border. About 15 jihadists were
reported killed in the fighting in the Ametettai Valley.
(AP, 3/3/13)
2013 Mar 2, In Nigeria Abubakar
Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, denied in a newly released video
any peace talks with the government.
(AP, 3/3/13)
2013 Mar 2, The Syrian Army's
General Command said its troops have carried out special operations
in towns and villages along a road between Hama and Aleppo’s
airport, restoring stability there and at the airport.
(AP, 3/2/13)
2014 Mar 2, At the Hollywood
Academy Awards “12 Years a Slave," directed by Steve McQueen of
Britain, won the Best Picture Oscar. Matthew McConaughtey won the
Best Actor Oscar for his role in “Dallas Buyers Club." Cate
Blanchett won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in “Blue Jasmine."
Actress Lupita Nyong'o (31) of Kenya won an Oscar for Best
Supporting Actress in the movie "12 Years A Slave." Jared Leto won
the Best Supporting Oscar for his role in “Dallas Buyers Club."
Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron won the Best Director Oscar for
“Gravity," which won a total of seven Oscars.
(SFC, 3/3/14, p.C4)(Econ, 3/8/14, p.58)(SFC,
11/24/18, p.E1)
2014 Mar 2, British director
Malcolm Clarke won the documentary short prize for "The Lady in
Number 6," a profile of musician and Holocaust survivor Alice
Herz-Sommer (d.2014 at 110).
(AP, 3/3/14)
2014 Mar 2, The Italian film
"The Great Beauty" won the Oscar for best foreign-language film.
(AP, 3/3/14)
2014 Mar 2, New Mexico Gov.
Susana Martinez signed legislation to ban texting. 41 other states
have already banned texting by all drivers.
(SFC, 3/3/14, p.A6)
2014 Mar 2, A massive winter
storm system packing cold air, snow and freezing rain pummeled the
central US and headed for the East Coast.
(Reuters, 3/2/14)
2014 Mar 2, In eastern
Afghanistan a militant car bomb prematurely exploded overnight,
killing 9 insurgents and 4 civilians. A lone suicide bomber entered
a police station in Kandahar province, though officers' fire forced
him to detonate his explosive vest early, only wounding one
civilian. 12 Taliban escaped from the 1,200-inmate Kandahar Prison
after a prison employee falsely put their names on a list of
detainees who were scheduled for release. Two were soon recaptured.
(AP, 3/2/14)
2014 Mar 2, In Bolivia 4 people
were killed and over 60 injured when a metal footbridge collapsed
onto a group of musicians marching in the opening parade of Carnival
in Oruro.
(SSFC, 3/2/14, p.A4)
2014 Mar 2, In Hong Kong
thousands marched to support press freedom and denounce violence
following the Feb 26 attack on Kevin Lau Chun-to, former editor of
the Ming Pao newspaper.
(SFC, 3/3/14, p.A2)
2014 Mar 2, In Iraq attacks in
predominantly Sunni Arab areas north and west of Baghdad killed 6
people, all members of the security forces.
(AFP, 3/2/14)
2014 Mar 2, Hundreds of
thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews held a mass prayer in Jerusalem in
protest at a bill that would cut their community's military
exemptions and end a tradition upheld since Israel's foundation.
(Reuters, 3/2/14)
2014 Mar 2, Jamaican police
said they have seized over 2,100 pounds (952 kg) of marijuana and
arrested a suspect in a 2-day operation at a container terminal in
Kingston.
(AP, 3/2/14)
2014 Mar 2, In Libya gunmen
shot dead French engineer Patrice Real in Benghazi. A member of the
security forces was also killed by a bomb placed under his car and a
former policeman was seriously wounded. Five unidentified bodies
were found in and around the city.
(AFP, 3/2/14)
2014 Mar 2, Pakistani warplanes
bombed the hideout of militant leader Mullah Tamanchey, killing 5
insurgents, only a day after the Pakistani Taliban declared a
one-month ceasefire to pursue stalled peace talks with the
government. Tamanchey had directed the deadly assault a day earlier
against a convoy carrying a polio vaccination team.
(Reuters, 3/2/14)
2014 Mar 2, South Africa's
biggest trade union, the 340,000-strong National Union of
Metalworkers (NUMSA), said it was laying the ground for a new
"working class" political party. The United Front Movement for
Socialism would group together left-leaning organizations to fight
for better education, healthcare and municipal services for South
Africa's poor.
(AFP, 3/2/14)
2014 Mar 2, In Syria gun
battles and shelling hit the Palestinian camp of Yarmuk in southern
Damascus, breaking a truce in place since mid-February.
(AFP, 3/2/14)
2014 Mar 2, Ukraine mobilized
for war and Washington threatened to isolate Russia economically,
after President Vladimir Putin declared he had the right to invade
his neighbor.
(Reuters, 3/2/14)
2014 Mar 2, Ukraine's new PM
Arseniy Yatsenyuk and world leaders urged Russian President Vladimir
Putin to pull back his military as hundreds of armed men surrounded
a Ukrainian military base in Crimea. Ukraine's navy chief announced
he had switched allegiance to the pro-Russian authorities of the
flashpoint peninsula of Crimea, a day after he was appointed to the
post by interim leader Oleksandr Turchynov.
(AP, 3/2/14)(AFP, 3/2/14)
2014 Mar 2, Venezuela released
dozens of anti-government protesters and an Italian photographer,
but that did nothing to appease demonstrators set for more rallies
against President Nicolas Maduro. Thousands marched peacefully in
Caracas. Afterwards some 1,500 erected barricades and clashed with
National Guard troops.
(AFP, 3/2/14)(SFC, 3/3/14, p.A4)
2014 Mar 2, In central Yemen
gunmen ambushed a colonel in the security forces, killing him and
wounding his guard. Armed tribesmen clashed with security forces on
the southern edge of Sanaa, leaving two gunmen dead and three
soldiers wounded.
(AP, 3/2/14)
2015 Mar 2, The NY Times
revealed that when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state she used a
personal e-mail account rather than a government one for all her
official business.
(Econ., 3/7/15, p.32)
2015 Mar 2, A new study was
published saying a wave of migrants from the eastern fringes of
Europe some 4,500 years ago left their trace in the DNA — and
possibly the languages — of modern Europeans. They found that DNA
associated with the Yamnaya people appeared strongly in what is now
northern Germany. The Yamnaya were herders who lived in the steppe
north of the Black and Aral Seas.
(AP, 3/3/15)
2015 Mar 2, Bangladeshi
security officials arrested Farabi Shafiur Rahman as a suspect in
the killing of blogger Avijit Roy, a prominent critic of extremist
Islam who was hacked to death on Feb 26.
(AP, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, British police said
they had charged 10 men with sexual offences against children and
adults, part of a wider investigation into child sexual exploitation
in the northern English town of Rochdale.
(Reuters, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, Motorists in
England and Wales faced tougher penalties for driving under the
influence of drugs as new laws took effect. Drivers will be
prosecuted if they are caught exceeding new legal limits for eight
illegal drugs and eight prescription drugs.
(AFP, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, Chinese military
prosecutors released a list of 14 generals convicted of graft or
placed under investigation in an accelerating nationwide
anti-corruption drive.
(AP, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, Scandinavian
Airlines said some 50 flights have been canceled to and from Denmark
after members of a Danish cabin crew union walked out to protest the
carrier's plan to transfer employees to a domestic airline acquired
by SAS.
(AP, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, In Egypt an
explosion in Cairo near the High Court killed 2 people.
(SSFC, 3/8/15, p.A4)
2015 Mar 2, The EU approved new
rules that clamp down on the use of flimsy plastic bags hazardous to
the environment.
(SFC, 3/3/15, p.A2)
2015 Mar 2, In India a law
banning the possession and sale of beef went into effect in the
state of Maharashtra. The ban on the slaughter of cattle put
thousands out of work and created problems for struggling farmers.
(SFC, 3/6/15, p.A5)(SFC, 3/27/15, p.A2)
2015 Mar 2, Iran’s The Center
for Investigation of Organized Crime, a branch of the elite
Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), accused Facebook of spreading
immoral content and said it had arrested several users. State
television reported Iran has monitored 8 million Facebook accounts
with new software and will watch other social media sites for
content that contravenes the Islamic Republic's moral codes.
(Reuters, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, Iraq's armed
forces, backed by Shi'ite militia, attacked Islamic State
strongholds north of Baghdad as they launched an offensive to retake
the city of Tikrit and the surrounding Sunni Muslim province of
Salahuddin.
(Reuters, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, Israel said it has
busted an Israeli-Palestinian smuggling ring that funneled iron,
electronic equipment and other prohibited materials to Gaza,
bypassing Israel's stringent border security to help Hamas rebuild
its militant infrastructure following last year's war.
(AP, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, Libya’s
internationally recognized parliament appointed Major General
Khalifa Belgacem Haftar for the post of commander-in-chief of the
army after promoting him to the rank of lieutenant general.
(AFP, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, The principality of
Monaco signed an accord with Italy aimed at ending banking secrecy,
days after Switzerland and Liechtenstein inked similar pledges to
exchange financial information with Rome.
(AP, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, In Myanmar
truckloads of police prevented hundreds of students from continuing
their march to Yangon to protest a new law that they say curbs
academic freedom.
(AP, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, Namibia's outgoing
Pres. Hifikepunye Pohamba (79) was named winner of the Mo Ibrahim
Prize for "good governance" in Africa, the world's richest award
that has seen a dearth of worthy candidates.
(AFP, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, In Norway flights
by a subsidiary of low-cost airline Norwegian Air Shuttle —
Norwegian Air Norway — were partly disrupted after pilots continued
a walkout begun Feb 28, causing the company's share price to crash 5
percent in Oslo.
(AP, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, Pakistani officials
said hundreds of parents in the northwest were arrested and jailed
over the weekend on charges of endangering public security after
refusing to give their children polio vaccinations.
(AP, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, In Switzerland the
large family car Volkswagen Passat was voted car of the year by
European automotive editors at the Geneva International Motor Show.
(AP, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, Syrian regime
forces and Kurdish militia fought separate battles with the Islamic
State group in a strategic area near the Iraqi and Turkish borders.
(AFP, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, Konstandinos Erik
Scurfield (25), a former Royal Marine, died in a battle with IS
militants, becoming the first Briton to be killed while fighting
with Kurdish forces battling Islamic State jihadists in Syria.
(AFP, 3/4/15)
2015 Mar 2, Tunisia canceled a
new tax imposed on travelers crossing Libya’s border after the
measure triggered rioting.
(Reuters, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, Ukraine's military
said one Ukrainian serviceman was killed and four wounded in
separatist eastern territories in the past 24 hours. But it warned
that rebels were using the truce to regroup for new attacks on
government positions.
(Reuters, 3/2/15)
2015 Mar 2, Venezuela gave the
US two weeks to reduce its diplomatic mission in Caracas to 17
diplomats, from an estimated 100, to match the 17 Venezuelan
diplomats serving in the US.
(SFC, 3/3/15, p.A2)
2016 Mar 2, The US and its
allies in Iraq and Syria staged 29 strikes against Islamic State.
(Reuters, 3/3/16)
2016 Mar 2, In Mississippi
Rafael McCloud (33), a capital murder suspect, escaped from the
Warren County jail.
(SFC, 3/3/16, p.A4)
2016 Mar 2, New Jersey
newspapers called for the resignation of Gov. Chris Christie over
his endorsement of Donald Trump for president.
(SFC, 3/3/16, p.A4)
2016 Mar 2, In New Jersey Rafal
Kaldon (38), accused of beating Norbert Nowak to death at a disco in
Poland in August, 1996, was arrested.
(AP, 3/3/16)
2016 Mar 2, In Oklahoma City
Aubrey McClendon (56), co-founder of Chesapeake Energy and a
part-owner of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, drove his SUV into a
wall a day after he was indicted for conspiring to rig bids to buy
oil and natural gas leases in northwest Oklahoma.
(SFC, 3/3/16, p.C2)(Econ, 3/5/15, p.58)
2016 Mar 2, US astronaut Scott
Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko landed in Kazakhstan
after almost a year in space in a ground-breaking experiment
foreshadowing a potential manned mission to Mars.
(AFP, 3/2/16)
2016 Mar 2, Mining company
Samarco and its owners, BHP Billiton and Vale SA, reached a deal
with the Brazilian government to pay an estimated 20 billion reais
($5.1 billion) in damages over 15 years for a deadly dam spill in
November.
(Reuters, 3/3/16)
2016 Mar 2, Jason Lawrance
(50), a British man, was found guilty of raping five women he met
through the US Internet dating service match.com, which he was
allowed to use despite complaints to the website from his victims.
Lawrance was jailed for life with a minimum term of 12 years and six
months for sexually violating seven women. In 2019 he was found
guilty by the Nottingham Crown Court of further sex attacks on five
women he met on the Match.com internet dating site.
(AFP, 3/2/16)(The Telegraph, 7/31/19)
2016 Mar 2, Cambodian National
Police and Chinese police took part in rounding up 105 Chinese
citizens at the Golden Crown Casino's hotel, releasing 67 after
confirming they were not on wanted lists. Police said the people
arrested are suspected of involvement in scams carried out against
Chinese citizens over Internet phone services.
(AP, 3/3/16)
2016 Mar 2, An Egyptian
military court handed down seven death sentences for an April 2015
bombing that killed 2 army cadets as they waited to board a bus. The
court in Alexandria also sentenced five people to life in prison,
which in Egypt means 25 years.
(AFP, 3/2/16)
2016 Mar 2, The EU launched a
new aid program worth an initial 700 million euros that mirrors the
kind of disaster relief it offers developing nations. Greece, the
main gateway to Europe, would initially be the main beneficiary of
the emergency scheme. The number of migrants awaiting passage to
central and northern Europe swelled on Greece's border with
Macedonia as the frontier remained shut.
(Reuters, 3/2/16)
2016 Mar 2, In northern France
dozens of riot police moved in for a third day to demolish the
shantytown on the outskirts of the port city of Calais after half a
dozen shelters were burned down overnight.
(AFP, 3/2/16)
2016 Mar 2, A Guatemalan court
ordered two former military officers convicted of holding indigenous
women as sex slaves during the nation's civil war to pay their
victims just over $1 million in compensation.
(Reuters, 3/2/16)
2016 Mar 2, An Indian court
said a university student leader can be freed on bail more than two
weeks after he was detained for alleged sedition in a case that has
sparked nationwide protests and accusations of government
intolerance of dissent. The court said Kanhaiya Kumar could be
released if he pays about $148 bail, refrains from political
activity and is supervised by a faculty member at Jawaharlal Nehru
University.
(AP, 3/2/16)
2016 Mar 2, An earthquake of
magnitude 7.9 that struck off Indonesia's island of Sumatra killing
a number of people.
(Reuters, 3/2/16)
2016 Mar 2, Iraq signed a deal
with an Italian company to repair and maintain its largest dam, near
the northern, Islamic State-held city of Mosul.
(AP, 3/2/16)
2016 Mar 2, Israeli forces
demolished dozens of structures including a school in the northern
West Bank this week, leaving 10 families homeless.
(AFP, 3/4/16)
2016 Mar 2, Jordan said it has
thwarted planned attacks by the Islamic State group on its soil,
killing 7 suspected jihadists in a major security operation near the
Syrian frontier. One member of Jordan's security forces was killed
and three wounded in clashes that raged for several hours until
dawn.
(AP, 3/2/16)
2016 Mar 2, In Libya a gunfight
took place near the city of Sabratha. Two Italian construction
workers, who were kidnapped in Libya last July, were believed killed
during the clash between militants from the Islamic State group and
local militias fighting them.
(AP, 3/3/16)
2016 Mar 2, Macedonia allowed
some 200 refugees to cross its border with Greece, as 10,000 more
were left waiting in miserable conditions.
(AFP, 3/2/16)
2016 Mar 2, Qatar-based beIN
Media Group said it has purchased a 100-percent stake in the film
studio Miramax, part of its expansion into the entertainment
business.
(AP, 3/3/16)
2016 Mar 2, Russia's state
prosecutor demanded a 23-year prison sentence for Ukrainian pilot
and lawmaker Nadiya Savchenko who is accused of killing two Russian
journalists in war-torn Ukraine.
(AFP, 3/2/16)
2016 Mar 2, In Russia some 15
tons (110 barrels) of oil spilled off from an idled pipeline on the
Pacific island of Sakhalin according to oil producer Rosneft. Local
ecologists said the scale of disaster was far larger.
(Reuters, 3/3/16)
2016 Mar 2, A Saudi-led bloc of
six Gulf Arab nations, the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC), formally
branded Hezbollah a terrorist organization, ramping up the pressure
on the Lebanese militant group fighting on the side of President
Bashar Assad in Syria.
(AP, 3/2/16)(Econ, 3/5/16, p.45)
2016 Mar 2, South Korea's
opposition members of parliament ended a record-breaking filibuster
to block an "anti-terrorism" bill sponsored by their conservative
rivals. The opposition Minju party led the eight-day filibuster, the
world’s longest. South Korea’s National Assembly passed its first
legislation on human rights in North Korea, in a move that is
expected to enrage its northern rival.
(Reuters, 3/2/16)(AP, 3/2/16)(Econ, 4/96, p.41)
2016 Mar 2, In Syria a
Kurdish-led fighting alliance captured a hill overlooking a main
road in Aleppo from the militant Nusra Front group and its allies.
In southern Syria a car bomb targeted a meeting of commanders of a
US-backed moderate rebel group, killing 18, including the faction's
top commander.
(AP, 3/2/16)
2016 Mar 2, Former Tanzanian
president Benjamin Mkapa was named as the new mediator for talks to
end a nearly year-long crisis in neighboring Burundi by the regional
East African Community (EAC).
(AFP, 3/2/16)
2016 Mar 2, Thailand police
seized 895,897 counterfeit brand-name sunglasses at a warehouse
where they also arrested two Chinese nationals accused of importing
them from China. the sunglasses were purported to be famous brands
such as Ray-Ban, Oakley, Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior.
(AP, 3/3/16)
2016 Mar 2, In southeastern
Turkey residents of Cizre began returning home after authorities
partially lifted a curfew in place since December for a
controversial operation against Kurdish rebels which left many homes
devastated. 3 soldiers and 10 Kurdish PKK militants were killed in
clashes in Mardin province and Diyarbakir.
(AFP, 3/2/16)(Reuters, 3/3/16)
2016 Mar 2, Ukrainian
authorities said 3 soldiers have been killed and two wounded in the
Donbas region in the country's east as their car exploded.
(AP, 3/2/16)
2016 Mar 2, The United Nations
Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution that dramatically
expands existing UN sanctions on North Korea in response to its Jan.
6 nuclear test, a measure largely negotiated by Washington and
Beijing.
(Reuters, 3/2/16)
2017 Mar 2, Several
congressional Republicans called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions
to recuse himself from investigations into alleged Russian meddling
in the US presidential election after it emerged he met last year
with Russia's ambassador but did not disclose the contacts in Senate
testimony. Sessions became the second high-ranking member of the
Trump administration to take a hit over conversations with Russia's
envoy to the US, recusing himself from any probe that examines
communications between Trump aides and Moscow.
(Reuters, 3/2/17)(AP, 3/3/17)
2017 Mar 2, US VP Mike Pence
swore in retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson as secretary of housing and
former Texas Gov. Mike Perry as energy secretary.
(SFC, 3/3/17, p.A6)
2017 Mar 2, The Kansas Supreme
Court ruled that the state’s spending on public education was
unconstitutionally low.
(SFC, 3/3/17, p.A6)
2017 Mar 2, US federal
prosecutors announced they have captured members of the MS-13 street
gang who killed three Long Island high school students last year
with a machete and baseball bats.
(SFC, 3/3/17, p.A6)
2017 Mar 2, In Nebraska a
prison riot at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution left two
inmates dead. About 40 inmates refused to return to their cells
after staff members reported a fire to one of the housing units.
(SFC, 3/4/17, p.A6)
2017 Mar 2, Snap, the parent
company of social media Snapchat, closed at $24.48, a 44% jump over
its IPO price of $17. The company had started in 2011 as Picaboo.
The securities sold had no voting power so all the power stayed with
co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy.
(SFC, 3/3/17, p.C1)(Econ, 2/4/17, p.53)(Econ,
2/11/17, p.56)
2017 Mar 2, In Afghanistan a
suspected US drone strike killed Qari Abdullah, a top commander of
the militant Haqqani network. He was the man who in 2014 accompanied
US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl when he was handed over to US
authorities.
(AP, 3/3/17)
2017 Mar 2, An Austrian court
found eight Iraqi nationals guilty of gang-raping a German tourist
on New Year's Eve, 2015, and sentenced them to prison terms of
between nine and 13 years.
(AP, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, Nations and
philanthropists pledged close to $200 million for family planning at
an international conference in Brussels that aimed to make up for
the gap left by President Donald Trump's ban on US funding to groups
linked to abortion.
(AP, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, Canada adopted a
military doctrine that explicitly acknowledges soldiers’ right to
use force to protect themselves, even when the threat comes from
children.
(Econ, 4/1/17, p.28)
2017 Mar 2, Croatia's
conservative government formed a council to deal with the country's
previous pro-Nazi and Communist regimes in a bid to overcome the
deep divisions that still exist over the Balkan nation's past.
(AP, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, The Czech Republic,
Hungary, Poland and Slovakia urged the European Union to boost the
role of national parliaments under a planned overhaul of the bloc's
decision-making process.
(Reuters, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, In Egypt German
Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi held
talks on ways of slowing migration to Europe, including tightening
control over borders.
(AP, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, Egypt's top appeals
court found Hosni Mubarak innocent of involvement in the killing of
protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule, in
a final ruling that could see the former president walk free.
(Reuters, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, In Italy three
skiers were killed in an avalanche in the northern Alps. Another
five people were injured at Plan de la Gabba.
(AP, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, In southern Italy
two African workers were killed late today after fire broke out at a
camp housing hundreds of migrants who pick fruit and vegetables near
Foggia.
(Reuters, 3/3/17)(AP, 3/3/17)
2017 Mar 2, Northern Ireland
began voting in snap elections to resolve a political crisis fuelled
by bad blood and Brexit. The DUP and Ulster Unionists won only 38
seats in the 90-member Assembly The pro-British Democratic Unionist
Party narrowly remained the largest party following the closest-ever
election for the provincial assembly. If the conservative and
pro-British Democratic Unionist Party and the socialist and
pro-Irish republican Sinn Fein cannot resolve their differences
within three weeks of the vote, the assembly's executive could be
suspended and the province fully governed from London.
(AFP, 3/2/17)(Reuters, 3/4/17)(Econ, 3/11/17,
p.56)
2017 Mar 2, Kurdish forces
seized an oil facility in Kirkuk to send a message to the Iraqi
government to build a refinery.
(Reuters, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, Mexican journalist
Cecilio Pineda Birto was shot dead in Ciudad Altamirano while in a
hammock at a car wash waiting for his car to be serviced.
(AP, 3/3/17)
2017 Mar 2, Nigeria filed
criminal charges of corruption against oil multinationals Royal
Dutch Shell and Eni over the $1.1 billion sale of one of Africa's
richest oil blocks. Malabu Oil, secretly set up by former Oil
Minister Dan Etete, was awarded OPL 245 while he was oil minister.
Nigeria's government got only $210 million from the deal.
(AP, 3/4/17)
2017 Mar 2, Pakistan announced
plans to bring its militancy-wracked tribal areas into the
mainstream political fold by ending a de facto system of direct rule
that critics said suppressed development and fuelled extremism.
(AFP, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, Pakistan said it
will conduct its first census in 19 years. The 70-day data-gathering
campaign will start March 15.
(Reuters, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, In Pakistan a
suspected US drone strike killed two men on a motorcycle in a
village near the Afghanistan border.
(Reuters, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, It was reported
that the shores of Peru’s Lake Titicaca, South America's largest
lake, are littered with dead frogs, discarded paint buckets and bags
of soggy trash and that the water itself contains toxic levels of
lead and mercury. Untreated sewage water drains from two dozen
nearby cities and illegal gold mines high in the Andes dump up to 15
tons of mercury a year into a river leading to the lake.
(AP, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, Russian opposition
politician Alexei Navalny accused PM Dmitry Medvedev of controlling
a property empire including mansions, yachts and vineyards financed
by oligarchs through a network of shadowy non-profit organizations.
(AFP, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, In Somalia at least
57 al-Shabab members were killed after African Union troops from
Kenya and Somali forces attacked one of its camps outside Afmadhow.
(AP, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, In South Africa
emergency workers dug through rubble in Johannesburg after part of
the Charlotte Maxeke hospital's roof collapsed, reportedly trapping
several patients.
(AFP, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, South Sudan
announced it would increase work permit fees for foreign workers
from the $100-$300 range to between $1,000 and $10,000 per year,
depending on the qualifications of the worker. International aid
agencies on March 10 warned this would worsen a humanitarian crisis
in the famine-hit country. In early April South Sudan suspended the
plans to charge foreign workers a $10,000 work permit fee, after
criticism that it would create a huge expense for aid organizations.
(AFP, 3/11/17)(AP, 4/3/17)
2017 Mar 2, A Madrid judge
banned a bright orange bus emblazoned with an anti-transgender
message from driving through the Spanish capital on the grounds that
it was discriminatory and could provoke hate crimes.
(Reuters, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, In Sudan Bakri
Hassan Saleh, a former army general and top aide to President Omar
al-Bashir, was sworn in as the country’s first prime minister since
the post was scrapped in a 1989 Islamist-backed coup.
(AFP, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, Sweden reintroduced
compulsory military service, seven years after abandoning it, to
respond to global security challenges including Russia's assertive
behavior in the Baltic Sea region.
(AFP, 3/2/17)(SFC, 3/3/17, p.A4)
2017 Mar 2, Syrian troops
backed by Russian jets completed the recapture of the historic city
of Palmyra from the Islamic State group. Fighters of the US-backed
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced they would cede several
villages to the government as part of a deal brokered by Russia to
avoid conflict with Turkey.
(AFP, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, Syrian warplanes
carried out eight air strikes in a rebel-held district of the mostly
government-controlled city of Homs. The air strikes killed two
civilians and wounded more than 24 people in al-Waer, as
UN-sponsored peace talks continued in Geneva.
(Reuters, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, In western Ukraine
eight miners died when a methane gas explosion tore through a pit in
the western Lviv region.
(AFP, 3/2/17)
2017 Mar 2, The United States
carried out 25 air strikes in Yemen targeting al Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula in al-Maraqisha, a rugged mountainous area where
al Qaeda militants took refuge last year.
(Reuters, 3/2/17)(Econ, 3/18/17, p.24)
2018 Mar 2, The northeastern
United States felt the brunt of a powerful storm that threatened to
flood coasts from Maine to Virginia. Hundreds of flights were
canceled at New York's three major airports and Boston's Logan
International, extensive school closings were reported throughout
the region and the federal government closed offices in Washington,
D.C.
(AFP, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, Amtrak canceled all
trains between Boston and Washington because of hazardous conditions
as storms pounded the US East Coast, and later in the day also said
it was canceling all trains southbound from Washington because of
downed trees.
(Reuters, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, James Eric Davis
Jr. (19), shot and killed his parents, James and Diva Davis, this
morning in a dormitory at Central Michigan Univ. in Mount Pleasant.
The suspect, who was taken to a hospital the previous evening for a
drug-related health problem, fled the campus. Davis was arrested
shortly after midnight.
(SFC, 3/2/18, p.A7)(SSFC, 3/4/18, p.A12)
2018 Mar 2, In Afghanistan a
suicide car bombing in the eastern part of Kabul killed at least one
person, a young girl, and wounded 22. the Taliban said that they
released five out of a total of 19 people they say they abducted on
Feb 27 along the boundary between the southern Kandahar and Uruzgan
provinces.
(AP, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, Armenia's
parliament voted to make Armen Sarkisian the new president as of
April 9. He was prime minister in 1996-97 and served in diplomatic
posts, including ambassador to the United Kingdom. Critics said the
change will allow current President Serzh Sargsyan to de-facto
remain in power as prime minister.
(AP, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, Australian health
authorities said three people have died and 12 others have fallen
ill in a national listeria outbreak linked to contaminated
rockmelons, also called cantaloupes, and that more cases are
expected.
(Reuters, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, In Azerbaijan at
least 25 people were killed in a fire at a residential drug
treatment center in Baku.
(AP, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, Britain's PM
Theresa May called for a wide-ranging free trade deal with the EU
after Brexit, but said it was time to face up to "hard facts" about
the economic consequences of leaving the bloc. May mixed concessions
with a plea for a deal that would keep trade flowing between the
world's biggest trade bloc and Britain's $2.7 trillion economy.
(AP, 3/2/18)(Reuters, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, A British jury at
Nottingham Crown Court found Paul Moore (21) guilty of the Sept. 20,
2017, attack which left Zaynab Hussein (47), a Muslim woman, with
life-changing injuries in Leicester.
(AP, 3/2/18)(SFC, 3/3/18, p.A2)
2018 Mar 2, In Burkina Faso
attackers in Ouagadougou killed eight armed forces personnel and
wounded some fifty others in a coordinated assault on the army
headquarters and French embassy. A French security source said 12
more were seriously injured. Two people were arrested near the
military headquarters. Nine assailants were killed and had seemingly
benefited from infiltrating the army.
(Reuters, 3/2/18)(AP, 3/3/18)(AFP, 3/4/18)
2018 Mar 2, Cameroon banned
drivers in one of the restive English-speaking provinces from
driving at night for a month, as tensions ran high between
government forces and separatists.
(AFP, 3/3/18)
2018 Mar 2, China warned that
US President Donald Trump's vow to impose high tariffs on steel and
aluminum would have a "huge impact" on the global trading order and
said Beijing would work with other nations to protect its interests.
(AP, 3/3/18)
2018 Mar 2, The Arab world's
largest private broadcaster stopped showing Turkish television
programs, as tensions rose between Ankara and some Arab states.
Dubai-based MBC Group is which is controlled by Saudi businessman
Walid al-Ibrahim and other Saudi investors.
(Reuters, 3/5/18)
2018 Mar 2, In Egypt Mona
Mahmoud Mohammed (aka Oum Zubeida), who angered authorities by
accusing the police in a foreign news report of torturing her
daughter, was arrested and ordered detained. Ezzat Ghoneim, the
human rights lawyer who first publicly mentioned the mother's
detention, went missing a day earlier.
(AP, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, Ethiopia's
parliament ratified the Feb. 16 state of emergency imposed after the
prime minister announced his resignation, though votes against the
bill exposed rifts within the ruling coalition.
(Reuters, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, In France four
skiers were killed, one injured and another left missing after an
avalanche in a remote area of the Mercantour national park in the
southern Alps.
(AP, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, Police in western
Germany arrested a leading member of the Italian mafia who is wanted
in his home country since 2013.
(AP, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, In Greece more than
a dozen youths carrying hammers and iron bars attacked shops in
central Athens, damaging several storefronts. This was part of a
continuing campaign in support of a jailed bombing suspect accused
of last year's wounding of former PM Lucas Papademos.
(AP, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, Museums and
archaeological sites in the wider Athens area and on the Greek
island of Crete were shut for the day because of a strike by guards
over a benefits dispute with the Culture Ministry.
(AP, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, Honduran
authorities arrested Roberto David Castillo Mejia, an executive with
a dam development company, in the 2016 killing of indigenous and
environmental activist Berta Caceres, calling him an intellectual
author of a crime that sparked an international outcry.
(AP, 3/3/18)
2018 Mar 2, It was reported
that Indonesia's government is stepping in with the seemingly
impossible goal of making the Citarum river's water drinkable by
2025. The World Bank declared it the most-polluted river in the
world a decade ago.
(AFP, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, Snowstorms shut
most of Ireland and forced Britain to call in the army to help
battle some of the worst weather seen for nearly 30 years.
(Reuters, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, Israeli police
questioned PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife for several hours over
corruption allegations that threaten the rightwing premier's long
tenure.
(AFP, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, In Moldova a
one-day security conference was held in the capital, Chisinau.
Pro-EU leaders from Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia said that the
continued presence of Russian military in their countries was
destabilizing.
(AP, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, In Norway two
foreign with residency permits men were hit by a train and killed in
Oslo.
(AP, 3/3/18)
2018 Mar 2, Russian President
Vladimir Putin told Washington to send him hard evidence that his
citizens meddled in US elections, mocking accusations to date as
"yelling and hollering in the United States Congress".
(Reuters, 3/3/18)
2018 Mar 2, Top Spanish
conductor Jesus Lopez Cobos (78), who wielded the baton at a clutch
of top ensembles including the Spanish National Orchestra and the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO), died of cancer in Berlin.
(AP, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, Muhiddin Kabiri,
the Europe-based leader of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of
Tajikistan (IRPT), said Interpol has removed his name from its
wanted list, in a setback for the Dushanbe government's efforts to
portray its opponents as militants.
(Reuters, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, Turkey arrested two
Greek soldiers for allegedly entering a Turkish military zone and on
suspicion of attempted espionage. Greece said the two soldiers on a
patrol of the Greek-Turkish border accidentally strayed into Turkey
because of bad weather.
(AP, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, Turkey requested
that German authorities detain and extradite wanted Syrian Kurdish
politician Salih Muslim, the former co-chair of the Democratic Union
Party, or PYD.
(AP, 3/5/18)
2018 Mar 2, The UN suspended
aid work helping tens of thousands of people in northeastern Nigeria
after an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants a day earlier in
the town of Rann, Borno state. The suspected militants killed at
least 11 people, including the three aid workers. Three other aid
workers were missing.
(Reuters, 3/3/18)
2018 Mar 2, At the Vatican
three nuns lashed out against the menial work they have to do for
clergymen, often for no money, in a rare public criticism of the
Catholic Church's male hierarchy in the monthly magazine "Women,
Church, World" published with the official Vatican daily
L'Osservatore Romano.
(AFP, 3/2/18)
2018 Mar 2, Welsh teen Lloyd
Gunton (17) was sentenced to at least 11 years in prison after being
convicted of plotting an Islamic State-inspired attack on various
targets including a Justin Bieber concert last June 17.
(AP, 3/3/18)
2019 Mar 2, SpaceX's new Crew
Dragon astronaut capsule was on its way to the International Space
Station after it successfully launched from Florida on board a
Falcon 9 rocket.
(AFP, 3/2/19)
2019 Mar 2, In Abu Dhabi the
57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the world's
largest body of Muslim-majority nations, reaffirmed its unwavering
support for the Kashmiri people in their just cause.
(AP, 3/2/19)
2019 Mar 2, In Afghanistan
Taliban insurgents targeted an Afghan army corps overnight at their
camp in southern Helmand province, killing at least 23.
(AP, 3/2/19)
2019 Mar 2, Azeri opposition
blogger Mehman Huseynov was released after serving two years in
prison in a case condemned by human rights activists.
(AP, 3/2/19)
2019 Mar 2, Recently elected DR
Congo President Felix Tshisekedi pledged to pardon political
prisoners and said he would work for the return of those who had
fled abroad for political reasons.
(AFP, 3/2/19)
2019 Mar 2, The European
Parliament called on Kosovo to suspend a 100-percent tariff on Serb
goods to help restart reconciliation talks.
(AP, 3/2/19)
2019 Mar 2, In Germany union
and government negotiators reached a new wage agreement late today
that will give more than a million public servants a nearly 8
percent pay increase over 33 months.
(AP, 3/3/19)
2019 Mar 2, Iran criticized
Britain for its decision to list Hezbollah as a terrorist
organization, saying it ignored both the will of a large portion of
the Lebanese people and the Tehran-backed group's role in fighting
Islamic State.
(Reuters, 3/2/19)
2019 Mar 2, Iran's official
IRNA news agency said the Central Bank has merged four banks and a
credit union to reform the country's banking system and financial
markets.
(AP, 3/2/19)
2019 Mar 2, Israeli aircraft
struck two Hamas observation points in the Gaza Strip, after the
army reported balloons carrying an "explosive device" were sent
toward Israel.
(AFP, 3/3/19)
2019 Mar 2, In Italy tens of
thousands of people have marched in Milan against policies by the
populist government that they say promote racism.
(AP, 3/2/19)
2019 Mar 2, Pakistan's military
said two of its soldiers have been killed in an exchange of fire
with Indian forces near the Line of Control that separates the
disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir between the rivals. Over the
last 24 hours a total of at least six civilians have been killed on
both sides of Kashmir.
(AP, 3/2/19)
2019 Mar 2, Russia announced
that Zhores Alferov (88), a physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, has
died in in St Petersburg. Alferov shared the Nobel Physics Prize in
2000 for developments in semiconductor research that have been used
in satellite communications and cellular telephones.
(AP, 3/2/19)
2019 Mar 2, In eastern Syria
Kurdish-led forces battled jihadists defending their last village as
operations to flush out the Islamic State group resumed after
several days of humanitarian evacuations.
(AFP, 3/2/19)
2019 Mar 2, In northern Syria
the semi-autonomous Kurdish administration said in a statement that
283 Syrians, suspected of belonging to the Islamic State, had been
set free because they have "no blood on their hands".
(AFP, 3/3/19)
2019 Mar 2, In Syria militants
shot dead eight men suspected of being members of the Islamic State
group in Idlib. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) members shot dead members
of IS sleepers cells, in front of a restaurant where a previous
day's attack occurred.
(AP, 3/2/19)
