Table of Contents
Today is Sunday 2 March the 61st day of 2025. There are still 304 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On March 2, 1962, Wil Chamberlain scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks, an NBA record with one game that still exists. Philadelphia won with a score of 169-147.
Also on this date:
In 1807 the law that prohibited the import of slaves, signed by President Thomas Jefferson. (The domestic trade of people made to slave was not affected.)
In 1861 the state of Texas was admitted to the Confederation after he had dropped out of the Union.
In 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was named the winner of the presidential elections of 1876 about Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, despite that lifting the popular mood. Lilden remains the only presidential candidate who gets more than 50% of the popular mood (50.9%) and does not win the presidency.
In 1943 the three -day Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the Southwest Pacific started during the Second World War; The American and Australian war aircraft caused serious damage to an imperial Japanese convoy.
In 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ famous Defiance -Daad van Parks, Claudette Colvin, a black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, became arrested after he refused to give up her chair on a public bus to a white passenger.
In 1985, the US government approved a screening test for AIDS who detected antibodies against the virus, so that possibly infected blood could be excluded from the blood supply.
In 2011, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the pain of a grieving father about mocking protests in the vicinity of his marine son had to admit to the protection of the first amendment to freedom of expression in a decision that promoted the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka.
Today’s birthdays:
- Author John Irving is 83.
- Actor-Comedian Laraine Newman (Saturday Night Live) is 73.
- Famer Ian Woosnam is 67.
- Musician Jon Bon Jovi is 63.
- Actor Daniel Craig is 57.
- Rapper actor Method Man is 54.
- Musician Chris Martin (Coldplay) is 48.
- Actor Rebel Wilson is 45.
- Actor Bryce Dallas Howard is 44.
- Hockey Hall of Famer Henrik Lundqvist is 43.
- Actor Robert Iler is 40.
- Actor Nathalie Emmanuel is 36.
- Country musician Luke Combs is 35.
- Singer-Actor Becky G is 28.