March 2
1807 - Congress outlawed the importation of slaves to the United States, effective the following year.
1836 - Texas declared its independence from Mexico.
1877 - Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared president by a U.S. electoral commission since the original result was too close to call over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote. He was the only president ever elected this way.
1917 - Puerto Rico became a U.S. territory and Puerto Ricans gained American citizenship.
1923 - The first issue of TIME magazine was published.
1932 - The 20th Amendment to the Constitution, which moved the date of the presidential inauguration from March 4 to Jan. 20, was passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification.
1933 - "King Kong," starring Fay Wray, premiered in New York City.
1939 - Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected pope and took the name Pius XII.
1943 - The three-day Battle of the Bismarck Sea began in the southwest Pacific during World War II; U.S. and Australian warplanes were able to inflict heavy damage on an Imperial Japanese convoy.
1949 - Captain James Gallagher completed the first non-stop around-the-world flight. He completed the 23,452-mile journey in 94 hours and 1 minute.
1956 - Morocco gained independence from France.
1985 - The federal government approved a screening test for AIDS that detected antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood to be excluded from the blood supply.
1989 - Representatives from the 12 European Community nations agreed to ban all production of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), the synthetic compounds blamed for destroying the Earth's ozone layer, by the end of the 20th century.
1990 - More than 6,000 drivers went on strike against Greyhound Lines Inc. (The company, later declaring an impasse in negotiations, fired the strikers.)
1995 - The Internet search engine website Yahoo! was incorporated by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo.
2001 - The Taliban began the destruction of ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan.
2004 - A series of coordinated blasts in Iraq killed 181 people at shrines in Karbala and Baghdad as thousands of Shiite Muslim pilgrims gathered for a religious festival.
2008 - Dmitri A. Medvedev, a former aide to Russian president Vladimir Putin who had never held elected office, won the Russian presidential election in a landslide. Putin remained in a position of power, serving as Medvedev's prime minister.
2011 - The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that members of the fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church have a First Amendment right to picket the funeral of a Marine.
2012 - Some 40 people were killed by tornadoes that struck Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.
2017 - Under intensifying pressure, Attorney General Jeff Sessions abruptly agreed to recuse himself from any investigation into Russian meddling in America’s 2016 presidential election, acting after revelations he twice spoke with the Russian ambassador during the campaign and failed to say so when pressed by Congress.
2017 - The Senate confirmed retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to be energy secretary.
2021 - FBI Director Chris Wray told senators that the attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump was “domestic terrorism”; Wray warned of a rapidly growing threat of homegrown violent extremism.
2021 - The business responsible for preserving the legacy of children’s author Dr. Seuss said six of his books would no longer be published because of racist and insensitive imagery.
Birthdays
24 - Tua Tagovailoa (football player)
25 - Becky G (singer/actress)
27 - Veronica Dunne (actress)
32 - Luke Combs (singer)
33 - Nathalie Emmanuel (actress)
37 - Robert Iler (actor)
40 - Ben Roethlisberger (football player)
41 - Bryce Dallas Howard (actress)
42 - Rebel Wilson (actress)
45 - Heather McComb (actress)
50 - Richard Ruccolo (actor)
51 - Method Man (rapper)
54 - Daniel Craig (actor)
60 - Jon Bon Jovi (singer)
63 - Larry Stewart (singer)
67 - Jay Osmond (singer)
70 - Laraine Newman (actress)
71 - Cassie Yates (actress)
80 - John Irving (author)
83 - Barbara Luna (actress)
91 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev (former Soviet Union leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner)
92 - John Cullum (actor)
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Today in Sports History - March 2
1904 - The "Official Playing Rules of Professional Base Ball Clubs" were adopted.
1918 - Joe Malone (Toronto Arenas) became the first scoring leader in the NHL. He had scored 44 goals in 22 games in the first NHL season. His record stood until 1944-45 when 50 goals were scored by Maurice "The Rocket" Richard.
1922 - The Toronto St. Patricks and the Vancouver Millionaires played the final professional hockey game that featured seven players on each side.
1927 - Babe Ruth signed a 3-year contract with the New York Yankees worth a record $70,000 a year.
1951 - The first NBA All-Star Game was played: the East defeated the West 111-94 in Boston.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors set an NBA record by scoring 100 points in a 169-147 win over the New York Knicks. (The record still stands today.)
1966 - Bobby Hull (Chicago Blackhawks) became the first NHL player to score 50 goals in two seasons.
1968 - American Peggy Fleming won her third consecutive world ladies figure skating championship.
1969 - Phil Esposito (Boston Bruins) became the first player in the NHL to score 100 points in a season. Bobby Hull and Gordie Howe also crossed the 100 mark during the same season.
1991 - North Carolina State point guard Chris Corchiani become the first player in Division I men's basketball history to record 1,000 career assists.
1992 - Ryne Sandberg signed a 5-year contract with the Chicago Cubs worth $30.5 million.
2000 - The St. Louis Blues become just the 2nd team in NHL history to win 10 straight games on the road, with a 5-2 victory in Atlanta; tie the mark set by Buffalo in 1983-84.
2004 - The Pittsburgh Penguins ended their NHL record 14-game home losing streak when they tied the New York Islanders 3-3.
2004 - The Indianapolis Colts signed Peyton Manning to a seven-year, $98 million deal with a $34.5 million signing bonus. It was the largest package to date in the NFL.
2012 - Major League Baseball expanded its playoff format to 10 teams, adding a second wild card in each league.
2012 - NFL establishes existence of a bounty program at the New Orleans Saints 2009-11; players given incentives to injure opposition; coach Sean Payton is suspended for 2012 season.
1807 - Congress outlawed the importation of slaves to the United States, effective the following year.
1836 - Texas declared its independence from Mexico.
1877 - Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared president by a U.S. electoral commission since the original result was too close to call over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote. He was the only president ever elected this way.
1917 - Puerto Rico became a U.S. territory and Puerto Ricans gained American citizenship.
1923 - The first issue of TIME magazine was published.
1932 - The 20th Amendment to the Constitution, which moved the date of the presidential inauguration from March 4 to Jan. 20, was passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification.
1933 - "King Kong," starring Fay Wray, premiered in New York City.
1939 - Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected pope and took the name Pius XII.
1943 - The three-day Battle of the Bismarck Sea began in the southwest Pacific during World War II; U.S. and Australian warplanes were able to inflict heavy damage on an Imperial Japanese convoy.
1949 - Captain James Gallagher completed the first non-stop around-the-world flight. He completed the 23,452-mile journey in 94 hours and 1 minute.
1956 - Morocco gained independence from France.
1985 - The federal government approved a screening test for AIDS that detected antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood to be excluded from the blood supply.
1989 - Representatives from the 12 European Community nations agreed to ban all production of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), the synthetic compounds blamed for destroying the Earth's ozone layer, by the end of the 20th century.
1990 - More than 6,000 drivers went on strike against Greyhound Lines Inc. (The company, later declaring an impasse in negotiations, fired the strikers.)
1995 - The Internet search engine website Yahoo! was incorporated by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo.
2001 - The Taliban began the destruction of ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan.
2004 - A series of coordinated blasts in Iraq killed 181 people at shrines in Karbala and Baghdad as thousands of Shiite Muslim pilgrims gathered for a religious festival.
2008 - Dmitri A. Medvedev, a former aide to Russian president Vladimir Putin who had never held elected office, won the Russian presidential election in a landslide. Putin remained in a position of power, serving as Medvedev's prime minister.
2011 - The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that members of the fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church have a First Amendment right to picket the funeral of a Marine.
2012 - Some 40 people were killed by tornadoes that struck Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.
2017 - Under intensifying pressure, Attorney General Jeff Sessions abruptly agreed to recuse himself from any investigation into Russian meddling in America’s 2016 presidential election, acting after revelations he twice spoke with the Russian ambassador during the campaign and failed to say so when pressed by Congress.
2017 - The Senate confirmed retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to be energy secretary.
2021 - FBI Director Chris Wray told senators that the attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump was “domestic terrorism”; Wray warned of a rapidly growing threat of homegrown violent extremism.
2021 - The business responsible for preserving the legacy of children’s author Dr. Seuss said six of his books would no longer be published because of racist and insensitive imagery.
Birthdays
24 - Tua Tagovailoa (football player)
25 - Becky G (singer/actress)
27 - Veronica Dunne (actress)
32 - Luke Combs (singer)
33 - Nathalie Emmanuel (actress)
37 - Robert Iler (actor)
40 - Ben Roethlisberger (football player)
41 - Bryce Dallas Howard (actress)
42 - Rebel Wilson (actress)
45 - Heather McComb (actress)
50 - Richard Ruccolo (actor)
51 - Method Man (rapper)
54 - Daniel Craig (actor)
60 - Jon Bon Jovi (singer)
63 - Larry Stewart (singer)
67 - Jay Osmond (singer)
70 - Laraine Newman (actress)
71 - Cassie Yates (actress)
80 - John Irving (author)
83 - Barbara Luna (actress)
91 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev (former Soviet Union leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner)
92 - John Cullum (actor)
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Today in Sports History - March 2
1904 - The "Official Playing Rules of Professional Base Ball Clubs" were adopted.
1918 - Joe Malone (Toronto Arenas) became the first scoring leader in the NHL. He had scored 44 goals in 22 games in the first NHL season. His record stood until 1944-45 when 50 goals were scored by Maurice "The Rocket" Richard.
1922 - The Toronto St. Patricks and the Vancouver Millionaires played the final professional hockey game that featured seven players on each side.
1927 - Babe Ruth signed a 3-year contract with the New York Yankees worth a record $70,000 a year.
1951 - The first NBA All-Star Game was played: the East defeated the West 111-94 in Boston.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors set an NBA record by scoring 100 points in a 169-147 win over the New York Knicks. (The record still stands today.)
1966 - Bobby Hull (Chicago Blackhawks) became the first NHL player to score 50 goals in two seasons.
1968 - American Peggy Fleming won her third consecutive world ladies figure skating championship.
1969 - Phil Esposito (Boston Bruins) became the first player in the NHL to score 100 points in a season. Bobby Hull and Gordie Howe also crossed the 100 mark during the same season.
1991 - North Carolina State point guard Chris Corchiani become the first player in Division I men's basketball history to record 1,000 career assists.
1992 - Ryne Sandberg signed a 5-year contract with the Chicago Cubs worth $30.5 million.
2000 - The St. Louis Blues become just the 2nd team in NHL history to win 10 straight games on the road, with a 5-2 victory in Atlanta; tie the mark set by Buffalo in 1983-84.
2004 - The Pittsburgh Penguins ended their NHL record 14-game home losing streak when they tied the New York Islanders 3-3.
2004 - The Indianapolis Colts signed Peyton Manning to a seven-year, $98 million deal with a $34.5 million signing bonus. It was the largest package to date in the NFL.
2012 - Major League Baseball expanded its playoff format to 10 teams, adding a second wild card in each league.
2012 - NFL establishes existence of a bounty program at the New Orleans Saints 2009-11; players given incentives to injure opposition; coach Sean Payton is suspended for 2012 season.
