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Day in History: March 2
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March 2nd is more than just the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). Elmer Fudd made his debut today along with yahoo! and King Kong. In Texas, they're celebrating Independence Day.
| | 1807 - The U.S. Congress passes an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country." |
| | 1836 - Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico. |
| | 1877 - U.S. presidential election, 1876: The U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876 (Reconstruction ends). |
| | 1933 - King Kong premieres in New York City. |
| | 1940 - Elmer Fudd makes his debut in the cartoon Elmer's Candid Camera. |
| | 1959 - Miles Davis holds the first recording session for Kind of Blue at Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York City. |
| | 1962 - In Hershey, Pennsylvania, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scores 100 points against the New York Knicks, breaking several National Basketball Association records. |
| | 1963 - Release of Please Please Me in the United Kingdom, the first LP from The Beatles. |
| | 1990 - Nelson Mandela elected deputy President of the African National Congress. |
| | 1991 - Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings end to the 1991 Gulf War. |
| | 1995 - Yahoo! is incorporated. |
| | 2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 allied troop fatalities). |
| | 2004 - War in Iraq: A United Nations report from the weapons inspection teams states that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction of any significance after 1994, despite US President George W. Bush's and Prime Minister Blair's objection to the contrary before the invasion. |
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