History for March 2

History for March 2 - On-This-Day.com:
Sam Houston 1793 - First President of the Republic of Texas, Sholem Aleichem 1859 - Author, playwright, Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) 1904 - Writer, poet, and cartoonist


Tom Wolfe 1931 - Author, Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 - Former Soviet President, Karen Carpenter 1950 - Singer (The Carpenters)


1807 - The U.S. Congress passed 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 declared its independence from Mexico and an ad interim government was formed.


1877 - In the U.S., Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election by the U.S. Congress. Samuel J. Tilden, however, had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.


1899 - U.S. President McKinley signed a measure that created the rank of Admiral for the U.S. Navy. The first admiral was George Dewey.


1917 - The Russian Revolution began with Czar Nicholas II abdicating.


1933 - The motion picture King Kong had its world premiere in New York.


1949 - The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II landed in Fort Worth, TX. The American plane had completed the first non-stop around-the-world flight.


1969 - In Toulouse, France, the supersonic transport Concorde made its first test flight.