2 Mairch

The **2nt o Mairch** is the 61st day o the year (62nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 304 days ti come.

## Events

* 986 &ndash; Louis V becomes King o the Franks.
*1316 &ndash; Marjorie Bruce dees gien birth tae futur King Robert II o Scotland.
*1825 &ndash; A yirdquauk strikes Blida, Algerie, killin 7,000 fowk.
*1855 &ndash; Alexander II becomes Tsar o Roushie.
*1861 &ndash; The Dakota Territory is creatit.
*1877 &ndash; Rutherford B. Hayes is declared the winner o the disputit 1876 US Preses election.
*1899 &ndash; Mount Rainier Naitional Pairk is creatit in the US state o Washington.
*1933 &ndash; A yirdquauk in Sanriku, Japan, kills 3,000 fowk.
*1935 &ndash; Prajadhipok abdicates as King o Siam (nou Thailand); 9-year-auld Ananda Mahidol succeeds him.
*1939 &ndash; Pape Pius XII is electit.
*1956 &ndash; Morocco gains unthirldom frae Fraunce.
*1962 &ndash; Basketbaw: Wilt Chamberlain sets an NBA record o 100 pynts in a single gemme.
*1969 &ndash; The fiirst test flicht o Concorde is carriet oot in Toulouse.
*1970 &ndash; Rhodesie (nou Zimbabwe) declares issel a republic.
*1972 &ndash; The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched fae Cape Canaveral, Florida.
*1992 &ndash; Armenie, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldovae, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan an Uzbekistan jyn the Unitit Naitions.
*2004 &ndash; John Kerry becomes the Democrat candidate for Preses o the Unitit States.
*2004 &ndash; Suicide bombins in Kerbela, Iraq, kill 270 fowk.
*2006 &ndash; Nintendo DS goes on sale in Japan.
*2006 &ndash; Menzies Campbell becomes the seicont consecutive Scot, efter Charles Kennedy, tae lead the Breetish Leeberal Democrats.
*2008 &ndash; Dmitry Medvedev is electit Preses o Roushie.
*2012 &ndash; Tornadoes sweep across the Sooth-Central Unitit States, killin 40 fowk.
*2017 &ndash; Walin tae the Northren Ireland Assembly tak place, efter the collapse o the pouer-sharin govrenment.
*2019 &ndash; The SpX-DM1 space mission is launched; it later successfully docks wi the Internaitional Space Station.
*2020 &ndash; COVID-19 pandemic: Andorrae, Indonesie, Jordan, Latvie, Morocco, Portugal, Saudi Arabie, Senegal an Tunisie record thair first COVID-19 cases.

## Births

*1316 &ndash; Robert II o Scotland (d. 1390)
*1459 &ndash; Pape Adrian VI (d. 1523)
*1793 &ndash; Sam Houston, Preses o the Republic o Texas (d. 1863)
*1810 &ndash; Pape Leo XIII (d. 1903)
*1824 &ndash; Bedrich Smetana, Czech componer (d. 1884)
*1865 &ndash; James McCall, Scots fitbawer (d. 1925)
*1876 &ndash; Pape Pius XII (d. 1958)
*1894 &ndash; Alexander Oparin, Roushie biochemist (d. 1980)
*1895 &ndash; Hughie Ferguson, Scots fitbawer (d. 1930)
*1904 &ndash; Dr. Seuss, American writer (d. 1991)
*1917 &ndash; Desi Arnaz, Cuban-American actor an muisicker (d. 1986)
*1919 &ndash; Jennifer Jones, American actress (d. 2009)
*1931 &ndash; Mikhail Gorbachev, Preses o the Soviet Union
*1937 &ndash; Abdelaziz Bouteflika, umwhile Preses o Algerie
*1938 &ndash; Ricardo Lagos, umwhile Preses o Chile
*1940 &ndash; Billy McNeill, Scots fitbawer (d. 2019)
*1942 &ndash; Lou Reed, American muisicker (d. 2013)
*1947 &ndash; Harry Redknapp, Inglis fitbaw manager
*1950 – Karen Carpenter, American sangster (Carpenters) (d. 1983)
*1962 &ndash; Jon Bon Jovi, American sangster (Bon Jovi)
*1963 &ndash; Henry Bolton, Inglis politeecian, umwhile leader o the UK Unthirldom Pairty
*1968 &ndash; Daniel Craig, Inglis actor
*1971 &ndash; Norbert Hofer, Austrick politeecian
*1972 &ndash; Mauricio Pochettino, Argentine fitbawer an manager
*1977 &ndash; Chris Martin, Inglis sangster (Coldplay)
*1982 &ndash; Mark Kerr, Scots fitbawer
*1989 &ndash; Toby Alderweireld, Belgian fitbawer
*1998 – Tua Tagovailoa, American fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1316 &ndash; Marjorie Bruce, Queen Consort o Scots (b. 1296)
* 1619 &ndash; Anne o Denmark, Queen o Scots (b. 1574)
* 1835 &ndash; Francis II, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
* 1855 &ndash; Nicholas I o Roushie (b. 1796)
* 1878 &ndash; John Cochrane, Scots chess player an lawer (b. 1798)
* 1895 &ndash; John Stuart Blackie, Scots scholart (b. 1809)
* 1895 &ndash; Berthe Morisot, French penter (b. 1841)
* 1930 &ndash; D. H. Lawrence, Inglis writer (b. 1885)
* 1939 &ndash; Howard Carter, Inglis archaeologist (b. 1874)
* 1985 &ndash; Alexander Watt, Scots botanist an plant ecologist (b. 1892)
* 1991 &ndash; Serge Gainsbourg, French sangster (b. 1928)
* 1992 &ndash; Jackie Mudie, Scots fitbawer (b. 1930)
* 2015 &ndash; Dave Mackay, Scots fitbawer (b. 1934)
* 2017 &ndash; Tommy Gemmell, Scots fitbawer (b. 1943)

## Halidays
* Independence Day (Morocco)
* Read Across America Day (Unitit States)
* Texas Unthirldom Day
* Victory at Adwa Day (Ethiopie)