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Events on March 2

• 1476 The Swiss defeat the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold at the Battle of Grandson, one of the three major battles of the Burgundian Wars.
• 1808 Heinrich von Kleist’s comedy “The Broken Jug” is premiered in Weimar by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, with little success.
• 1933 The feature film “King Kong and the White Woman,” an RKO Pictures production by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, starring Fay Wray, premieres in New York City. Edgar Wallace was among those who contributed to the screenplay for the first “King Kong” film.
• 1939 Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected pope and takes the name Pius XII.
• 1949 After 94 hours in the air, the Boeing B-50A Lucky Lady II, with a crew that included pilot James G. Gallagher, arrives at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first nonstop flight around the world. The aircraft was refueled several times during its flight.
• 1969 The prototype of the supersonic airliner Concorde makes its maiden flight in Toulouse.
• 1972 The U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 is launched aboard an Atlas Centaur carrier rocket toward the outer planets.
• 1980 The ARD Night Concert is broadcast for the first time as a classical music counterprogram to the ARD Night Express.
• 1989 After months of surveillance, the West German police dismantle the hacker group centered on Karl Koch and Markus Hess that was responsible for the KGB hack.
• 1998 The ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch is abducted in Austria. The police investigation yields no conclusive result until, in 2006, she manages to escape from her perpetrator.
• 2004 The ESA launches the Rosetta probe on an Ariane 5G+ rocket to explore the comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko, which it reached in 2014.
• 2010 The Federal Constitutional Court rejects data retention in its current form as unconstitutional. It infringes on the fundamental rights of all users of electronic services without justification and contains no data protection safeguards.

Born on March 2

• 1851 Franz von Liszt, German jurist and politician
• 1876 Pius XII., Pope
• 1900 Kurt Weill, German composer
• 1930 Tom Wolfe, American writer, journalist, art and architecture critic
• 1931 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Russian politician and party official, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1940 Lothar de Maizière, German jurist and politician
• 1950 Karen Carpenter, American singer
• 1970 Ciriaco Sforza, Swiss footballer
• 1981 Bryce Dallas Howard, American actress
• 1982 Kevin Kurányi, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „2. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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