March 2

• March 2, 1127
  Charles the Good, Count of Flanders, is hacked to death with broadswords during praying in the church of Saint Donatian, Bruges, by members of influential Erembald family
• March 2, 1836
  Republic of Texas declares its independence from Mexico
• March 2, 1848
  Universal male suffrage is enacted in France, for the first time in the World
• March 2, 1855
  Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia, dies of pneumonia, and his son becomes Emperor Alexander II
• March 2, 1867
  The first Reconstruction Act is passed by Congress to help former Confederate States to be re-admitted to the Union
• March 2, 1936
  Adolf Hitler issues final orders for troops to re-occupy their former garrison posts in Rhineland towns
• March 2, 1943
  Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, United States and Australia win over Japan
• March 2, 1946
  Ho Chi Minh is elected President of North Vietnam
• March 2, 1956
  The French protectorate is ended and Morocco regained its independence from France by the French-Moroccan Agreement
• March 2, 1969
  Dmitri Shostakovich, a Russian composer, completes his 14th Symphony
• March 2, 1972
  Pioneer 10, an American space probe, is launched for Jupiter flyby
• March 2, 1995
  Top quark, the last of six known quarks, a fundamental constituent of matter, is discovered by Collider Detector at Fermilab
• March 2, 1998
  Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice
• March 2, 2008
  Dmitry Medvedev is elected President of Russia with 72 percent of total votes, to succeed Vladimir Putin in May and appointing his as Prime Minister