March 2, when Time debuted in the US
On this day in 1923, Time debuted in United States
Today is March 1, the sixty second day of the year.
There are 303 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1678 - French forces of King Louis XIV capture Ghent and Ypres in Belgium.
1776 - US Marines fight first battle, capturing British fort in Bahamas in Revolutionary War.
1801 - Spain declares war with Portugal. It is later called the War of the Oranges after a French general allied with Spain sends oranges to the queen of Spain with the message that he would proceed to Lisbon.
1815 - Dominion of Kandyan Provinces, within British Empire, is formed in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka.
1836 - Texas declares its independence from Mexico.
1877 - Republican Rutherford B Hayes is declared the winner of the 1876 US residential election over Democrat Samuel J Tilden, even though Tilden won the popular vote.
1909 - European powers intervene to prevent Serbo-Austrian war.
1917 - Puerto Ricans are granted US citizenship.
1923 - Time magazine makes its debut in United States.
1933 - The movie King Kong, starring Fay Wray, has its world premiere in New York.
1939 - Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope; he takes the name Pius XII.
1949 - US B-50 Stratofortress plane lands at Fort Worth, Texas, after completing first nonstop flight around world.
1955 - Egypt and Syria sign defensive alliance.
1956 - France recognises independence of Morocco; Pakistan decides to stay in British Commonwealth; Jordan's King Hussein dismisses Gen JB Glubb from command of Arab Legion.
1962 - Gen Ne Win overthrows Premier U Nu in Burmese military coup.
1972 - US spacecraft Pioneer 10 is launched on mission to explore environs of planet Jupiter.
1975 - Terrorist bombing of bus in Nairobi, Kenya, kills 27 people and injures about 100.
1985 - The US government approves a screening test for AIDS that detects antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood to be excluded from the blood supply.
1986 - Iran charges that Iraqi warplanes dropped chemical agents on Kurdish village of Baneh in northwestern Iran, causing many civilian casualties.
1989 - Thousands of soldiers patrol Venezuela's capital of Caracas after overnight battles with snipers.
1992 - UN General Assembly welcomes nine new members: eight former Soviet Republics and San Marino.
1993 - A gangway collapses when passengers board a ferry on the Congo River, drowning at least 147 in the Republic of Congo.
1994 - Israeli soldiers kill two Palestinian youths as rage over a massacre of Palestinians in a Hebron mosque spreads to Jericho.
1995 - Former Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti is indicted for consorting with the Mafia.
1998 - Serbian police use water cannons and tear gas to break up demonstrations of tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians in troubled Kosovo province, following a weekend that claimed 24 lives.
1999 - In a heated Israeli election campaign, both incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his challenger Ehud Barak promise to withdraw Israeli troops from Lebanon within the year.
2000 - Britain's top law enforcement official rules that former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet should not be extradited to Spain to stand trial on charges alleging human rights abuses. Pinochet returns to Chile the next day.
2001 - Taliban soldiers defy an international outcry and begin destroying all statues in Afghanistan.
2002 - US and Allied forces pound al-Qaida stronghold during "Operation Anaconda," the largest ground assault in the Afghan War. Eight Americans and 16 Afghani civilians are killed in the fighting.
2004 - Suicide bombers set off simultaneous attacks on Shiite Muslim shrines crowded with pilgrims in two Iraqi cities, killing at least 143 people and turning the holiest day on the Shiite calendar into the bloodiest since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Today's Birthdays:
Bedrich Smetana, Bohemian composer (1824-1884)
Paul Doumer, French statesman (1857-1932)
Kurt Weill, German-born American composer (1900-1950)
Desi Arnez, Cuban-born television producer (1917-1986)
Mikhail Gorbachev, last president of the Soviet Union (1931--)
Lou Reed, US singer (1942--)
Jay Osmond, US singer w/pop group The Osmonds (1955--)
Jon Bon Jovi, US singer/actor (1962--)
Chris Martin, British singer w/rock group Coldplay (1977--)
