Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 2
March 2: Mothering Sunday in the United Kingdom, Laetare Sunday in Western Christianity, and Maslenitsa begins in Russia (2008); Independence Day in Morocco.
- 1836 – Texas Revolution: At a convention in Washington-on-the-Brazos, the Mexican state of Texas adopted a declaration of independence from Mexico, establishing the Republic of Texas.
- 1865 – Second Taranaki War: Protestant missionary Carl Sylvius Völkner died at the hands of Hauhau militants in Opotiki for working as an agent for George Grey, Governor-General of New Zealand.
- 1943 – World War II: Australian and American air forces attacked and destroyed a large convoy of the Japanese Navy at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the Bismarck Sea north of the island of Papua New Guinea.
- 1970 – Rhodesia formally broke its links with the British crown and declared itself a republic.
- 1978 – Aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 28 (insignia patch pictured), Czech Vladimír Remek became the first person not from the Soviet Union or the United States to go into space.