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March 2

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On March 2, 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.

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On March 2, 1904, Theodor Seuss Geisel, who wrote and illustrated the popular 'Dr. Seuss' children's books, was born. Following his death on Sept. 24, 1991, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1793	Sam Houston, the first president of the Republic of Texas, was born near Lexington, Va.
1807	Congress outlawed the importation of slaves to the United States, effective the following year.
1836	Texas declared its independence from Mexico.
1899	Congress established Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state.
1917	Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship.
1923	Time magazine debuted.
1933	The movie "King Kong" had its world premiere in New York.
1939	Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected pope and took the name Pius XII.
1959	Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis held the first of two recording sessions that yielded the album "Kind of Blue."
1962	Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scored an NBA record 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks.
1965	The movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music" had its world premiere in New York.
1985	The federal government approved a screening test for AIDS that detected antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood to be excluded from the blood supply.
1997	It was revealed that Vice President Al Gore had made fund-raising calls for the 1996 election on phones installed in government buildings for that purpose.
2004	A series of coordinated blasts in Iraq killed 181 people at shrines in Karbala and Baghdad as thousands of Shiite Muslim pilgrims gathered for a religious festival.
2008	Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin's hand-picked successor, scored a crushing victory in Russia's presidential election.

Current Birthdays

Rock musician Lou Reed turns 69 years old today.

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Rock singer Jon Bon Jovi turns 49 years old today.

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1923	Doc Watson, Bluegrass singer, musician, turns 88
1930	John Cullum, Actor ("Northern Exposure"), turns 81
1930	Tom Wolfe, Author, turns 81
1931	Mikhail Gorbachev, Former Soviet president, turns 80
1942	John Irving, Author, turns 69
1952	Laraine Newman, Actress, comedian ("Saturday Night Live"), turns 59
1953	Russ Feingold, U.S. senator, D-Wis., turns 58
1955	Jay Osmond, Singer, turns 56
1955	Ken Salazar, Secretary of the interior, turns 56
1956	John Cowsill, Pop musician (The Cowsills), turns 55
1968	Daniel Craig, Actor, turns 43
1977	Chris Martin, Rock singer (Coldplay), turns 34
1977	Heather McComb, Actress ("Party of Five"), turns 34
1981	Bryce Dallas Howard, Actress, turns 30
1982	Ben Roethlisberger, Football player, turns 29
1985	Reggie Bush, Football player, turns 26
1985	Robert Iler, Actor ("The Sopranos"), turns 26

Historic Birthdays

Theodor Seuss Geisel3/2/1904 - 9/24/1991American author and illustrator (Dr. Seuss).Go to obituary »

64	Adrian VI 3/2/1459 - 9/14/1523 Dutch - Elected Pope in 1522
58	DeWitt Clinton 3/2/1769 - 2/11/1828 American who presided over construction of the Erie Canal
70	Sam Houston 3/2/1793 - 7/26/1863 American lawyer and politician
60	Bedrich Smetana 3/2/1824 - 5/12/1884 Bohemian composer of operas and symphonic poems
71	John Jay Chapman 3/2/1862 - 11/4/1933 American poet, dramatist, and critic
82	Pius XII 3/2/1876 - 10/9/1958 Italian Pope (1939-58)
50	Kurt Weill 3/2/1900 - 4/3/1950 German-bn. American composer
72	Edward Condon 3/2/1902 - 3/26/1974 American physicist
80	Geoffrey Grigson 3/2/1905 - 11/25/1985 English poet, editor, and literary critic
65	Ernst Haas 3/2/1921 - 9/12/1986 Austrian-bn. photojournalist