As we speak is Sunday, March 2, the 61st day of 2025. There are 304 days left within the 12 months.
As we speak in historical past:
On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 factors for the Philadelphia Warriors towards the New York Knicks, a single-game NBA file that also stands. Philadelphia gained by a rating of 169-147.
Additionally on this date:
In 1807, the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves was signed by President Thomas Jefferson. (The home commerce of enslaved folks was not affected.)
In 1861, the state of Texas, having seceded from the Union, was admitted to the Confederacy.
In 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, regardless of Tilden profitable the favored vote. Tilden stays the one presidential candidate to recover from 50% of the favored vote (50.9%) and never win the presidency.
In 1943, the three-day Battle of the Bismarck Sea started within the southwest Pacific throughout World Struggle II; U.S. and Australian warplanes inflicted heavy harm on an Imperial Japanese convoy.
In 1955, 9 months earlier than Rosa Parks’ extra well-known act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a Black highschool pupil in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing to surrender her seat on a public bus to a white passenger.
In 1985, the U.S. authorities permitted a screening check for AIDS that detected antibodies to the virus, permitting probably contaminated blood to be excluded from the blood provide.
In 2011, the Supreme Court docket dominated, 8-1, {that a} grieving father’s ache over mocking protests close to his Marine son’s funeral needed to yield to First Modification protections without cost speech in a call favoring the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas.
As we speak’s birthdays:
- Creator John Irving is 83.
- Actor-comedian Laraine Newman (Saturday Night time Reside) is 73.
- Golf Corridor of Famer Ian Woosnam is 67.
- Musician Jon Bon Jovi is 63.
- Actor Daniel Craig is 57.
- Rapper-actor Methodology Man is 54.
- Musician Chris Martin (Coldplay) is 48.
- Actor Insurgent Wilson is 45.
- Actor Bryce Dallas Howard is 44.
- Hockey Corridor of Famer Henrik Lundqvist is 43.
- Actor Robert Iler is 40.
- Actor Nathalie Emmanuel is 36.
- Nation musician Luke Combs is 35.
- Singer-actor Becky G is 28.