March 2: The Nineteen Day Fast begins (Bahá'í Faith, 2017)
Wilt Chamberlain
- 1484 – The College of Arms, one of the few remaining official heraldic authorities in Europe, was established by royal charter in London.
- 1825 – Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, was defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
- 1937 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, precursor to the United Steel Workers of America, had a major success when it signed a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel.
- 1962 – American basketball player Wilt Chamberlain (pictured), then playing for the Philadelphia Warriors, scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks, still a record in the National Basketball Association today.
- 1978 – Aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 28, Czechoslovak military pilot Vladimír Remek became the first person from the outside the Soviet Union or the United States to go into space.
Susanna M. Salter (b. 1860) · Dusty Springfield (d. 1999)
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