March 2nd, 1955

Born on March 2nd, 1955

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on March 2nd, 1955?

March 2nd, 1955

Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norodom_Sihanouk

What else happened on March 2nd?

March 2nd, 1995

Researchers at Fermilab in Illinois announced the discovery of the top quark, the most massive of all observed elementary particles.

March 2nd, 1978

As a cosmonaut on Soyuz 28, Czechoslovak military pilot Vladimír Remek (pictured) became the first person from outside the Soviet Union or the United States to go into space.

March 2nd, 1965

The Sound of Music is released in American theatres; it later became the highest grossing film of all time.

March 2nd, 1962

Playing for the Philadelphia Warriors, American basketball player Wilt Chamberlain (pictured) scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks, which remains an NBA record.

March 2nd, 1949

The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II landed in Fort Worth, Texas, to complete the first non-stop circumnavigation of the world by airplane.

March 2nd, 1943

World War II: Australian and U.S. air forces attacked and destroyed a large Japanese naval convoy in the Bismarck Sea, north of Papua New Guinea.

March 2nd, 1901

U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation and once the world's largest producer of steel, was founded by financier J. P. Morgan.

March 2nd, 1877

The Electoral Commission awarded twenty disputed electoral votes to Rutherford B. Hayes, thus assuring his victory in the 1876 U.S. presidential election.

March 2nd, 1865

New Zealand Wars: Carl Sylvius Völkner, a Protestant missionary, was killed by Hauhau militants in Ōpōtiki for working as an agent for New Zealand governor-general George Grey.

March 2nd, 1859

The Great Slave Auction, the largest single sale of slaves in U.S. history, with more than 400 people sold, began in Georgia.

March 2nd, 1836

Texas Revolution: At a convention of delegates in Washington-on-the-Brazos, the Mexican state of Texas adopted a declaration of independence, establishing the Republic of Texas.

March 2nd, 1791

French inventor Claude Chappe and his brothers first demonstrated the semaphore telegraph, a system to convey information by means of visual signals, using towers with pivoting crossarms.

March 2nd, 1776

American Revolutionary War: Patriot militiamen from Georgia and South Carolina attempted to resist the British action to seize and remove supply ships anchored at Savannah, Georgia.

March 2nd, 1484

The College of Arms, one of the few remaining official heraldic authorities in Europe, was incorporated by royal charter in the City of London.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 2nd

Born on March 2nd, 1955

69

Jay Osmond

American musician

*March 2nd, 1955, Ogden

69

Ute Granold

German politician

*March 2nd, 1955, Mainz

63

Shoko Asahara

Founder of the Japanese new religious group Aum Shinrikyo

*March 2nd, 1955, Yatsushiro †July 6th, 2018, Tokyo Detention House

69

Ken Salazar

United States Ambassador to Mexico since 2021

*March 2nd, 1955, Alamosa

69

Steve Small

Cricketer

*March 2nd, 1955, Sydney

69

Dale Bozzio

American singer

*March 2nd, 1955, Medford

69

Michael Troughton

English actor

*March 2nd, 1955, Hampstead

69

Terrence Stone

Irish actor

*March 2nd, 1955, Wicklow

69

Kathleen Brennan

Irish–American songwriter, musician producer & artist

*March 2nd, 1955, Johnsburg

Same Day
Who's birthday is on March 2nd?

64

Jens Arentzen

Danish actor

*March 2nd, 1958, Frederiksberg †November 22nd, 2022

27

Becky G

American singer and actress

*March 2nd, 1997, Inglewood

91

Mikhail Gorbachev

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991

*March 2nd, 1931, Privolnoye †August 30th, 2022, Central Clinical Hospital

93

Robert H. Michel

American politician (1923–2017)

*March 2nd, 1923, Peoria †February 17th, 2017, Arlington County

56

Daniel Craig

English actor

*March 2nd, 1968, Chester

52

Mauricio Pochettino

Argentine association football player and manager

*March 2nd, 1972, Santa Fe Province

43

Bryce Dallas Howard

American actress and filmmaker

*March 2nd, 1981, Los Angeles

62

Jon Bon Jovi

American musician (born 1962)

*March 2nd, 1962, Perth Amboy

61

Anthony Albanese

Prime Minister of Australia since 2022

*March 2nd, 1963, Darlinghurst

38

Sonja Kinski

American model and actress

*March 2nd, 1986, Geneva

68

Eduardo Rodríguez

Former president of Bolivia

*March 2nd, 1956, Cochabamba

51

Valérie Donzelli

French actress, film director and screenwriter

*March 2nd, 1973, Épinal

94

John Cullum

American actor, director and singer

*March 2nd, 1930, Knoxville

87

Dr. Seuss

American children's author and cartoonist (1904–1991)

*March 2nd, 1904, Springfield †September 24th, 1991, La Jolla

68

Mark Evans

Australian bass guitarist

*March 2nd, 1956, Melbourne

36

Simon Terodde

German footballer

*March 2nd, 1988, Bocholt

73

Dean Barrow

Prime Minister of Belize from 2008 to 2020

*March 2nd, 1951, Belize City

47

Chris Martin

English singer-songwriter (born 1977)

*March 2nd, 1977, Exeter

71

Lou Reed

American rock musician (1942–2013)

*March 2nd, 1942, Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center †October 27th, 2013, East Hampton

66

Ian Woosnam

Welsh professional golfer

*March 2nd, 1958, Oswestry

Same year
Born in 1955

63

Pete Shelley

British singer-songwriter (1955–2018)

*April 17th, 1955, Leigh †December 6th, 2018, Tallinn

68

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

*October 28th, 1955, Seattle

68

Guillermo Lasso

47 president of Ecuador

*November 16th, 1955, Guayaquil

68

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)

*June 8th, 1955, London

56

Steve Jobs

American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)

*February 24th, 1955, San Francisco †October 5th, 2011, Palo Alto

69

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

68

Steve Jones

English guitarist

*September 3rd, 1955, Shepherd's Bush

69

Nicolas Sarkozy

President of France from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

61

Bill Paxton

American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)

*May 17th, 1955, Fort Worth †February 25th, 2017, Los Angeles

68

Caroline Loeb

French actress and singer

*October 5th, 1955, Neuilly-sur-Seine

68

Saw Swee Leong

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1955, Penang

69

Uwe Reinders

German association football player and manager

*January 19th, 1955, Essen

61

Jimmy LaFave

American musician

*July 12th, 1955, Wills Point †May 21st, 2017, Austin

69

Steve Mann

British chemist

*April 1st, 1955, Leeds

69

Jair Bolsonaro

President of Brazil from 2019 to 2022

*March 21st, 1955, Glicério

68

Adolf Sauerland

German politician

*June 4th, 1955, Duisburg

43

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

69

Martin Jehne

German historian of classical antiquity

*January 27th, 1955, Hamburg

68

Isabelle Adjani

French actress

*June 27th, 1955, 17th arrondissement of Paris

68

Whoopi Goldberg

American actress, comedian, author and television personality

*November 13th, 1955, New York City

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1955 is a normal year and no leap year.

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