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Monday, 02 March 2026
1977 US Voyager I takes inaugural space photograph of Earth and Moon together 
1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid and Valentina Kozlov defect.
1979 Steven Lachs, appointed Calif's inaugural admittedly gay judge.
1979 Gene Kelly, sportscaster (Sportsreel), dies at 60.
1980 Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
1980 K A Porter, writer, dies at 90.
1982 Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon.
1983 George Meegen completes 2426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere.
1984 Joe Kittinger completes inaugural solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
1989 Hungary begins transition to a Western style democracy.
1989 Hurricane Hugo leads to extensive damage in Puerto Rico.
1990 A 500 lb 6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC
1990 Atlanta is chosen to host the 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics.
1991 Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands
1993 Australian PM announces plans to make Australia a republic by 2001
1994 Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer, dies at 44.
1995 Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic, dies at 73
1996 Spiro Theodore Agnew, US VP (1969-73), dies at 77.
1997 Harry Brian Boyne, journalist, dies at 87.
1999 Trillium Rail takes over operation of 41 miles of industrial trackage in Ontario's Niagara Peninsula comprising sections of the Cayuga sub. and the Thorold, Canal, Grantham, Fonthill, Town Line and West Welland spurs. The lines will be operated by a Trillium subsidiary, the Port Colborne Terminal Railway
2005 Afghan parliamentary election
2007 The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates in the U.S by half a point (0.5%) for the inaugural time since 2006 to ease the on-going panic in the financial markets due to the subprime crisis
2012 10 soliders are killed and 70 injured by a missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey
2014 Scotland votes 'NO' in a referendum deciding whether or not to stay with the United Kingdom.
2017 69th Emmy Awards: hosted by Stephen Colbert, "The Handmaid's Tale", Elizabeth Moss, Sterling K Brown, Julia Dreyfus, Donald Glover win.
2017 England footballer Wayne Rooney pleads guilty to drunk driving and is banned for driving for 2 years
2017 Hurricane Maria passes over the Caribbean island of Dominica as a category 5 hurricane, destroying 90% of structures and killing 27.
2018 70th Emmy Awards: "Games of Thrones". "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel", Rachel Brosnahan, Matthew Rhys, Claire Foy, Bill Hader win.
2018 China announces new $60 billion tariffs on US imports, a day after the US imposes $200 billion worth of new tariffs on Chinese goods.
2018 Amnesty International says 400 civilians have been killed in conflicts between Cameroon soldiers and Anglophone separatists in 2018.
2018 South Africa's Constitutional court legalizes cannabis use by adults in private places.
2019 Photo of Canadian PM Justin Trudeau wearing brownface in 2001 emerges during Canadian election campiagn.
2019 Second Israel General Election in five months results in another deadlock between Benny Gantz's Blue and White Party and Likud Party under Benjamin Netanyahu.
2023 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says “agents of the Indian government” carried out killing of a Sikh community leader, who advocated for Sikh separatism, in British Columbia in June [1].
