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This is a list of selected March 2 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
1865New Zealand land wars: Protestant missionary Carl Sylvius Völkner died at the hands of Hauhau militants in Opotiki for working as an agent for George Grey, Governor-General of New Zealand. Völkner: date not in article; Incident: multiple issues
1917 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed the Jones–Shafroth Act into law, granting United States citizenship to every citizen of Puerto Rico. expansion, refimprove section
1933 – The film King Kong premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. refimprove, missing info
1939 – Italian Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected as Pope and took the name Pius XII. neutrality issues
1962A military coup d'état led by General Ne Win seized power in Burma. Coup: multiple issues; Ne Win: unreferenced/refimprove sections
1970Rhodesia formally broke its links with the British crown and declared itself a republic. refimprove section
1992 – By virtue of gaining membership to the United Nations, Moldova gained international recognition as an independent nation. refimprove
2009 – President of Guinea-Bissau João Bernardo Vieira was assassinated in an attack by a group of soldiers on his private residence in Bissau. refimprove section

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March 2: Clean Monday (Eastern Christianity, 2020)

Replica of one of Claude Chappe's semaphore towers
Replica of one of Claude Chappe's semaphore towers

Francesco Bianchini (d. 1729) · Louis-Gabriel Suchet (b. 1770) · Grete Hermann (b. 1901)

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