Here’s a look at what happened on this day, 2 March, throughout world and South African history. We remember the news, events, and people that influenced the course of history forever.
ON THIS DAY: 2 MARCH
1990 | Nelson Mandela was elected deputy President of the African National Congress (ANC).
1918 | The University of South Africa (Unisa), the largest university in South Africa, replaced the University of the Cape of Good Hope and was formally inaugurated.
1983 | Compact Disc players were released for the first time in the United States and other markets. Previously they were only available in Japan.
1977 | Libya became the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as the General Assembly of the People adopted the “Declaration of the Establishment of People’s Authority”.
1978 | Czech Vladimír Remek became the first non-Russian or American person to go into space, when he was launched aboard Soyuz 28.
1992 | Former Soviet republics Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan (except San Marino) entered the UN.
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BIRTHDAYS
1954 | South African politician, Stone Sizani.
1948 | South African politician, George Boinamo.
1979 | English cricketer, Jim Troughton.
1979 | Irish international footballer, Damien Duff.
1991 | South African cricketer, Ruhan Pretorius.
ON THIS DAY: DEATHS
2004 | Irish footballer, Cormac McAnallen, 24.
2012 | South African environmentalist, explorer, and author, Lawrence Anthony, 62.
2013 | Australian journalist, Peter Harvey, 69.
2010 | English journalist and politician, Winston Churchill, 70.
2015 | American minister and colonel, Dean Hess, 98.
SPORTS
2022 | On this day in the FA Cup fifth round match between Luton Town and Chelsea, ended 2-3 and Romelu Lukaku, Timo Werner and Saul Niguez’s goals helped Chelsea to reach quarter-final.
ENTERTAINMENT
2021 | After donating $1 million to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Dolly Parton was given the coronavirus medication.
AFRICA FACT
Fish are thought to have supernatural importance in Tunisia, where people use them as a deterrent to evil spirits. Fish bones are used in the construction of buildings.