Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 2

March 2: Independence Day in Morocco (1956)

Soyuz 28 insignia patch

• 1836 - The Mexican state of Texas declared its independence from Mexico, establishing the Republic of Texas

• 1943 - World War II: Australian and American air forces attacked and destroyed a large convoy of the Japanese Navy in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea.

• 1962 - A military coup d'état led by General Ne Win seized power in Burma (now Myanmar).

• 1970 - Rhodesia formally broke its links with the British crown and declared itself a republic.

• 1978 - Aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 28 (insignia patch pictured), Czech Vladimír Remek became the first person not from the Soviet Union or the United States to go into space.

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