What Day of the Week

March 2, 2023 was the 61^st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 304 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is jueves.

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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

• 1127

  Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.
• 1476

  Burgundian Wars: The Old Swiss Confederacy hands Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, a major defeat in the Battle of Grandson in Canton of Neuchâtel.
• 1717

  The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
• 1791

  Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
• 1811

  Argentine War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of revolutionary ships in the Battle of San Nicolás on the River Plate.
• 1877

  U.S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
• 1946

  Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
• 1949

  Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
• 1989

  Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
• 1990

  Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.

• 1913

  Godfried Bomans, Flemish author and television personality (d. 1971)
• 1932

  Gun Hägglund, Swedish news presenter (d. 2011)
• 1942

  Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Last Prime Minister of Iran
• 1954

  Eddie Johnstone, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963

  Tanyu Kiryakov, Bulgarian pistol shooter
• 1969

  Alessandro Moscardi, Italian rugby player
• 1974

  Hayley Lewis, Australian swimmer
• 1979

  Nicky Weaver, English footballer
• 1985

  Luke Pritchard, British singer (The Kooks)
• 1988

  Keith Jack, Scottish singer and actor

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