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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2" title="March 2">March 2</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1444" title="1444">1444</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Lezh%C3%AB" title="League of Lezhë">League of Lezhë</a></b>, an alliance of regional chieftains, was established in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Albania" title="Venetian Albania">Venetian Albania</a> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skanderbeg" title="Skanderbeg">Skanderbeg</a> as their commander.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1859" title="1859">1859</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Slave_Auction" title="Great Slave Auction">Great Slave Auction</a></b>, the largest single sale of slaves in U.S. history, with more than 400 people sold, began in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919" title="1919">1919</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">Communist</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_socialism" title="Revolutionary socialism">revolutionary-socialist</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicalism" title="Syndicalism">syndicalist</a> delegates <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Congress_of_the_Comintern" title="1st Congress of the Comintern">met in Moscow</a></b> to establish the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_International" title="Communist International">Communist International</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962" title="1962">1962</a> – Led by General <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_Win" title="Ne Win">Ne Win</a></b>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatmadaw" title="Tatmadaw">Burmese military</a> seized power in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_Burmese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1962 Burmese coup d'état">a coup d'état</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978" title="1978">1978</a> – As a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut" title="Astronaut">cosmonaut</a> on <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_28" title="Soyuz 28">Soyuz 28</a></b>, Czechoslovak military pilot <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladim%C3%ADr_Remek" title="Vladimír Remek">Vladimír Remek</a></b> became the first person from outside the Soviet Union or the United States to go into space.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Adrian_VI" title="Pope Adrian VI">Pope Adrian VI</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1459); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Gilmore" title="James A. Gilmore">James A. Gilmore</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1876); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Matthews" title="Lionel Matthews">Lionel Matthews</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1944)</p>
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