* Astronomy

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RE: March 2nd

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The first recorded European attempt on the summit of Aoraki was made on 2 March 1882
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Cook#Climbing_history

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Presentations made on March 2, 1995, showed overwhelming evidence for the top
quark
http://www.hep.uiuc.edu/home/tml/SciAmTop.pdf (Pdf)

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Lucky Lady II was the first airplane to circle the world nonstop on March 2, 1949
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t48076869/lucky-lady-ii/

Concorde 001 made its first test flight on 2 March 1969
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t48076872/arospatiale-bac-concorde/

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Atlas-Centaur rocket explodes 2 March 1965

Zond 4 was launched on March 2, 1968
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zond_4

Soyuz 28 was launched on March 2, 1978
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_28

Pioneer 10 was launched on March 2, 1972
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_10

Intercosmos 26 was launched on March 2, 1994, to investigate the Sun under the Coronas-I international project.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interkosmos

STS-67 Space Shuttle Endeavour launched from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, on 2 March 1995.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-67

The Rosetta space probe and Philae lander was launched on 2 March 2004
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t2856081/rosetta-mission/

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Mikhail Vladislavovich Tyurin (born March 2, 1960, Kolomna, Russia) is a Russian cosmonaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Tyurin

Duane Edgar Graveline (March 2, 1931 - September 5, 2016) was an American physician and NASA astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Graveline

Kurt Wahmke (March 2 1904 - 16 July 1934 in Kummersdorf) was a German rocket pioneer.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58073121/kurt-wahmke-1904-1934/

Edward Uhler Condon (March 2, 1902 - March 26, 1974) was a distinguished American nuclear physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_U._Condon

Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov (March 2, 1913 - November 19, 1990) was a prominent Soviet nuclear physicist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Flyorov

Howard Carter died of lymphoma in Kensington, London, on 2 March 1939
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Carter

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King Kong is a 1933 monster/adventure film that opened in New York City on March 2, 1933
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t48076881/king-kong/

The Loves of Mars and Venus was the first ballet in Britain. It was created on March 2, 1717.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loves_of_Mars_and_Venus

Planet B is a science fiction drama series first broadcast on BBC Radio 7 on 2 March 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_B

Star Trek: "This Side of Paradise" was first broadcast on March 2, 1967

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NGC 2792 was discovered by John Herschel on the 2nd March 1835.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56889666/ngc-2792/

NGC 3318 was discovered by John Herschel on the 2nd March 1835.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56889688/ngc-3318/

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On March 2, 2009, near-Earth asteroid 2009 DD45 flew by Earth at about 13:44 UT.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t26714683/asteroid-2009-dd45/

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Meteorites

The Dergaon (H5 chondrite) meteorite fell in Assam, India, on the 2nd March 2001.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56889947/dergaon-meteorite/