Albuquerque Journal

TODAY IN HISTORY

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Today is Saturday, March 2, the 62nd day of 2024. There are 304 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 2, 1962,

Wilt Chamberlai­n scored 100 points for the Philadelph­ia Warriors in a game against the New York Knicks, an NBA record that still stands. Philadelph­ia won the game, 169-147.

On this date: In 1861,

the state of Texas, having seceded from the Union, was admitted to the Confederac­y. In 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidenti­al election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote. In 1917, actor, producer, director and bandleader Desi Arnaz was born in Santiago de Cuba. In 1932, the 20th Amendment to the Constituti­on, which moved the date of the presidenti­al inaugurati­on from March 4 to Jan. 20, was passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratificati­on. In 1943, the three-day Battle of the Bismarck Sea began in the southwest Pacific during World War II; U.S. and Australian warplanes were able to inflict heavy damage on an Imperial Japanese convoy. In 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a Black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger. In 1985, the government approved a screening test for AIDS that detected antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminat­ed blood to be excluded from the blood supply. In 1995, the Internet search engine website Yahoo! was incorporat­ed by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo. In 2011, the Supreme Court ruled, 8-1, that a grieving father’s pain over mocking protests at his Marine son’s funeral had to yield to First Amendment protection­s for free speech in a decision favoring the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. Today’s birthdays: Actor John Cullum is 94. Actor Barbara Luna is 85. Author John Irving is 82. Actor Cassie Yates is 73. Actor, comedian Laraine Newman is 72. Rock singer Jon Bon Jovi is 62. Actor Daniel Craig is 56. Rock singer Chris Martin is 47. Actor Rebel Wilson is 44. Actor Bryce Dallas Howard is 43. Former NFL quarterbac­k Ben Roethlisbe­rger is 42. Country singer Luke Combs is 34.

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