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2 March
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1949 Sarojini Naidu, political activist and poet, died at Lucknow. A proponent of civil rights, women's emancipation, and anti-imperialistic ideas, she was an important figure in India's struggle for independence from colonial rule.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1498 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama and his fleet reached the Island of Mozambique on their first voyage to India.
- 1923 The first issue of Henry Luce's TIME magazine appeared on newsstands.
- 1930 English novelist D H Lawrence died in Vence, France.
- 1931 Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary General of the Soviet Union, responsible for restructuring the Soviet economy (perestroika) and openness and information (glasnost), was born.
- 1942 John Irving, American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter, was born. Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978.
- 1956 France grants independence to Morocco.
- 1983 Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
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