On this day in history
March 2
ChristianEgyptianScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on March 2 this year.
- R. Moshe Feinsteind. 1986 CE
Leading 20th-century American posek; author of the Igrot Moshe responsa
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- 1791 CEChristian · died
John Wesley, the Anglican cleric whose revival movement grew into Methodism, died in London at the age of 87.
- 1939 CEEgyptian · died
Howard Carter, the archaeologist who opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, died in London.
- 1972 CEScience
NASA launched Pioneer 10 from Cape Canaveral, the first spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt and fly past Jupiter, and later the first human-made object on course to leave the Solar System.