📜 This Day in History
March 2
1444The League of Lezhë, an alliance of regional chieftains, was established in Venetian Albania with Skanderbeg as their commander.- 1859The Great Slave Auction, the largest single sale of slaves in U.S. history, with more than 400 people sold, began in Georgia.
- 1919Communist, revolutionary-socialist, and syndicalist delegates met in Moscow to establish the Communist International.
- 1962Playing for the Philadelphia Warriors, American basketball player Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks, which remains an NBA record.
- 1970The Rhodesian monarchy was abolished by the government of Rhodesia, which declared the internationally unrecognised country to be a republic.
- 2022Russian forces captured the city of Kherson, the only regional capital to be taken during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
