February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
November 7 » The People's Party is founded in Cuba.
Day of marriage March 2, 1939
The temperature on March 2, 1939 was between 0.5 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
March 3 » In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
March 17 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins.
April 10 » Alcoholics Anonymous, A.A.'s "Big Book", is first published.
April 14 » The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
September 28 » World War II: The siege of Warsaw comes to an end.
November 30 » Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
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