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March 2

5 sourced moments from March 2 in history: King Kong premiered in New York (1933); The first nonstop flight around the world was completed (1949); Claudette Colvin refused her bus seat 9 months before Parks (1955), plus 2 more.

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5 things happened on March 2

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1969 Technology · Transportation

Concorde made its first test flight

On this day in 1969, a slender white delta lifted off from Toulouse and opened the brief, glamorous age of supersonic passenger travel.

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1962 Sports · Basketball

Wilt Chamberlain once scored 100 points in a single NBA game

No television, no footage of the final basket - just 4,124 fans and a record that still stands.

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1955 History · Modern

Claudette Colvin refused her bus seat 9 months before Parks

Arrested at 15 in Montgomery in March 1955, Colvin became a plaintiff in the case that ended bus segregation, then waited 66 years to clear her name.

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1949 Technology · Transportation

The first nonstop flight around the world was completed

On this day in 1949, a B-50 bomber and four mid-air refuelings carried a crew around the entire planet without ever touching down.

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1933 Culture & Arts · Film & TV

King Kong premiered in New York

A stop-motion ape scaled the screen in 1933, and 50,000 New Yorkers lined up to watch a monster movie reinvent itself.

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