"On March 2, 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks' more famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a Black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger."
"In 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, despite Tilden winning the popular vote. Tilden remains the only presidential candidate to get over 50% of the popular vote (50.9%) and not win the presidency."
"In 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks, a single-game NBA record that still stands. Philadelphia won by a score of 169-147."
"In 1985, the U.S. government approved a screening test for AIDS that detected antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood to be excluded from the blood supply."
March 2 encompasses significant historical events spanning civil rights, slavery, warfare, politics, sports, and public health. Claudette Colvin's 1955 bus arrest preceded Rosa Parks' more famous protest by nine months. Thomas Jefferson signed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves in 1807, though domestic slavery continued. The date marks Texas's 1861 admission to the Confederacy and the 1877 presidential election where Rutherford Hayes won despite Samuel Tilden's popular vote majority. World War II's Battle of the Bismarck Sea occurred in 1943, while Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point NBA game happened in 1962. The 1985 AIDS antibody screening test approval improved blood safety. A 2011 Supreme Court decision protected Westboro Baptist Church's protest rights, and a 2020 Tennessee tornado outbreak caused significant casualties and destruction.
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