What happened on 2 March?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1877 Reconstruction Era ends Compromise of 1877 ends federal Reconstruction of the South.
2. 1956 Independence of Morocco and Tunisia France releases its two North African protectorates within three weeks — Morocco on 2 March and Tunisia on 20 March 1956 — as Paris concentrates on holding Algeria.
3. 1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict Brief border war along the Ussuri River — Sino-Soviet split becomes military.
4. 1835 Balzac's Le Père Goriot Cornerstone of Balzac's La Comédie humaine; Paris realism and ambition.
5. 1969 Concorde's first flight The Anglo-French supersonic airliner makes its maiden flight, a landmark of aviation if not of economics.
6. 1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea US/Australian air attack destroyed a Japanese reinforcement convoy off New Guinea.
7. 1919 The Comintern summons world revolution In a freezing Kremlin hall, delegates of nineteen mostly tiny parties found the Communist International, pledged to armed revolution in every country on earth. For a generation, ev
8. 1965 The Sound of Music released Rodgers and Hammerstein musical of the von Trapp family in Anschluss-era Austria.
9. 1965 Operation Rolling Thunder begins The US begins a sustained aerial bombardment of North Vietnam that would run for over three years.