On this day in history, March 2, Wilt Chamberlain wins a game with 100 points.

On this day in history, March 2, Wilt Chamberlain wins a game with 100 points.

On March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, unidentified spectators and teammates storm onto the court to celebrate Wilt Chamberlain (13), of the Philadelphia Warriors, on setting an NBA record with his 100th point. The New York Knickerbockers were defeated by the Warriors 169–147 to win the game. (Photo by Paul Vathis/AP)

March 2, Saturday, 2024, is the 62nd day of the year. The year still has 304 days remaining in it.

The Historical High Point of Today:

An NBA record still remains, set by Wilt Chamberlain on March 2, 1962, when he scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks. In the end, Philadelphia prevailed 169–147.

Today, this date:

Following its separation from the Union, Texas became a member of the Confederacy in 1861.

Despite Tilden having won the popular vote, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was proclaimed the victor of the 1876 presidential contest in 1877, defeating Democrat Samuel J. Tilden.

Desi Arnaz is a Cuban actor, producer, director, and bandleader who was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1917.

The 20th Amendment to the Constitution was passed by Congress in 1932 and forwarded to the states for approval. It changed the date of the presidential inauguration from March 4 to January 20.

John Wayne and Claire Trevor starred in John Ford’s iconic Western “Stagecoach,” which debuted in New York in 1939.

In the southwestern Pacific during World War II, the three-day Battle of the Bismarck Sea started in 1943. American and Australian airplanes were able to severely destroy an Imperial Japanese convoy.

Claudette Colvin, a Black high school girl in Montgomery, Alabama, was jailed in 1955, nine months before to Rosa Parks’ well-known act of resistance, after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger.

The government authorized an AIDS screening test in 1985 that identified antibodies to the virus, enabling blood that may have been tainted to be kept out of the blood supply.

By the end of the 20th century, officials from the 12 countries that make up the European Community decided to outlaw the manufacture of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), the man-made substances that are thought to be responsible for the depletion of the ozone layer on Earth, in 1989.

Over 6,000 drivers protested Greyhound Lines Inc. in a walkout in 1990. (The workers were sacked by the corporation after it declared a negotiation deadlock.)

Jerry Yang and David Filo, the founders of Yahoo!, founded the online search engine website in 1995.

The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, won an 8-1 judgment by the Supreme Court in 2011 that the First Amendment’s rights for free expression had to give way to the grief of a bereaved father amid mocking protests at his Marine son’s funeral.

Tornadoes that hit Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio in 2012 claimed almost 40 lives.

During the Rev. Billy Graham’s burial in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2018, which was attended only by invitation, the children of the late man recalled “America’s Pastor” as a guy who lived his life at home while preaching the gospel in stadiums.

The only remaining original member of the renowned reggae group The Wailers, Bunny Wailer, passed away in his home country of Jamaica in 2021 at the age of 73.

The first Black student to enroll at the University of Alabama, Autherine Lucy Foster, passed away in 2022 at the age of 92.

Birthdays today: 94 years old for actor John Cullum. Barbara Luna, an actress, is 85. John Irving, the author, is eighty-two. 73-year-old actor Cassie Yates. Laraine Newman, 72, is a comedian and actor from Saturday Night Live. Russ Feingold, 71, is a former senator from Wisconsin. Ken Salazar, 69, was the interior secretary before. Jay Osmond, a singer, is 69. John Cowsill (The Cowsills) is a 68-year-old pop artist. Kevin Curren is a 66-year-old former tennis player. Larry Stewart (Restless Heart), a country music artist, is 65 years old. Jon Bon Jovi, a rock musician, is 62. Blues Kevin Curren is sixty-six years old. Larry Stewart (Restless Heart), a country music artist, is 65 years old. Jon Bon Jovi, a rock musician, is 62. The 61-year-old blues singer-musician Alvin Youngblood Hart. Daniel Craig is 56 years old. 52-year-old actor Richard Ruccolo. Coldplay’s rock singer Chris Martin is 47 years old. 47-year-old actor Heather McComb. Rebel Wilson is 44 years old. 43-year-old actor Bryce Dallas Howard. Ben Roethlisberger, a former NFL quarterback, is forty-two. Robert Iler is 39 years old. 35-year-old actor Nathalie Emmanuel. Luke Combs is a 34-year-old country singer. 27-year-old singer-rapper-actor Becky G.