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MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Saturday November 22, 2008

March 2 in history:

• 2004: In Iraq, simultaneous suicide bombing attacks on Shiite mosques in Baghdad and Karbala killed more than 280 people.

• 1968: The Kerner Commission, appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, reported findings that the United States was "moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal."

• 1962: Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a single basketball game played in Hershey, Pennsylvania, against the New York Knicks.

• 1958: Sir Vivian Fuchs and his Commonwealth team completed the first land crossing of Antarctica; using snow tractors and dog teams and supported by aircraft, they had crossed from the Filchner Ice Shelf to McMurdo Sound in 99 days.

• 1956: Morocco regained independence after 44 years (1912–56) of French and Spanish protectorates and reestablished a traditional monarchy.

• 1917: Citizens of Puerto Rico were granted U.S. citizenship.

• 1877: Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican, was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election when the disputed electoral votes of four states were awarded to him rather than to Democrat Samuel J. Tilden; Tilden had won the popular vote.

• 1836: American colonists in Texas declared their independence from Mexico and organized a provisional government during the Texas Revolution of 1835–36.