March 2, The Oscars Awards show is broadcast on television  

1807 – US Congress passes a law prohibiting the importation of African slaves.

1934 – Habib Bourguiba founds the pro-independence Neo-Dustour Party in Tunisia.

1953 – The Oscars Awards show is broadcast on television.

1969 –Concorde makes its first test flight.

1978 – Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space by Soyuz 28 spacecraft.

1992 – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan joins the United Nations.

2004 – Terrorist  bombings in Karbala and al-Kazimiyah in Iraq kill more than 220 civilians and injure 1500 others.

Born today:

1931 – Last President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev.

1937 – Algerian President  Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

Passed away:

1983 – Belgian cartoonist and inventor of Tintin comics Georges Remi, known by the pen name Hergé.

Occasions:

Independence Day of Morocco.

H. Zain/ Barry