Modern technologies have stepped far forward, but still such a simple thing as a match remains our assistant, which saves energy and time. I struck a match on the box and it burned. The very first matches were invented by the chemist Chapsel in France in 1805. March 2 is celebrated as International Match Day.

In the USSR, public people's squads were created to help law enforcement agencies. They not only patrolled the streets of cities and towns, but since 1960 they even helped the border troops in protecting the state border. Activists in the citizen groups were recruited from workers of enterprises, collective farms, housing offices, etc. March 2, 1955 is known in history as the Day of the Creation of Voluntary People's Teams.

Teenagers have a flexible psyche and are very susceptible to outside influence. It is difficult for teenagers to navigate the large flow of information in the modern world. March 2 is World Adolescent Mental Health Day. The events dedicated to it, according to the initiators, are aimed at eliminating stigma in the form of misconceptions about the mental state of teenagers.

It was on this day in 1983 that the world corporations Sony, Philips and Polygram demonstrated to the public the first 12-centimeter disk on which Beethoven's 9th symphony was stored. The information was recorded using a special laser. Its duration was 70 minutes.

Fun Holidays - Counting Crows Day

Funny holidays - International Rescue Cat Day

Baha'i Holidays - Feast of the Nineteenth Day of the Month of Ala

Baha'i Holidays - Beginning of the Baha'i Fast

Holidays of the Slavs - Kikimora Day

This name comes from Saints Theodore and Mariamne, whose memory the church honors on this day. The day of Fyodor and Mariamne ended the period of winter weddings. It was during this time that unmarried girls used it to tell fortunes about their betrothed. Weather signs for this day: if fog descended, the peasants were preparing for a cool May; thin elongated clouds from the west foreshadowed rain in a day.

Ethiopian Holidays - Adwa Victory Day

Orthodox holidays on March 2:

Memorial Day of the Hieromartyr Hermogenes, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia

Memorial Day of the Great Martyr Theodore Tiron