What day of the week was March 2, 1962?

The day of the week March 2nd, 1962 fell on was a Friday.

Jon Bon Jovi the American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Bon Jovi) was born on 02 March in 1962. As was Gabriele Tarquini the Italian race car driver , Raimo Summanen the Finnish ice hockey player and coach , Michael Salinger the American poet , Tom Nordlie the Norwegian footballer and coach , Hiroyuki Morioka the Japanese author , Scott La Rock the American DJ and producer (Boogie Down Productions) (d. 1987) , Paul Farrelly the English politician .

Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin the Belgian mathematician (b. 1866) died on this day in 1962.

In Burma the the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a 1962 Burmese coup d'état|coup d'état. Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.