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- 2 March 1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
- 2 March 1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft (pictured) indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice
- 10 March 2000 – The technology heavy NASDAQ Composite reached its highest ever value of 5,048.62, before going on 10% of its value in 10 days as part of the start of the dot-com bubble
- 12 March 2013 – Seagate Technology announced it was the first disk manufacturer to have cumulatively shipped two billion hard drives