Air-conditioning plant opens in Jebel Ali
1996 - Sultan Ahmad Bin Sulayem, Chairman and Managing Director of the Jebel Ali Free Zone Authority, officially inaugurated the new factory of the French Gulf Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Manufacturing Company. He toured the factory along with the company’s managing director Iskandar Roumieh. The company opened its first factory in Jebel Ali in 1988 with one assembly line, producing 500 units a year. By 1995, production increased to about 20,000 units. The new 6,000-square metre factory has four assembly lines and the company is planning to double production. Apart from supplying the Gulf Cooperation Council, the company exports to Syria, Morocco, Nigeria, Libya, Algeria, Somalia, Jordan, Pakistan, Canada, Greece, France and Taiwan.
March 2
1836 - Texas declares independence from Mexico
1877 - Republican Rutherford B. Hayes is declared winner of the 1876 US presidential election.
1917 - Puerto Ricans are granted US citizenship.
1946 - Ho Chi Minh is elected president of North Vietnam.
1949 - A B-50 Superfortress, the Lucky Lady II, completes the first non-stop, around-the-world flight.
1955 - Egypt and Syria sign defence accord.
1970 - Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) becomes an independent republic.
1972 - US spacecraft Pioneer 10 is launched on mission to explore environs of Jupiter.
1984 - Lebanon and Syria agree to a Syrian guaranteed ceasefire in Lebanon’s civil war.
1986 - Zafer AI Masri, Palestinian Mayor of Nablus, is assassinated.
1991 - Sri Lankan Defence Minister Ranjan Wijeratne is killed in car a bomb blast in Colombo.
1993 - A gangway collapses as passengers boarded a ferry on the Congo River, drowning at least 147 in the Republic of Congo.
1996 - John Howard sweeps landslide win over Paul Keating in Australia.
1997 - Kuwaiti prince Shaikh Khalid Al Sabah is killed in Abu Dhabi Powerboat Championship.
2003 - Alinghi becomes the first European team to win the America’s Cup.
2006 - India and the United States sign a historic agreement for civilian nuclear power.
2008 - Dmitry Medvedev wins Russian presidential election.
2011 - Pakistani Minorities Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti is shot and killed in Islamabad.
2012 - Thirteen tornadoes wipe out central US, killing at least 32.
