Wikipedia: March 7

March 7
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March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in Leap years). There are 299 days remaining.

Events

1799 - Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1848 - The Great Mahele (land division) is signed in Hawaii.
1850 - United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,464).
1912 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole.
1918 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.
1936 - World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1945 - World War II: American troops seize the bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany and begin to cross.
1951 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - In Korea, United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1965 - In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully brake-up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed "Bloody Sunday."
1968 - Vietnam War: The First Battle of Saigon begins.
1973 - Comet Kohoutek is discovered.
1983 - The Nashville Network (TNN) begins broadcasting.
1987 - Mike Tyson adds the WBA World Heavyweight boxing championship to his WBC one when he beats James Smith after a 12-round fight in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1994 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.

Births

189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman emperor, (d. 211)
1746 - André Michaux, French botanist, (d. 1802)
1792 - John Herschel, mathematician, astronomer, (d. 1871)
1849 - Luther Burbank, biologist, botanist
1872 - Piet Mondrian, painter, (d. 1944)
1875 - Maurice Ravel, composer, (d. 1937)
1902 - Heinz Rühmann, actor, (d. 1994)
1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official, (d. 1942)
1908 - Anna Magnani, actress, (d. 1973)
1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
1938 - Janet Guthrie, automobile racer
1940 - Rudi Dutschke, student leader, (d. 1979)
1940 - Daniel J. Travanti, actor
1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker, evangelist
1942 - Michael Eisner, President of The Walt Disney Company
1945 - John Heard, actor
1946 - Peter Wolf, musician ("J Geils Band")
1947 - Walter Röhrl, car racer
1960 - Ivan Lendl, tennis player
1964 - Bret Easton Ellis, writer
1972 - Andrew Hurdis, mathematician, scholar

Deaths

322 BC - Aristotle, philosopher, (b. 384 BC)
161 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor, (b. 86)
1932 - Aristide Briand, diplomat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1926), (b. 1862)
1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru, (b. 1893)
1967 - Alice B. Toklas, personality, (b. 1877)
1988 - Divine, actor, (b. 1945)
1999 - Stanley Kubrick, film director, (b. 1928)
2002 - Doris Allen, founder of CISV organization (b. 1901)
2003 - Manfred Durniok, movie producer

Holidays and observances

Catholicism - Feast day of Ss. Perpetua and Felicity

See Also:

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