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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
*
161 -
Roman Emperors Roman emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors
Marcus Aurelius and
Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the
Roman Empire.
*
1798 - The
France French army enters in
Rome: the birth of the
Roman Republic (18th century) Roman Republic.
*
1799 -
Napoleon I of France captures
Jaffa, Israel Jaffa in
Palestine (region) Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000
Albanian captives.
*
1814 -
Napoleon I of France Napoleon wins the
Battle of Craonne.
*
1815 -
Napoleon I of France meets troops of the Fifth Regiment sent by Louise XVIII at Grenoble, and convinces them to join him on his march to Paris.
*
1827 -
Brazilian Brazil marines sail up the
Rio Negro (
Argentina) and attack the temporary naval base of
Carmen de Patagones,
Argentina. They are defeated by the local citizens.
* 1827 -
Shrigley Abduction:
Ellen Turner, a wealthy
heiress in
Cheshire,
England is
kidnapping abducted by
Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future
politician in
colonial New Zealand.
*
1848 - The
Great mahele (land division) is signed in
Hawaii.
*
1850 -
United States Senate 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.
*
1862 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Pea Ridge -
Union (American Civil War) Union forces led by
General Samuel Curtis defeat
Confederate States of America Confederate troops under
General Earl Van Dorn at
Pea Ridge in northwestern
Arkansas.
*
1876 -
Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the
telephone (patent # 174,464).
*
1887 - First school in
Albanian language opens in the city of Korca, Albania.
*
1911 -
Revolution in
Mexico.
*
1912 -
Roald Amundsen first announces to the world that his expedition has reached the
South Pole, though they had arrived on
December 14,
1911.
*
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:
United States American troops seize the
Ludendorff Bridge over the
Rhine River at
Remagen,
Germany and begin to cross.
*
1947 - The
Kuomintang and
Communist Party of China resume full-fledged
Chinese Civil War Civil War.
*
1950 -
Cold War: The
Soviet Union issues a statement denying that
Klaus Fuchs served as a
Soviet spy.
*
1951 -
Korean War:
Operation Ripper - In
Korea,
United Nations troops led by
General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against
People's Republic of China Chinese forces.
*
1965 - In
Selma, Alabama,
State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600
civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed
Bloody Sunday (1965) Bloody Sunday.
*
1968 -
Vietnam War: The
First Battle of Saigon begins.
*
1969 -
Golda Meir elected as the first female Prime Minister of
Isreal.
*
1973 - The ultimately disappointing
Comet Kohoutek is discovered by
Luboš Kohoutek.
*
1983 -
The Nashville Network (
TNN) begins broadcasting.
*
1984 - The
United States of America United States attacks
San Juan del Sur in
Nicaragua.
*
1987 -
Mike Tyson adds the
World Boxing Association WBA World Heavyweight boxing championship to his
World Boxing Council WBC one when he beats
James Smith(boxer) James Smith after a 12-round fight in
Las Vegas, Nevada.
*
1988 -
Colombia becomes a member of the
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works Berne Convention copyright treaty.
*
1989 - The
State Council of the People's Republic of China declares
martial law in
Lhasa,
Tibet.
*
1994 - The
Supreme Court of the United States rules in ''
Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.'' that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of
fair use.
*
1996 - The first democratically elected
Palestinian parliament is formed.
*
2002 - Opening of The IX
Paralympic Winter Games in
Salt Lake City, Utah.
* 2002 - The
Network Against Prohibition forms in
Darwin, Northern Territory Darwin,
Australia.
*
2005 - Mass protest outside the
National Assembly of Kuwait building for women's voting rights in
Kuwait.
Births
*
189 -
Publius Septimius Geta,
Roman Emperor (d.
211)
*
1481 -
Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d.
1537)
*
1556 -
Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d.
1621)
*
1671 -
Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d.
1734)
*
1678 -
Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (d.
1736)
*
1687 -
Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d.
1760)
*
1693 -
Pope Clement XIII (d.
1769)
*
1715 -
Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d.
1759)
* 1715 -
Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d.
1755)
*
1730 -
Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d.
1807)
*
1765 -
Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (d.
1833)
*
1788 -
Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d.
1878)
*
1792 -
John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d.
1871)
*
1837 -
Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d.
1882)
*
1841 -
William Rockhill Nelson, founder of
Kansas City Star and patron of
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (d.
1915)
*
1850 -
Tomáš Masaryk, first
President of Czechoslovakia (d.
1937)
*
1857 -
Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1940)
*
1872 -
Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d.
1944)
*
1875 -
Maurice Ravel, French composer (d.
1937)
*
1887 -
Heino Eller, Estonian composer (d.
1970)
*
1902 -
Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d.
1994)
*
1904 -
Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d.
1969)
* 1904 -
Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (d.
1942)
*
1908 -
Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d.
1973)
*
1926 -
Alan Sues, American comedian and actor
*
1930 -
Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
*
1933 -
Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d.
1998)
*
1934 -
Willard Scott, American television broadcaster
*
1938 -
David Baltimore, American biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* 1938 -
Janet Guthrie, American race car driver
*
1940 -
Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d.
1979)
* 1940 -
Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
*
1942 -
Tammy Faye Bakker, American evangelist
* 1942 -
Michael Eisner, American film studio executive
*
1944 -
Stanley Schmidt, American editor
* 1944 -
Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (
1997)
*
1945 -
John Heard, American actor
* 1945 -
Arthur Lee (musician) Arthur Lee, American musician (
Love (band) Love)
*
1946 -
Peter Wolf, American musician (
J Geils Band)
*
1947 -
Richard Lawson, American actor
* 1947 -
Walter Rohrl Walter Röhrl, German race car driver
*
1949 -
Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
*
1950 -
Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
* 1950 -
Franco Harris, American football player
*
1952 -
Ernie Isley, American guitarist (
The Isley Brothers)
* 1952 -
Lynn Swann, American football player
* 1952 -
Viv Richards, West Indies cricketer
*
1955 -
Tommy Kramer, American football player
*
1956 -
Bryan Cranston, American actor
*
1958 -
Alan Hale (astronomer) Alan Hale, American astronomer
* 1958 -
Rik Mayall British actor
*
1960 -
Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player
*
1963 -
Bill Brochtrup, American actor
* 1963 -
Denyce Graves, American singer
*
1964 -
Bret Easton Ellis, American writer
* 1964 -
Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedian
*
1965 -
Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
*
1968 -
Jeff Kent, American baseball player
*
1971 -
Rachel Weisz, British actress
*
1973 -
Ray Parlour, English footballer
*
1974 -
Jenna Fischer, American actress
*
1977 -
Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer
*
1980 -
Laura Prepon, American actress
*
1984 -
Mathieu Flamini, French football (soccer) player
Deaths
*
322 BC -
Aristotle, philosopher (b.
384 BC)
*
161 -
Antoninus Pius,
Roman Emperor (b.
86)
*
308 -
Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr
*
851 -
Nominoe, Duke of Brittany Nominoe,
Duke of Brittany
*
1226 -
William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader
*
1274 -
Thomas Aquinas, Italian scholastic philosopher (b.
1225)
*
1578 -
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b.
1515)
*
1625 -
Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b.
1572)
*
1724 -
Pope Innocent XIII (b.
1655)
*
1767 -
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (b.
1680)
*
1778 -
Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (b.
1720)
*
1810 -
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b.
1750)
*
1904 -
Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (b.
1828)
*
1932 -
Aristide Briand, French statesman, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1862)
*
1952 -
Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b.
1893)
*
1954 -
Otto Diels, German chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1876)
*
1957 -
Wyndham Lewis, British author and painter (b.
1882)
*
1967 -
Alice B. Toklas, American companion to
Gertrude Stein (b.
1877)
*
1974 -
Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b.
1906)
*
1975 -
Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b.
1895)
* 1975 -
Ben Blue, Canadian actor (b.
1901)
*
1976 -
Wright Patman, American politician (b.
1893)
*
1981 -
Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b.
1914)
*
1986 -
Jacob Javits, American politician (b.
1904)
*
1988 -
Divine (Glen Milstead) Divine, American actor (b.
1945)
*
1991 -
Cool Papa Bell, baseball player (b.
1903)
*
1995 -
Paul-Émile Victor, French explorer (b.
1907)
*
1997 - Rabbi
E. H. Bronner Emanuel Bronner, German-American soap magnate and philosopher (b.
1908)
* 1997 -
Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1912)
*
1999 -
Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (b.
1918)
* 1999 -
Stanley Kubrick, American film director (b.
1928)
*
2000 -
Charles Gray, British actor (b.
1928)
* 2000 -
Jack Sanford, baseball player (b.
1929)
*
2002 -
Doris Allen, American psychologist (b.
1901)
*
2004 -
Paul Winfield, American actor (heart attack) (b.
1941)
*
2006 -
Ali Farka Touré Malian musician (b.
1939)
* 2006 -
Gordon Parks, famed
Life Magazine Life photographer (b.
1912)
* 2006 -
John Junkin, British radio, television and film comedy performer and scriptwriter (b.
1930)
Holidays and observances
*
Catholicism — Feast day of Ss.
Perpetua and
Felicitas (saint) Felicitas
*
Albania —
Teacher's Day
External links
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On this day in Canada
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NY Times: On this day
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BBC: On This Day
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March 6 -
March 8 -
February 7 -
April 7 --
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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an:7 de marzo
ast:7 de marzu
bg:7 март
be:7 Ñ?акавіка
bs:7. mart
ca:7 de març
ceb:Marso 7
cv:Пуш, 7
co:7 di marzu
cs:7. březen
cy:7 Mawrth
da:7. marts
de:7. März
et:7. märts
el:7 ΜαÏ?τίου
es:7 de marzo
eo:7-a de marto
eu:Martxoaren 7
fo:7. mars
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fur:7 di Març
ga:7 Márta
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