March 7
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 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 French army enters in Rome : the birth of the Roman Republic
1799 - Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1814 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Craonne .
1827 - Shrigley Abduction : Ellen Turner , a wealthy heiress in Cheshire , England is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield , the future politician in colonial New Zealand .
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 .
1862 - American Civil War : Battle of Pea Ridge - Union forces led by General Samuel Curtis defeat 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).
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: American troops seize the bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen , Germany and begin to cross.
1947 - The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged 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 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 .
1968 - Vietnam War : The First Battle of Saigon begins.
1973 - The ultimately disappointing Comet Kohoutek is discovered by Lubos Kohoutek .
1983 - The Nashville Network (TNN) begins broadcasting.
1984 - The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua .
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 .
1988 - Colombia becomes a member of the 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 that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use .
1996 - The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed.
2001 - The SpongeBob SquarePants You WishNickelodeon .
2002 - Opening of The IX Paralympics Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah .
Births
189 - Publius Septimius Geta , Roman emperor (d. 211 )
1693 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769 )
1746 - André Michaux , French botanist (d. 1802 )
1792 - John Herschel , mathematician, astronomer (d. 1871 )
1837 - Henry Draper , doctor, astronomer (d. 1882 )
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 )
1926 - Alan Sues , comedian, actor (Laugh-in 1927 - James Broderick , American actor (d. 1982 )
1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones , Lord Snowdon
1934 - Willard Scott , television broadcaster
1938 - Janet Guthrie , American racecar driver
1940 - Rudi Dutschke , German student leader (d. 1979 )
1940 - Daniel J. Travanti , American actor (Hill Street Blues 1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker , evangelist
1942 - Michael Eisner , president of The Walt Disney Company
1944 - Townes Van Zandt , musician, songwriter
1944 - Stanley Schmidt , science fiction editor
1945 - John Heard , American actor
1945 - Arthur Lee , musician (Love )
1946 - Peter Wolf , musician ("J Geils Band ")
1947 - Walter Röhrl , German racecar 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 singer
1952 - Lynn Swann , American football player
1955 - Tommy Kramer , American football player
1956 - Bryan Cranston , American actor
1960 - Joe Carter , baseball star
1960 - Ivan Lendl , Czech tennis player
1963 - Bill Brochtrup , American actor
1963 - Denyce Graves , American opera singer
1964 - Bret Easton Ellis , writer
1964 - Wanda Sykes , American actress, comedienne
1965 - Jesper Parnevik , Swedish golfer
1971 - Rachel Weisz , British actress
1980 - Laura Prepon , American actress
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
1274 - Thomas Aquinas , Italian scholastic philosopher (b. 1225 )
1724 - Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655 )
1932 - Aristide Briand , French diplomat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1926 ) (b. 1862 )
1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda , Indian guru (b. 1893 )
1957 - Wyndham Lewis , British author, painter
1967 - Alice B. Toklas , companion to Gertrude Stein and brownie chef (b. 1877 )
1974 - Alberto Rabagliati , Italian singer and actor
1976 - Wright Patman , American politician (b. 1893 )
1981 - Kiril Kondrashin , Russian conductor (b. 1914 )
1986 - Jacob Javits , American politician
1988 - Divine , actor (b. 1945 )
1991 - Cool Papa Bell , American baseball player
1999 - Stanley Kubrick , film director (b. 1928 )
2000 - Charles Gray , British actor
2002 - Doris Allen , founder of CISV organization (b. 1901 )
2003 - Manfred Durniok , movie producer
2004 - Paul Winfield , American actor
Holidays and observances
External links
March 6 - March 8 - February 7 - April 7 -- listing of all days
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