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 Wish TV special airs on Nickelodeon.
• 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)
• 1765 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (d. 1833)
• 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 – Sidney Gottlieb, Director of the CIA's Technical Services Staff. (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Stanley Kubrick, film director (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Charles Gray, British actor
• 2000 – Jack Sanford, ML baseball pitcher
• 2002 – Doris Allen, founder of CISV organization (b. 1901)
• 2003 – Manfred Durniok, movie producer
• 2004 – Paul Winfield, American actor

Holidays and observances

• Catholicism – Feast day of Ss. Perpetua and Felicity
• Albania – Teacher's Day
• Illinois – Casimir Pulaski Day observed, 2005 (First Monday of March)

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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