7 March - Definition and Overview

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

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Events

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.
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 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.
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 - 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.
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.

322 BCE - Aristotle, philosopher (b. 384 BCE)
161 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)
851 - Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
1274 - Thomas Aquinas, Italian scholastic philosopher (b. 1225)
1724 - Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
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)
1974 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor
1976 - Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893)
1981 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
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

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