March 7 - 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.

Events

up to 19th century

• 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).

20th century

1910s-1970s

• 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.

1980s-1990s

• 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.

21st century

• 2001 - SpongeBob SquarePants You Wish special airs on Nickelodeon.
• 2002 - Opening of The IX Paralympics Winter Games in Salt Lake City,Utah,USA.

Births

up to 19th century

• 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)

20th century

• 1902 - Heinz Rühmann, actor (d. 1994)
• 1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (d. 1942)
• 1908 - Anna Magnani, actress (d. 1973)
• 1926 - Alan Sues, actor
• 1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
• 1934 - Willard Scott, television broadcaster
• 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, Arthur Lee, musician (Love)
• 1946 - Peter Wolf, musician ("J Geils Band")
• 1947 - Walter Röhrl, car racer
• 1949 - Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
• 1950 - Iris Chacon, famous Puerto Rican singer and dancer
• 1955 - Tommy Kramer, American football player
• 1960 - Joe Carter, baseball star
• 1960 - Ivan Lendl, tennis player
• 1964 - Bret Easton Ellis, writer
• 1965 - Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golf

Deaths

• 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

Holidays and observances

• Catholicism - Feast day of Ss. Perpetua and Felicity
• Judaism - Purim celebrated (2004)

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