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)
• 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

• 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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