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7 March is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in Leap Year s). 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 .
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- 1799 - Napoleon I Of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albania n captives.
- 1814 - Napoleon wins the Battle Of Craonne .
- 1815 - Napoleon I Of France meets troops of the Fifth Regiment sent by Louise XVIII at Grenoble, and convinces them to join him on his march to Paris.
- 1827 - Brazil marines sail up the Rio Negro ( Argentina ) and attack the temporary naval base of Carmen De Patagones , Argentina . They are defeated by the local citizens.
- 1827 - , a wealthy Heir ess in Cheshire , England is Abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield , a 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 .
- - 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).
- 1887 - First school in Albanian language opens in the city of Korca, Albania.
- 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 .
- forms an alliance with Germany .
- and the Treaty Of Versailles , Germany reoccupies the Rhineland .
- troops seize the Ludendorff 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 .
- issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
- - 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 .
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- 1969 - Golda Meir elected as the first female Prime Minister of Isreal .
- 1973 - The ultimately disappointing Comet Kohoutek is discovered by Luboš 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, Inc. ''that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of Fair Use .
- 1996 - The first democratically elected Palestinian Parliament is formed.
- 2002 - Opening of The IX Paralympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah .
- 2002 - The Network Against Prohibition forms in Darwin , Australia .
- 2005 - Mass protest outside the National Assembly Of Kuwait building for women's voting rights in Kuwait .
Births
- 189 - Publius Septimius Geta , Roman Emperor (d. 211 )
- 1481 - Baldassare Peruzzi , Italian architect and painter (d. 1537 )
- 1556 - Guillaume Du Vair , French writer (d. 1621 )
- 1671 - Robert Roy MacGregor , Scottish folk hero (d. 1734 )
- 1678 - Filippo Juvara , Italian architect (d. 1736 )
- 1687 - Jean Lebeuf , French historian (d. 1760 )
- 1693 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769 )
- 1715 - Ewald Christian Von Kleist , German poet (d. 1759 )
- 1715 - Ephraim Williams , American philanthropist (d. 1755 )
- 1730 - Baron De Breteuil , French statesman (d. 1807 )
- 1765 - Nicéphore Niépce , French inventor (d. 1833 )
- 1788 - Antoine César Becquerel , French physicist (d. 1878 )
- 1792 - John Herschel , English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871 )
- 1837 - Henry Draper , American physician and astronomer (d. 1882 )
- 1841 - William Rockhill Nelson , founder of Kansas City Star and patron of Nelson-Atkins Museum Of Art (d. 1915 )
- 1850 - Tomáš Masaryk , first President Of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937 )
- 1857 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg , Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1940 )
- 1872 - Piet Mondrian , Dutch painter (d. 1944 )
- 1875 - Maurice Ravel , French composer (d. 1937 )
- 1887 - Heino Eller , Estonian composer (d. 1970 )
- 1902 - Heinz Rühmann , German actor (d. 1994 )
- 1904 - Ivar Ballangrud , Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969 )
- 1904 - Reinhard Heydrich , Nazi official (d. 1942 )
- 1908 - Anna Magnani , Italian actress (d. 1973 )
- 1926 - Alan Sues , American comedian and actor
- 1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones , Lord Snowdon
- 1933 - Jackie Blanchflower , Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998 )
- 1934 - Willard Scott , American television broadcaster
- 1938 - David Baltimore , American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- 1938 - Janet Guthrie , American race car driver
- 1940 - Rudi Dutschke , German student leader (d. 1979 )
- 1940 - Daniel J. Travanti , American actor
- 1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker , American evangelist
- 1942 - Michael Eisner , American film studio executive
- 1944 - Stanley Schmidt , American editor
- 1944 - Townes Van Zandt , American musician and songwriter ( 1997 )
- 1945 - John Heard , American actor
- 1945 - Arthur Lee , American musician ( Love )
- 1946 - Peter Wolf , American musician ( J Geils Band )
- 1947 - Richard Lawson , American actor
- 1947 - Walter Röhrl , German race car 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 guitarist ( The Isley Brothers )
- 1952 - Lynn Swann , American football player
- 1952 - Viv Richards , West Indies cricketer
- 1955 - Tommy Kramer , American football player
- 1956 - Bryan Cranston , American actor
- 1958 - Alan Hale , American astronomer
- 1958 - Rik Mayall British actor
- 1960 - Ivan Lendl , Czech tennis player
- 1963 - Bill Brochtrup , American actor
- 1963 - Denyce Graves , American singer
- 1964 - Bret Easton Ellis , American writer
- 1964 - Wanda Sykes , American actress and comedian
- 1965 - Jesper Parnevik , Swedish golfer
- 1968 - Jeff Kent , American baseball player
- 1971 - Rachel Weisz , British actress
- 1971 - Peter Sarsgaard , American actor
- 1973 - Ray Parlour , English footballer
- 1974 - Jenna Fischer , American actress
- 1977 - Mitja Zastrow , German-born swimmer
- 1980 - Laura Prepon , American actress
- 1984 - Mathieu Flamini , French football (soccer) player
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
- 1226 - William De Longespee, 3rd Earl Of Salisbury , English military leader
- 1274 - Thomas Aquinas , Italian scholastic philosopher (b. 1225 )
- 1578 - Margaret Douglas , Countess of Lennox (b. 1515 )
- 1625 - Johann Bayer , German astronomer (b. 1572 )
- 1724 - Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655 )
- 1767 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne De Bienville , French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (b. 1680 )
- 1778 - Charles De Geer , Swedish industrialist and entomologist (b. 1720 )
- 1810 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood , British admiral (b. 1750 )
- 1904 - Ferdinand André Fouqué , French geologist (b. 1828 )
- 1932 - Aristide Briand , French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862 )
- 1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda , Indian guru (b. 1893 )
- 1954 - Otto Diels , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876 )
- 1957 - Wyndham Lewis , British author and painter (b. 1882 )
- 1967 - Alice B. Toklas , American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877 )
- 1974 - Alberto Rabagliati , Italian singer and actor (b. 1906 )
- 1975 - Mikhail Bakhtin , Russian philosopher (b. 1895 )
- 1975 - Ben Blue , Canadian actor (b. 1901 )
- 1976 - Wright Patman , American politician (b. 1893 )
- 1981 - Kiril Kondrashin , Russian conductor (b. 1914 )
- 1986 - Jacob Javits , American politician (b. 1904 )
- 1988 - Divine , American actor (b. 1945 )
- 1991 - Cool Papa Bell , baseball player (b. 1903 )
- 1995 - Paul-Émile Victor , French explorer (b. 1907 )
- 1997 - Rabbi Emanuel Bronner , German-American soap magnate and philosopher (b. 1908 )
- 1997 - Edward Mills Purcell , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912 )
- 1999 - Sidney Gottlieb , American Central Intelligence Agency official (b. 1918 )
- 1999 - Stanley Kubrick , American film director (b. 1928 )
- 2000 - Charles Gray , British actor (b. 1928 )
- 2000 - Jack Sanford , baseball player (b. 1929 )
- 2002 - Doris Allen , American psychologist (b. 1901 )
- 2004 - Paul Winfield , American actor (heart attack) (b. 1941 )
- 2006 - Ali Farka Touré Malian musician (b. 1939 )
- 2006 - Gordon Parks , famed Life photographer (b. 1912 )
- 2006 - John Junkin , British radio, television and film comedy performer and scriptwriter (b. 1930 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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