March 7

Events

• 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.
• 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,464).
• 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.
• 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 brake-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.
• 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.

Births

• 189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman emperor, (d. 211)
• 1746 - André Michaux, French botanist, (d. 1802)
• 1792 - John Herschel, mathematician, astronomer, (d. 1871)
• 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)
• 1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
• 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
• 1946 - Peter Wolf, musician ("J Geils Band")
• 1947 - Walter Röhrl, car racer
• 1960 - Ivan Lendl, tennis player
• 1964 - Bret Easton Ellis, writer
• 1972 - Andrew Hurdis, mathematician, scholar

Deaths

• 322 BC - Aristotle, philosopher, (b. 384 BC)
• 161 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor, (b. 86)
• 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)
• 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

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