March 7


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

Events

   * 1799 - Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops
     procede 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 becomes the youngest World Heavyweight boxing
     champian 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

   * 1792 - John Herschel, mathematician, astronomer (+ 1871)
   * 1849 - Luther Burbank, biologist, botanist
   * 1872 - Piet Mondrian, painter (+ 1944)
   * 1875 - Maurice Ravel, composer (+ 1937)
   * 1902 - Heinz RŸhmann, actor (+ 1994)
   * 1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official
   * 1908 - Anna Magnani, actress (+ 1973)
   * 1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
   * 1938 - Janet Guthrie, automobile racer
   * 1940 - Rudi Dutschke, student leader (+ 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 Ršhrl, car racer
   * 1960 - Ivan Lendl, tennis player
   * 1964 - Bret Easton Ellis, writer

Deaths

   * 322 BC - Aristotle, philosopher
   * 161 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor
   * 1932 - Aristide Briand, diplomat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
     (1926)
   * 1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru
   * 1967 - Alice B. Toklas, personality
   * 1988 - Divine, actor
   * 1999 - Stanley Kubrick, film director

Holidays and observances

   * Catholicism - Feast day of Ss. Perpetua and Felicity