Today, March 7th. In History.

March 7 is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 299 days remaining until the end of the year.



161 – Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

238 – Roman subjects in Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor.

321 – Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.

1277 – Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.

1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
1827 – Brazil marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.

1827 – Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.

1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.

1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.

1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
1886 – The City of Lábrea in Amazonas, Brazil is founded. Today, the town is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Lábrea.

1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore. This shows where the elites money was prior to WWII. (And why the U.S. policies so resemble Nazism now.) They backed Germany until WWII, since, they have taken control of America!

1902 – Second Boer War: In the Battle of Tweebosch, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war

1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.

1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.

1936 – World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.

1945 – World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen.

1950 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.

1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.

1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.
1968 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.

1985 – The song "We Are the World" has its international release.

1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.

1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.

1994 – Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.

2006 – The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.

2007 – The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.

2009 – The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since The Troubles.

2009 – The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.

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)
• 1663 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1745)
• 1671 – Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
• 1678 – Filippo Juvarra, 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 of photography (d. 1833)
• 1785 – Alessandro Manzoni, Italian writer (d. 1873)
• 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, American publisher (The Kansas City Star) and patron of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (d. 1915)
• 1849 – Luther Burbank, American botanist (d. 1926)
• 1850 – Champ Clark, American politician (d. 1921)
• 1850 – Tomáš Masaryk, first President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)
• 1857 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1940)
• 1866 – Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidopterist (d. 1922)
• 1872 – Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
• 1873 – Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (d. 1959)
• 1875 – Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
• 1878 – Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)
• 1886 – Virginia Pearson, American silent film actress (d. 1958)
• 1887 – Heino Eller, Estonian composer (d. 1970)
• 1888 – Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1978)
• 1893 – Milton Avery, American artist (d. 1965)
• 1902 – Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)
• 1904 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
• 1904 – Reinhard Heydrich, German Nazi SS senior officer (d. 1942)
• 1908 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
• 1909 – Léo Malet, French writer (Nestor Burma) (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Dollard Ménard, Canadian military officer (Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal) during the Dieppe Raid (d. 1997)
• 1914 – John Rodney, American actor
• 1914 – Lee Young, American jazz drummer and singer (d. 2008)
• 1915 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician (d. 2000)
• 1920 – Eddy Paape, Franco-Belgian comics artist (Luc Orient)
• 1922 – Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Mochtar Lubis, Indonesian novelist and journalist (d. 2004)
• 1925 – Rene Gagnon, American Marine shown in photograph of the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1979)
• 1927 – James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982)
• 1927 – Philippe Clay, French singer and actor (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Jean-Paul Desbiens, Canadian writer and teacher (d. 2006)
• 1927 – Henri Landwirth, Belgian-American hotelier and philanthropist
• 1928 – Gilbert Rondeau, Canadian politician (d. 1994)
• 1930 – Antony Armstrong-Jones, British aristocrat, Lord Snowdon, former husband of Princess Margaret
• 1933 – Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
• 1934 – Douglas Cardinal, Canadian architect
• 1934 – Giorgos Katsaros, Greek musician and composer
• 1934 – Willard Scott, American television broadcaster
• 1936 – Georges Perec, French novelist (d. 1982)
• 1938 – David Baltimore, American biologist, Nobel laureate
• 1938 – Janet Guthrie, American race car driver
• 1939 – Danyel Gérard, French pop singer and songwriter
• 1940 – Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d. 1979)
• 1940 – Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
• 1942 – Tammy Faye Bakker, American televangelist (d. 2007)
• 1942 – Charles R. Boutin, American politician
• 1942 – Michael Eisner, American film studio executive
• 1943 – Chris White, British musician (The Zombies)
• 1944 – Sir Ranulph Fiennes, British soldier and explorer
• 1944 – Zhiuli Shartava, Georgian politician and the Head of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia (d. 1993)
• 1944 – Stanley Schmidt, American editor
• 1944 – Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (d. 1997)
• 1945 – John Heard, American actor
• 1945 – Bob Herbert, American journalist
• 1945 – Arthur Lee, American musician (Love) (d. 2006)
• 1945 – Elizabeth Moon, American author
• 1946 – Matthew Fisher, British musician (Procol Harum)
• 1946 – Daniel Goleman, American author and psychologist
• 1946 – Peter Wolf, American musician (The J. Geils Band)
• 1947 – Helen Eadie, Scottish politician
• 1947 – Richard Lawson, American actor
• 1947 – Walter Röhrl, German race and rally car driver
• 1949 – Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
• 1950 – Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
• 1950 – Billy Joe Dupree, American football player
• 1950 – Franco Harris, American football player
• 1951 – Francis Rocco Prestia, American musician (Tower of Power)
• 1952 – Ernie Isley, American musician (The Isley Brothers)
• 1952 – Viv Richards, Antiguan West Indies cricketer
• 1952 – Lynn Swann, American football player
• 1953 – Bernard Voyer, Canadian explorer and mountainer
• 1955 – Anupam Kher, Indian actor
• 1955 – Tommy Kramer, American football player
• 1956 – Bryan Cranston, American actor
• 1957 – Robert Harris, English TV reporter and journalist
• 1958 – Alan Hale, American astronomer
• 1958 – Rik Mayall, British actor
• 1958 – Donna Murphy, American actress and singer
• 1960 – Joe Carter, American baseball player
• 1960 – Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player
• 1960 – Jim Spivey, American track and field athlete
• 1961 – Mark Kumpel, American ice hockey player
• 1962 – Taylor Dayne, American recording artist
• 1962 – Peter Manley, English darts player
• 1963 – Bill Brochtrup, American actor
• 1963 – Mike Eagles, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963 – Denyce Graves, American singer
• 1964 – Bret Easton Ellis, American writer
• 1964 – Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedienne
• 1965 – Jack Armstrong, American baseball player
• 1965 – Steve Beuerlein, American football player
• 1965 – Cameron Daddo, Australian actor
• 1965 – Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
• 1966 – Terry Carkner, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1966 – Ludwig Kögl, German footballer
• 1966 – Joy Tanner, American actress
• 1967 – Jean-Pierre Barda, Swedish singer (Army of Lovers)
• 1967 – Ruthie Henshall, English theatre actress and singer
• 1967 – Ai Yazawa, Japanese manga artist
• 1968 – Denis Boucher, Canadian baseball player
• 1968 – Jeff Kent, American baseball player
• 1969 – Warrel Dane, American singer (Nevermore)
• 1969 – Massimo Lotti, Italian footballer
• 1969 – Hideki Noda, Japanese racing driver
• 1969 – Shin Ae Ra, Korean actress and radio DJ
• 1970 – Rachel Weisz, British actress
• 1971 – Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
• 1971 – Matthew Vaughn, British film producer and director
• 1972 – Jang Dong-gun, South Korean actor and musician
• 1972 – Maxim Roy, Canadian actress
• 1973 – Jason Bright, Australian racing driver
• 1973 – Sébastien Izambard, operatic pop singer (Il Divo)
• 1973 – Ray Parlour, English footballer
• 1974 – Larry Bagby, American actor and musician
• 1974 – Jenna Fischer, American actress
• 1974 – Krizz Kaliko, American Rapper
• 1974 – Facundo Sava, Argentine footballer
• 1975 – Audrey Marie Anderson, American actress
• 1975 – TJ Thyne, American actor
• 1977 – Paul Cattermole, British singer, actor and member of pop group S Club
• 1977 – Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer
• 1977 – Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby union footballer
• 1977 – Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer
• 1979 – Rodrigo Braña, Argentine footballer
• 1979 – Amanda Somerville, American singer (Aina) and vocal coach
• 1980 – Éric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Laura Prepon, American actress
• 1981 – Rica Peralejo, Philippine Actress
• 1982 – Kate Michael, American beauty queen
• 1982 – Erika Yamakawa, Japanese talent
• 1983 – Manucho, Angolan footballer
• 1983 – Taylor Tankersley, American baseball player
• 1984 – Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
• 1984 – Brandon T. Jackson, American actor
• 1984 – Rachel Rice, Welsh reality TV star
• 1985 – Thomas Erak, American guitarist
• 1985 – Andre Fluellen, American football player
• 1986 – Ben Griffin, Australian soccer player
• 1986 – George Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player
• 1987 – Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer
• 1987 – Niclas Bergfors, Swedish hockey player
• 1988 – Larry Asante, American football player
• 1989 – Gerald Anderson, Filipino actor and model
• 1990 – Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
• 1990 – Choi Jong Hun, South Korean guitarist, leader in F.T. Island
• 1990 – Lefteris Matsoukas, Greek footballer
• 1991 – Michele Rigione, Italian footballer
• 1992 – Bel Powley, English actress
• 1994 – An-Sophie Mestach, Belgian tennis player
• 2009 – Prince Umberto of Savoy

Deaths

• 161 – Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)
• 308 – Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr
• 413 – Heraclianus, Roman usurper
• 851 – Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
• 1226 – William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader
• 1274 – Saint Thomas Aquinas, 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 (b. 1680)
• 1778 – Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)
• 1810 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750)
• 1904 – Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (b. 1828)
• 1913 – Emily Pauline Johnson, Native Canadian poet (b. 1861)
• 1928 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851)
• 1932 – Aristide Briand, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1938 – Andreas Michalakopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
• 1942 – Lucy Parsons, American anarchist, communist and labor organizer (b. 1853)
• 1943 – Alma Moodie, Australian classical violinist (b. 1898)
• 1949 – Francis Dodd, English artist (b. 1874)
• 1949 – Bradbury Robinson, American football player (b. 1884)
• 1952 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)
• 1954 – Otto Diels, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1957 – Wyndham Lewis, British author (b. 1882)
• 1965 – Louise Mountbatten, Swedish queen (b. 1889)
• 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)
• 1978 – Steve Bilko, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 1981 – Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
• 1983 – Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
• 1984 – Paul Rotha, English director (b. 1907)
• 1986 – Jacob K. Javits, American politician (b. 1904)
• 1988 – Divine, American actor (b. 1945)
• 1988 – Robert Livingston, American film actor (b. 1904)
• 1991 – Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1995 – Paul-Émile Victor, French explorer (b. 1907)
• 1997 – E. H. Bronner, German-American soap magnate (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Stanley Kubrick, American film director (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Charles Gray, British actor (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Pee Wee King, American country music songwriter and musician (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 2004 – Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
• 2005 – John Box, British film production designer and art director (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (b. 1950)
• 2006 – Ali Farka Touré, Malian musician (b. 1939)
• 2006 – John Junkin, British performer (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Gordon Parks, photographer (b. 1912)
• 2009 – Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress (b. 1982)
• 2010 – Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian-American supercentenarian (b. 1895)