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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 .321 - Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day ) is the day of rest in the Empire.1277 - Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris .1798 - The French army enters 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.1799 - The Royal Institution is founded.
1814 - Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne .1815 - Napoleon I of France meets troops of the Fifth Regiment sent by Louis XVIII at Grenoble, and convinces them to join him on his march to Paris.1827 - Brazil marines sail up the Rio Negro and attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones , Argentina . They are defeated by the local citizens.1827 - Shrigley Abduction : Ellen Turner , a wealthy heiress 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 .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 # 174,465).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 .1914 - Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.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 Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen , establish a bridgehead on Germany soil and in desperate fighting begin to establish a lodgement , which events shakes up the whole Western Front and greatly hastens the end of WW-II.1947 - The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War .1948 - The Dodecanese islands officially become part of Greece again, ending the Italian rule.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 , 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 .1969 - Golda Meir elected as the first female Prime Minister of Israel .1988 - Colombia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty .1989 - Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.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 fair use .1996 - The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed.2004 - New Democracy wins the national elections in Greece .2005 - Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for women's voting rights in Kuwait .2006 - Apple Inc. is granted the patent to the iPod .2007 - British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords , 100% elected.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 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 , founder of Kansas City Star and patron of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (d. 1915 )1850 - Champ Clark , American politician (d. 1921 )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 )1873 - Madame Sul-Te-Wan , American actress (d. 1959 )1875 - Maurice Ravel , French composer (d. 1937 )1878 - Boris Kustodiev , Russian painter (d. 1927 )1887 - Heino Eller , Estonian composer (d. 1970 )1888 - Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer , Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1978 )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 )1915 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas , French politician (d. 2000 )1917 - Lee Young , American jazz drummer and singer1922 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya , Russian mathematician (d. 2004 )1925 - Rene Gagnon , US Marine shown in photograph of the raising of the US flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1979 )1927 - James Broderick , American actor (d. 1982 )1927 - Jean-Paul Desbiens , Quebec writer and teacher (d. 2006 )
1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones , Lord Snowdon1933 - Jackie Blanchflower , Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998 )1934 - Willard Scott , American television broadcaster1934 - Giorgos Katsaros , Greek musician and composer
1938 - David Baltimore , American biologist, Nobel laureate 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 televangelist (d. 2007 )1942 - Michael Eisner , American film studio executive
1942 - Charles R. Boutin , American politician
1943 - Chris White , British musician (The Zombies )1944 - Stanley Schmidt , American editor1944 - Townes Van Zandt , American musician and songwriter (1997 )
1945 - John Heard , American actor1945 - Arthur Lee , American musician (Love ) (d. 2006 )
1946 - Matthew Fisher , British musician (Procol Harum )1946 - Peter Wolf , American musician (J Geils Band )
1947 - Richard Lawson , American actor1947 - Walter Röhrl , German race car driver
1947 - Helen Eadie , Scottish politician
1949 - Ghulam Nabi Azad , Indian politician1950 - Iris Chacon , Puerto Rican singer and dancer1950 - 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
1955 - Tommy Kramer , American football player1956 - Bryan Cranston , American actor1957 - Robert Harris , English TV reporter and journalist1958 - Alan Hale , American astronomer1958 - Rik Mayall , British actor
1960 - Ivan Lendl , Czech tennis player
1962 - Taylor Dayne , American singer1963 - Bill Brochtrup , American actor1963 - Denyce Graves , American singer
1964 - Bret Easton Ellis , American writer1964 - Wanda Sykes , American actress and comedian
1965 - Jack Armstrong , American baseball player1965 - Steve Beuerlein , American football player
1965 - Jesper Parnevik , Swedish golfer
1968 - Jeff Kent , American baseball player1969 - Hideki Noda , Japanese racing driver1969 - Shin Ae Ra , Korean actress and radio DJ
1970 - Rachel Weisz , British actress1971 - Peter Sarsgaard , American actor
1972 - Jang Dong-gun , South Korean actor and musician1972 - Maxim Roy , Quebec actress
1973 - Ray Parlour , English footballer1973 - Sébastien Izambard , operatic pop singer (Il Divo )
1973 - Jason Bright , Australian racing driver
1974 - Jenna Fischer , American actress1976 - Chelsea Charms , American adult actress1977 - Ronan O'Gara , Irish rugby player1977 - Mitja Zastrow , German-born swimmer
1980 - Laura Prepon , American actress1980 - Anthony Ocana , Dominican composer & guitarist
1981 - Bo Bice , American Idol Star and Cracker1982 - Kate Michael , American beauty queen1982 - Erika Yamakawa , Japanese talent
1984 - Mathieu Flamini , French footballer1985 - Thomas Erak , American guitarist1986 - Ben Griffin , Australian footballer1990 - Abigail and Brittany Hensel , American conjoined twins Deaths [ ] 322 BC - Aristotle , Greek philosopher (b. 384 BC )161 - Antoninus Pius , Roman Emperor (b. 86 )203 - Perpetua and Felicitas , Christian martyrs (perhaps after 209)308 - Saint Eubulus , Christian martyr851 - Nominoe , Duke of Brittany 1226 - William de Longespee , English military leader1274 - 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 , British admiral (b. 1750 )1904 - Ferdinand André Fouqué , French geologist (b. 1828 )1913 - Emily Pauline Johnson , Native Canadian poet1928 - Robert Abbe , American surgeon (b. 1851 )1932 - Aristide Briand , Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1862 )1938 - Andreas Michalakopoulos , Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876 )1949 - Francis Dodd , English artist (b. 1874 )1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda , Indian guru (b. 1893 )1954 - Otto Diels , Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876 )1957 - Wyndham Lewis , British author (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 )1978 - Steve Bilko , 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 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 - 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 )2001 - Frankie Carle , American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903 )2004 - Paul Winfield , American actor (b. 1939 )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 - Gordon Parks , photographer (b. 1912 )
2006 - John Junkin , British performer (b. 1930 ) Holidays and observances [ ] Liturgical feasts [ ] External links [ ]
162 Familypedia people were born on March 7
169 Familypedia people died on March 7
92 Familypedia people were first married on March 7