March 7

Sajun.org

'''March 7''' is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in Leap years). There are 299 days remaining. {| align=right id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"|Feb – '''March''' – Apr |- style="background:#ccccff; text-align:center;" |width=14%| Su |width=14%| Mo |width=14%| Tu |width=14%| We |width=14%| Th |width=14%| Fr |width=14%| Sa |- style="text-align:center;" |   | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |- style="text-align:center;" | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |- style="text-align:center;" | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |- style="text-align:center;" | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |- style="text-align:center;" | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 ||colspan=3|   |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"| 2004 day arrangement
All days |} ==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. *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 # 174,464). *1911 - Revolution in Mexico *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. *1947 - The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War. *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, 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." *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. *1988 - Columbia 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'' that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use. *1996 - The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed *2001 - ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' You Wish special airs on Nickelodeon. *2002 - Opening of The IX Paralympics Winter Games in Salt Lake City,Utah,USA. ==Births== *189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman emperor, (d. 211) *1693 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769) *1746 - Andr� Michaux, French botanist, (d. 1802) *1792 - John Herschel, mathematician, astronomer, (d. 1871) *1837 - Henry Draper, doctor, astronomer, (d. 1882) *1849 - Luther Burbank, biologist, botanist *1872 - Piet Mondrian, painter, (d. 1944) *1875 - Maurice Ravel, composer, (d. 1937) *1902 - Heinz R�hmann, actor, (d. 1994) *1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official, (d. 1942) *1908 - Anna Magnani, actress, (d. 1973) *1926 - Alan Sues, actir (''Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In'') *1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon *1934 - Willard Scott, television broadcaster *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 R�hrl, car racer *1949 - Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician *1950 - Iris Chacon, famous Ruerto Rican singer and dancer *1960 - Joe Carter, baseball star * 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) *851 - Nominoe, Duke of Brittany *1724 - Pope Innocent XIII, (b. 1655) *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) *1974 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor *1976 - Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893) *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 * Judaism - Purim celebrated (2004) ---- March 6 - March 8 - February 7 - April 7 -- listing of all days {| border="0" id="toc" style="margin: 0 auto" align=center |align=center| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |} bg:7 март ca:7 de mar� cs:7. b�ezen cy:7 Mawrth da:7. Marts de:7. M�rz eo:7-a de marto es:7 de marzo et:7. m�rts fr:7 mars ja:3月7日 lb:7. M�rz hu:március 7 nl:7 maart no:7. Mars pl:7 marca sa:७ मार्च sl:7. marec sv:7 mars zh:3月7日