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. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).
Events
161 – Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus .
238 – Roman subjects in the province of 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.
1573 – A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice , ending the Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–73) and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.
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 – Brazilian 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 the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas .
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone ".
1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
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 as King.
1936 – Prelude to 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 .
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 Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1957 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 124 is adopted.
1965 – Bloody Sunday : a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama .
1967 – Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (MPRS ), Indonesian provisional parliament, revoked Sukarno 's mandate as President of Indonesia .
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 .
1971 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivers his historic speech at Suhrawardy Udyan .
1985 – The song "We Are the World " receives its international release.
1986 – Challenger Disaster : Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
1987 – Lieyu massacre : Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen .
1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses .
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 at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of 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)
1507 – Magdalena of Saxony (d. 1534)
1556 – Guillaume du Vair , French lawyer and author (d. 1621)
1671 – Rob Roy MacGregor , Scottish outlaw (d. 1734)
1678 – Filippo Juvarra , Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Superga (d. 1736)
1693 – Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
1715 – Ewald Christian von Kleist , German soldier and poet (d. 1759)
1723 – Prince Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy (d. 1725)
1730 – Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil , French soldier and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1807)
1765 – Nicéphore Niépce , French inventor, invented photography (d. 1833)
1785 – Alessandro Manzoni , Italian author and poet (d. 1873)
1788 – Antoine César Becquerel , French physicist and biochemist (d. 1878)
1792 – John Herschel , English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
1811 – Increase A. Lapham , American botanist and author (d. 1875)
1837 – Henry Draper , American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
1841 – William Rockhill Nelson , American businessman and publisher, founded The Kansas City Star (d. 1915)
1849 – Luther Burbank , American botanist and author (d. 1926)
1850 – Champ Clark , American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1921)
1850 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , Austrian-Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)
1857 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg , Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
1872 – Piet Mondrian , Dutch-American painter (d. 1944)
1873 – Madame Sul-Te-Wan , American actress (d. 1959)
1875 – Maurice Ravel , French pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1937)
1878 – Boris Kustodiev , Russian painter and stage designer (d. 1927)
1885 – Milton Avery , American painter (d. 1965)
1885 – John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey , English admiral (d. 1971)
1886 – Virginia Pearson , American actress (d. 1958)
1888 – William L. Laurence , Lithuanian-American journalist and author (d. 1977)
1888 – Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer , Dutch lawyer and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1978)
1900 – Princess Elisabeth of Luxembourg (d. 1950)
1902 – Heinz Rühmann , German actor and director (d. 1994)
1904 – Ivar Ballangrud , Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
1904 – Reinhard Heydrich , German SS officer (d. 1942)
1908 – Anna Magnani , Italian actress, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1973)
1911 – Sachchidananda Vatsyayan , Indian journalist and author (d. 1987)
1912 – Adile Ayda , Turkish engineer and diplomat (d. 1992)
1913 – Dollard Ménard , Canadian general (d. 1997)
1915 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas , French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)
1917 – Janet Collins , American ballerina and choreographer (d. 2003)
1917 – Betty Holberton , American engineer and programmer (d. 2001)
1922 – Olga Ladyzhenskaya , Russian mathematician and academic (d. 2004)
1922 – Mochtar Lubis , Indonesian journalist and author (d. 2004)
1924 – Bill Boedeker , American football player (d. 2014)
1925 – Rene Gagnon , American soldier (d. 1979)
1927 – James Broderick , American actor and director (d. 1982)
1929 – Dan Jacobson , South African-English author and critic (d. 2014)
1930 – Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon , English photographer and politician
1930 – Robert Trotter , Scottish actor and photographer (d. 2013)
1933 – Jackie Blanchflower , Northern Irish footballer and accountant (d. 1998)
1933 – Ed Bouchee , American baseball player (d. 2013)
1934 – Willard Scott , American journalist, actor, and author
1934 – Ekrem Bora , Turkish film actor (d. 2012)
1936 – Florentino Fernández , Cuban-American boxer and coach (d. 2013)
1936 – Georges Perec , French author and screenwriter (d. 1982)
1938 – David Baltimore , American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1939 – Danyel Gérard , French singer-songwriter
1940 – Rudi Dutschke , German activist (d. 1979)
1940 – Daniel J. Travanti , American actor
1941 – Piers Paul Read , English historian and author
1942 – Michael Eisner , American businessman
1942 – Tammy Faye Messner , American evangelist, singer, and talk show host (d. 2007)
1943 – Chris White , English bass player and songwriter (The Zombies )
1944 – Ranulph Fiennes , English soldier and explorer
1944 – Townes Van Zandt , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)
1945 – John Heard , American actor and producer
1945 – Bob Herbert , American journalist
1945 – Arthur Lee , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Love ) (d. 2006)
1945 – Elizabeth Moon , American lieutenant and author
1946 – Matthew Fisher , English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Procol Harum )
1946 – Daniel Goleman , American psychologist and author
1946 – Peter Wolf , American singer-songwriter (The J. Geils Band )
1947 – Helen Eadie , Scottish politician (d. 2013)
1947 – Richard Lawson , American actor and producer
1947 – Walter Röhrl , German race car driver
1949 – Ghulam Nabi Azad , Indian politician, Indian Minister of Health and Family Welfare
1949 – Genyo Takeda , Japanese businessman
1950 – Iris Chacón , Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, and dancer
1950 – Billy Joe DuPree , American football player
1950 – Franco Harris , American football player and businessman
1950 – J. R. Richard , American baseball player and minister
1951 – Rocco Prestia , American bass player (Tower of Power )
1952 – William Boyd , Ghanaian-English author and screenwriter
1952 – Ernie Isley , American guitarist and songwriter (The Isley Brothers and Isley-Jasper-Isley )
1952 – Viv Richards , Caribbean cricketer and footballer
1952 – Lynn Swann , American football player, sportscaster, and politician
1954 – Eva Brunne , Swedish bishop
1955 – Anupam Kher , Indian actor, singer, director, and producer
1955 – Tommy Kramer , American football player
1956 – Bryan Cranston , American actor, director, and producer
1956 – Andrea Levy , English author
1957 – Robert Harris , English journalist and author
1957 – Mark Richards , Australian surfer
1957 – Tomás Yarrington , Mexican economist and politician, Governor of Tamaulipas
1958 – Rick Bass , American author and activist
1958 – Rik Mayall , English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1958 – Merv Neagle , Australian footballer and coach (d. 2012)
1959 – Tom Lehman , American golfer
1959 – Donna Murphy , American actress and singer
1959 – Nick Searcy , American actor and director
1960 – Joe Carter , American baseball player and sportscaster
1960 – Ivan Lendl , Czech tennis player and coach
1960 – Jim Spivey , American runner and coach
1961 – Mary Beth Evans , American actress and producer
1961 – David Rutley , English businessman and politician
1962 – Irma Adlawan , Filipino actress
1962 – Taylor Dayne , American singer-songwriter and actress
1963 – Mike Eagles , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1963 – E. L. James , English author
1964 – Bret Easton Ellis , American author and screenwriter
1964 – Wanda Sykes , American comedian, actress, and screenwriter
1965 – Jean-Pierre Barda , French-Swedish singer and actor (Army of Lovers )
1965 – Steve Beuerlein , American football player and sportscaster
1965 – Cameron Daddo , Australian actor and producer
1965 – Jesper Parnevik , Swedish golfer
1966 – Terry Carkner , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1966 – Atsushi Sakurai , Japanese singer-songwriter (Buck-Tick and Schwein )
1966 – Joy Tanner , American-Canadian actress
1967 – Muhsin al-Ramli , Iraqi author, poet, translator, and academic
1967 – Ruthie Henshall , English actress, singer, and dancer
1967 – Ai Yazawa , Japanese author and illustrator
1968 – Jeff Kent , American baseball player
1969 – Shin Ae-ra , South Korean actress
1969 – Warrel Dane , American singer-songwriter (Nevermore and Sanctuary )
1969 – Massimo Lotti , Italian footballer
1969 – Hideki Noda , Japanese race car driver
1970 – Rachel Weisz , English-American actress and producer
1971 – Peter Sarsgaard , American actor
1971 – Matthew Vaughn , English director, producer, and screenwriter
1972 – Craig Polla-Mounter , Australian rugby league player
1973 – Jason Bright , Australian race car driver
1973 – Sébastien Izambard , French tenor and producer (Il Divo )
1973 – Işın Karaca , English-Turkish singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1973 – Ray Parlour , English footballer
1974 – Antonio de la Rúa , Argentinian lawyer
1974 – Hugo Ferreira , Angolan-American singer-songwriter (Tantric )
1974 – Jenna Fischer , American actress and director
1975 – T. J. Thyne , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – Paul Cattermole , English singer and actor (S Club 7 )
1977 – Hiroki Hasegawa , Japanese actor
1977 – Ronan O'Gara , Irish rugby player and coach
1978 – Jaqueline Jesus , Brazilian psychologist and activist
1979 – Rodrigo Braña , Argentinian footballer
1979 – Amanda Somerville , American singer-songwriter (Aina and Kiske/Somerville )
1980 – Murat Boz , Turkish singer-songwriter
1980 – Eric Godard , Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Laura Prepon , American actress and producer
1981 – Brent Kite , Australian rugby league player
1982 – Kate Michael , American model, Miss District of Columbia 2006
1983 – Manucho , Angolan footballer
1983 – Taylor Tankersley , American baseball player
1983 – Sebastián Viera , Uruguayan footballer
1984 – Mathieu Flamini , French footballer
1984 – Jacob Lillyman , Australian rugby league player
1984 – Lindsay McCaul , American singer-songwriter
1985 – Andre Fluellen , American football player
1985 – Cameron Prosser , Australian swimmer
1986 – Ben Griffin , Australian footballer
1987 – Hatem Ben Arfa , French footballer
1987 – Niclas Bergfors , Swedish ice hockey player
1988 – Larry Asante , American football player
1990 – Choi Jong-hoon , South Korean singer-songwriter and guitarist (F.T. Island )
1990 – Taylor Jardine , American singer-songwriter (We Are the In Crowd )
1990 – Lefteris Matsoukas , Greek footballer
1991 – Michele Rigione , Italian footballer
1992 – Bel Powley , English actress
1993 – Denisa Allertová , Czech tennis player
1993 – Robbie Thomson , Scottish footballer
1994 – An-Sophie Mestach , Belgian tennis player
1995 – Jerome Binnom-Williams , English footballer
1996 – Liam Donnelly , Northern Irish footballer
Deaths
161 – Antoninus Pius , Roman emperor (b. 86)
413 – Heraclianus , Roman politician
1226 – William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury , English commander (b. 1176)
1274 – Saint Thomas Aquinas , Italian priest and philosopher (b. 1225)
1550 – William IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1493)
1578 – Margaret Douglas , English daughter of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (b. 1515)
1625 – Johann Bayer , German lawyer and cartographer (b. 1572)
1724 – Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
1767 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville , Canadian politician, 2nd Colonial Governor of Louisiana (b. 1680)
1778 – Charles De Geer , Swedish entomologist and archaeologist (b. 1720)
1810 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood , English admiral (b. 1750)
1838 – Robert Townsend , American spy (b. 1753)
1904 – Ferdinand André Fouqué , French geologist and petrologist (b. 1828)
1913 – Pauline Johnson , Canadian poet and author (b. 1861)
1920 – Jaan Poska , Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1866)
1928 – Robert Abbe , American surgeon and radiologist (b. 1851)
1932 – Aristide Briand , French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France , Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1934 – Ernst Enno , Estonian poet and author (b. 1875)
1938 – Andreas Michalakopoulos , Greek politician, 116th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
1949 – Bradbury Robinson , American football player, physician, and politician (b. 1884)
1952 – Paramahansa Yogananda , Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1893)
1954 – Otto Diels , German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
1957 – Wyndham Lewis , English author and painter (b. 1882)
1961 – Govind Ballabh Pant , Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1887)
1965 – Louise Mountbatten , German-Swedish wife of Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1889)
1967 – Alice B. Toklas , American memoirist (b. 1877)
1969 – Sampurnanand , Indian educator and politician, 2nd Governor of Rajasthan (b. 1891)
1974 – Alberto Rabagliati , Italian singer and actor (Lecuona Cuban Boys ) (b. 1906)
1975 – Mikhail Bakhtin , Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1895)
1975 – Ben Blue , Canadian-American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1901)
1976 – Wright Patman , American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1893)
1981 – Kirill Kondrashin , Russian conductor (b. 1914)
1982 – Ida Barney , American astronomer, mathematician, and academic (b. 1886)
1983 – Igor Markevitch , Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
1986 – Jacob K. Javits , American colonel and politician, 58th New York State Attorney General (b. 1904)
1988 – Divine , American drag queen performer, actor, and singer (b. 1945)
1991 – Cool Papa Bell , American baseball player (b. 1903)
1997 – Edward Mills Purcell , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
1999 – Sidney Gottlieb , American chemist and theorist (b. 1918)
1999 – Stanley Kubrick , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2000 – Charles Gray , English actor and singer (b. 1928)
2000 – Pee Wee King , American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
2001 – Frankie Carle , American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
2004 – Paul Winfield , American actor (b. 1941)
2005 – John Box , English production designer and art director (b. 1920)
2005 – Debra Hill , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1950)
2006 – Gordon Parks , American photographer, director, and composer (b. 1912)
2006 – Ali Farka Touré , Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
2007 – Ronnie Wells , American singer and educator (b. 1943)
2009 – Jang Ja-yeon , South Korean actress (b. 1982)
2010 – Mary Josephine Ray , Canadian-American super-centenarian (b. 1895)
2012 – Ravi , Indian director and composer (b. 1926)
2012 – Włodzimierz Smolarek , Polish footballer and manager (b. 1957)
2013 – Peter Banks , English guitarist and songwriter (Yes , The Syn , and Flash ) (b. 1947)
2013 – Sybil Christopher , Welsh actress (b. 1929)
2013 – Damiano Damiani , Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2013 – Frederick B. Karl , American lieutenant and politician (b. 1924)
2013 – Claude King , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
2014 – Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov , Russian actor and director (b. 1930)
2014 – Tamás Nádas , Hungarian pilot (b. 1969)
2014 – Ned O'Gorman , American poet and educator (b. 1929)
2014 – Victor Shem-Tov , Israeli lawyer and politician, 8th Israeli Minister of Health (b. 1915)
2015 – G. Karthikeyan , Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
2015 – F. Ray Keyser, Jr. , American lawyer and politician, 72nd Governor of Vermont (b. 1927)
2015 – Yoshihiro Tatsumi , Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1935)
2016 – Adrian Hardiman , Irish lawyer and judge (b. 1951)
2016 – Michael White , Scottish-American producer and manager (b. 1936)
2016 – Quentin Young , American physician and activist (b. 1923)
Holidays and observances
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