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March 7 is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 299 days remain until the end of the year.
161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus ) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius .[1] 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin.[2] [3] 1277 – The University of Paris issues the last in a series of condemnations of various philosophical and theological theses.1573 – A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice , ending the Ottoman–Venetian War 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 engage 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 : Boers , led by Koos de la Rey , inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch .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 .1941 – Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47 , one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace.[4] 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.1951 – Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi , a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam , inside a mosque in Tehran .
1965 – Bloody Sunday : A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama .1967 – The Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (MPRS), Indonesia's 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 , political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh ), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan ) in Dhaka .1986 – Challenger Disaster : Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger 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 fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses 1993 – The tugboat Thomas Hebert New Jersey , USA .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.2007 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta , Indonesia , killing 21 people.[5]
2009 – The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks , the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles .189 – Publius Septimius Geta , Roman emperor (d. 211)[6] 942 – Mu'ayyad al-Dawla , Buyid emir (d. 983)1437 – Anna of Saxony, Electress of Brandenburg (d. 1512)1481 – Baldassare Peruzzi , Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)1482 – Fray Thomas de San Martín , Roman Catholic prelate and bishop (d. 1555)1543 – John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern , German prince and reigning count palatine of Simmern (d. 1592)1556 – Guillaume du Vair , French lawyer and author (d. 1621)[7] 1671 – Rob Roy MacGregor , Scottish outlaw (d. 1734)[8] 1678 – Filippo Juvarra , Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Superga (d. 1736)1693 – Clement XIII , pope of the Catholic Church (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)1839 – Ludwig Mond , German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (d. 1909)1841 – William Rockhill Nelson , American businessman and publisher, founded The Kansas City Star 1843 – Marriott Henry Brosius , American senator (d. 1901)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)1886 – G. I. Taylor , English mathematician and physicist (d. 1975)
1886 – Wilson Dallam Wallis , American anthropologist (d. 1970)
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)
1894 – Ana María O'Neill , Puerto Rican scholar and activist (d. 1981)1895 – Dorothy de Rothschild , English philanthropist and activist (d. 1988)1902 – Heinz Rühmann , German actor (d. 1994)1903 – Maud Lewis , Canadian folk artist (d. 1970)1904 – Ivar Ballangrud , Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)1904 – Reinhard Heydrich , German SS officer (d. 1942)
1908 – Anna Magnani , Italian actress (d. 1973)1910 – Will Glickman , American playwright (d. 1983)1911 – Sachchidananda Vatsyayan , Indian modern poet, journalist and author (d. 1987)1911 – Stefan Kisielewski , Polish libertarian writer and politician (d. 1991)
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)[9] 1922 – Mochtar Lubis , Indonesian journalist and author (d. 2004)
1922 – Peter Murphy , English footballer (d. 1975)[10]
1922 – Andy Phillip , American basketball player and coach (d. 2001)[11]
1924 – Morton Bard , American psychologist (d. 1997)1924 – Bill Boedeker , American football player (d. 2014)
1925 – Rene Gagnon , American soldier (d. 1979)1925 – Richard Vernon , British actor (d. 1997)
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 (d. 2017)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 television personality and actor1936 – 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 laureate1938 – Janet Guthrie , American professional race car driver, first woman to qualify and compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500 [12] [13]
1939 – Danyel Gérard , French singer-songwriter1940 – Daniel J. Travanti , American actor1941 – Piers Paul Read , English historian and author1942 – Michael Eisner , American businessman1942 – Tammy Faye Messner , American evangelist, television personality, and talk show host (d. 2007)
1943 – Chris White , English singer-songwriter and bass player1944 – Ranulph Fiennes , English soldier and explorer1944 – Townes Van Zandt , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)
1945 – Bob Herbert , American journalist1945 – Arthur Lee , American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2006)
1945 – Elizabeth Moon , American lieutenant and author
1946 – John Heard , American actor and producer (d. 2017)[14] 1947 – Helen Eadie , Scottish politician (d. 2013)[15] 1947 – Walter Röhrl , German race car driver
1949 – Ghulam Nabi Azad , Indian politician, Indian Minister of Health and Family Welfare 1950 – Billy Joe DuPree , American football player1950 – Franco Harris , American football player and businessman
1950 – J. R. Richard , American baseball player and minister
1952 – William Boyd , Ghanaian-English author and screenwriter1952 – Ernie Isley , American guitarist and songwriter
1952 – Viv Richards , Antiguan cricketer and footballer
1952 – Lynn Swann , American football player, sportscaster, and politician
1954 – Eva Brunne , Swedish bishop1955 – Tommy Kramer , American football player1956 – Bryan Cranston , American actor, director, and producer1956 – Andrea Levy , English author (d. 2019)
1957 – Robert Harris , English journalist and author1957 – Mark Richards , Australian surfer
1957 – Tomás Yarrington , Mexican economist and politician, Governor of Tamaulipas
1958 – Rick Bass , American author and environmentalist1958 – Rik Mayall , English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1958 – Merv Neagle , Australian footballer and coach (d. 2012)
1959 – Tom Lehman , American golfer1959 – Donna Murphy , American actress and singer
1960 – Joe Carter , American baseball player and sportscaster1960 – Ivan Lendl , Czech tennis player and coach
1960 – Jim Spivey , American runner and coach
1961 – David Rutley , English businessman and politician1961 – Nicolas Dupont-Aignan , French politician
1962 – Taylor Dayne , American singer-songwriter and actress1963 – Mike Eagles , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1963 – E. L. James , English author
1964 – Bret Easton Ellis , American author and screenwriter1964 – Wanda Sykes , American comedian, actress, and screenwriter
1965 – Steve Beuerlein , American football player and sportscaster1965 – Jesper Parnevik , Swedish golfer
1966 – Terry Carkner , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1966 – Tony Daly , Australian rugby player
1967 – Muhsin al-Ramli , Iraqi author, poet, translator, and academic1967 – Ruthie Henshall , English actress, singer, and dancer
1967 – Ai Yazawa , Japanese author and illustrator
1968 – Jeff Kent , American baseball player1969 – Massimo Lotti , Italian footballer1969 – Hideki Noda , Japanese race car driver
1970 – Rachel Weisz , English-American actress and producer1971 – Tal Banin , Israeli footballer and manager[16] 1971 – Peter Sarsgaard , American actor
1971 – Matthew Vaughn , English director, producer, and screenwriter
1972 – Craig Polla-Mounter , Australian rugby league player1973 – Jason Bright , Australian race car driver1973 – Sébastien Izambard , French tenor and producer
1973 – Işın Karaca , English-Turkish singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1974 – Jenna Fischer , American actress1974 – Facundo Sava , Argentinian footballer and manager
1977 – Ronan O'Gara , Irish rugby player and coach1977 – Paul Cattermole , British singer and actor
1978 – Jaqueline Jesus , Brazilian psychologist and activist1979 – Rodrigo Braña , Argentinian footballer1979 – Amanda Somerville , American singer-songwriter
1980 – Murat Boz , Turkish singer-songwriter1980 – Eric Godard , Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Laura Prepon , American actress
1981 – Brent Kite , Australian rugby league player[17] 1983 – Manucho , Angolan footballer1983 – Sebastián Viera , Uruguayan footballer
1984 – Steve Burtt Jr. , American-Ukrainian basketball player[18] 1984 – Mathieu Flamini , French footballer
1984 – Lindsay McCaul , American singer-songwriter
1985 – Andre Fluellen , American football player1985 – Cameron Prosser , Australian swimmer
1985 – Gerwyn Price , Welsh darts player
1986 – Ben Griffin , Australian footballer1987 – Hatem Ben Arfa , French footballer1987 – Niclas Bergfors , Swedish ice hockey player
1988 – Larry Asante , American football player1991 – Michele Rigione , Italian footballer1994 – Chase Kalisz , American swimmer[19] 1994 – Jordan Pickford , English footballer
1995 – Jerome Binnom-Williams , English footballer1995 – Aboubakar Kamara , French footballer[20]
1996 – Liam Donnelly , Northern Irish footballer1998 – Amanda Gorman , American poet and activist[21] 161 – Antoninus Pius , Roman emperor (b. 86)[22] 413 – Heraclianus , Roman politician and failed usurper 851 – Nominoe , King (or duke ) of Brittany 974 – John of Gorze , Frankish abbot and diplomat1226 – William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury , English commander (b. 1176)1274 – Saint Thomas Aquinas , Italian priest and philosopher (b. 1225)1393 – Bogislaw VI, Duke of Pomerania (b.c. 1350)1407 – Francesco I Gonzaga , ruler of Mantua1517 – Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (b. 1482)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)1809 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard , French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight (b. 1753)1810 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood , English admiral (b. 1750)1838 – Robert Townsend , American spy (b. 1753)1897 – Harriet Ann Jacobs , African American Abolitionist and author (b. 1813)[23] 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)1947 – Lucy Parsons , American communist anarchist labor organizer (b. c 1853)1949 – Bradbury Robinson , American football player, physician, and politician (b. 1884)[24] 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 painter and critic (b. 1882)1961 – Govind Ballabh Pant , Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1887)1967 – Alice B. Toklas , American writer (b. 1877)1971 – Richard Montague , American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1930)1973 – Lalo Ríos , Mexican actor (b. 1927)[25] 1975 – Mikhail Bakhtin , Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1895)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 and film actor (b. 1945)1988 – Ülo Õun , Estonian sculptor (b. 1940)[26]
1991 – Cool Papa Bell , American baseball player (b. 1903)1993 – Tony Harris , South African cricketer (b. 1916)1993 – J. Merrill Knapp , American musicologist (b. 1914)
1993 – Martti Larni , Finnish writer (b. 1909)
1993 – Carlo Mazzarella , Italian actor and journalist (b. 1919)
1993 – Angelo Piccaluga , Italian footballer (b. 1906)
1993 – Eleanor Sanger , American television producer (b. 1929)[27]
1993 – Josef Steindl , Austrian economist (b. 1912)
1993 – Frank Wells , Australian rules footballer (b. 1909)
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 – 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)2012 – Ravi , Indian director and composer (b. 1926)2012 – Włodzimierz Smolarek , Polish footballer and manager (b. 1957)
2013 – Peter Banks , English guitarist and songwriter (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 – 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)2017 – Lynne Stewart , American attorney and activist (b. 1939)Holidays and observances [ edit ] References [ edit ]
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