March 7 On this day in History 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars, France declared war on Spain. 1850 in a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union. 1876 Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone. 1912 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen arrived in Hobart, Australia, where he dispatched telegrams announcing his success in leading the first expedition to the South Pole the previous December. 1926 the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations took place between New York and London. 1936 Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles (vehr-SY) and the Locarno Pact. 1945 during World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge. 1965 a march by civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriffs posse in what came to be known as Bloody Sunday. 1975 the U.S. Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present. 1983 the original version of The Nashville Network (now Spike) made its debut. 1994 the U.S. Navy issued its first permanent orders assigning women to regular duty on a combat ship — in this case, the USS Eisenhower. the U.S. Supreme Court, in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., unanimously ruled that a parody that pokes fun at an original work can be considered fair use that doesnt require permission from the copyright holder. (The ruling concerned a parody of the Roy Orbison song Oh, Pretty Woman by the rap group 2 Live Crew.) 1999 movie director Stanley Kubrick, whose films included Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey, died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70, having just finished editing Eyes Wide Shut. Ten years ago: Fourteen Palestinians were killed in the deadliest Israeli raid in Gaza in 17 months. An investiture ceremony was held in Concord, N.H., for V. Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Churchs first openly gay bishop. Actor Paul Winfield died in Los Angeles at age 64. Five years ago: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Turkish leaders in Ankara, where she announced that President Barack Obama was planning to make his own visit, which took place in April 2009. Western-backed Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad submitted his resignation (however, he retained his position under a new government). Former Metropolitan Opera general manager Schuyler Chapin died in New York at age 86. Former child actor and singer Jimmy Boyd (I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus) died in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 70. One year ago: The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test; a furious Pyongyang threatened a nuclear strike against the United States. The Senate confirmed John Brennan to be CIA director, 63-34, after the Obama administration bowed to demands from Republicans blocking the nomination and stated explicitly there were limits to the presidents power to use drones against U.S. terror suspects on American soil. Sybil Christopher, 83, the wife Richard Burton left in 1963 to marry Elizabeth Taylor, and who became a theater producer and nightclub founder, died in New York.
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