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. Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links Events 161 – Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. 238 – Roman subjects in 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. 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. 1936 – World War II (Prelude to): 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 Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces. 1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama. 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. 1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses. 1994 – Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use. 2004 – New Democracy wins the Greek elections. 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, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since 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) 1556 – Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and author (d. 1621) 1663 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1745) 1671 – Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw (d. 1734) 1678 – Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Superga (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 soldier (d. 1755) 1730 – Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French 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 (d. 1878) 1792 – John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871) 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 (d. 1926) 1850 – Champ Clark, American 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, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940) 1866 – Hans Fruhstorfer, German entomologist and explorer (d. 1922) 1872 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944) 1873 – Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (d. 1959) 1875 – Albert Jean Louis Ayat, French fencer (d. 1935) 1875 – Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937) 1876 – Frederick Freake, English polo player (d. 1950) 1878 – Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927) 1879 – Jules De Bisschop, Belgian rower (d. 1955) 1885 – Milton Avery, American painter (d. 1965) 1885 – John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, English admiral (d. 1971) 1886 – Virginia Pearson, American actress (d. 1958) 1887 – Heino Eller, Estonian composer and educator (d. 1970) 1888 – William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-American journalist (d. 1977) 1888 – Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1978) 1900 – Evald Aav, Estonian composer (d. 1939) 1902 – Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994) 1904 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969) 1904 – Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer (d. 1942) 1906 – Elmar Lipping, Estonian military commander and politician (d. 1994) 1908 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973) 1909 – Léo Malet, French author (d. 1996) 1911 – Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Indian journalist and author (d. 1987) 1912 – Eerik Kumari, Estonian ornithologist (d. 1984) 1913 – Dollard Ménard, Canadian general (d. 1997) 1914 – John Rodney, American actor 1914 – Lee Young, American drummer and singer (d. 2008) 1915 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000) 1917 – Betty Holberton, American engineer and programmer (d. 2001) 1920 – Eddy Paape, Belgian illustrator (d. 2012) 1922 – Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004) 1922 – Mochtar Lubis, Indonesian author and journalist (d. 2004) 1925 – Rene Gagnon, American marine (d. 1979) 1927 – James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982) 1927 – Philippe Clay, French singer and actor (d. 2007) 1927 – Jean-Paul Desbiens, Canadian journalist, author, and educator (d. 2006) 1927 – Henri Landwirth, Belgian-American businessman and philanthropist, founded Give Kids The World Village 1928 – Gilbert Rondeau, Canadian politician (d. 1994) 1930 – Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer 1930 – Robert Trotter, Scottish actor and photographer (d. 2013) 1933 – Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (d. 1998) 1933 – Ed Bouchee, American baseball player (d. 2013) 1934 – Douglas Cardinal, Canadian architect, designed the Telus World of Science and First Nations University of Canada 1934 – Nari Contractor, Indian cricketer 1934 – Giorgos Katsaros, Greek saxophonist and composer 1934 – Willard Scott, American journalist, actor, and author 1936 – Florentino Fernández, Cuban boxer (d. 2013) 1936 – Georges Perec, French author (d. 1982) 1936 – Heinz Valk, Estonian artist, caricaturist and politician 1938 – David Baltimore, American biologist, Nobel Prize laureate 1938 – Janet Guthrie, American race car driver 1939 – Danyel Gérard, French singer-songwriter 1940 – Rudi Dutschke, German activist (d. 1979) 1940 – Daniel J. Travanti, American actor 1942 – Michael Eisner, American businessman 1942 – Tammy Faye Messner, American evangelist, talk show host, and singer (d. 2007) 1942 – Jaan Manitski, Estonian businessman, politician and art collector 1943 – Chris White, English bass player and songwriter (The Zombies) 1944 – Ranulph Fiennes, English soldier and explorer 1944 – Zhiuli Shartava, Georgian politician (d. 1993) 1944 – Stanley Schmidt, American author and journalist 1944 – Townes Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997) 1945 – John Heard, American actor 1945 – Bob Herbert, American journalist 1945 – Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Love) (d. 2006) 1945 – Elizabeth Moon, American 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 1947 – Richard Lawson, American actor 1947 – Walter Röhrl, German race car driver 1949 – Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician 1950 – Iris Chacón, Puerto Rican singer and dancer 1950 – Billy Joe DuPree, American football player 1950 – Franco Harris, American football player 1950 – J. R. Richard, American baseball player 1950 – Ants Taul, Estonian musician 1951 – Jeff Burroughs, American baseball player 1951 – Rocco Prestia, American bass player (Tower of Power) 1952 – Ernie Isley, American guitarist and songwriter (The Isley Brothers and Isley-Jasper-Isley) 1952 – Viv Richards, Caribbean cricketer 1952 – Lynn Swann, American football player 1953 – Bernard Voyer, Canadian mountaineer and explorer 1954 – Eva Brunne, Swedish clergywoman and worlds first lesbian bishop 1955 – Michael Jan Friedman, American author 1955 – Anupam Kher, Indian actor 1955 – Tommy Kramer, American football player 1956 – Bryan Cranston, American actor, director, and producer 1957 – Robert Harris, English journalist and author 1957 – Tomás Yarrington, Mexican politician, Governor of Tamaulipas 1958 – Alan Hale, American astronomer 1958 – Rik Mayall, English comedian and actor 1958 – Merv Neagle, Australian footballer (d. 2012) 1959 – Tom Lehman, American golfer 1959 – Donna Murphy, American actress and singer 1959 – Nick Searcy, American actor 1960 – Joe Carter, American baseball player 1960 – Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player 1960 – Jim Spivey, American runner 1961 – Mary Beth Evans, American actress 1961 – Mark Kumpel, American ice hockey player 1962 – Taylor Dayne, American singer-songwriter and actress 1962 – Peter Manley, English darts player 1962 – Sergei Prikhodko, Russian football player and coach 1963 – Bill Brochtrup, American actor 1963 – Mike Eagles, Canadian ice hockey player 1963 – E.L. James, British author 1963 – Maria Lindström, Swedish tennis player 1964 – Bret Easton Ellis, American author and screenwriter 1964 – Denyce Graves, American soprano 1964 – Wanda Sykes, American comedian, actress, and screenwriter 1965 – Jack Armstrong, American baseball player 1965 – Jean-Pierre Barda, French-Swedish singer and actor (Army of Lovers) 1965 – Steve Beuerlein, American football player 1965 – Cameron Daddo, Australian actor 1965 – Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer 1966 – Terry Carkner, Canadian ice hockey player 1966 – Ludwig Kögl, German footballer 1966 – Atsushi Sakurai, Japanese singer-songwriter (Buck-Tick and Schwein) 1966 – Joy Tanner, American-Canadian actress 1967 – Ruthie Henshall, English actress, singer, and dancer 1967 – Ai Yazawa, Japanese author and illustrator 1968 – Denis Boucher, Canadian baseball player 1968 – Jeff Kent, American baseball player 1968 – Raju Sundaram, Indian choreographer 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 actress 1971 – Peter Sarsgaard, American actor 1971 – Matthew Vaughn, English director, screenwriter, and producer 1972 – Jang Dong-gun, South Korean actor and singer 1972 – Maxim Roy, Canadian actress 1973 – Jason Bright, Australian race car driver 1973 – Sébastien Izambard, French tenor (Il Divo) 1973 – Ray Parlour, English footballer 1974 – Larry Bagby, American actor and singer 1974 – Hugo Ferreira, Angolan-American singer-songwriter (Tantric) 1974 – Jenna Fischer, American actress and director 1974 – Krizz Kaliko, American rapper (K.A.B.O.S.H.) 1974 – Antonio de la Rúa, son of former Argentine President Fernando de la Rúa and ex-boyfriend of singer Shakira 1974 – Facundo Sava, Argentinian footballer 1975 – Audrey Marie Anderson, American actress 1975 – Leon Dunne, Australian swimmer 1975 – T. J. Thyne, American actor 1977 – Paul Cattermole, English singer and actor (S Club) 1977 – Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer 1977 – Ronan OGara, Irish rugby player 1977 – Mitja Zastrow, German-Dutch swimmer 1979 – Rodrigo Braña, Argentinian footballer 1979 – Amanda Somerville, American singer-songwriter (Aina and Kiske/Somerville) 1980 – Éric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player 1980 – Laura Prepon, American actress 1981 – Rica Peralejo, Filipino actress and singer 1982 – Kate Michael, American model, Miss District of Columbia 2006 1982 – Erika Yamakawa, Japanese model 1983 – Manucho, Angolan footballer 1983 – Taylor Tankersley, American baseball player 1983 – Sebastián Viera, Uruguayan footballer 1984 – Mathieu Flamini, French footballer 1984 – Rachel Rice, Welsh actress and model 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 1989 – Gerald Anderson, Filipino-American actor and model 1990 – Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins 1990 – Choi Jong-hoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and guitarist (F.T. Island) 1990 – Lefteris Matsoukas, Greek footballer 1991 – Michele Rigione, Italian footballer 1992 – Bel Powley, English actress 1993 – Robbie Thomson, Scottish footballer 1994 – An-Sophie Mestach, Belgian tennis player 2009 – Prince Umberto of Savoy-Aosta Deaths 161 – Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (b. 86) 308 – Saint Eubulus, Israeli martyr 413 – Heraclianus, Roman usurper 851 – Nominoe, Duke of Brittany 1226 – William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1176) 1274 – Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest and philosopher (b. 1225) 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 (b. 1680) 1778 – Charles De Geer, Swedish entomologist (b. 1720) 1810 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (b. 1750) 1904 – Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and petrologist (b. 1828) 1909 – Friedrich Amelung, German historian and businessman (b. 1842) 1913 – Pauline Johnson, Canadian poet (b. 1861) 1920 – Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer, diplomat and politician (b. 1866) 1928 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851) 1932 – Aristide Briand, French politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862) 1934 – Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and childrens writer (b. 1875) 1938 – Henry Jameson, American soccer player (b. 1883) 1938 – Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician, 116th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876) 1942 – Lucy Parsons, American activist (b. 1853) 1943 – Alma Moodie, Australian violinist (b. 1898) 1946 – Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet (b. 1891) 1949 – Francis Dodd, Welsh painter (b. 1874) 1949 – Bradbury Robinson, American football player, physician, and politician (b. 1884) 1952 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893) 1954 – Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876) 1957 – Wyndham Lewis, English author and painter (b. 1882) 1961 – Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian 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-French author (b. 1877) 1969 – Sampurnanand, Indian politician, 2nd Governor of Rajasthan (b. 1891) 1971 – Harold McNair, Jamaican-born saxophonist and flautist (b. 1931) 1974 – Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (Lecuona Cuban Boys) (b. 1906) 1975 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895) 1975 – Ben Blue, Canadian-American actor (b. 1901) 1976 – Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893) 1978 – Steve Bilko, American baseball player (b. 1928) 1981 – Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914) 1983 – Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912) 1984 – Paul Rotha, English historian and director (b. 1907) 1986 – Jacob K. Javits, American politician, 58th New York State Attorney General (b. 1904) 1987 – Karl Leichter, Estonian musicologist (b. 1902) 1988 – Divine, American drag queen performer (b. 1945) 1988 – Robert Livingston, American actor (b. 1904) 1991 – Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903) 1995 – Paul-Émile Victor, French ethnologist and explorer (b. 1907) 1997 – Emanuel Bronner, German-American businessman (b. 1908) 1997 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912) 1999 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist (b. 1918) 1999 – Stanley Kubrick, American director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1928) 2000 – Charles Gray, English actor (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 (b. 1920) 2005 – Debra Hill, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1950) 2006 – John Junkin, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1930) 2006 – Gordon Parks, American photographer, director, and composer (b. 1912) 2006 – Ali Farka Touré, Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939) 2009 – Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress (b. 1982) 2010 – Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian-American super-centenarian (b. 1895) 2012 – Big Walter Price, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1914) 2013 – Kenny Ball, English trumpet player (b. 1930) 2013 – Peter Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (Yes, The Syn, and Flash) (b. 1947) 2013 – Cleto Bellucci, Italian archbishop (b. 1921) 2013 – Sybil Christopher, Welsh-American actress (b. 1929) 2013 – Didier Comès, Belgian illustrator (b. 1942) 2013 – Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922) 2013 – Max Ferguson, Canadian radio host (b. 1924) 2013 – Dick Graham, English footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922) 2013 – Frederick B. Karl, American politician (b. 1924) 2013 – Claude King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923) 2013 – Ray Martin, American baseball player (b. 1925) 2013 – Jeffrey Skitch, Australian-English opera singer and actor (b. 1927) 2013 – Jake Striker, American baseball player (b. 1933) 2013 – Elmar Tampõld, Estonian-Canadian architect (b. 1920) 2013 – Jan Zwartkruis, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1926)
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