Historical Events on 7th March 7 ਮਾਰਚ ਦੀਆਂ ਇਤਿਹਾਸਕ ਘਟਨਾਵਾਂ 161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire. 321 - Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire. 1138 - Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king 1277 - Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris. 1530 - King Henry VIIIs divorce request is denied by the Pope. Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of Englands church 1560 - Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, N Africa 1573 - Turkey & Venice sign peace treaty 1621 - John Pieterszoon Coens troops land on Lontor, East Indies 1633 - Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg 1644 - Massachusetts establishes 1st two-chamber legislature in colonies 1696 - English King William III departs Netherlands 1774 - British close port of Boston to all commerce 1778 - Capt James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay 1798 - The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic. 1799 - The Royal Institution of Great Britain founded; dedicated to scientific research and education. 1801 - Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law 1808 - Portugals regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro 1814 - Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne. 1824 - Meyerbeers opera Il Crociati in Egitto premieres in Venice Captain/Explorer James CookCaptain/Explorer James Cook 1827 - Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand. 1835 - HMS Beagle returns from Concepcion to Valparaiso 1843 - 1st Catholic governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office 1847 - US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico 1848 - In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed 1850 - Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850 1851 - Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends 1852 - Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law 1854 - Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes 1857 - Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs 1862 - Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch & McIntosh killed 1865 - -10] Battles round Kinston NC 1870 - Cin Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest & East 1872 - -8°F (-22°C ) in Boston, MA 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone Inventor Alexander Graham BellInventor Alexander Graham Bell 1876 - Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians 1887 - North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly. 1896 - Gilbert & Sullivans last operette Grand Duke premieres in London 1900 - Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, Pres Kruger flees 1900 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 games 1902 - Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal 1906 - Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor 1908 - Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announces that, women are not physically fit to operate automobiles 1911 - US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border 1911 - Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, CA, patents coin-operated locker 1912 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole 1914 - Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania 1917 - 1st jazz record Dixie Jazz Band One Step, recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ 1918 - H Carroll & J McCarthys musical Oh, Look! premieres in NYC 1918 - Pres Wilson authorizes US Armys Distinguished Service Medal 1918 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany. Russian Revolutionary Leon TrotskyRussian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky 1921 - Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt 1922 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard 1922 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger 1925 - American Negro Congress organizes 1926 - 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY) 1927 - Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan 1930 - Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball 1932 - Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4 1933 - Game of Monopoly invented 1935 - Saar incorporated into Germany 1936 - Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland 1937 - Bucharin, Jagoda & Rykov pushed out of CPSU in USSR 1939 - Glamour magazine begins publishing 1939 - Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st record Auld Lang Syne 1940 - Mont Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1940 - Ray Steele beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champ 1941 - 3rd largest snowfall in NYC history (18.1) 1941 - 50,000 British soldiers land in Greece 1941 - British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1942 - 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta 1942 - 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee 1943 - Major General George Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia 1944 - Japans begins offensive in Burma 1945 - Cologne taken by allied armies 1945 - US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine 1945 - Yugoslavia government of Tito forms 1946 - Three to Make Ready opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 323 perfs 1946 - Max Frisch Santa Cruz premieres in Zurich 1946 - 18th Academy Awards - The Lost Weekend Ray Milland & Joan Crawford win 1947 - The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War. US General George S. PattonUS General George S. Patton 1948 - The Dodecanese islands officially become part of Greece again, ending the Italian rule. 1950 - Ice Pairs Championship at London won by K Kennedy & P Kennedy (USA) 1950 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova CZE 1950 - Men Figure Skating Championship in London won by Richard Button (USA) 1951 - Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw boxing title 1951 - Lillian Hellmans Autumn Garden premieres in NYC 1953 - Jackie McGlew scores 255* v NZ at Wellington 1954 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open 1954 - Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competition 1955 - 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas & Loretta Young 1955 - Baseball Commish Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter 1955 - Mary Martin as Peter Pan televised 1958 - Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo 1959 - Bells Are Ringing closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 925 perfs 1959 - 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow) Actress Mary MartinActress Mary Martin 1959 - West Indies all out 76 v Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34 1960 - Dutch Builders strike for CLA 1962 - Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio 1962 - Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data) 1965 - Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma 1965 - Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for NZ after ton 1965 - Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile 1966 - Wait A Minim! opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 457 performances 1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1967 - Clark Gesners musical Youre a Good Man premieres in NYC 1967 - Teamster pres Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union & jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971) 1968 - The BBC broadcasts the news for the first time in color on television. 1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1970 - Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS) 1970 - Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina & Ulanov (URS) 1970 - Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR) 1970 - Mens Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA) 1970 - WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting 1971 - Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire 1973 - Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory 1973 - Sheik Mujib ur-Rahmans Awami League wins election in Bangladesh 1974 - Monitor (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras NC 1974 - 1st general strike in Ethiopia 1975 - US Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate 1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1976 - Morocco & Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria 1977 - Ali Bhuttos Pakistan Peoples Party wins elections 1977 - Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter 1978 - Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped 1978 - Canucks Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders 1978 - Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb 1979 - Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro & amateur umpires 1979 - Warren Giles & Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame Singer Olivia Newton-JohnSinger Olivia Newton-John 1979 - 5th Peoples Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds & Olivia Newton-John win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda, Mary Tyler Moore & Carol Burnett win (TV) 1981 - Bring Back Birdie closes at Martin Beck Theater, NYC, after 4 performances 1981 - 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death 1982 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf Classic 1982 - Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 m indoor (49.59 sec) 1982 - NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time 1983 - TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV 1984 - The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua. 1985 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released 1986 - South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant & Limburg ends 1986 - Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist 1987 - Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs 1987 - Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title 1988 - Howard Sterns 1st pay-per-view Underpants & Negligee Party 1988 - Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E Sullivan Award Radio shock jock Howard SternRadio shock jock Howard Stern 1988 - Colombia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. 1989 - Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdies book Satanic Verses 1989 - Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland) 1990 - 3 passengers killed & 162 injured as subway train derails (Phila) 1990 - H Wayne Huizenga buys ½ of Joe Robbie Stadium and 15% of Dolphins for $30m 1991 - Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait 1992 - Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.78) 1993 - 23rd Easter Seal Telethon raises 1993 - Diffrent Stroke actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant 1994 - 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top wins 1994 - Charles Taylor resigns as pres of Liberia 1994 - David Platt appointed captain of English football team 1994 - US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship 1994 - ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa 1994 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use. Anti-apartheid activist and South African President Nelson MandelaAnti-apartheid activist and South African President Nelson Mandela 1995 - Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record) 1995 - NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty 1996 - 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope) 1996 - British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million pound order 1996 - Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists 1996 - The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed. 1997 - 11th Soul Train Music Awards 1997 - Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome & Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site 1997 - 5 sue Japanese PM Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the countrys constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life 2004 - New Democracy wins the national elections in Greece. 2005 - Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for womens voting rights in Kuwait. 2007 - British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected. (yet to be implemented - 2014) 2010 - 82nd Academy Awards - The Hurt Locker, Jeff Bridges & Sandra Bullock win 2013 - Hilary Mantel is awarded the 2013 David Cohen Prize for literature 2013 - UN Security Council approves further North Korean sanctions for its nuclear testing
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