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Revision as of 02:35, 7 March 2003 by Zoe (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in Leap years). There are 299 days remaining.
Events:
- 1774 - American Revolutionary War: Great Britain closes the port of Boston, Massachusetts to all commerce
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone
- 1904 - Japan bombs Vladivostok, Russia
- 1912 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
- 1933 - The "Monopoly" board game is invented
- 1935 - Germany re-incorporates the Saarland
- 1936 - Germany reoccupies the Rhineland
- 1945 - Josip Broz Tito forms a government in Yugoslavia
- 1965 - Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama
- 1973 - Comet Kohoutek is discovered
Births:
- 1792 - John Herschel, mathematician, astronomer (+ 1871)
- 1849 - Luther Burbank, biologist, botanist
- 1872 - Piet Mondrian, painter (+ 1944)
- 1875 - Maurice Ravel, composer (+ 1937)
- 1902 - Heinz Rühmann, actor (+ 1994)
- 1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official
- 1908 - Anna Magnani, actress (+ 1973)
- 1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
- 1938 - Janet Guthrie, automobile racer
- 1940 - Rudi Dutschke, student leader (+ 1979)
- 1940 - Daniel J. Travanti, actor
- 1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker, evangelist
- 1942 - Michael Eisner, President of The Walt Disney Company
- 1945 - John Heard, actor
- 1946 - Peter Wolf, musician ("J Geils Band")
- 1947 - Walter Röhrl, car racer
- 1960 - Ivan Lendl, tennis player
- 1964 - Bret Easton Ellis, writer
Deaths:
- 322 BC - Aristotle, philosopher
- 161 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor
- 1932 - Aristide Briand, diplomat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1928)
- 1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru
- 1967 - Alice B. Toklas, personality
- 1988 - Divine, actor
- 1999 - Stanley Kubrick, film director
Holidays and observances:
- Catholicism - Feast day of Ss. Perpetua and Felicity
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
March 6 - March 8 - February 7 - April 7 - more historical anniversaries