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Events and People Who Made History on March 7
2nd Century
161 - Roman emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by Marcus Aurelius who shares imperial power with Lucius Verus, although Marcus retains the title Pontifex Maximus.
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12th Century
1138 - Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king
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16th Century
1530 - King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church
1560 - Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, North Africa
1573 - Turkey and Venice signs peace treaty
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17th Century
1621 - John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies
1633 - Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg
1644 - Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies
1696 - English king Willem III departs Netherlands
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18th Century
1774 - Boston Port Bill passes, British close port of Boston to all commerce on June 1st 1774
1778 - Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
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19th Century
1801 - Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
1808 - Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro
1824 - Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto," premieres in Venice
1835 - HMS Beagle returns from Concepcion to Valparaiso
1843 - 1st Catholic governor in U.S., Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
1847 - U.S. 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 U.S. 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 and McIntosh killed
1865 - Battles round Kinston North Carolina
1870 - Cincinnati Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest and East
1872 - -8 degrees F in Boston, Massachusetts
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1876 - Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
1896 - Gilbert and Sullivan's last operette "Grand Duke," premieres in London
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20th Century
1900 - Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President 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 and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
1911 - U.S. sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
1911 - Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, California, 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 and J. McCarthy's musical "Oh, Look!," premieres in New York City
1918 - President Wilson authorizes U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal
1921 - Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt
1922 - U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
1922 - U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
1926 - 1st transatlantic telephone call, London - New York
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 and Rykov pushed out of CPSU in U.S.S.R.
1939 - Glamour magazine begins publishing
1939 - Guy Lombardo and Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"
1940 - Mont Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home
1940 - Ray Steele beats B. Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ
1941 - 3rd largest snowfall in New York City history (18.1")
1941 - 50,000 British soldiers lands 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 - General-major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia
1944 - Japans begins offensive in Burma
1945 - Cologne taken by allied armies
1945 - U.S. 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine
1945 - Yugoslavia government of Tito forms
1946 - Max Frisch' "Santa Cruz," premieres in Zurich
1946 - "Three to Make Ready" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 323 performances
1950 - Ice Pairs Championship at London won by K Kennedy and 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 Hellman's "Autumn Garden," premieres in New York City
1953 - Jackie McGlew scores 255* vs. New Zealand 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 and 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 - 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow)
1959 - "Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 925 performances
1959 - West Indies all out 76 vs. 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 and 600 black protestors clash in Selma
1965 - Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for New Zealand after ton
1965 - Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile
1966 - U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 - "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 457 performances
1967 - Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, premieres in New York City
1967 - Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)
1969 - U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1970 - Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov (URS)
1970 - Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina and Ulanov (URS)
1970 - Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR)
1970 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA)
1970 - WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting
1971 - Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire
1973 - Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
1973 - Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh
1974 - 1st general striking in Ethiopia
1974 - "Monitor" (U.S. Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras North Carolina
1975 - Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
1975 - U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 - Morocco and Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria
1977 - Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
1977 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter
1978 - Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped
1978 - Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
1978 - Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb
1979 - Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro and amateur umpires
1979 - Warren Giles and Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
1981 - 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
1981 - "Bring Back Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 4 performances
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
1985 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 update released
1986 - South Africa emergency crisis in Brabant and 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 Stern's 1st pay-per-view "Underpants and Negligee Party"
1988 - Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E. Sullivan Award
1989 - Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Rushdie's book
1989 - Partial eclipse of the Sun in Hawaii, North West North America, Greenland
1990 - 3 passengers killed and 162 injured as subway train derails in Philadelphia
1990 - H. Wayne Huizenga buys 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 - Different Strokes actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant
1994 - 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top wins
1994 - ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
1994 - Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia
1994 - David Platt appointed captain of English football team
1994 - U.S. Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
1995 - Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record)
1995 - New York becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
1996 - 1st surface photos of Pluto 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
1997 - 11th Soul Train Music Awards
1997 - 5 sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life
1997 - Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome and Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site
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