Today in History - History - March 7th

201082nd Academy Awards - "The Hurt Locker", Jeff Bridges & Sandra Bullock win

161Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire.

1987Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

1850Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850

1989Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Minnesota North Stars to the Washington Capitals

1955Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised

1876Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone

1936Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland

1530King 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

1996Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists

1849Luther Burbank, Lancaster, Mass, horticulturist

1960Ivan Lendl, Ostrava Czechoslovakia, tennis champion (US Open 1985-87)

1970Rachel Weisz, London, English actress (The Mummy, The Constant Gardener) and fashion model

148Lucilla, Rome, Roman noblewoman (daughter of Marcus Aurelius and sister of Commodus) (between 148-150 AD)

1960Joe Carter, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, MLB outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays)

1816James Donnelly, Irish-Canadian patriarch of the Donnelly family (Black Donnelly massacre)

1872Piet Mondrian, Amersfoort, Netherlands, Dutch abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie)

1956Bryan Cranston, Canoga Park California, American actor (Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle)

1991James "cool papa" Bell, American baseball league great, dies at 87

1274Thomas Aquinas, Italian thelogian/saint, dies at 48

161Antoninus Pius [Titus Aurelius], emperor of Rome (138-61), dies at 74

1999Stanley Kubrick, American film director (b. 1928)