Notable Historical Events on March 7th
March 7th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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 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, N Africa |
1573 |
Turkey & Venice sign peace treaty |
1621 |
John Pieterszoon Coen's 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 |
1785 |
James Hutton, geologist, presents his full theory of uniformitarianism at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
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 |
Portugal's 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 |
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 |
1876 |
Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians |
1887 |
North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly. |
1896 |
Gilbert & Sullivan's 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 record released on a 78 by Original Dixieland Jass Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company ("Dixie Jazz Band One Step," one side "Livery Stable Blues" other) |
1917 |
Russian February Revolution breaks out [OS=Feb 24] with strike at Putilov factory in Petrograd |
1918 |
H Carroll & J McCarthy's musical "Oh, Look!" premieres in NYC |
1918 |
Pres Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal |
1918 |
World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany. |
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 |
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 |
Attack on car of Netherlands SS Police Chief Hans Rauter by Dutch resistance, Rauter injured |
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. |
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 Hellman's "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 win |
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) |
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 Gesner's musical "You're 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 |
Men's 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-Rahman's 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 Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections |
1977 |
Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres 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 & amateur umpires |
1979 |
Warren Giles & Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame |
1979 |
5th People's 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 Stern's 1st pay-per-view "Underpants & Negligee Party" |
1988 |
Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E Sullivan Award |
1988 |
Colombia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
1989 |
Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's book "Satanic Verses" |
1989 |
Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland) |
1989 |
Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Minnesota North Stars to the Washington Capitals |
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 |
Diff'rent 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. |
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 |
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 country's 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 women's 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) |
2009 |
Despite only being 17 years old, Brazilian soccer star Neymar makes his professional debut for Real Madrid |
2010 |
82nd Academy Awards - "The Hurt Locker", Jeff Bridges & Sandra Bullock win |
2011 |
Charlie Sheen is fired from the CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men" |
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 |
2016 |
South Korea, US begin exercises as North Korea threatens attack |
2016 |
Maria Sharapova suspended from tennis after she failed a drug test at the Australian Open in January. The banned drug meldonium was found in the test. |
2017 |
Bird Flu Outbreak Found at a Tennessee Farm |
2017 |
Malaysian PM Najib calls on North Korea to release all Malaysians |
2017 |
Supreme Court Won't Hear Major Case on Transgender Rights |
2017 |
Yelp Starts Tracking Gender-Neutral Bathrooms for Transgender Users |
2017 |
North Korea bars Malaysians from leaving as murder row boils |
2017 |
North Korea bans Malaysians from leaving country over Kim Jong Nam's death |
2018 |
North Korea open to abandoning its nuclear program, Seoul says |
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