March 7

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March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in Leap years). There are 299 days remaining.

Events

1799 - Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops procede to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1848 - The Great Mahele (land division) is signed in Hawaii.
1850 - United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,464).
1912 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole.
1918 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.
1936 - World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1945 - World War II: American troops seize the bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany and begin to cross.
1951 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - In Korea, United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1965 - In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully brake-up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed "Bloody Sunday."
1968 - Vietnam War: The First Battle of Saigon begins.
1973 - Comet Kohoutek is discovered.
1983 - The Nashville Network (TNN) begins broadcasting.
1987 - Mike Tyson adds the WBA World Heavyweight boxing championship to his WBC one when he beats James Smith after a 12-round fight in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1994 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.