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Today in History ~ March 7
Events1530 - 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
1644 - Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-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
1824 - Meyerbeer's opera "Il Crociati in Egitto," premieres in Venice
1835 - HMS Beagle returns from Concepcion to Valparaiso
1847 - US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico
1850 - In a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.
1854 - Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
1862 - Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch & McIntosh killed
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone. [H]
1896 - Gilbert & Sullivan's last operetta "Grand Duke," premieres in London
1906 - Finnish Senate accepts (nearly) 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 - The United States sent 20,000 troops to the Mexican border as a precaution in the wake of the Mexican Revolution.
1912 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
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 - Pres Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal
1921 - Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt
1926 - The first successful transatlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York and London.
1927 - Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan
1932 - In the depths of the Great Depression, an estimated 3,000 men rioted at the Dearborn, Michigan plant of the Ford Motor Company. Four were killed. [H]
1933 - Game of "Monopoly" invented
1935 - Saar incorporated into Germany
1936 - Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact. [H]
1939 - Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"
1941 - 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece
1941 - British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1942 - 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta
1944 - Japans begins offensive in Burma
1945 - Cologne taken by allied armies
1945 - Yugoslavia government of Tito forms
1945 - During World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge. The bridge was the only one across the Rhine that had not been blown up.
1951 - Lillian Hellman's "Autumn Garden," premieres in NYC
1955 - Baseball Commish Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter
1955 - Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
1959 - "Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 925 performances
1965 - A march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.
1967 - Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, premieres in NYC
1967 - Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted by President Nixon Dec 23, 1971)
1969 - Two of the three Apollo-9 astronauts test flew their lunar module around the main spacecraft while in Earth orbit, and then linked the two together again.
1973 - Sheikh Mujib Rahman, a leader of the Bangladeshi independence movement and first prime minister of Bangladesh, wins a landslide victory in the country's first general elections.
1974 - "Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) partially restored at Cape Hatteras NC
1975 - The Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
1977 - Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
1977 - Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter
1981 - Anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman, whom they accused of being a CIA agent.
1983 - TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV
1984 - The Senate confirmed William Wilson as the first U.S. ambassador to the Vatican in 117 years.
1986 - Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
1989 - Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salmon Rushdie's book
1991 - U.S. troops began heading home from the Persian Gulf region.
1991 - In the wake of the allied victory in the Persian Gulf, Secretary of State James A. Baker III left for a tour of the Middle East, seeking to promote a new Arab-Israeli dialogue.
1992 - Democrat Bill Clinton picked up additional victories in the South Carolina primary and the Wyoming caucuses, while fellow Democrat Paul Tsongas won the Arizona caucuses.
1992 - President George H.W. Bush won the Republican primary in South Carolina.
1994 - The Supreme Court ruled that parodies that poke fun at an original work can be considered "fair use" that doesn't require permission from the copyright holder.
1995 - NY becomes 38th state to adopt the death penalty
1996 - Three U.S. servicemen were convicted in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl and sentenced by a Japanese court to up to seven years in prison.
1996 - 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
1997 - 5 sue Japanese PM Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life
1997 - After a week of embarrassing disclosures about White House fund raising, President Clinton told a news conference, "I'm not sure, frankly," whether he'd also made calls for campaign cash. But he insisted that nothing had undercut his pledge to have the highest ethical standards ever.
1997 - A U.S. veto killed an otherwise unanimous UN Security Council resolution condemning new Jewish settlements in Arab East Jerusalem.
2000 - In Super Tuesday's 13 presidential primary elections, Al Gore wins all of the contests and George W. Bush nine, virtually assuring their nominations.
2000 - The Nasdaq composite crossed the 5,000 mark for the first time before retreating.
2001 - Ariel Sharon was sworn in as Israel's prime minister
Birthdays Today
1574 - John Wilbye, composer
1659 - Henry Purcell, English organist/composer (Dido & Aeneas)
1663 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer
1707 - Stephen Hopkins, (Gov-RI) signed Declaration of Independence
1715 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German lyric poet (Der Freuhling)
1765 - Joseph N Niepce, French inventor (photography)
1785 - Alessandro Manzoni, Italy, poet/novelist (Betrothed)
1844 - Anthony Comstock, New Canaan, Ct, anti-vice "crusader"
1849 - Luther Burbank (naturalist: creator of new varieties of flowers, trees, edible fruits and vegetables)
1850 - Tomas G Masaryk, Czechoslovakia, Father/Pres of Czech (1918-35)
1872 - Piet Mondriaan, Holland, abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie)
1875 - Maurice Joseph Ravel, Cibourne France, composer (Bolero)
1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, German Protector of Bohemia/Moravia (Lidice was destroyed in his honor after Czech patisans assassinated him in Prague)
1908 - Anna Magnani (actress: The Rose Tattoo, The Miracle, The Fugitive Kind, Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema)
1917 - Lee Young (jazz musician: drummer: Nat King Cole Trio, Lee Young Band)
1922 - Andy Phillip (Basketball Hall of Famer: Associated Press all-time All-American team [1950])
1923 - Mahlon Clark (musician: reeds: Lawrence Welk's band)
1927 - James Broderick (actor: Alice's Restaurant, Dog Day Afternoon)
1930 - Lord Snowdon, [Anthony Armstrong-Jones], London, photographer
1930 - Tom Acker (baseball)
1931 - Donald Barthelme, US, writer (Snow White)
1931 - Stephen Joyce (actor)
1932 - Frank Morelli (jazz musician)
1934 - Willard Herman Scott (weatherman: Today Show)
1938 - Homero Blancas (golfer)
1938 - Janice Guthrie (auto racer: first woman in Indianapolis 500; International Women's Sports Hall of Famer)
1940 - Daniel J. Travanti (Emmy Award-Winning actor: Hill Street Blues [1980-81, 1981-82], Weep No More My Lady)
1942 - Michael Eisner, Mt Kisko NY, CEO (Walt Disney)
1942 - Pete Beathard (football: Kansas City Chiefs QB: Super Bowl I)
1943 - Billy MacMillan (hockey)
1943 - Rick (Richard) Redman (football)
1946 - Peter Wolf (Blankfield) (singer: group: J. Geils Band: Centerfold; Lights Out, Freeze-Frame; married Faye Dunaway)
1949 - Bob Cornell (football)
1950 - Bernie MacNeil (hockey)
1950 - Billy Joe DuPree (football: Dallas Cowboys TE: Super Bowl X, XII, XIII)
1950 - Franco Harris (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Steelers RB: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV)
1951 - Jeff Burroughs (baseball)
1952 - Lynn Swann (football: Pittsburgh Steelers WR: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV; TV sportscaster)
1960 - Ivan Lendl, Czechoslovakia, tennis pro (US Open 1985-87)
Famous deaths
0161 - Antoninus Pius, [Titus Aurelius], emperor of Rome (138-61), dies at 74
1040 - Harold I, King of England (1035-40), dies
1274 - Thomas Aquinas, Italian thelogian/saint, dies at 48
1804 - John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies
1932 - Aristide Briand, 11 x premier of France (Nobel 1926), dies at 69
1941 - Gunther Prien, German U-boat commander and war hero (U-47), dies in battle
1951 - Shah Ali Razmara, of Iran, assassinated
1959 - Hinsdale Smith, developer of roll-down auto windows, dies at 88
1961 - Max Hymans, WW II resistance fighter/Head of Air France, dies at 60
1968 - Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31
1981 - Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin, Russian conductor/composer, dies at 67
1983 - Igor Markevich, conductor/composer, dies at 70
1985 - George Schick, Czech conductor (Chicago Symphony), dies at 76
1985 - Robert W Woodruff, CEO (Coca-Cola), dies at 95
1985 - Victor W Farris, inventor of paper milk carton, etc, dies
1986 - Jacob K Javits, (Sen-R-NY), dies in Palm Beach, Fla at 81
1988 - Divine, [Harris Milstead], female impersonator (Pink Flamingos), dies
1988 - Robert Livingston, actor (Lone Ranger), dies at 83 of emphysema
1999 - American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick dies in Hertfordshire, England, at the age of 70.
2000 - Country singer Frank "Pee Wee" King died in Louisville, Kentucky, at age 86
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