March 7th
March 7, 1997 11th Soul Train Music Awards
March 7, 1997 Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome and Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site
March 7, 1997 5 sue Japanese PM Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life
March 7, 1996 1st surface photos of Pluto by Hubble Space Telescope
March 7, 1996 British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million pound order
March 7, 1996 Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists
March 7, 1995 Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record)
March 7, 1995 New York becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
March 7, 1994 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top wins
March 7, 1994 Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia
March 7, 1994 David Platt appointed captain of English football team
March 7, 1994 U.S. Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
March 7, 1994 ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
March 7, 1993 23rd Easter Seal Telethon raises
March 7, 1993 Different Strokes actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant
March 7, 1992 Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.78)
March 7, 1991 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
March 7, 1990 3 passengers killed and 162 injured as subway train derails in Philadelphia
March 7, 1990 H. Wayne Huizenga buys Joe Robbie Stadium and 15% of Dolphins for $30M
March 7, 1989 Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Rushdie's book
March 7, 1989 Partial eclipse of the Sun in Hawaii, North West North America, Greenland
March 7, 1988 Howard Stern's 1st pay-per-view "Underpants and Negligee Party"
March 7, 1988 Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E. Sullivan Award
March 7, 1987 Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs
March 7, 1987 Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
March 7, 1986 South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant and Limburg ends
March 7, 1986 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
March 7, 1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 update released
March 7, 1983 TNN, The Nashville Network, begins on Cable TV
March 7, 1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf Classic
March 7, 1982 Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 m indoor (49.59 sec)
March 7, 1982 NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time
March 7, 1981 "Bring Back Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 4 performances
March 7, 1981 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
March 7, 1979 Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro and amateur umpires
March 7, 1979 Warren Giles and Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
March 7, 1978 Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped
March 7, 1978 Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
March 7, 1978 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb
March 7, 1977 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
March 7, 1977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter
March 7, 1976 Morocco and Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria
March 7, 1975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
March 7, 1975 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 7, 1974 "Monitor" (U.S. Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras North Carolina
March 7, 1974 1st general striking in Ethiopia
March 7, 1973 Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
March 7, 1973 Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh
March 7, 1971 Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire
March 7, 1970 Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov (URS)
March 7, 1970 Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina and Ulanov (URS)
March 7, 1970 Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR)
March 7, 1970 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA)
March 7, 1970 WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting
March 7, 1969 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
March 7, 1967 Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, premieres in New York City
March 7, 1967 Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)
March 7, 1966 "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 457 performances
March 7, 1966 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 7, 1965 Alabama state troopers and 600 black protestors clash in Selma
March 7, 1965 Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for NZ after ton
March 7, 1965 Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile
March 7, 1962 Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio
March 7, 1962 Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data)
March 7, 1960 Dutch Builders strike for CLA
March 7, 1959 "Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 925 performances
March 7, 1959 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow)
March 7, 1959 West Indies all out 76 vs. Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34
March 7, 1958 Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo
March 7, 1955 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas and Loretta Young
March 7, 1955 Baseball Commish Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter
March 7, 1955 Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
March 7, 1954 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
March 7, 1954 Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competition
March 7, 1953 Jackie McGlew scores 255* vs. NZ at Wellington
March 7, 1951 Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw boxing title
March 7, 1951 Lillian Hellman's "Autumn Garden," premieres in New York City
March 7, 1950 Ice Pairs Championship at London won by K Kennedy and P Kennedy (USA)
March 7, 1950 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova CZE
March 7, 1950 Men Figure Skating Championship in London won by Richard Button (USA)
March 7, 1946 "Three to Make Ready" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 323 performances
March 7, 1946 Max Frisch' "Santa Cruz," premieres in Zurich
March 7, 1945 Cologne taken by allied armies
March 7, 1945 U.S. 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine
March 7, 1945 Yugoslavia government of Tito forms
March 7, 1944 Japans begins offensive in Burma
March 7, 1943 Gen-major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia
March 7, 1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta
March 7, 1942 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
March 7, 1941 3rd largest snowfall in New York City history (18.1")
March 7, 1941 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece
March 7, 1941 British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
March 7, 1940 Mont Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home
March 7, 1940 Ray Steele beats B. Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ
March 7, 1939 Glamour magazine begins publishing
March 7, 1939 Guy Lombardo and Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"
March 7, 1937 Bucharin, Jagoda and Rykov pushed out of CPSU in U.S.S.R.
March 7, 1936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
March 7, 1935 Saar incorporated into Germany
March 7, 1933 Game of "Monopoly" invented
March 7, 1932 Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4
March 7, 1930 Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball
March 7, 1927 Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan
March 7, 1926 1st transatlantic telephone call, London - New York
March 7, 1925 American Negro Congress organizes
March 7, 1922 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
March 7, 1922 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
March 7, 1921 Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt
March 7, 1918 H. Carroll and J. McCarthy's musical "Oh, Look!," premieres in New York City
March 7, 1918 President Wilson authorizes U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal
March 7, 1917 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ
March 7, 1914 Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania
March 7, 1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
March 7, 1911 U.S. sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
March 7, 1911 Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, California, patents coin-operated locker
March 7, 1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
March 7, 1906 Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor
March 7, 1902 Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal
March 7, 1900 Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees
March 7, 1900 Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 games
March 7, 1896 Gilbert and Sullivan's last operette "Grand Duke," premieres in London
March 7, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
March 7, 1876 Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
March 7, 1872 -8 degrees F in Boston, Massachusetts
March 7, 1870 Cincinnati Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest and East
March 7, 1865 Battles round Kinston North Carolina
March 7, 1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch and McIntosh killed
March 7, 1857 Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
March 7, 1854 Charles Miller patents 1st U.S. sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
March 7, 1852 Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law
March 7, 1851 Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends
March 7, 1850 Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
March 7, 1848 In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
March 7, 1847 U.S. General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
March 7, 1843 1st Catholic governor in U.S., Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
March 7, 1835 HMS Beagle returns from Concepcion to Valparaiso
March 7, 1824 Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto," premieres in Venice
March 7, 1808 Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro
March 7, 1801 Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
March 7, 1778 Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
March 7, 1774 British close port of Boston to all commerce
March 7, 1696 English king Willem III departs Netherlands
March 7, 1644 Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies
March 7, 1633 Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg
March 7, 1621 John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies
March 7, 1573 Turkey and Venice signs peace treaty
March 7, 1560 Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, North Africa
March 7, 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
March 7, 1138 Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king
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