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07 Mar 1138
Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king
07 Mar 1277
Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by Stephen Tempier Bishop of Paris.
07 Mar 1560
Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba North Africa
07 Mar 1621
John Pieterszoon Coens troops land on Lontor East Indies
07 Mar 1644
Massachusetts establishes 1st two-chamber legislature in colonies
07 Mar 1798
The French army enters Rome the birth of the Roman Republic.
07 Mar 1799
The Royal Institution of Great Britain founded dedicated to scientific research and education.
07 Mar 1801
Massachusetts enacts first state voter registration law
07 Mar 1808
Portugals regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro
07 Mar 1824
Meyerbeers opera Il Crociati in Egitto premieres in Venice
07 Mar 1827
Shrigley Abduction Ellen Turner a wealthy heiress in Cheshire England is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
07 Mar 1835
HMS Beagle returns from Concepcion to Valparaiso
07 Mar 1843
1st Catholic governor in US Edward Kavanagh of Maine takes office
07 Mar 1848
In Hawaii Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
07 Mar 1851
Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends
07 Mar 1854
Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
07 Mar 1855
17th Grand National John Hanlon wins aboard Irish horse Wanderer at 251
07 Mar 1857
Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game not 9 runs
07 Mar 1860
22nd Grand National Tommy Pickernell wins aboard Irish horse Anatis at 51
07 Mar 1862
Battle of Elkhorn Tavern Day 2 Generals Ben McCulloch & James McIntosh killed
07 Mar 1866
28th Grand National 1852 winner Alec Goodman wins his second GN aboard Irish 401 outsider Salamander
07 Mar 1870
Cincinnati Red Stockings 1st pro BB team begin 8-mo tour of Midwest & East
07 Mar 1876
Battle at Gura Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
07 Mar 1887
North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
07 Mar 1896
Gilbert & Sullivans last operette Grand Duke premieres in London
07 Mar 1900
Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa President Kruger flees
07 Mar 1902
Boers beat British troops at Tweebosch Transvaal
07 Mar 1906
Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage except for poor
07 Mar 1908
Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stands before city council and announces that women are not physically fit to operate automobiles
07 Mar 1911
Willis Farnsworth of Petaluma California patents coin-operated locker
07 Mar 1914
Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania
07 Mar 1917
1st jazz 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)
07 Mar 1918
H Carroll & J McCarthys musical Oh Look premieres in NYC
07 Mar 1918
World War I Finland forms an alliance with Germany
07 Mar 1927
Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango Japan
07 Mar 1930
Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball
07 Mar 1932
Riots at Ford factory in Dearborn Michigan 4 killed
07 Mar 1935
Sir Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 276.71 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car last record set at Daytona Beach Florida
07 Mar 1937
Bucharin Jagoda & Rykov pushed out of CPSU in USSR
07 Mar 1939
Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st record Auld Lang Syne
07 Mar 1940
Montreal Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home
07 Mar 1942
1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
07 Mar 1945
Attack on car of Netherlands SS Police Chief Hans Rauter by Dutch resistance Rauter injured
07 Mar 1945
US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany crosses Rhine
07 Mar 1946
Three to Make Ready opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 323 performances
07 Mar 1947
The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War.
07 Mar 1948
The Dodecanese islands officially become part of Greece again ending Italian rule.
07 Mar 1950
Ice Pairs Championship at London won by K Kennedy & P Kennedy (USA)
07 Mar 1950
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova CZE
07 Mar 1950
Mens Figure Skating Championship in London won by Richard Button (USA)
07 Mar 1951
Lillian Hellmans Autumn Garden premieres in NYC
07 Mar 1954
Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competition
07 Mar 1955
Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter
07 Mar 1958
Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their opener in Buffalo
07 Mar 1959
Bells Are Ringing closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 925 performances
07 Mar 1959
1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow)
07 Mar 1959
West Indies all out 76 v Pakistan at Dacca Fazal Mahmood 6-34
07 Mar 1959
6th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament NC State beats North Carolina 80-56
07 Mar 1962
Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio
07 Mar 1962
Launch of OSO 1 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data)
07 Mar 1964
11th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament Duke beats Wake Forest 80-59
07 Mar 1965
Alabama state troopers and 600 black protestors clash in Selma during Bloody Sunday protesters beaten and hospitalized
07 Mar 1965
Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for NZ after ton
07 Mar 1966
Wait A Minim opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 457 performances
07 Mar 1967
Clark Gesners musical Youre a Good Man premieres in NYC
07 Mar 1967
Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union & jury tampering (commuted Dec 23 1971)
07 Mar 1968
The BBC broadcasts the news for the first time in color on television.
07 Mar 1970
Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)
07 Mar 1970
Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina & Ulanov (URS)
07 Mar 1970
Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR)
07 Mar 1970
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA)
07 Mar 1970
WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
07 Mar 1970
17th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament NC State beats South Carolina 42-39 (2 OT)
07 Mar 1972
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face single written by Ewan MacColl released by Roberta Flack (Billboard Song of the Year )
07 Mar 1973
Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
07 Mar 1974
USS Monitor Union Ship sunk in 1862 during US Civil War restored at Cape Hatteras
07 Mar 1975
US Senate revises filibuster rule allows 60 senators to limit debate
07 Mar 1975
Mirror Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky starring Margarita Terekhova and Ignat Daniltsev is released
07 Mar 1976
Morocco & Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria
07 Mar 1977
Ali Bhuttos Pakistan Peoples Party wins elections
07 Mar 1978
Canucks Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
07 Mar 1979
Baseball exhibition season opens with semi-pro & amateur umpires
07 Mar 1979
Warren Giles & Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
07 Mar 1981
Michael Stewarts musical Bring Back Birdie closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 4 performances
07 Mar 1981
1st homicide at Disneyland 18 year old is stabbed to death
07 Mar 1981
28th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament North Carolina beats Maryland 61-60
07 Mar 1981
22nd SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Ole Miss beats Georgia 66-62
07 Mar 1982
Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 m indoor (49.59 sec)
07 Mar 1982
NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time
07 Mar 1982
29th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament North Carolina beats Virginia 47-45
07 Mar 1983
TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV
07 Mar 1984
The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua.
07 Mar 1986
South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant & Limburg ends
07 Mar 1987
Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10000 Test runs
07 Mar 1988
Jim Abbott 1-handed pitcher wins 58th James E Sullivan Award
07 Mar 1988
Colombia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
07 Mar 1989
Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdies book Satanic Verses
07 Mar 1989
Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii NW North America Greenland)
07 Mar 1990
3 passengers killed & 162 injured as subway train derails (Philadelphia)
07 Mar 1990
Wayne Huizenga buys of Joe Robbie Stadium and 15% of Dolphins for 30m
07 Mar 1991
Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
07 Mar 1992
Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200m backstroke (206.78)
07 Mar 1993
Diffrent Strokes actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant
07 Mar 1994
Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia
07 Mar 1994
David Platt appointed captain of English football team
07 Mar 1994
US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
07 Mar 1994
The United States Supreme Court rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music Inc.that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
07 Mar 1995
NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
07 Mar 1996
1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
07 Mar 1996
British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million pound order
07 Mar 1996
The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament formed
07 Mar 1997
Athens Buenos Aires Cape Town Rome & Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site
07 Mar 1997
5 sue Japanese PM Ryutaro Hashimoto because his smoking has violated the countrys constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life
07 Mar 1998
19th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Connecticut beats Syracuse 69-64
07 Mar 1999
46th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 1 Duke beats 15 North Carolina 96-73
07 Mar 1999
40th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Kentucky beats Arkansas 76-63
07 Mar 2004
New Democracy wins the national elections in Greece.
07 Mar 2005
Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for womens voting rights in Kuwait.
07 Mar 2007
British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber the House of Lords 100% elected
07 Mar 2011
Crazy Girl single released by Eli Young Band (ACM Awards Song of the Year 2012 Billboard Song of the Year )
07 Mar 2013
Hilary Mantel is awarded the David Cohen Prize for literature
07 Mar 2013
UN Security Council approves further North Korean sanctions for its nuclear testing
07 Mar 2015
54 people are killed & 143 are wounded by 5 Boko Haram suicide bombings in Maiduguri city Nigeria
07 Mar 2017
Maltas famous landmark the Azure Window collaspes into the sea after a storm
07 Mar 2017
19 girls killed in a fire at a government-run care center in San Jos Pinula Guatemala
07 Mar 1932
Riots at Ford factory in Dearborn Michigan 4 killed
07 Mar 1992
England routs Wales 24-0 at Twickenham for its 2nd straight outright Five Nations Rugby Championship Grand Slam and Triple Crown titles fullback Jonathan Webb 2 penalties and 3 conversions
07 Mar 1824
Giacomo Meyerbeers opera Il Crociati in Egitto (The Crusader in Egypt) premieres at La Fenice in Venice with famous castrato Giovanni Battista Velluti singing
07 Mar 1941
3rd largest snowfall then in NYC history (18.1)
07 Mar 1941
50000 British soldiers land in Greece during WWII
07 Mar 1942
1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee Alabama
07 Mar 1946
Max Frisch play Santa Cruz premieres in Zurich
07 Mar 1953
Jackie McGlew scores 255 for South Africa v NZ at Wellington
07 Mar 1954
Russia wins their 1st international ice hockey competition
07 Mar 1962
The Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio
07 Mar 1979
Warren Giles and Hack Wilson selected for the Baseball Hall of Fame
07 Mar 2017
Maltas famous landmark the Azure Window collapses into the sea after a storm
07 Mar 1950
Mens Figure Skating World Championship in London won by Dick Button (USA)
07 Mar 1962
Ground-breaking report Smoking and Health published by the British Royal College of Physicians first major report to warn of the dangers of smoking
07 Mar 1953
South African cricket opening batsman Jackie McGlew scores an unbeaten 255 in 1st Test win against New Zealand in Wellington
07 Mar 1633
Prince Frederick Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg
07 Mar 1829
US Senate confirms John McLean as associate justice of the US Supreme Court
07 Mar 1862
US Civil War Battle of Pea Ridge (aka Elkhorn Tavern) (Arkansas) Day 2 Confederate Generals Ben McCulloch & James McIntosh killed
07 Mar 1946
Max Frischs play Santa Cruz premieres in Zrich
07 Mar 1966
Leon Gluckman and Jeremy Taylors folk music revue Wait A Minim opens at John Golden Theater NYC runs for 457 performances
07 Mar 1981
First homicide at Disneyland 18-year-old Mel Yorba is stabbed to death during a fight with James ODriscoll after allegedly pinching his girlfriends bottom
07 Mar 1988
Jim Abbott 1-handed pitcher wins 58th James E Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the US becoming 1st baseball player to win the award
07 Mar 1994
The United States Supreme Court rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music Inc. that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use
07 Mar 2019
Chinese telecommunications company Huawei sues the US government over a federal ban on its products
07 Mar 2019
Power and communications blackout begins in Venezuela
07 Mar 2019
Thailands Constitutional Court dissolves opposition party Thai Raksa Chart after it nominated the Kings sister as candidate for Prime Minister
07 Mar 2021
Explosions at a military base in Bata Equatorial Guinea likely from faulty storage of dynamite kills at least 98 and injures over 400 [1]
07 Mar 2022
Global death toll from Covid-19 passes 6 million according to Johns Hopkins figures with 57% of the worlds population fully vaccinated [1]
07 Mar 2022
UN refugee agency says Russian invasion of Ukraine has now led to 1.7 million people fleeing the country civilian deaths recorded at 406 with 801 injured [1]
07 Mar 2023
1.28 million people protest in nationwide demonstrations throughout France against government plans tp raise the pension age from 62 to 64 [1]
07 Mar 2023
British architect David Chipperfield is awarded Architectures Pritzker Prize [1]
07 Mar 2023
China and America are heading toward inevitable confrontation and conflict unless America changes course warns Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang [1]
07 Mar 2024
More than 300 children kidnapped from their school in Kuriga town northwest Nigeria the latest in a run of kidnappings to the area [1]
07 Mar 2024
Sweden officially joins NATO as the alliances 32nd member abandoning its 200-year policy of neutrality [1]
07 Mar 1808
Portugals Prince Regent John VI arrives in Rio de Janeiro
07 Mar 1854
Charles Miller patents the first US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
07 Mar 1908
Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stands before the city council and announces that women are not physically fit to operate automobiles
07 Mar 1917
First jazz record is released on a 78 by the Original Dixieland Jass Band for Victor Talking Machine Company (Dixie Jazz Band One Step on one side Livery Stable Blues on the other)
07 Mar 1926
First transatlantic telephone call is between London and New York
07 Mar 1939
Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians 1st record Auld Lang Syne
07 Mar 1959
First aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 million km) in a jet (MC Garlow)
07 Mar 1983
Balkan Bulgarian Airlines flight 013 is hijacked by four men with knives demanding to fly to Vienna Austria
07 Mar 1984
CIA employes attack San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua
07 Mar 1994
US Navy issues first permanent order assigning women to combat ships
07 Mar 1996
First surface photos of Pluto are taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
07 Mar 1997
Athens Buenos Aires Cape Town Rome and Stockholm are selected as finalists to host the 2004 Olympics
07 Mar 1997
Five individuals sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto claiming his smoking violates the countrys constitution which guarantees a wholesome life