This Day in History
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
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Battle of Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern), Arkansas
On this day in 1862 Union forces under General Samuel Curtis clash with the army of General Earl Van Dorn at the Battle of Pea Ridge (also called the Battle of...
Stanley Kubrick dies
On March 7 1999 American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick dies in Hertfordshire England at the age of 70. One of the most acclaimed film directors of the 20th cent...
Hitler reoccupies the Rhineland
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland a demilitarized zone along...
Bangladesh’s first democratic leader
Sheikh Mujib Rahman a leader of the Bangladeshi independence movement and first prime minister of Bangladesh wins a landslide victory in the countrys ...
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
On this day in 1876 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new inventionthe telephone.The Scottish-born Bell worked ...
Finland signs treaty with Germany
Four days after Russia signs a humiliating peace treaty with the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk the newly declared independent state of Finland reaches a form...
U.S. jets launch heaviest air raids of the war
In the heaviest air raids since the bombing began in February 1965 U.S. Air Force and Navy planes fly an estimated 200 sorties against North Vietnam. The objec...
Republic of Korea forces operation launch
The largest South Korean operation to date starts forming a link-up of two Korean division areas of operations along the central coastal area of South Vietnam....
Jets engage in aerial combat
In the biggest air battle in Southeast Asia in three years U.S. jets battle five North Vietnamese MiGs and shoot one down 170 miles north of the Demilitarized ...
Mike Tyson unifies titles
On March 7 1987 Mike Tyson defeats James Bonecrusher Smith to unify the WBA and WBC heavyweight titles. Already the youngest-ever heavyweight ch...
Carter meets with Yitzhak Rabin
On this day in 1977 President Jimmy Carter meets with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. For two days the president and Mrs. Carter played host to the prim...
Kansas quarantines Texas cattle
The Kansas legislature passes a law barring Texas cattle from the state between March 1 and December 1 the latest action reflecting the love-hate relationship ...
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening is published
The New Republic publishes Robert Frosts poem Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening. The poem beginning with the famous line Whose...
Pearl Bailey and Richard Nixon serenade a White House audience
On March 1 1974 in addition to handing up criminal indictments against seven former high-ranking officials in the Nixon administration a grand jury in the Di...
Writers Guild of America strike begins
After rejecting what the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) said was a final offer representatives of the Writers Guild of America (WG...
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