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On this day -- March 7
Mar 7, 2013
March 7
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March 7 is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 299 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events
- 161 Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
- 238 Roman subjects in Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor.
- 321 Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
- 1277 Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
- 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa during the Siege of Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
- 1814 Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
- 1827 Brazil marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
- 1827 Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
- 1850 Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
- 1862 American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
- 1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
- 1886 The City of Lαbrea in Amazonas, Brazil is founded. Today, the town is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Lαbrea.
- 1900 The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
- 1902 Second Boer War: In the Battle of Tweebosch, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war
- 1912 Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
- 1914 Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
- 1936 World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
- 1945 World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen.
- 1950 Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
- 1951 Korean War: Operation Ripper United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
- 1965 Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.
- 1968 Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
- 1971 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivered his historic speech at Suhrawardy Udyan
- 1985 The song "We Are the World" has its international release.
- 1986 Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
- 1989 Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.
- 1994 Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
- 2006 The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
- 2007 The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
- 2009 The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since The Troubles.
- 2009 The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.
Births
- 189 Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
- 1481 Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
- 1556 Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)
- 1663 Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1745)
- 1671 Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
- 1678 Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (d. 1736)
- 1687 Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760)
- 1693 Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
- 1715 Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)
- 1715 Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755)
- 1730 Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d. 1807)
- 1765 Nicιphore Niιpce, French inventor of photography (d. 1833)
- 1785 Alessandro Manzoni, Italian writer (d. 1873)
- 1788 Antoine Cιsar Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
- 1792 John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
- 1837 Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
- 1841 William Rockhill Nelson, American publisher (The Kansas City Star) and patron of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (d. 1915)
- 1849 Luther Burbank, American botanist (d. 1926)
- 1850 Champ Clark, American politician (d. 1921)
- 1850 Tomα Masaryk, first President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)
- 1857 Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1940)
- 1866 Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidopterist (d. 1922)
- 1868 James Zealley, British footballer (d. 1934)
- 1872 Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
- 1873 Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (d. 1959)
- 1875 Albert Jean Louis Ayat, French fencer (d. 1935)
- 1875 Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
- 1876 Frederick Freake, British polo player (d. 1950)
- 1878 Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)
- 1879 Jules De Bisschop, Belgian rower (d. 1955)
- 1885 Milton Avery, American artist (d. 1965)
- 1885 John Tovey, English Royal Navy admiral (d. 1971)
- 1886 Virginia Pearson, American silent film actress (d. 1958)
- 1887 Heino Eller, Estonian composer (d. 1970)
- 1888 William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-born journalist (d. 1977)
- 1888 Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1978)
- 1902 Heinz Rόhmann, German actor (d. 1994)
- 1904 Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
- 1904 Reinhard Heydrich, German Nazi SS officer (d. 1942)
- 1908 Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
- 1909 Lιo Malet, French writer (d. 1996)
- 1912 Eerik Kumari, Estonian ornithologist (d. 1984)
- 1913 Dollard Mιnard, Canadian military officer (Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal) during the Dieppe Raid (d. 1997)
- 1914 John Rodney, American actor
- 1914 Lee Young, American jazz drummer and singer (d. 2008)
- 1915 Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician (d. 2000)
- 1917 Betty Holberton, American engineer (d. 2001)
- 1920 Eddy Paape, Franco-Belgian comics artist
- 1922 Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)
- 1922 Mochtar Lubis, Indonesian novelist and journalist (d. 2004)
- 1925 Rene Gagnon, American Marine shown in photograph of the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1979)
- 1927 James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982)
- 1927 Philippe Clay, French singer and actor (d. 2007)
- 1927 Jean-Paul Desbiens, Canadian writer and teacher (d. 2006)
- 1927 Henri Landwirth, Belgian-American hotelier and philanthropist
- 1928 Gilbert Rondeau, Canadian politician (d. 1994)
- 1930 Antony Armstrong-Jones, British aristocrat, Lord Snowdon, former husband of Princess Margaret
- 1933 Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (d. 1998)
- 1933 Ed Bouchee, American baseball player (d. 2013)
- 1934 Douglas Cardinal, Canadian architect
- 1934 Giorgos Katsaros, Greek musician and composer
- 1934 Willard Scott, American television broadcaster
- 1934 Nari Contractor, Indian cricketer
- 1935 Antonios Naguib, Coptic Catholic Patriarch and Cardinal
- 1936 Florentino Fernαndez, Cuban boxer (d. 2013)
- 1936 Georges Perec, French author (d. 1982)
- 1938 David Baltimore, American biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1938 Janet Guthrie, American race car driver
- 1939 Danyel Gιrard, French singer-songwriter
- 1940 Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d. 1979)
- 1940 Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
- 1942 Tammy Faye Bakker, American televangelist (d. 2007)
- 1942 Charles R. Boutin, American politician
- 1942 Michael Eisner, American film studio executive
- 1943 Chris White, British musician (The Zombies)
- 1944 Sir Ranulph Fiennes, British soldier and explorer
- 1944 Zhiuli Shartava, Georgian politician (d. 1993)
- 1944 Stanley Schmidt, American editor
- 1944 Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (d. 1997)
- 1945 John Heard, American actor
- 1945 Bob Herbert, American journalist
- 1945 Arthur Lee, American musician (Love) (d. 2006)
- 1945 Elizabeth Moon, American author
- 1946 Matthew Fisher, British musician (Procol Harum)
- 1946 Daniel Goleman, American author and psychologist
- 1946 Peter Wolf, American musician (The J. Geils Band)
- 1947 Helen Eadie, Scottish politician
- 1947 Richard Lawson, American actor
- 1947 Walter Rφhrl, German race and rally car driver, twice World Rally Champion (1980 & 1982)
- 1947 Susan Miller, American astrologer
- 1949 Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
- 1950 Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
- 1950 Billy Joe Dupree, American football player
- 1950 Franco Harris, American football player
- 1950 J. R. Richard, American baseball player
- 1951 Jeff Burroughs, American baseball player
- 1951 Francis Rocco Prestia, American musician (Tower of Power)
- 1952 Ernie Isley, American musician (The Isley Brothers)
- 1952 Viv Richards, Antiguan West Indies cricketer
- 1952 Lynn Swann, American football player
- 1953 Bernard Voyer, Canadian explorer and mountainer
- 1955 Anupam Kher, Indian actor
- 1955 Tommy Kramer, American football player
- 1956 Bryan Cranston, American actor
- 1957 Robert Harris, English journalist
- 1957 Tomαs Yarrington, Mexican politician
- 1958 Alan Hale, American astronomer
- 1958 Rik Mayall, British actor
- 1958 Merv Neagle, Australian footballer (d. 2012)
- 1959 Tom Lehman, American golfer
- 1959 Donna Murphy, American actress and singer
- 1959 Nick Searcy, American actor
- 1960 Joe Carter, American baseball player
- 1960 Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player
- 1960 Jim Spivey, American track and field athlete
- 1961 Mary Beth Evans, American actress
- 1961 Mark Kumpel, American ice hockey player
- 1962 Taylor Dayne, American recording artist
- 1962 Peter Manley, English darts player
- 1963 Bill Brochtrup, American actor
- 1963 Mike Eagles, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 Maria Lindstrφm, Swedish tennis player
- 1964 Bret Easton Ellis, American writer
- 1964 Denyce Graves, American singer
- 1964 Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedienne
- 1965 Jack Armstrong, American baseball player
- 1965 Jean-Pierre Barda, Swedish singer (Army of Lovers)
- 1965 Steve Beuerlein, American football player
- 1965 Cameron Daddo, Australian actor
- 1965 Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
- 1966 Terry Carkner, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1966 Ludwig Kφgl, German footballer
- 1966 Atsushi Sakurai, Japanese singer (Buck-Tick)
- 1966 Joy Tanner, American actress
- 1967 Ruthie Henshall, English theatre actress and singer
- 1967 Ai Yazawa, Japanese manga artist
- 1968 Denis Boucher, Canadian baseball player
- 1968 Jeff Kent, American baseball player
- 1969 Warrel Dane, American singer (Nevermore and Sanctuary)
- 1969 Massimo Lotti, Italian footballer
- 1969 Hideki Noda, Japanese racing driver
- 1969 Shin Ae Ra, Korean actress and radio DJ
- 1970 Rachel Weisz, British actress
- 1971 Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
- 1971 Matthew Vaughn, British film producer and director
- 1972 Jang Dong-gun, South Korean actor and musician
- 1972 Maxim Roy, Canadian actress
- 1973 Jason Bright, Australian racing driver
- 1973 Sιbastien Izambard, operatic pop singer (Il Divo)
- 1973 Ray Parlour, English footballer
- 1974 Larry Bagby, American actor and musician
- 1974 Hugo Ferreira, American musician (Tantric)
- 1974 Jenna Fischer, American actress
- 1974 Krizz Kaliko, American rapper
- 1974 Facundo Sava, Argentine footballer
- 1975 Audrey Marie Anderson, American actress
- 1975 T.J. Thyne, American actor
- 1977 Paul Cattermole, British singer and actor (S Club)
- 1977 Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer
- 1977 Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby union footballer
- 1977 Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer
- 1979 Rodrigo Braρa, Argentine footballer
- 1979 Amanda Somerville, American singer and vocal coach (Aina)
- 1980 Ιric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 Laura Prepon, American actress
- 1981 Rica Peralejo, Filipina actress
- 1982 Kate Michael, American beauty queen
- 1982 Erika Yamakawa, Japanese talent
- 1983 Manucho, Angolan footballer
- 1983 Taylor Tankersley, American baseball player
- 1984 Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
- 1984 Rachel Rice, Welsh reality TV contestant on Big Brother 9
- 1985 Thomas Erak, American guitarist (The Fall of Troy and The 30 Years War)
- 1985 Andre Fluellen, American football player
- 1986 Ben Griffin, Australian soccer player
- 1987 Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer
- 1987 Niclas Bergfors, Swedish hockey player
- 1988 Larry Asante, American football player
- 1989 Gerald Anderson, Filipino actor and model
- 1990 Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
- 1990 Choi Jong Hun, South Korean guitarist (F.T. Island)
- 1990 Lefteris Matsoukas, Greek footballer
- 1991 Michele Rigione, Italian footballer
- 1992 Bel Powley, English actress
- 1994 An-Sophie Mestach, Belgian tennis player
- 2009 Prince Umberto of Savoy
Deaths
- 161 Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)
- 308 Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr
- 413 Heraclianus, Roman usurper
- 851 Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
- 1226 William Longespιe, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader
- 1274 Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian Philosopher (b. 1225)
- 1578 Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b. 1515)
- 1625 Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
- 1724 Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
- 1767 Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer (b. 1680)
- 1778 Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)
- 1810 Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750)
- 1904 Ferdinand Andrι Fouquι, French geologist (b. 1828)
- 1909 Friedrich Amelung, Baltic German cultural historian, businessman and chess endgame composer (b. 1842)
- 1913 Emily Pauline Johnson, Native Canadian poet (b. 1861)
- 1928 Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851)
- 1932 Aristide Briand, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- 1938 Henry Jameson, American soccer player (b. 1883)
- 1938 Andreas Michalakopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
- 1942 Lucy Parsons, American anarchist, communist and labor organizer (b. 1853)
- 1943 Alma Moodie, Australian classical violinist (b. 1898)
- 1949 Francis Dodd, English artist (b. 1874)
- 1949 Bradbury Robinson, American football player (b. 1884)
- 1952 Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)
- 1954 Otto Diels, German Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
- 1957 Wyndham Lewis, British author (b. 1882)
- 1965 Louise Mountbatten, Swedish queen (b. 1889)
- 1967 Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
- 1969 Sampurnanand, Indian Politician,Ex UP Chief Minister(b.1891)
- 1974 Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (Lecuona Cuban Boys) (b. 1906)
- 1975 Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895)
- 1975 Ben Blue, Canadian actor (b. 1901)
- 1976 Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893)
- 1978 Steve Bilko, American baseball player (b. 1928)
- 1981 Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
- 1983 Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
- 1984 Paul Rotha, English director (b. 1907)
- 1986 Jacob K. Javits, American politician (b. 1904)
- 1988 Divine, American actor (b. 1945)
- 1988 Robert Livingston, American film actor (b. 1904)
- 1991 Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
- 1995 Paul-Ιmile Victor, French explorer (b. 1907)
- 1997 E. H. Bronner, German-American soap magnate (b. 1908)
- 1997 Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
- 1999 Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (b. 1918)
- 1999 Stanley Kubrick, American film director (b. 1928)
- 2000 Charles Gray, British actor (b. 1928)
- 2000 Pee Wee King, American country music songwriter and musician (b. 1914)
- 2001 Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
- 2004 Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
- 2005 John Box, British film production designer and art director (b. 1920)
- 2005 Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (b. 1950)
- 2006 Ali Farka Tourι, Malian musician (b. 1939)
- 2006 John Junkin, British performer (b. 1930)
- 2006 Gordon Parks, American photographer (b. 1912)
- 2009 Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress (b. 1982)
- 2010 Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian-American supercentenarian (b. 1895)
- 2012 Big Walter Price, American blues singer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1914)
Holidays and observances
- Christian Feast Day:
- Thomas Aquinas, Doctor and Poet, 1274 (commemoration, Anglican Communion)
- One of the days dedicated to Vejovis (Roman Empire)
- Teacher's Day (Albania)

