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On this day: March 7th

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161 Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.

1138 Konrad III was elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin of Santa Rufina.

1277 The University of Paris issues the last in a series of Condemnations of 1210–1277 of various philosophical and theological theses.

1573 A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–73) and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman Cyprus.

1799 Napoleon Siege of Jaffa Jaffa in Palestine (region) and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.

1814 Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.

1826 Shrigley abduction: 15-year old Ellen Turner is kidnapping by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future figure in the establishment of colonies in South Australia and New Zealand.

1850 United States Senate Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.

1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".

1902 Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, defeat the British at the Battle of Tweebosch.

1921 The short-lived socialist Labin Republic is proclaimed.

1931 The Parliament House, Helsinki is officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.

1941 Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47 (1938), one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace.

1951 Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 307 crashes in Lynnhurst, Minneapolis, killing 15 people.

1951 Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General officer Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.

1951 Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, outside a mosque in Tehran.

1965 Bloody Sunday (1965): A group of 600 Civil Rights Movement marchers are brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.

1965 Aeroflot Flight 542 crashes in the Yermakovsky District, killing all 31 aboard.

1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster: Divers from the locate the crew cabin of ''STS-51-L'' on the ocean floor.

1987 1987 Lieyu massacre: Republic of China Armed Forces massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen.

1989 Iran and the United Kingdom break Iran–United Kingdom relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, ''The Satanic Verses''.

1993 The tugboat ''Thomas Hebert'' sank off the coast of New Jersey, United States.

2006 The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a 2006 Varanasi bombings in Varanasi, India.

2007 Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.

2007 Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 people.

2009 The Real Irish Republican Army 2009 Massereene Barracks shooting two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.

2021 At least 108 die and 615 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.

2024 Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming its 32nd member.

2024– Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust, the first time someone has been found guilty for causing a death on a movie set.

189 Publius Septimius Geta, Roman emperor (d. 211)

1437 Anna of Saxony, Electress of Brandenburg (d. 1512)

1482 Fray Thomas de San Martín, Roman Catholic prelate and bishop (d. 1555)

1543 John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern, German prince and reigning count palatine of Simmern (d. 1592)

1556 Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and author (d. 1621)

1671 Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw (d. 1734)

1678 Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Superga (d. 1736)

1693 Pope Clement XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1769)

1715 Ewald Christian von Kleist, German soldier and poet (d. 1759)

1723 Prince Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy (d. 1725)

1730 Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French soldier and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1807)

1765 Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography (d. 1833)

1785 Alessandro Manzoni, Italian author and poet (d. 1873)

1788 Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist and biochemist (d. 1878)

1792 John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)

1811 Increase A. Lapham, American botanist and author (d. 1875)

1837 Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)

1839 Ludwig Mond, German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (d. 1909)

1841 William Rockhill Nelson, American businessman and publisher, founded ''The Kansas City Star'' (d. 1915)

1843 Marriott Henry Brosius, American senator (d. 1901)

1849 Luther Burbank, American botanist and author (d. 1926)

1850 Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1921)

1850 Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)

1857 Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1940)

1858 Cecilie Thoresen Krog, Norwegian women's rights pioneer (d. 1911)

1872 Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (d. 1944)

1873 Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (d. 1959)

1875 Maurice Ravel, French pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1937)

1878 Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer (d. 1927)

1885 Milton Avery, American painter (d. 1965)

1885 John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, English admiral (d. 1971)

1886 Virginia Pearson, American actress (d. 1958)

1886 G. I. Taylor, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1975)

1886 Wilson Dallam Wallis, American anthropologist (d. 1970)

1888 William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-American journalist and author (d. 1977)

1888 Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1978)

1894 Ana María O'Neill, Puerto Rican scholar and activist (d. 1981)

1895 Dorothy de Rothschild, English philanthropist and activist (d. 1988)

1902 Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)

1903 Maud Lewis, Canadian folk artist (d. 1970)

1904 Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)

1904 Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer (d. 1942)

1904 Kurt Weitzmann, German-American historian and author (d. 1993)

1908 Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)

1910 Will Glickman, American playwright (d. 1983)

1911 Stefan Kisielewski, Polish writer and politician (d. 1991)

1911 Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Indian poet, journalist and author (d. 1987)

1912 Adile Ayda, Turkish engineer and diplomat (d. 1992)

1913 Dollard Ménard, Canadian general (d. 1997)

1915 Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)

1917 Janet Collins, American ballerina and choreographer (d. 2003)

1917 Betty Holberton, American engineer and programmer (d. 2001)

1922 Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 2004)

1922 Mochtar Lubis, Indonesian journalist and author (d. 2004)

1922 Peter Murphy (footballer, born 1922), English footballer (d. 1975)

1922 Andy Phillip, American basketball player and coach (d. 2001)

1924 Morton Bard, American psychologist (d. 1997)

1924 Bill Boedeker, American football player (d. 2014)

1925 Rene Gagnon, American soldier (d. 1979)

1925 Richard Vernon, British actor (d. 1997)

1927 James Broderick, American actor and director (d. 1982)

1929 Dan Jacobson, South African-English author and critic (d. 2014)

1930 Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer and politician (d. 2017)

1930 Robert Trotter, Scottish actor and photographer (d. 2013)

1933 Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and accountant (d. 1998)

1933 Ed Bouchee, American baseball player (d. 2013)

1934 Gray Morrow, American illustrator and comic book artist (d. 2002)

1934 Willard Scott, American television personality and actor (d. 2021)

1936 Florentino Fernández (boxer), Cuban-American boxer and coach (d. 2013)

1936 Georges Perec, French author and screenwriter (d. 1982)

1938 David Baltimore, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

1938 Janet Guthrie, American race car driver

1939 Danyel Gérard, French singer-songwriter

1940 Daniel J. Travanti, American actor

1941 Piers Paul Read, English historian and author

1942 Michael Eisner, American businessman

1942 Tammy Faye Messner, American evangelist, television personality, and talk show host (d. 2007)

1943 Billy MacMillan, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2023)

1943 Chris White (musician), English singer-songwriter and bass player

1944 Ranulph Fiennes, English soldier and explorer

1944 Townes Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)

1945 Bob Herbert, American journalist

1945 Arthur Lee (musician), American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2006)

1945 Elizabeth Moon, American lieutenant and author

1946 Matthew Fisher (musician), English musician, songwriter, and producer

1946 John Heard (actor), American actor and producer (d. 2017)

1946 Peter Wolf, American singer-songwriter and musician

1947 Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (d. 2013)

1947 Walter Röhrl, German race car driver

1949 Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician, Minister of Health and Family Welfare (India)

1950 Billy Joe DuPree, American football player

1950 Franco Harris, American football player and businessman (d. 2022)

1950 J. R. Richard, American baseball player and minister (d. 2021)

1952 William Boyd (writer), Ghanaian-English author and screenwriter

1952 Ernie Isley, American guitarist and songwriter

1952 Viv Richards, Antiguan cricketer and footballer

1952 Lynn Swann, American football player, sportscaster, and politician

1954 Eva Brunne, Swedish bishop

1955 Tommy Kramer, American football player

1956 Bryan Cranston, American actor, director, and producer

1956 Andrea Levy, English author (d. 2019)

1957 Robert Harris (novelist), English journalist and author

1957 Mark Richards (surfer), Australian surfer

1957 Tomás Yarrington, Mexican economist and politician, Governor of Tamaulipas

1958 Rick Bass, American author and environmentalist

1958 Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2014)

1958 Merv Neagle, Australian footballer and coach (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 and sportscaster

1960 Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player and coach

1960 Jim Spivey, American runner and coach

1961 Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, French politician

1961 Mary Beth Evans, American actress

1961 David Rutley, English businessman and politician

1962 Taylor Dayne, American singer-songwriter and actress

1963 Mike Eagles, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1963 E. L. James, English author

1964 Bret Easton Ellis, American author and screenwriter

1964 Wanda Sykes, American comedian, actress, and screenwriter

1965 Steve Beuerlein, American football player and sportscaster

1965 Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer

1966 Terry Carkner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1966 Tony Daly, Australian rugby player

1966 Jeff Feagles, American football player

1967 Muhsin al-Ramli, Iraqi author, poet, translator, and academic

1967 Zheng Haixia, Chinese basketball player and coach

1967 Ruthie Henshall, English actress, singer, and dancer

1967 Ai Yazawa, Japanese author and illustrator

1968 Jeff Kent, American baseball player

1969 Massimo Lotti, Italian footballer

1969 Hideki Noda, Japanese race car driver

1970 Rachel Weisz, English actress

1971 Tal Banin, Israeli footballer and manager

1971 Peter Sarsgaard, American actor

1971 Matthew Vaughn, English director, producer, and screenwriter

1972 Craig Polla-Mounter, Australian rugby league player

1973 Jason Bright, Australian race car driver

1973 Jay Duplass, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1973 Sébastien Izambard, French tenor and producer

1973 Işın Karaca, English-Turkish singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

1974 Jenna Fischer, American actress

1974 Tobias Menzies, English actor

1974 Facundo Sava, Argentine footballer and manager

1975 Audrey Marie Anderson, American actress and model

1975 T. J. Thyne, American actor

1977 Paul Cattermole, English singer and actor (d. 2023)

1977 Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player and coach

1978 Jaqueline Jesus, Brazilian psychologist and activist

1979 Rodrigo Braña, Argentine footballer

1979 Amanda Somerville, American singer-songwriter

1980 Murat Boz, Turkish singer-songwriter

1980 Eric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player

1980 Laura Prepon, American actress

1983 Manucho, Angolan footballer

1983 Sebastián Viera, Uruguayan footballer

1984 Steve Burtt Jr., American-Ukrainian basketball player

1984 Mathieu Flamini, French footballer

1984 Jacob Lillyman, Australian rugby league player

1984 Brandon T. Jackson, American actor and comedian

1984 Lindsay McCaul, American singer-songwriter

1985 Gerwyn Price, Welsh darts player

1985 Cameron Prosser, Australian swimmer

1986 Ryan Ciminelli, American bowler

1986 Ben Griffin (footballer), Australian footballer

1987 Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer

1987 Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player

1990 Jeff Withey, American basketball player

1991 Ian Clark (basketball), American basketball player

1991 Michele Rigione, Italian footballer

1992 Bel Powley, English actress

1994 Chase Kalisz, American swimmer

1994 Jake Layman, American basketball player

1994 Jordan Pickford, English footballer

1995 Jerome Binnom-Williams, English footballer

1995 Aboubakar Kamara, French footballer

1995 Haley Lu Richardson, American actress

1996 Liam Donnelly (footballer), Northern Irish footballer

1996 Pablo López (baseball), Venezuelan baseball player

1997 Taher Mohamed, Egyptian footballer

1997 Dylan Strome, Canadian ice hockey player

1998 Amanda Gorman, American poet and activist

2000 Rasmus Sandin, Swedish ice hockey player

2000 Sebastian Schwaighofer, Austrian politician

2007 Kiyan Anthony, American basketball player

161 Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (b. 86)

413 Heraclianus, Roman politician and failed Roman usurper

851 Nominoe, King of Brittany

974 John of Gorze, Frankish abbot and diplomat

1226 William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (b. 1176)

1274 Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest and philosopher (b. 1225)

1393 Bogislaw VI, Duke of Pomerania (b.c. 1350)

1407 Francesco I Gonzaga, ruler of Mantua

1517 Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (b. 1482)

1550 William IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1493)

1578 Margaret Douglas, English daughter of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (b. 1515)

1625 Johann Bayer, German lawyer and cartographer (b. 1572)

1724 Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)

1767 Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, Canadian politician, 2nd List of colonial governors of Louisiana (b. 1680)

1778 Charles De Geer, Swedish entomologist and archaeologist (b. 1720)

1809 Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight (b. 1753)

1810 Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (b. 1750)

1838 Robert Townsend (spy), American spy (b. 1753)

1897 Harriet Ann Jacobs, African American Abolitionism in the United States and author (b. 1813)

1913 Pauline Johnson, Canadian poet and author (b. 1861)

1920 Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs (Estonia) (b. 1866)

1928 Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (b. 1851)

1931 Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish artist (b. 1865)

1932 Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1862)

1934 Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and author (b. 1875)

1938 Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician, 116th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)

1947 Lucy Parsons, American communist anarchist labor organizer (b. c 1853)

1949 Bradbury Robinson, American football player, physician, and politician (b. 1884)

1952 Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1893)

1954 Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1876)

1957 Wyndham Lewis, English painter and critic (b. 1882)

1961 Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd List of Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1887)

1967 Alice B. Toklas, American writer (b. 1877)

1971 Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1930)

1973 Lalo Ríos, Mexican actor (b. 1927)

1975 Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1895)

1976 Wright Patman, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1893)

1981 Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)

1981 Muhammad Zaki Abd al-Qadir, Egyptian journalist and writer (d. 1981)

1982 Ida Barney, American astronomer, mathematician, and academic (b. 1886)

1983 Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)

1986 Jacob K. Javits, American colonel and politician, 58th New York State Attorney General (b. 1904)

1987 Karl Leichter, Estonian musicologist and academic (b. 1902)

1988 Divine (performer), American drag queen and film actor (b. 1945)

1988 Ülo Õun, Estonian sculptor (b. 1940)

1991 Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)

1993 Tony Harris (cricketer), South African cricketer (b. 1916)

1993 J. Merrill Knapp, American musicologist (b. 1914)

1993 Martti Larni, Finnish writer (b. 1909)

1993 Carlo Mazzarella, Italian actor and journalist (b. 1919)

1993 Angelo Piccaluga, Italian footballer (b. 1906)

1993 Eleanor Sanger, American television producer (b. 1929)

1993 Josef Steindl, Austrian economist (b. 1912)

1993 Frank Wells (footballer), Australian rules footballer (b. 1909)

1997 Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1912)

1999 Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (b. 1918)

1999 Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)

2000 Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)

2001 Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)

2004 Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)

2005 John Box, English production designer and art director (b. 1920)

2005 Debra Hill, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1950)

2006 Gordon Parks, American photographer, director, and composer (b. 1912)

2006 Ali Farka Touré, Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)

2007 Ronnie Wells, American singer and educator (b. 1943)

2012 Ravi (music director), Indian director and composer (b. 1926)

2012 Włodzimierz Smolarek, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1957)

2013 Peter Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1947)

2013 Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922)

2013 Frederick B. Karl, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1924)

2013 Claude King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)

2014 Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov, Russian actor and director (b. 1930)

2014 Ned O'Gorman, American poet and educator (b. 1929)

2014 Victor Shem-Tov, Israeli lawyer and politician, 8th Ministry of Health (Israel) (b. 1915)

2015 G. Karthikeyan, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)

2015 F. Ray Keyser, Jr., American lawyer and politician, Governor of Vermont (b. 1927)

2015 Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1935)

2016 Adrian Hardiman, Irish lawyer and judge (b. 1951)

2016 Leonard Berney, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberator (b. 1920)

2017 Lynne Stewart, American attorney and activist (b. 1939)

2024 Steve Lawrence, American actor and singer (b. 1935)

Christian feast day:

- Blessed Leonid Feodorov (Russian Greek Catholic Church)

- María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa

- Perpetua and Felicity

- Siméon-François Berneux (part of The Korean Martyrs)

- March 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Slovenian Maritime Day in Slovenia

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[https://www.onthisday.com/events/march/7 Historical Events on March 7]