March 7 — On This Day
247 entries
Events
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161
Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
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238
Roman subjects in the province of Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor.
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321
Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
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1277
Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
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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 hands.
Ottoman Empire · Republic of Venice · Ottoman-Venetian War (1570-73) · Cyprus
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1799
Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
Napoleon Bonaparte · Siege of Jaffa · Jaffa · Palestine (region) · Albania
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1814
Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
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1827
Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
Empire of Brazil · Brazilian Marine Corps · Carmen de Patagones · Argentina
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1827
Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
Shrigley abduction · Kidnapping · Edward Gibbon Wakefield · Politician
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1850
Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
United States Senate · Daniel Webster · Compromise of 1850 · Civil war
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1862
American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
American Civil War · Union (American Civil War) · Confederate States of America · Battle of Pea Ridge · Arkansas
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1876
Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
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1900
The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
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1902
Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
Second Boer War · Boer · Koos de la Rey · British Empire · Battle of Tweebosch
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1914
Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
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1936
Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
World War II · Locarno Pact · Treaty of Versailles · Remilitarization of the Rhineland
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1945
World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen.
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1950
Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
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1951
Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
Korean War · Operation Ripper · United Nations · General officer · Matthew Ridgway
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1965
Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
Selma to Montgomery marches · Civil Rights Movement · Selma, Alabama
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1967
Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (MPRS), Indonesian provisional parliament, revoked Sukarno's mandate as President of Indonesia.
People's Consultative Assembly · Sukarno · President of Indonesia
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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.
Vietnam War · Army of the Republic of Vietnam · Operation Truong Cong Dinh · Viet Cong · Mỹ Tho
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1986
Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster · USS Preserver (ARS-8) · STS-51-L
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1987
Lieyu massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen.
1987 Lieyu massacre · Republic of China Armed Forces · Vietnam · Refugee · Lieyu, Kinmen
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1989
Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
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2006
The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
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2007
The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
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2009
The Real Irish Republican Army kills 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.
Real Irish Republican Army · 2009 Massereene Barracks shooting · Massereene Barracks · Northern Ireland · The Troubles
Famous Births
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189
Publius Septimius Geta, Roman emperor (d. 211)
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1437
Anna of Saxony, Electress of Brandenburg (d. 1512)
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1481
Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
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1482
Fray Thomas de San Martín, Roman Catholic prelate and bishop (d. 1555)
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1543
John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern, German prince and reigning count palatine of Simmern (d. 1592)
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1556
Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and author (d. 1621)
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1671
Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw (d. 1734)
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1678
Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Superga (d. 1736)
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1693
Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
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1715
Ewald Christian von Kleist, German soldier and poet (d. 1759)
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1723
Prince Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy (d. 1725)
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1730
Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French soldier and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1807)
Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil · Prime Minister of France
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1765
Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography (d. 1833)
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1785
Alessandro Manzoni, Italian author and poet (d. 1873)
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1788
Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist and biochemist (d. 1878)
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1792
John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
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1811
Increase A. Lapham, American botanist and author (d. 1875)
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1837
Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
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1839
Ludwig Mond, German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (d. 1909)
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1841
William Rockhill Nelson, American businessman and publisher, founded The Kansas City Star (d. 1915)
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1843
Marriott Henry Brosius, American senator (d. 1901)
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1849
Luther Burbank, American botanist and author (d. 1926)
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1850
Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1921)
Champ Clark · Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
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1850
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)
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1857
Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
Julius Wagner-Jauregg · Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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1872
Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (d. 1944)
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1873
Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (d. 1959)
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1875
Maurice Ravel, French pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1937)
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1878
Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer (d. 1927)
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1885
Milton Avery, American painter (d. 1965)
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1885
John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, English admiral (d. 1971)
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1886
Virginia Pearson, American actress (d. 1958)
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1886
G. I. Taylor, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1975)
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1886
Wilson Dallam Wallis, American anthropologist (d. 1970)
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1888
William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-American journalist and author (d. 1977)
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1888
Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1978)
Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer · Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
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1895
Dorothy de Rothschild, English philanthropist and activist (d. 1988)
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1902
Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)
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1904
Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
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1904
Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer (d. 1942)
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1908
Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
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1910
Will Glickman, American playwright (d. 1983)
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1911
Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Indian journalist and author (d. 1987)
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1911
Stefan Kisielewski, Polish libertarian writer and politician (d. 1991)
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1912
Adile Ayda, Turkish engineer and diplomat (d. 1992)
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1913
Dollard Ménard, Canadian general (d. 1997)
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1915
Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)
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1917
Janet Collins, American ballerina and choreographer (d. 2003)
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1917
Betty Holberton, American engineer and programmer (d. 2001)
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1922
Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 2004)
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1922
Mochtar Lubis, Indonesian journalist and author (d. 2004)
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1924
Morton Bard, American psychologist (d. 1997)
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1924
Bill Boedeker, American football player (d. 2014)
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1925
Rene Gagnon, American soldier (d. 1979)
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1927
James Broderick, American actor and director (d. 1982)
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1929
Dan Jacobson, South African-English author and critic (d. 2014)
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1930
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer and politician (d. 2017)
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1930
Robert Trotter, Scottish actor and photographer (d. 2013)
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1933
Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and accountant (d. 1998)
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1933
Ed Bouchee, American baseball player (d. 2013)
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1934
Willard Scott, American television personality and actor
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1936
Florentino Fernández, Cuban-American boxer and coach (d. 2013)
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1936
Georges Perec, French author and screenwriter (d. 1982)
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1938
David Baltimore, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
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1939
Danyel Gérard, French singer-songwriter
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1940
Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
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1941
Piers Paul Read, English historian and author
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1942
Michael Eisner, American businessman
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1942
Tammy Faye Messner, American evangelist, television personality, and talk show host (d. 2007)
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1943
Chris White, English singer-songwriter and bass player
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1944
Ranulph Fiennes, English soldier and explorer
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1944
Townes Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)
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1945
John Heard, American actor and producer (d. 2017)
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1945
Bob Herbert, American journalist
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1945
Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2006)
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1945
Elizabeth Moon, American lieutenant and author
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1946
Matthew Fisher, English keyboard player, songwriter, and record producer
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1946
Peter Wolf, American singer-songwriter and musician
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1947
Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (d. 2013)
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1947
Walter Röhrl, German race car driver
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1949
Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Health and Family Welfare
Ghulam Nabi Azad · Minister of Health and Family Welfare (India)
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1950
Billy Joe DuPree, American football player
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1950
Franco Harris, American football player and businessman
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1950
J. R. Richard, American baseball player and minister
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1952
William Boyd, Ghanaian-English author and screenwriter
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1952
Ernie Isley, American guitarist and songwriter
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1952
Viv Richards, Caribbean cricketer and footballer
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1952
Lynn Swann, American football player, sportscaster, and politician
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1954
Eva Brunne, Swedish bishop
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1955
Tommy Kramer, American football player
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1956
Bryan Cranston, American actor, director, and producer
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1956
Andrea Levy, English author
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1957
Robert Harris, English journalist and author
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1957
Tomás Yarrington, Mexican economist and politician, Governor of Tamaulipas
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1958
Rick Bass, American author and environmentalist
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1956
Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
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1958
Merv Neagle, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2012)
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1959
Tom Lehman, American golfer
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1959
Donna Murphy, American actress and singer
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1960
Joe Carter, American baseball player and sportscaster
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1960
Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player and coach
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1960
Jim Spivey, American runner and coach
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1961
David Rutley, English businessman and politician
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1961
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, French politician
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1962
Taylor Dayne, American singer-songwriter and actress
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1963
Mike Eagles, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
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1963
E. L. James, English author
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1964
Bret Easton Ellis, American author and screenwriter
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1964
Wanda Sykes, American comedian, actress, and screenwriter
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1965
Steve Beuerlein, American football player and sportscaster
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1965
Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
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1966
Terry Carkner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
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1966
Tony Daly, Australian rugby player
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1967
Muhsin al-Ramli, Iraqi author, poet, translator, and academic
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1967
Ruthie Henshall, English actress, singer, and dancer
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1967
Ai Yazawa, Japanese author and illustrator
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1968
Jeff Kent, American baseball player
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1969
Massimo Lotti, Italian footballer
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1969
Hideki Noda, Japanese race car driver
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1970
Rachel Weisz, English-American actress and producer
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1971
Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
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1971
Matthew Vaughn, English director, producer, and screenwriter
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1972
Craig Polla-Mounter, Australian rugby league player
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1973
Jason Bright, Australian race car driver
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1973
Sébastien Izambard, French tenor and producer
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1973
Işın Karaca, English-Turkish singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
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1974
Jenna Fischer, American actress
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1974
Facundo Sava, Argentinian footballer and manager
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1977
Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player and coach
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1977
Paul Cattermole, British singer and actor
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1978
Jaqueline Jesus, Brazilian psychologist and activist
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1979
Rodrigo Braña, Argentinian footballer
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1979
Amanda Somerville, American singer-songwriter
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1980
Murat Boz, Turkish singer-songwriter
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1980
Eric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player
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1980
Laura Prepon, American actress
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1981
Brent Kite, Australian rugby league player
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1983
Manucho, Angolan footballer
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1983
Taylor Tankersley, American baseball player
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1983
Sebastián Viera, Uruguayan footballer
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1984
Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
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1984
Jacob Lillyman, Australian rugby league player
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1984
Lindsay McCaul, American singer-songwriter
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1985
Andre Fluellen, American football player
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1985
Cameron Prosser, Australian swimmer
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1986
Ben Griffin, Australian footballer
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1987
Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer
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1987
Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player
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1988
Larry Asante, American football player
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1991
Michele Rigione, Italian footballer
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1992
Bel Powley, English actress
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1993
Denisa Allertová, Czech tennis player
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1995
Jerome Binnom-Williams, English footballer
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1996
Liam Donnelly, Northern Irish footballer
Famous Deaths
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161
Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (b. 86)
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413
Heraclianus, Roman politician and failed usurper
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851
Nominoe, King (or duke) of Brittany
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1226
William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (b. 1176)
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1274
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest and philosopher (b. 1225)
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1393
Bogislaw VI, Duke of Pomerania (b.c. 1350)
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1517
Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (b. 1482)
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1550
William IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1493)
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1578
Margaret Douglas, English daughter of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (b. 1515)
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1625
Johann Bayer, German lawyer and cartographer (b. 1572)
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1724
Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
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1767
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, Canadian politician, 2nd Colonial Governor of Louisiana (b. 1680)
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville · List of colonial governors of Louisiana
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1778
Charles De Geer, Swedish entomologist and archaeologist (b. 1720)
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1809
Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight (b. 1753)
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1810
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (b. 1750)
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1838
Robert Townsend, American spy (b. 1753)
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1904
Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and petrologist (b. 1828)
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1913
Pauline Johnson, Canadian poet and author (b. 1861)
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1920
Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1866)
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1928
Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (b. 1851)
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1932
Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
Aristide Briand · Prime Minister of France · Nobel Peace Prize
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1934
Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and author (b. 1875)
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1938
Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician, 116th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
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1949
Bradbury Robinson, American football player, physician, and politician (b. 1884)
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1952
Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1893)
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1954
Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
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1957
Wyndham Lewis, English painter and critic (b. 1882)
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1961
Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1887)
Govind Ballabh Pant · List of Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh
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1967
Alice B. Toklas, American writer (b. 1877)
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1969
Sampurnanand, Indian educator and politician, 2nd Governor of Rajasthan (b. 1891)
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1971
Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1930)
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1975
Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1895)
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1976
Wright Patman, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1893)
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1981
Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
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1982
Ida Barney, American astronomer, mathematician, and academic (b. 1886)
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1983
Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
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1986
Jacob K. Javits, American colonel and politician, 58th New York State Attorney General (b. 1904)
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1988
Divine, American drag queen and film actor (b. 1945)
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1991
Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
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1997
Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
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1999
Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (b. 1918)
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1999
Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
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2000
Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
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2001
Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
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2004
Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
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2005
John Box, English production designer and art director (b. 1920)
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2005
Debra Hill, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1950)
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2006
Gordon Parks, American photographer, director, and composer (b. 1912)
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2006
Ali Farka Touré, Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
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2007
Ronnie Wells, American singer and educator (b. 1943)
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2012
Ravi, Indian director and composer (b. 1926)
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2012
Włodzimierz Smolarek, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1957)
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2013
Peter Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1947)
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2013
Sybil Christopher, Welsh actress (b. 1929)
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2013
Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
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2013
Frederick B. Karl, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1924)
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2013
Claude King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
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2014
Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov, Russian actor and director (b. 1930)
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2014
Ned O'Gorman, American poet and educator (b. 1929)
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2014
Victor Shem-Tov, Israeli lawyer and politician, 8th Israeli Minister of Health (b. 1915)
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2015
G. Karthikeyan, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
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2015
F. Ray Keyser, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 72nd Governor of Vermont (b. 1927)
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2015
Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1935)
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2016
Adrian Hardiman, Irish lawyer and judge (b. 1951)
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2017
Lynne Stewart, American attorney and activist (b. 1939)