History of March 07
On March 07 the following events have occured in our world's history.
0322 - BC Aristotle died
1321 - Thomas Aquinas - philosopher & saint - dies
1583 - Thomas Aquinas Day
1774 - British close Boston port to commerce
1778 - Capt. James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast - at Yaquina Bay
1848 - In Hawaii - Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
1850 - Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1911 - US sent 20 -000 troops to Mexican border
1912 - Roald Amundsen announces the discovery of the South Pole
1926 - 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-New York)
1933 - Monopoly invented
1936 - Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles - sends troops to Rhineland
1945 - During WW II - US crosses Rhine River
1955 - Mary Martin as Peter Pan televised
1959 - 1st aviator to fly a million miles in a jet (MC Garlow)
1962 - US Orbiting Solar Observatory launched
1965 - March by civil rights demonstrators broken in Selma - Ala
1973 - Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
1975 - Senate revises filibuster rule - allows 60 senators to limit debate
1977 - Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter
1978 - Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
1981 - Walter Cronkite's final CBS anchor appearance
1986 - Sen Jacob K Javits - R-NY - dies in Palm Beach - Fla