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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 7 is the 66th day of the year (67th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
299 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who
changes his name to Lucius Verus)
become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.[1] ·
1277 – The University
of Paris issues the last in a series of condemnations 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 and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands. ·
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures 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 – Brazilian 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
engage Confederate troops
at the Pea Ridge in
northwestern Arkansas. ·
1876 – Alexander Graham
Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone". ·
1900 – The German
liner SS Kaiser
Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals
to shore. ·
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. ·
1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives
in Albania to begin his reign as King. ·
1936 – Prelude
to World War II: In
violation of the Locarno Pact and
the Treaty of Versailles,
Germany reoccupies
the Rhineland. ·
1941 – Günther Prien and the crew of German
submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear
without a trace.[2] ·
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 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,
inside a mosque in Tehran. ·
1965 – Bloody Sunday:
A group of 600 civil rights marchers
is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. ·
1967 – The Majelis
Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (MPRS), Indonesia's provisional
parliament, revoked Sukarno's mandate
as President of
Indonesia. ·
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, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March
speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka. ·
1986 – Challenger
Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate
the crew cabin of Challenger on
the ocean floor. ·
1987 – Lieyu massacre: Taiwanese
military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen. ·
1989 – Iran and
the United Kingdom break diplomatic 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, USA. ·
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 injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks,
the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles. Births[edit]
·
189 – Publius Septimius
Geta, Roman emperor (d. 211)[3] ·
942 – Mu'ayyad al-Dawla,
Buyid emir (d. 983) ·
1437 – Anna
of Saxony, Electress of Brandenburg (d. 1512) ·
1481 – Baldassare Peruzzi,
Italian architect and painter (d. 1537) ·
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)[4] ·
1671 – Rob Roy MacGregor,
Scottish outlaw (d. 1734)[5] ·
1678 – Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect, designed
the Basilica of Superga (d.
1736) ·
1693 – 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 laureate (d. 1940) ·
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) ·
1908 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973) ·
1910 – Will Glickman, American playwright (d. 1983) ·
1911 – Sachchidananda
Vatsyayan, Indian modern poet, journalist and author (d. 1987) ·
1911 – Stefan Kisielewski,
Polish libertarian writer and politician (d. 1991) ·
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, English footballer, inside left (d. 1975)[6] ·
1922 – Andy Phillip, American basketball player and
coach (d. 2001)[7] ·
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 – Willard Scott, American television
personality and actor ·
1936 – Florentino
Fernández, 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 laureate ·
1938 – Janet Guthrie, American professional race
car driver, first woman to qualify and compete in both the Indianapolis 500
and the Daytona 500 [8][9] ·
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 – Chris White,
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,
American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2006) ·
1945 – Elizabeth Moon, American lieutenant and
author ·
1946 – John Heard,
American actor and producer (d. 2017)[10] ·
1947 – Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (d. 2013) ·
1947 – Walter Röhrl, German race car driver ·
1949 – Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Health and Family Welfare ·
1950 – Billy Joe DuPree, American football player ·
1950 – Franco Harris, American football player and
businessman ·
1950 – J. R. Richard, American baseball player and
minister ·
1952 – William Boyd,
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,
English journalist and author ·
1957 – Mark Richards,
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 ·
1960 – Joe Carter, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1960 – Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player and coach ·
1960 – Jim Spivey, American runner and coach ·
1961 – David Rutley, English businessman and
politician ·
1961 – Nicolas
Dupont-Aignan, French 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 ·
1967 – Muhsin al-Ramli, Iraqi author, poet,
translator, and academic ·
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-American actress and
producer ·
1971 – Tal Banin, Israeli footballer and manager[11] ·
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 – Sébastien Izambard,
French tenor and producer ·
1973 – Işın Karaca, English-Turkish
singer-songwriter, producer, and actress ·
1974 – Jenna Fischer, American actress ·
1974 – Facundo Sava, Argentinian footballer and
manager ·
1977 – Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player and coach ·
1977 – Paul Cattermole, British singer and actor ·
1978 – Jaqueline Jesus, Brazilian psychologist and
activist ·
1979 – Rodrigo Braña, Argentinian 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 ·
1981 – Brent Kite, Australian rugby league player[12] ·
1983 – Manucho, Angolan footballer ·
1983 – Sebastián Viera,
Uruguayan footballer ·
1984 – Mathieu Flamini, French footballer ·
1984 – Lindsay McCaul, American singer-songwriter ·
1985 – Andre Fluellen, American football player ·
1985 – Cameron Prosser, Australian swimmer ·
1985 – Gerwyn Price, Welsh darts player ·
1986 – Ben Griffin,
Australian footballer ·
1987 – Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer ·
1987 – Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player ·
1988 – Larry Asante, American football player ·
1991 – Michele Rigione, Italian footballer ·
1994 – Chase Kalisz, American swimmer[13] ·
1994 – Jordan Pickford, English footballer ·
1995 – Jerome
Binnom-Williams, English footballer ·
1995 – Aboubakar Kamara, French footballer, forward[14] ·
1996 – Liam Donnelly,
Northern Irish footballer Deaths[edit]
·
161 – Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (b. 86) ·
413 – Heraclianus, Roman politician and
failed usurper ·
851 – Nominoe, King (or duke)
of Brittany ·
974 – John of Gorze, Frankish abbot and diplomat ·
1226 – William
Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (b. 1176) ·
1274 – Saint 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 Colonial
Governor 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,
American spy (b. 1753) ·
1897 – Harriet Ann Jacobs,
African American Abolitionist and
author (b. 1813)[15] ·
1904 – Ferdinand André
Fouqué, French geologist and petrologist (b. 1828) ·
1913 – Pauline Johnson, Canadian poet and author
(b. 1861) ·
1920 – Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer and politician,
1st Estonian
Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1866) ·
1928 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon and
radiologist (b. 1851) ·
1932 – Aristide Briand, French journalist and
politician, Prime Minister
of France, Nobel 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)[16] ·
1952 – Paramahansa
Yogananda, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1893) ·
1954 – Otto Diels, German chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1876) ·
1957 – Wyndham Lewis, English painter and critic
(b. 1882) ·
1961 – Govind Ballabh Pant,
Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Chief
Minister 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)[17] ·
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) ·
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) ·
1988 – Divine,
American drag queen and
film actor (b. 1945) ·
1988 – Ülo Õun, Estonian sculptor (b. 1940)[18] ·
1991 – Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b.
1903) ·
1993 – Tony Harris,
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)[19] ·
1993 – Josef Steindl, Austrian economist (b. 1912) ·
1993 – Frank Wells,
Australian rules footballer (b. 1909) ·
1997 – Edward Mills Purcell,
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize 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,
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 – Sybil Christopher,
Welsh actress (b. 1929) ·
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 Israeli
Minister of Health (b. 1915) ·
2015 – G. Karthikeyan, Indian lawyer and politician
(b. 1949) ·
2015 – F. Ray Keyser, Jr.,
American lawyer and politician, 72nd Governor of Vermont (b.
1927) ·
2015 – Yoshihiro Tatsumi,
Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1935) ·
2016 – Adrian Hardiman, Irish lawyer and judge (b.
1951) ·
2017 – Lynne Stewart, American attorney and
activist (b. 1939) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Blessed Leonid Feodorov (Russian
Greek Catholic Church) o Pierre-Henri Dorie, Siméon-François
Berneux (part of The Korean Martyrs) o March
7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Liberation of
Sulaymaniyah (Iraqi Kurdistan) |
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