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Today March 7th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009
Events
161 – Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire.
321 – Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
1277 – Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris.
1798 – The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic.
1799 – Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1799 – The Royal Institution is founded.
1814 – Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
1815 – Napoleon I of France meets troops of the Fifth Regiment sent by Louis XVIII at Grenoble, and convinces them to join him on his march to Paris.
1827 – Brazil marines sail up the Rio Negro (Argentina) and attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina. They are defeated by the local citizens.
1827 – Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
1848 – The Great mahele (land division) is signed in Hawaii.
1850 – United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his Seventh of March speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Pea Ridge – Union forces led by General Samuel Curtis defeat Confederate troops under General Earl Van Dorn at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,465).
1887 – North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
1912 – Roald Amundsen first announces to the world that his expedition has reached the South Pole, though they had arrived on December 14, 1911.
1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
1918 – World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.
1926 – The first transatlantic telephone call was made from New York City to London.
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, establish a bridgehead on Germany soil and in desperate fighting begin to establish a lodgement. This event shakes up the whole Western Front and greatly hastens the end of WW-II.
1947 – The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War.
1948 – The Dodecanese islands officially become part of Greece again, ending the Italian rule.
1950 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper – In Korea, United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1965 – In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed Bloody Sunday.
1968 – The BBC broadcasts the news for the first time in color on television.
1969 – Golda Meir nominated by the Labor party as the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
1971- Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman gave a directional speech at the Race Course Field (Now,Sohrawardi Garden) towards the nation of East Pakistan at that time (Current Bangladesh) which guided Bangladesh to set for the liberation war and clinch victory on 16th December, 1971.
1984 – The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua.
1988 – Colombia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.
1989 – The State Council of the People s Republic of China declares martial law in Lhasa, Tibet.
1994 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
1996 – The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed.
1996 – The Hubble Space Telescope makes the first pictures of the surface of Pluto.
2004 – New Democracy wins the national elections in Greece.
2005 – Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for women s voting rights in Kuwait.
2007 – British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
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)
1671 – Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
1678 – Filippo Juvara, 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 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor of photography (d. 1833)
1785 – Alessandro Manzoni, Italian writer (d. 1873)
1788 – Antoine César 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 newspaper publisher and philanthropist (d. 1915)
1849 – Luther Burbank, American botanist (d. 1926)
1850 – Champ Clark, American politician (d. 1921)
1850 – Tomáš Masaryk, Czech politician (d. 1937)
1857 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1940)
1872 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
1873 – Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (d. 1959)
1875 – Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
1878 – Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)
1887 – Heino Eller, Estonian composer (d. 1970)
1888 – Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1978)
1893 – Milton Avery, American artist (d. 1965)
1902 – Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)
1904 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
1904 – Reinhard Heydrich, German Nazi official (d. 1942)
1908 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
1909 – Léo Malet, French writer (d. 1996)
1915 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician (d. 2000)
1917 – Lee Young, American jazz drummer and singer
1922 – Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)
1925 – Rene Gagnon, American soldier (d. 1979)
1927 – James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982)
1927 – Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and teacher (d. 2006)
1927 – Henri Landwirth, Belgian-American hotelier and philanthropist
1930 – Antony Armstrong-Jones, British aristocrat
1932 – Gene Shalit, American film critic
1933 – Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
1934 – Willard Scott, American television broadcaster
1934 – Giorgos Katsaros, Greek musician and composer
1938 – David Baltimore, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1938 – Janet Guthrie, American race car driver
1940 – Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d. 1979)
1940 – Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
1942 – Tammy Faye Bakker, American televangelist (d. 2007)
1942 – Michael Eisner, American film studio executive
1942 – Charles R. Boutin, American politician
1943 – Chris White, British musician (The Zombies)
1944 – Stanley Schmidt, American editor
1944 – Sir Ranulph Fiennes, British soldier and explorer
1944 – Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (d. 1997)
1944 – Zhiuli Shartava, Georgian politician (d. 1993)
1945 – John Heard, American actor
1945 – Arthur Lee, American musician (Love) (d. 2006)
1946 – Matthew Fisher, British musician (Procol Harum)
1946 – Peter Wolf, American musician (The J. Geils Band)
1947 – Richard Lawson, American actor
1947 – Walter Röhrl, German race and rally car driver
1947 – Helen Eadie, Scottish politician
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
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
1955 – Tommy Kramer, American football player
1955 – Anupam Kher, Bollywood Actor
1956 – Bryan Cranston, American actor
1957 – Robert Harris, English TV reporter and journalist
1958 – Alan Hale, American astronomer
1958 – Rik Mayall, British actor
1959 – Donna Murphy, American actress
1960 – Joe Carter, American baseball player
1960 – Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player
1962 – Taylor Dayne, American singer
1962 – Peter Manley, English darts player
1963 – Bill Brochtrup, American actor
1963 – Denyce Graves, American singer
1964 – Bret Easton Ellis, American writer
1964 – Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedienne
1965 – Jack Armstrong, American baseball player
1965 – Steve Beuerlein, American football player
1965 – Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
1966 – Joy Tanner, American actress
1967 – Ai Yazawa, Japanese mangaka
1968 – Denis Boucher, Canadian baseball player
1968 – Jeff Kent, American baseball player
1969 – Warrel Dane, American singer (Nevermore)
1969 – Hideki Noda, Japanese racing driver
1969 – Shin Ae Ra, Korean actress and radio DJ
1971 – 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, Quebec actress
1973 – Ray Parlour, English footballer
1973 – Sébastien Izambard, operatic pop singer (Il Divo)
1973 – Jason Bright, Australian racing driver
1974 – Larry Bagby, American actor and musician
1974 – Jenna Fischer, American actress
1974 – Facundo Sava, Argentine footballer
1976 – Chelsea Charms, American adult actress
1977 – Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer
1977 – Ronan O Gara, Irish rugby union footballer
1977 – Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer
1980 – Éric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Laura Prepon, American 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 – Brandon T. Jackson, American actor
1984 – Dani Woodward, American pornographic star
1985 – Thomas Erak, American guitarist
1985 – Andre Fluellen, American football player
1986 – Ben Griffin, Australian soccer player
1989 – Gerald Anderson, Filipino actor and model
1990 – Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
1992 – Bel Powley, English Actress
Deaths
161 – Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)
203 – Perpetua and Felicitas, Christian martyrs (perhaps after 209)
308 – Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr
851 – Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
1226 – William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader
1274 – Thomas Aquinas, 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 André Fouqué, French geologist (b. 1828)
1913 – Emily Pauline Johnson, Native Canadian poet
1928 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851)
1932 – Aristide Briand, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1938 – Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
1939 – John Jules Barrish, Irish writer (b. 1885)
1949 – Francis Dodd, English artist (b. 1874)
1949 – Bradbury Robinson, who threw the first forward pass in American football history in 1906 (b. 1884)
1952 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)
1954 – Otto Diels, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
1957 – Wyndham Lewis, British author (b. 1882)
1967 – Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
1974 – Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (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 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-Émile 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 Touré, Malian musician (b. 1939)
2006 – Gordon Parks, photographer (b. 1912)
2006 – John Junkin, British performer (b. 1930)
Holidays and observances
Albania — Teacher s Day
Bali, Indonesia – Day of Silence (Nyepi)
Catholicism — Feast day of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas, patron saint of married women
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