7 Mairch

The7t o Mairchis the 66t day o the year (67t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 299 days ti come.

Events

1876:Telephonedemonstration, portrayed bi an actor in1926

1897:Cornflakes

• 161– EmperorAntoninus Piusdies an is succeedit bi his adoptive sonsMarcus AureliusanLucius Verus.
• 1876–Alexander Graham Bellis gien a patent for thetelephone.
• 1897–Cornflakesare served for the first time, at a sanatorium inMichigan.
• 1900– German liner "SS Wilhelm der Grosse" becomes the firstshiptae send a wireless signals tae shore.
• 1912–Roald Amundsenpropales that his expedeetion successfully reached theSooth Poleon14 December1911.
• 1936–Germanyre-occupies theRhineland,agin the terms o theTreaty o Versailles.
• 1945–Warld War II:American troops seize the Ludendorff Brig in Remagen,Germany.
• 1965– 600 ceevil richts mairchers are brutally attackit bipolisdurin a peaceful protest in Selma,Alabama,Unitit States.
• 1989– TheUnitit KinrickanIranbreak off diplomatic relations ower a daith warrant issued biIranagainst the writerSalman Rushdie.
• 1992–Eduard Shevardnadzebecomes Heid o state oGeorgie.
• 2009– The Keplerspaceobservatory is launched.
• 2009– The RealIRAkills twa Breetish soldiers an twa civilians at an attack on a militar barracks inCoonty Antrim,Northren Ireland.
• 2010–Kathryn Bigelowbecomes the first woman tae win theAcademy Awaird for Best Director.
• 2014– TheWinterParalympic GemmesinSochi,SoothrenRoushie,stairt.
• 2020–COVID-19 pandemic:TheMaldives,Maltae,MoldovaeanParaguayrecord thair firstCOVID-19cases.

Births

Piet Mondrian

Bryan Cranston

• 189-Publius Septimius Geta,Roman Emperor (d.211)
• 1671-Rab Roy MacGregor,Scots fowk hero (d.1734)
• 1693-Pape Clement XIII(d.1769)
• 1785-Alessandro Manzoni,Italian poet an novelist (d.1873)
• 1792-John Herschel,Inglis mathemateecian, astronomer an chemist (d.1871)
• 1850-Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk,Czechoslovak statesman (d.1937)
• 1872-Piet Mondrian,Dutch airtist (d.1944)
• 1875-Maurice Ravel,French componer (d.1937)
• 1904-Reinhard Heydrich,German SS officer (d.1942)
• 1908-Anna Magnani,Italian actress (d.1973)
• 1921-Willie Waddell,Scots fitbawer (d.1992)
• 1924- SirEduardo Paolozzi,Scots airtist an sculptor (d.2005)
• 1938-Alan Cousin,Scots fitbawer (d.2016)
• 1938-Albert Fert,French pheesicist
• 1940-Rudi Dutschke,German student leader (d.1979)
• 1944- SirRanulph Fiennes,Inglis splorer
• 1952-William Boyd,Scots writer
• 1956-Bryan Cranston,American actor an director
• 1960-Ivan Lendl,Czech-American tennis player
• 1964-Tommy Sheridan,Scots politeecian
• 1970-Rachel Weisz,Inglis-American actress
• 1977-Ronan O'Gara,Erse rugby player
• 1980-Laura Prepon,American actress
• 1981-Colin Nish,Scots fitbawer
• 1994-Jordan Pickford,Inglis fitbawer

Daiths

• 161-Antoninus Pius,Roman Emperor (b.86)
• 1274- SauntThomas Aquinas,Italian philosopher (b.1225)
• 1724-Pape Innocent XIII(b.1655)
• 1925-William Peck,Scots astronomer (b.1862)
• 1932-Aristide Briand,Prime meenisteroFraunce(b.1862)
• 1952-Paramahansa Yogananda,Indian guru an philosopher (b.1893)
• 1954-Otto Diels,German chemist (b.1876)
• 1985-Danny Blair,Scots fitbawer (b.1905)
• 1997-Edward Mills Purcell,American pheesicist (b.1912)
• 1999-Stanley Kubrick,American director, producer an screenwriter (b.1928)
• 2017-Hans Georg Dehmelt,German-American pheesicist (b.1922)
• 2017-Ronald Drever,Scots pheesicist (b.1931)

Halidays

• The7t o Mairchis the eat day o the follaein saunts:

Sts. Perpetua an Felicity

St. Ardo

St. Theophylact

St. Deifer

St. Drausinus

St. Enodoch

Bl. John Ireland

Bl. John Larke

St. Paul o Prusa

St. Paul the Semple

St.Thomas Aquinas