SEVENTH
OF MARCH
The 7th of March is the 66th Day of the Year (67th on a leap year)
BORN AGAIN VN
7th
March 1966
MY
BIRTHDAY
7th March 161
Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies.
He is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
7th
March 321
Roman
Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis invicti (sun-day)
is the day of rest in the Empire.
7th
March 1744
The
first official rules of golf are
recorded in the minutes of Edinburgh Council
after players at Leith Links demanded that the rules be written down
before a competition.
7th
March 1850
DANIEL WEBSTER'S
7th of March Speech
7th
March 1876
Telephone
patented by Alexander Graham Bell in the United States
7th
March 1900
Buckingham
Palace's roof is partly destroyed by fire
7th
March 1926
First transatlantic
telephone call between London &
New York City
7th
March 1962
Royal College of Physicians report
highlighted the dangers of
Smoking.
7th
March 1965
American
Marines land in South Vietnam
7th
March 1965
"When
you pray, move your feet"
About 525 people began a 54 mile march from Selma, Alabama
To the state capital in Montgomery. They were demonstrating
for African American voting rights and to commemorate the
death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, shot three weeks earlier by
a sate trooper while trying to protect his mother at a
civil rights demonstration.
On the
outskirts of Selma, after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the
marchers, in plain sight of photographers and journalists, were brutally
assaulted by heavily armed state troopers and deputies.
This day became known as Bloody Sunday.
7th
March 1968
The
BBC broadcasts colour television for the first time.
7th
March 1988
Three
members of the IRA are shot dead by SAS soldiers Gibraltar.
7th
March 1989
Chinese
occupying forces fire on Tibetan monks and civilians
7th March 2003
Lord Goldsmith informs Tony Blair that case for invading Iraq was illegal.
Spongebob Squarepants The Movie is set on the 7th March
