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The 7t o Mairch is the 66t day o the year (67t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 299 days ti come.
Events
1876: Telephone demonstration, portrayed bi an actor in 1926
1897: Cornflakes
- 161 – Emperor Antoninus Pius dies an is succeedit bi his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius an Lucius Verus.
- 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is gien a patent for the telephone.
- 1897 – Cornflakes are served for the first time, at a sanatorium in Michigan.
- 1900 – German liner "SS Wilhelm der Grosse" becomes the first ship tae send a wireless signals tae shore.
- 1912 – Roald Amundsen propales that his expedeetion successfully reached the Sooth Pole on 14 December 1911.
- 1936 – Germany re-occupies the Rhineland, agin the terms o the Treaty o Versailles.
- 1945 – Warld War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Brig in Remagen, Germany.
- 1965 – 600 ceevil richts mairchers are brutally attackit bi polis durin a peaceful protest in Selma, Alabama, Unitit States.
- 1989 – The Unitit Kinrick an Iran break off diplomatic relations ower a daith warrant issued bi Iran against the writer Salman Rushdie.
- 1992 – Eduard Shevardnadze becomes Heid o state o Georgie.
- 2009 – The Kepler space observatory is launched.
- 2009 – The Real IRA kills twa Breetish soldiers an twa civilians at an attack on a militar barracks in Coonty Antrim, Northren Ireland.
- 2010 – Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman tae win the Academy Awaird for Best Director.
- 2014 – The Winter Paralympic Gemmes in Sochi, Soothren Roushie, stairt.
- 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Maldives, Maltae, Moldovae an Paraguay record thair first COVID-19 cases.
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 - Sir Eduardo 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 - Sir Ranulph 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 - Saunt Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher (b. 1225)
- 1724 - Pape Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
- 1925 - William Peck, Scots astronomer (b. 1862)
- 1932 - Aristide Briand, Prime meenister o Fraunce (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
- The 7t o Mairch is 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
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