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Day in History: March 7th
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March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in leap years). There are 299 days remaining. Interesting fact: Roman Emperor Constantine started the tradition of rest on Sundays on this day in 321 AD.
| | 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 |
| | 1798 - The French army enters in 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. |
| | 1815 - Napoleon I of France meets troops of the Fifth Regiment sent by Louise XVIII at Grenoble, and convinces them to join him on his march to Paris. |
| | 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. |
| | 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,464). |
| | 1918 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany. |
| | 1936 - World War II: 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, Germany and begin to cross. |
| | 1947 - The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War. |
| | 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 - Vietnam War: The First Battle of Saigon begins. |
| | 1984 - The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua. |
| | 1987 - Mike Tyson adds the WBA World Heavyweight boxing championship to his WBC one when he beats James Smith after a 12-round fight in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
| | 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. |
| | 2002 - The Network Against Prohibition forms in Darwin, Australia. |
| | 2005 - Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for women's voting rights in Kuwait. |
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