TODAY HISTORY LESSON: MARCH 7
0161 Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire
1530 King Henry VIII’s divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England’s church
1774 The British close the port of Boston to all commerce.
1778 Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
1799 In Palestine, Napoleon captures Jaffa and his men massacre more than 2,000 Albanian prisoners.
1801 Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
1847 U.S. General Winfield Scott occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico.
1850 Daniel Webster gave a three-hour speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone.
1901 A grand jury indicted four citizens of Anderson, SC, that had been operating a slavery system in parts of South Carolina. It was determined that many African-Americans were captured while traveling, were jailed and then sent to work for local landowners.
1906 Finland becomes the third country to give women the right to vote, decreeing universal suffrage for all citizens over 24, however, barring those persons who are supported by the state.
1911 US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
1927 A Texas law that bans Negroes from voting is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
1933 The board game Monopoly is invented.
1936 Adolf Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact when he ordered troops to march into the Rhineland.
1965 Peaceful civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma, Ala., are brutally attacked with billy clubs and tear gas by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The event is later called Bloody Sunday.
1971 A speech by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman helps spark the Bangladesh war of independence
1975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
1979 Voyager 1 reaches Jupiter.
1981 Anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed the kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman. The guerrillas accused Bitterman of being a CIA agent.
1981 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
1991 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
1994 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that parodies that poke fun at an original work can be considered “fair use” that does not require permission from the copyright holder.
1994 ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
1994 US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
1996 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
2003 Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center announced that they had transferred 6.7 gigabytes of uncompressed data from Sunnvale, CA, to Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 58 seconds. The data was sent via fiber-optic cables and traveled 6,800 miles.
2004 V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire was invested as the first openly gay Episcopal Church bishop.
2017 In Malta, the Azure Window landmark collapsed into the sea after period of heavy storms.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
