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Events from History on March 07

1138 : Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king
1530 : King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then
1530 : declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church
1560 : Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, N Africa
1573 : Turkey & Venice signs peace treaty
1621 : John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies
1633 : Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg
1644 : Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies
1696 : English king Willem III departs Netherlands
1774 : British close port of Boston to all commerce
1778 : Capt James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
1801 : Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
1808 : Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro
1824 : Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto," premieres in Venice
1835 : HMS Beagle returns from Concepci¢n to Valparaiso
1843 : 1st Catholic governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
1847 : US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
1848 : In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
1850 : Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
1851 : Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends
1852 : Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law
1854 : Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
1857 : Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
1862 : Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch & McIntosh killed
1865 : -10] Battles round Kinston NC
1870 : Cin Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest & East
1872 : -8øF in Boston, MA
1876 : Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1876 : Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
1896 : Gilbert & Sullivan's last operette "Grand Duke," premieres in London
1900 : Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, Pres Kruger flees
1900 : Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 games
1902 : Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal
1906 : Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor
1908 : Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announces
1908 : that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
1911 : US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
1911 : Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, CA, patents coin-operated locker
1912 : Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
1914 : Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania
1917 : 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca
1917 : Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ
1918 : H Carroll & J McCarthy's musical "Oh, Look!," premieres in NYC
1918 : Pres Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal
1921 : Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt
1922 : US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
1922 : US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
1924 : #1704 Wachmann, #2157 Ashbrook, #3035 & #3473
1925 : American Negro Congress organizes
1926 : 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY)
1927 : Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan
1932 : Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4
1933 : Game of "Monopoly" invented
1935 : Saar incorporated into Germany
1936 : Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
1937 : Bucharin, Jagoda & Rykov pushed out of CPSU in USSR
1939 : Glamour magazine begins publishing
1939 : Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"
1940 : Ray Steele beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1941 : 3rd largest snowfall in NYC history (18.1")
1941 : 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece
1941 : British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1942 : 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta
1942 : 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
1943 : Gen-major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia
1944 : Japans begins offensive in Burma
1945 : Cologne taken by allied armies
1945 : US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine
1945 : Yugoslavia govt of Tito forms
1946 : "Three to Make Ready" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 323 perfs
1946 : Max Frisch' "Santa Cruz," premieres in Zrich
1950 : Ice Pairs Championship at London won by K Kennedy & P Kennedy (USA)
1950 : Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova CZE
1950 : Men Figure Skating Championship in London won by Richard Button (USA)
1951 : Lillian Hellman's "Autumn Garden," premieres in NYC
1953 : Jackie McGlew scores 255* v NZ at Wellington
1955 : 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas & Loretta Young
1955 : Baseball Commish Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter
1955 : Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
1958 : Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo
1959 : "Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 925 perfs
1959 : 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow)
1959 : West Indies all out 76 v Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34
1960 : Dutch Builders strike for CLA
1962 : Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio
1962 : Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data)
1965 : Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma
1965 : Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for NZ after ton
1965 : Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile
1966 : "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 457 performances
1966 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 : Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, premieres in NYC
1967 : Teamster pres Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding
1967 : the union & jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)
1969 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 : Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)
1970 : Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina & Ulanov (URS)
1970 : Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR)
1970 : Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA)
1970 : WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1971 : Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire
1973 : Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
1973 : Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh
1974 : "Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras NC
1974 : 1st general striking in Ethiopia
1975 : Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
1975 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 : Morocco & Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria
1977 : Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
1977 : Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter
1978 : Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped
1978 : Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
1978 : Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb
1979 : Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro & amateur umpires
1981 : "Bring Back Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1981 : 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
1982 : Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 m indoor (49.59 sec)
1982 : NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time
1983 : TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV
1985 : IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
1986 : South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant & Limburg ends
1988 : Howard Stern's 1st pay-per-view "Underpants & Negligee Party"
1988 : Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E Sullivan Award
1989 : Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Rushdie's book
1989 : Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland)
1990 : 3 passengers killed & 162 injured as subway train derails (Phila)
1990 : H Wayne Huizenga buys « Joe Robbie Stadium & 15% of Dolphins for $30M
1991 : Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
1992 : Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.78)
1993 : 23rd Easter Seal Telethon raises
1993 : Diff'rent Stroke actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant
1994 : 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top wins
1994 : ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for
1994 : Charles Taylor resigns as pres of Liberia
1994 : David Platt appointed captain of English football team
1994 : US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
1994 : separate homeland in South Africa
1995 : Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record)
1995 : NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
1996 : 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
1996 : British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million œ order
1997 : Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome & Stockholm are finalists
1997 : for 2004 Olympics site
1997 : 11th Soul Train Music Awards
1997 : 5 sue Japanese PM Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has
1997 : violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life

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