7 Mairch

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 
 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 
 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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Category:Days o the year