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 &ndash; Emperor Antoninus Pius dies an is succeedit bi his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius an Lucius Verus.
* 1876 &ndash; Alexander Graham Bell is gien a patent for the telephone.
* 1897 &ndash; Cornflakes are served for the first time, at a sanatorium in Michigan.
* 1900 &ndash; German liner "SS Wilhelm der Grosse" becomes the first ship tae send a wireless signals tae shore.
* 1912 &ndash; Roald Amundsen propales that his expedeetion successfully reached the Sooth Pole on 14 December 1911.
* 1936 &ndash; Germany re-occupies the Rhineland, agin the terms o the Treaty o Versailles.
* 1945 &ndash; Warld War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Brig in Remagen, Germany.
* 1965 &ndash; 600 ceevil richts mairchers are brutally attackit bi polis durin a peaceful protest in Selma, Alabama, Unitit States.
* 1989 &ndash; The Unitit Kinrick an Iran break off diplomatic relations ower a daith warrant issued bi Iran against the writer Salman Rushdie.
* 1992 &ndash; Eduard Shevardnadze becomes Heid o state o Georgie.
* 2009 &ndash; The Kepler space observatory is launched.
* 2009 &ndash; The Real IRA kills twa Breetish soldiers an twa civilians at an attack on a militar barracks in Coonty Antrim, Northren Ireland.
* 2010 &ndash; Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman tae win the Academy Awaird for Best Director.
* 2014 &ndash; The Winter Paralympic Gemmes in Sochi, Soothren Roushie, stairt.
* 2020 &ndash; 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