more events on March 7
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1979
Voyager 1 reaches Jupiter.
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1971
A thousand U.S. planes bomb Cambodia and Laos.
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1968
The Battle of Saigon, begun on the day of the Tet Offensive, ends.
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1951
U.N. forces in Korea under General Matthew Ridgeway launch Operation Ripper, an offensive to straighten out the U.N. front lines against the Chinese.
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1942
Japanese troops land on New Guinea.
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1936
Hitler sends German troops into the Rhineland, violating the Locarno Pact.
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1935
Malcolm Campbell sets an auto speed record of 276.8 mph in Florida.
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1933
The film King Kong premieres in New York City.
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The board game Monopoly is invented.
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1927
A Texas law that bans Negroes from voting is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
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1925
The Soviet Red Army occupies Outer Mongolia.
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1918
Finland signs an alliance treaty with Germany.
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1912
French aviator, Heri Seimet flies non-stop from London to Paris in three hours.
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1908
Anna Magnani, Italian actress.
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1907
Rolf Jacobsen, Norwegian poet.
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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.
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1904
Reinhard Heydrich, German SS leader and architect of the “Final Solution.”
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The Japanese bomb the Russian town of Vladivostok.
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1887
Helen Parkhurst, educator, developed a technique later known as the Dalton Plan.
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1876
Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone.
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1875
Maurice Ravel, composer (“Bolero”).
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1872
Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter, leader of the movement known as “de Stijl.”
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1862
Confederate forces surprise the Union army at the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas, but the Union is victorious.
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1849
The Austrian Reichstag is dissolved.
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1847
U.S. General Winfield Scott occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico.
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1838
Soprano Jenny Lind (“the Swedish Nightingale”) makes her debut in Weber’s opera Der Freischultz.
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1809
Aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard — the first person to make an aerial voyage in the New World — dies at the age of 56.
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1799
In Palestine, Napoleon captures Jaffa and his men massacre more than 2,000 Albanian prisoners.
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1774
The British close the port of Boston to all commerce.
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1707
Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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322
The Greek philosopher Aristotle dies.
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161
On the death of Antoninus at Lorium, Marcus Aurelius becomes emperor.