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Events on the 7th of March in history

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07 Mar 0161 Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
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07 Mar 0238 Roman subjects in the province of Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor.
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07 Mar 0321 Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
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07 Mar 1138 Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German King
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07 Mar 1277 Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
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07 Mar 1560 Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, N Africa
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07 Mar 1573 Turkey and Venice signs peace treaty
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07 Mar 1573 A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–73) and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.
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07 Mar 1633 Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself Viceroy of Limburg
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07 Mar 1644 Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies
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07 Mar 1696 English King Willem III departs Netherlands
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07 Mar 1774 British close port of Boston to all commerce
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07 Mar 1778 Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
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07 Mar 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
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07 Mar 1801 Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
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07 Mar 1814 Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
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07 Mar 1824 Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto, " premieres in Venice
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07 Mar 1827 Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
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07 Mar 1827 Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
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07 Mar 1843 1st Catholic Governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
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07 Mar 1847 US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
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07 Mar 1848 In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
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07 Mar 1850 Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
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07 Mar 1850 Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
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07 Mar 1851 Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends
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07 Mar 1852 Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law
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07 Mar 1854 Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
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07 Mar 1857 Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
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07 Mar 1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch and McIntosh killed
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07 Mar 1862 American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
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07 Mar 1870 Cin Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest and East
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07 Mar 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
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07 Mar 1876 Battle at Gura: Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
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07 Mar 1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
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07 Mar 1900 Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees
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07 Mar 1900 Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 games
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07 Mar 1900 The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
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07 Mar 1902 Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal
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07 Mar 1902 Second Boer War: In the Battle of Tweebosch, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war.
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07 Mar 1906 Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor
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07 Mar 1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
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07 Mar 1911 US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
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07 Mar 1911 Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, CA, patents coin-operated locker
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07 Mar 1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
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07 Mar 1912 Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
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07 Mar 1914 Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania
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07 Mar 1914 Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
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07 Mar 1917 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step, " recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden, New Jersey
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07 Mar 1921 Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt
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07 Mar 1922 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
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07 Mar 1922 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
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07 Mar 1925 American Negro Congress organizes
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07 Mar 1926 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY)
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07 Mar 1927 Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan
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07 Mar 1930 Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball
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07 Mar 1932 Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4
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07 Mar 1933 Game of "Monopoly" invented
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07 Mar 1935 Saar incorporated into Germany
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07 Mar 1936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
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07 Mar 1936 Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
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07 Mar 1937 Bucharin, Jagoda and Rykov pushed out of CPSU in the USSR
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07 Mar 1939 Glamour magazine begins publishing
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07 Mar 1939 Guy Lombardo and Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"
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07 Mar 1940 Montreal Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home
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07 Mar 1940 Ray Steele beats B Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ
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07 Mar 1941 3rd largest snowfall in NYC history (18.1")
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07 Mar 1941 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece
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07 Mar 1941 British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
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07 Mar 1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta
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07 Mar 1942 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
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07 Mar 1943 General Major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia
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07 Mar 1944 Japans begins offensive in Burma
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07 Mar 1945 Cologne taken by allied armies
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07 Mar 1945 US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine
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07 Mar 1945 Yugoslavia government of Tito forms
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07 Mar 1945 World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen.
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07 Mar 1946 "Three to Make Ready" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 323 performances
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07 Mar 1950 Ice Pairs Championship at London won by K Kennedy and P Kennedy (USA)
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07 Mar 1950 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova CZE
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07 Mar 1950 Men Figure Skating Championship in London won by Richard Button (USA)
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07 Mar 1950 Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
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07 Mar 1951 Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
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07 Mar 1954 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
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07 Mar 1954 Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competition
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07 Mar 1955 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas and Loretta Young
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07 Mar 1955 Baseball Commish Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter
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07 Mar 1955 Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
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07 Mar 1958 Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo
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07 Mar 1959 "Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 925 performances
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07 Mar 1959 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow)
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07 Mar 1959 West Indies all out 76 vs. Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34
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07 Mar 1960 Dutch Builders strike for CLA
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07 Mar 1962 Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio
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07 Mar 1962 Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data)
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07 Mar 1965 Alabama state troopers and 600 black protestors clash in Selma
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07 Mar 1965 Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for New Zealand after ton
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07 Mar 1965 Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile
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07 Mar 1965 Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
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07 Mar 1966 "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 457 performances
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07 Mar 1967 Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)
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07 Mar 1968 Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
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07 Mar 1970 Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov (URS)
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07 Mar 1970 Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina and Ulanov (URS)
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07 Mar 1970 Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR)
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07 Mar 1970 WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
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07 Mar 1971 Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire
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07 Mar 1971 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivers his historic speech at Suhrawardy Udyan.
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07 Mar 1973 Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
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07 Mar 1974 "Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
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07 Mar 1974 1st general striking in Ethiopia
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07 Mar 1975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
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07 Mar 1976 Morocco and Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria
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07 Mar 1977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter
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07 Mar 1978 Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped
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07 Mar 1978 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb
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07 Mar 1979 Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro and amateur umpires
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07 Mar 1979 Warren Giles and Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
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07 Mar 1981 "Bring Back Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 4 performances
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07 Mar 1981 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
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07 Mar 1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf Classic
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07 Mar 1982 Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 m indoor (49.59 seconds)
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07 Mar 1982 NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time
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07 Mar 1983 TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV
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07 Mar 1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
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07 Mar 1985 The song "We Are the World" receives its international release.
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07 Mar 1986 South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant and Limburg ends
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07 Mar 1986 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
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07 Mar 1986 Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
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07 Mar 1987 Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
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07 Mar 1988 Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E Sullivan Award
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07 Mar 1989 Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland)
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07 Mar 1989 Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
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07 Mar 1990 3 passengers killed and 162 injured as subway train derails (Philadelphia)
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07 Mar 1991 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
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07 Mar 1992 Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.78)
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07 Mar 1993 23rd Easter Seal Telethon raises
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07 Mar 1994 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top wins
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07 Mar 1994 ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
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07 Mar 1994 Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia
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07 Mar 1994 David Platt appointed captain of English football team
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07 Mar 1994 US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
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07 Mar 1995 Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record)
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07 Mar 1995 New York becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
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07 Mar 1996 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
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07 Mar 1996 Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists
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07 Mar 1997 11th Soul Train Music Awards
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07 Mar 1997 Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome and Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site
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07 Mar 2006 The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
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07 Mar 2007 The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
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07 Mar 2009 The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.
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07 Mar 2009 The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.
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07 Mar 2014 The opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Paralympics take place in Sochi, Russia.
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