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1040Mar 7Harold I, King of England (1035-40), died.
1774Mar 7A 2nd Boston tea party was held.
1835Mar 7HMS Beagle returned from Concepcion to Valparaiso.
1844Mar 7Anthony Comstock, anti-vice “crusader,” was born in New Canaan, Ct.
1854Mar 7Charles Miller patented the 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes.
1896Mar 7Gilbert and Sullivan’s last operetta “Grand Duke,” premiered in London.
1912Mar 7French aviator, Heri Seimet flew non-stop from London to Paris in three hours.
1918Mar 7Pres. Wilson authorized US Army’s Distinguished Service Medal.
1932Mar 7Riots at Ford factory in Dearborn, Michigan, killed 4.
1935Mar 7In an effort to reduce street noise, the city of New York revoked the licenses of all organ grinders.
1941Mar 7British troops invaded Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
1952Mar 7The U.S. signed a military aid pact with Cuba.
1966Mar 7Charles de Gaulle said he would pull France out of NATO’s integrated military command. French military personnel stepped down from their positions in NATO on July 1.
1968Mar 7The First Battle of Saigon, begun on Jan 30 as part of the Tet Offensive, ended.
1973Mar 7Pres. Nixon invited Thomas Pappas, a Greek-American businessman, to the oval office to thank him for money that was used to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars.
1977Mar 7Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin met with Pres. Carter in Washington.
1979Mar 7Voyager 1 reached Jupiter.
1983Mar 7Igor Markevitch (b.1912), Ukraine-born conductor, composer, died in Antibes.
1986Mar 7Jacob K. Javits (b.1904), (Sen-R-NY), died in Palm Beach, Fla.
1989Mar 7US Secretary of State James A. Baker III met with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Vienna, Austria. Baker agreed to visit Moscow the following May to discuss prospects for a summit between Pres. Bush and Soviet Pres. Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
1991 Mar 7In the wake of the allied victory in the Persian Gulf, Secretary of State James A. Baker the Third left for a tour of the Middle East, seeking to promote a new Arab-Israeli dialogue.
1994Mar 7The Supreme Court ruled that parodies that poke fun at an original work can be considered “fair use” that doesn’t require permission from the copyright holder.
1996Mar 7Bob Dole handily won the New York Republican primary.
1997Mar 7The first cross-adoption by 2 lesbians whose children were half-sisters took place in New York. The women had used the same sperm donor for their children.
1999Mar 7In Austrian state elections the anti-immigration Freedom Party of Joerg Haider won 42.1% of the vote in Carinthia.
2000Mar 7In Super Tuesday primaries Republican George W. Bush won 8 states to 4 for John McCain. Vice Pres. Gore won 14 states with none for Bill Bradley.
2001Mar 7Pres. Bush met with South Korea’s Pres. Kim Dae Jung and said he did not plan to resume talks with North Korea.
2002Mar 7The US House passed 417-3 a bill cutting taxes and extending unemployment benefits.
2003Mar 7The US and its allies moved to set March 17 as the final deadline for Saddam Hussein to prove he has given up his weapons of mass destruction.
2004Mar 7An investiture ceremony was held in Concord, N.H., for V. Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop.
2005Mar 7President Bush named John R. Bolton (56), undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, as US ambassador to the UN.
2006Mar 7The Bush administration drew a hard line on Iran, warning of “meaningful consequences” if the Islamic government did not back away from an international confrontation over its disputed nuclear program.
2007Mar 7Sex offender John Evander Couey was found guilty in Miami of kidnapping, raping and murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was buried alive.
2008Mar 7Congressman questioned ex-corporate CEOs on executive compensation as their companies lost billions in the subprime debacle.
2009Mar 7President Barack Obama promised to do “all that’s necessary” to boost the economy and warned, in an opening shot at critics of his budget proposals, that the country had tough choices ahead.
2010Mar 7Ethiopia inaugurated a museum in Addis Ababa in memory of the victims of former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam’s so-called Red Terror purge which killed tens of thousands in 1977-78.
2011Mar 7Pres. Obama cleared the way for new military trials for suspected terrorists at the Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
2012Mar 7Apple unveiled a third-generation iPad enhanced with features aimed at keeping it on top of the booming tablet computer market. The new iPad will go on sale March 16 in Canada, France, Germany and the United States at $499, the same price as the previous models, for the most basic iPad featuring wireless connectivity only.
2013Mar 7In Bangladesh over 100 people were reported killed over the last 3 days by law enforcement agencies under the pretext of controlling violence.
2014Mar 7US officials said Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael McClendon, accused of secretly photographing and videotaping a dozen women the US Military Academy at West Point, has agreed to a plea bargain that includes a 33-month sentence, loss of pay, reduction in rank to private and a bad-conduct discharge.
   
Source: Timelines of History 

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