March 7
1850 - In a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.
1911 - President William Howard Taft ordered 20,000 troops to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the Mexican Revolution.
1916 - Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) had its beginnings in Munich, Germany as an airplane engine manufacturer.
1926 - The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York City and London.
1936 - Adolf Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact when he ordered troops to march into the Rhineland.
1945 - During World War II, U.S. troops crossed the bridge at Remagen, the first incursion into Germany by Allied forces.
1965 - Peace civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma, Alabama, are brutally attacked with billy clubs and tear gas by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The event is later called "Bloody Sunday".
1975 - The Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
1989 - Iran broke off diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's novel Satanic Verses.
1994 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a parody that pokes fun at an original work can be considered "fair use". (The ruling concerned a parody of the Roy Orbison song "Oh, Pretty Woman" by the rap group 2 Live Crew.)
1996 - Three U.S. servicemen were convicted in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawa girl and sentenced by a Japanese court to up to seven years in prison.
1999 - Movie director Stanley Kubrick, whose films included “Dr. Strangelove,” “A Clockwork Orange” and “2001: A Space Odyssey,” died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70, having just finished editing “Eyes Wide Shut.”
2004 - V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire was invested as the first openly gay Episcopal Church bishop.
2005 - John R. Bolton was nominated by President George W. Bush to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, an appointment that ran into Democratic opposition, prompting Bush to make a recess appointment.
2010 - Iraq held an election in which neither the Sunni-backed coalition nor the Shiite political bloc won a majority, spawning an eight-month deadlock and stalling formation of a new government.
2011 - Reversing course, President Barack Obama approved the resumption of military trials at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ending a two-year ban.
2011 - Charlie Sheen was fired from the sitcom "Two and a Half Men" by Warner Bros. Television following repeated misbehavior and weeks of the actor's angry, often-manic media campaign against his studio bosses.
2017 - WikiLeaks published thousands of documents described as secret files about CIA hacking tools the government employed to break into users’ computers, mobile phones and even smart TVs from companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung.
2017 - The Commerce Department reported the U.S. trade deficit jumped in January 2017 by 9.6 percent to $48.5 billion, the highest level in nearly five years as a flood of mobile phones and other consumer products widened America’s trade gap with China.
2021 - In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, their first since they stepped aside from royal duties, Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, spoke of racism and mistreatment from within the royal family; Meghan, who is biracial, said the palace had failed to help her when she had suicidal thoughts, and that a member of the royal family had raised “concerns” about the color of her baby’s skin when she was pregnant with her son, Archie.
Birthdays
27 - Haley Lu Richardson (actress)
27 - Christina Nadin (model)
30 - Bel Powley (actress)
42 - Laura Prepon (actress)
47 - TJ Thyne (actor)
47 - Audrey Marie Anderson (actress)
48 - Tobias Menzies (actor)
48 - Jenna Fischer (actress)
48 - Jolie Jenkins (actress)
49 - Jay Duplass (actor)
51 - Peter Sarsgaard (actor)
52 - Rachel Weisz (actress)
56 - Jonathan Del Arco (actor)
58 - Wanda Sykes (actress/comedian)
59 - Bil Brochtrup (actor)
60 - Taylor Dayne (actor/singer)
61 - Mary Beth Evans (actress)
62 - Ivan Lendl (tennis player)
63 - Tom Lehman (golfer)
63 - Nick Searcy (actor)
63 - Donna Murphy (actress)
66 - Bryan Cranston (actor)
70 - Ernie Isley (singer)
70 - Lynn Swann (football player)
72 - Franco Harris (football player)
76 - Peter Wolf (singer)
80 - Michael Eisner (entertainment executive)
82 - Daniel J. Travanti (actor)
84 - Janet Guthrie (race car driver)
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Today in Sports History - March 7
1857 - Professional baseball officials rule that an official game shall consist of nine innings and not nine runs.
1939 - The Boston Bruins won the Prince Wales Trophy when they clinched the NHL regular season championship. This marked the first time the Prince of Wales Trophy was awarded for this reason.
1954 - The NBA raised the baskets from 10 feet to 12 feet for an exhibition game between the Minneapolis Lakers and Milwaukee Hawks.
1954 - The Soviet Union defeated Canada in the first international ice hockey competition.
1955 - Baseball commissioner Ford Frick said that he was in favor of legalizing the spitball.
1970 - Austin Carr (Notre Dame) scored 61 points against Ohio University. The feat was an NCAA tournament single-game record.
1974 - New Orleans became the 18th NBA franchise. The team was bought by nine people for $6.15 million.
1982 - The NCAA college basketball tournament selections were televised for the first time.
1987 - Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight titlist in history at age 20 when he beat James Smith in a decision during a 12-round fight in Las Vegas for the WBA and WBC championships.
1995 - Dominique Wilkins (Boston Celtics) became the ninth NBA player to achieve 25,000 career points.
1996 - Magic Johnson (Los Angeles Lakers) became the second player to reach 10,000 assists.
1998 - Wayne Gretzky (New York Rangers) scored his 1,000th NHL goal. He had scored 878 regular season goals and 122 goals in the playoffs.
2012 - The Indianapolis Colts released injured quarterback Peyton Manning, who went on to play for the Denver Broncos.
2016 - Peyton Manning announced his retirement from football after 18 seasons in the NFL.
2016 - Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova announces a failed drug test at the Australian Open and is subsequently suspended for 15 months.
1850 - In a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.
1911 - President William Howard Taft ordered 20,000 troops to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the Mexican Revolution.
1916 - Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) had its beginnings in Munich, Germany as an airplane engine manufacturer.
1926 - The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York City and London.
1936 - Adolf Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact when he ordered troops to march into the Rhineland.
1945 - During World War II, U.S. troops crossed the bridge at Remagen, the first incursion into Germany by Allied forces.
1965 - Peace civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma, Alabama, are brutally attacked with billy clubs and tear gas by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The event is later called "Bloody Sunday".
1975 - The Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
1989 - Iran broke off diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's novel Satanic Verses.
1994 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a parody that pokes fun at an original work can be considered "fair use". (The ruling concerned a parody of the Roy Orbison song "Oh, Pretty Woman" by the rap group 2 Live Crew.)
1996 - Three U.S. servicemen were convicted in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawa girl and sentenced by a Japanese court to up to seven years in prison.
1999 - Movie director Stanley Kubrick, whose films included “Dr. Strangelove,” “A Clockwork Orange” and “2001: A Space Odyssey,” died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70, having just finished editing “Eyes Wide Shut.”
2004 - V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire was invested as the first openly gay Episcopal Church bishop.
2005 - John R. Bolton was nominated by President George W. Bush to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, an appointment that ran into Democratic opposition, prompting Bush to make a recess appointment.
2010 - Iraq held an election in which neither the Sunni-backed coalition nor the Shiite political bloc won a majority, spawning an eight-month deadlock and stalling formation of a new government.
2011 - Reversing course, President Barack Obama approved the resumption of military trials at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ending a two-year ban.
2011 - Charlie Sheen was fired from the sitcom "Two and a Half Men" by Warner Bros. Television following repeated misbehavior and weeks of the actor's angry, often-manic media campaign against his studio bosses.
2017 - WikiLeaks published thousands of documents described as secret files about CIA hacking tools the government employed to break into users’ computers, mobile phones and even smart TVs from companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung.
2017 - The Commerce Department reported the U.S. trade deficit jumped in January 2017 by 9.6 percent to $48.5 billion, the highest level in nearly five years as a flood of mobile phones and other consumer products widened America’s trade gap with China.
2021 - In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, their first since they stepped aside from royal duties, Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, spoke of racism and mistreatment from within the royal family; Meghan, who is biracial, said the palace had failed to help her when she had suicidal thoughts, and that a member of the royal family had raised “concerns” about the color of her baby’s skin when she was pregnant with her son, Archie.
Birthdays
27 - Haley Lu Richardson (actress)
27 - Christina Nadin (model)
30 - Bel Powley (actress)
42 - Laura Prepon (actress)
47 - TJ Thyne (actor)
47 - Audrey Marie Anderson (actress)
48 - Tobias Menzies (actor)
48 - Jenna Fischer (actress)
48 - Jolie Jenkins (actress)
49 - Jay Duplass (actor)
51 - Peter Sarsgaard (actor)
52 - Rachel Weisz (actress)
56 - Jonathan Del Arco (actor)
58 - Wanda Sykes (actress/comedian)
59 - Bil Brochtrup (actor)
60 - Taylor Dayne (actor/singer)
61 - Mary Beth Evans (actress)
62 - Ivan Lendl (tennis player)
63 - Tom Lehman (golfer)
63 - Nick Searcy (actor)
63 - Donna Murphy (actress)
66 - Bryan Cranston (actor)
70 - Ernie Isley (singer)
70 - Lynn Swann (football player)
72 - Franco Harris (football player)
76 - Peter Wolf (singer)
80 - Michael Eisner (entertainment executive)
82 - Daniel J. Travanti (actor)
84 - Janet Guthrie (race car driver)
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Today in Sports History - March 7
1857 - Professional baseball officials rule that an official game shall consist of nine innings and not nine runs.
1939 - The Boston Bruins won the Prince Wales Trophy when they clinched the NHL regular season championship. This marked the first time the Prince of Wales Trophy was awarded for this reason.
1954 - The NBA raised the baskets from 10 feet to 12 feet for an exhibition game between the Minneapolis Lakers and Milwaukee Hawks.
1954 - The Soviet Union defeated Canada in the first international ice hockey competition.
1955 - Baseball commissioner Ford Frick said that he was in favor of legalizing the spitball.
1970 - Austin Carr (Notre Dame) scored 61 points against Ohio University. The feat was an NCAA tournament single-game record.
1974 - New Orleans became the 18th NBA franchise. The team was bought by nine people for $6.15 million.
1982 - The NCAA college basketball tournament selections were televised for the first time.
1987 - Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight titlist in history at age 20 when he beat James Smith in a decision during a 12-round fight in Las Vegas for the WBA and WBC championships.
1995 - Dominique Wilkins (Boston Celtics) became the ninth NBA player to achieve 25,000 career points.
1996 - Magic Johnson (Los Angeles Lakers) became the second player to reach 10,000 assists.
1998 - Wayne Gretzky (New York Rangers) scored his 1,000th NHL goal. He had scored 878 regular season goals and 122 goals in the playoffs.
2012 - The Indianapolis Colts released injured quarterback Peyton Manning, who went on to play for the Denver Broncos.
2016 - Peyton Manning announced his retirement from football after 18 seasons in the NFL.
2016 - Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova announces a failed drug test at the Australian Open and is subsequently suspended for 15 months.
