March 7
1530 - Pope Clement VII threatened to excommunicate England's King Henry VIII if he went through with plans to marry Anne Boleyn, who became Henry's second wife after Catherine of Aragon. (The pope made good on his excommunication threat in 1533.)
1793 - During the French Revolutionary Wars, France declared war on Spain.
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.
1918 - Japanese corporation Panasonic had its beginnings as Konosuke Matsushita founded Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works in Osaka.
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 his 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 - Peaceful civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma, Alabama were brutally attacked with billy clubs and tear gas by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The event became known as "Bloody Sunday".
1975 - The U.S. 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.
2004 - V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire was invested as the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church.
2005 - John R. Bolton was nominated by President George W. Bush to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
2008 - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power, who was acting as an adviser to Barack Obama, resigned after calling rival Hillary Rodham Clinton "a monster."
2010 - Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director for her Iraq War thriller "The Hurt Locker," which won six Oscars, including best picture.
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.
Birthdays
23 - Haley Lu Richardson (actress)
23 - Hailey Clauson (model)
24 - Devon Windsor (model)
26 - Bel Powley (actress)
28 - Kimberley Garner (reality star)
34 - Brandon T. Jackson (actor)
36 - Nora Danish (actress)
38 - Laura Prepon (actress)
43 - TJ Thyne (actor)
43 - Audrey Marie Anderson (actress)
43 - Sarayu Rao (actress)
44 - Tobias Menzies (actor)
44 - Jenna Fischer (actress)
47 - Peter Sarsgaard (actor)
48 - Rachel Weisz (actress)
54 - Wanda Sykes (comedian)
56 - Taylor Dayne (actress/singer)
57 - Mary Beth Evans (actress)
58 - Ivan Lendl (tennis player)
59 - Tom Lehman (golfer)
59 - Donna Murphy (actress)
59 - Nick Searcy (actor)
62 - Bryan Cranston (actor)
66 - Lynn Swann (football player)
68 - Franco Harris (football player)
72 - Peter Wolf (singer)
76 - Michael Eisner (former head of Disney)
84 - Willard Scott (TV host)
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Today in Sports History - March 7
1857 - Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 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.
1951 - Ezzard Charles won a 15-round decision over Jersey Joe Walcott. It was Charles' eighth heavyweight title defense.
1954 - The NBA raised the baskets from 10 feet to 12 feet for an exhibition game between the Minneapolis Lakers and Milwaukee Hawks.
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 record.
1974 - New Orleans became the 18th NBA franchise. The team was bought by nine people for $6.15 million.
1979 - Warren Giles and Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame.
1982 - The NCAA men's college basketball tournament field was announced on television for the first time.
1983 - ESPN televised the first live professional football game on cable. The game was between the USFL's Birmingham Stallions and the Michigan Panthers.
1986 - Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist.
1987 - Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight titlist when he beat James Smith in a decision during a 12-round fight in Las Vegas, NV.
1995 - Dominique Wilkins (Boston Celtics) became the ninth NBA player to achieve 25,000 career points.
1996 - Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers became the second player in NBA history to record 10,000 career 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.
2006 - In their World Baseball Classic debut, the United States defeats Mexico 2-0.
1530 - Pope Clement VII threatened to excommunicate England's King Henry VIII if he went through with plans to marry Anne Boleyn, who became Henry's second wife after Catherine of Aragon. (The pope made good on his excommunication threat in 1533.)
1793 - During the French Revolutionary Wars, France declared war on Spain.
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.
1918 - Japanese corporation Panasonic had its beginnings as Konosuke Matsushita founded Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works in Osaka.
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 his 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 - Peaceful civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma, Alabama were brutally attacked with billy clubs and tear gas by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The event became known as "Bloody Sunday".
1975 - The U.S. 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.
2004 - V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire was invested as the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church.
2005 - John R. Bolton was nominated by President George W. Bush to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
2008 - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power, who was acting as an adviser to Barack Obama, resigned after calling rival Hillary Rodham Clinton "a monster."
2010 - Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director for her Iraq War thriller "The Hurt Locker," which won six Oscars, including best picture.
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.
Birthdays
23 - Haley Lu Richardson (actress)
23 - Hailey Clauson (model)
24 - Devon Windsor (model)
26 - Bel Powley (actress)
28 - Kimberley Garner (reality star)
34 - Brandon T. Jackson (actor)
36 - Nora Danish (actress)
38 - Laura Prepon (actress)
43 - TJ Thyne (actor)
43 - Audrey Marie Anderson (actress)
43 - Sarayu Rao (actress)
44 - Tobias Menzies (actor)
44 - Jenna Fischer (actress)
47 - Peter Sarsgaard (actor)
48 - Rachel Weisz (actress)
54 - Wanda Sykes (comedian)
56 - Taylor Dayne (actress/singer)
57 - Mary Beth Evans (actress)
58 - Ivan Lendl (tennis player)
59 - Tom Lehman (golfer)
59 - Donna Murphy (actress)
59 - Nick Searcy (actor)
62 - Bryan Cranston (actor)
66 - Lynn Swann (football player)
68 - Franco Harris (football player)
72 - Peter Wolf (singer)
76 - Michael Eisner (former head of Disney)
84 - Willard Scott (TV host)
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Today in Sports History - March 7
1857 - Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 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.
1951 - Ezzard Charles won a 15-round decision over Jersey Joe Walcott. It was Charles' eighth heavyweight title defense.
1954 - The NBA raised the baskets from 10 feet to 12 feet for an exhibition game between the Minneapolis Lakers and Milwaukee Hawks.
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 record.
1974 - New Orleans became the 18th NBA franchise. The team was bought by nine people for $6.15 million.
1979 - Warren Giles and Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame.
1982 - The NCAA men's college basketball tournament field was announced on television for the first time.
1983 - ESPN televised the first live professional football game on cable. The game was between the USFL's Birmingham Stallions and the Michigan Panthers.
1986 - Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist.
1987 - Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight titlist when he beat James Smith in a decision during a 12-round fight in Las Vegas, NV.
1995 - Dominique Wilkins (Boston Celtics) became the ninth NBA player to achieve 25,000 career points.
1996 - Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers became the second player in NBA history to record 10,000 career 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.
2006 - In their World Baseball Classic debut, the United States defeats Mexico 2-0.
