03-07-2005, 05:02 AM
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March 7th
1274 ~ Death of Thomas Aquinas, Italian Scholastic Philosopher.
1792 ~ Birthday of John Herschel, Astronomer.
1850 ~ U.S. Senator Daniel Webster gave his Seventh of March speech in which he endorsed the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1875 ~ Birthday of Maurice Ravel, Composer.
1867 ~ Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,464).
1936 ~ World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupied the Rhineland.
1965 ~ In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully broke up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed Bloody Sunday.
1967 ~ Death of Alice B. Toklas, inspiration for a million brownies.
1999 ~ Death of Stanley Kubrick, Film Director.
2001 ~ The SpongeBob SquarePants You Wish TV special airs on Nickelodeon.
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