Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 7
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Artist's impression of the Kepler space telescope
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Teachers' Day in Albania | refimprove |
| 161 – Following the death of emperor Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus agreed to become co-Emperors in an unprecedented arrangement in the Roman Empire. | Verus: lots of CN tags (8) (Aurelius now appears on April 26 but can be deleted from there when Verus is eligible again) |
| 1799 – Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt: Napoleon's forces captured Jaffa in what is now Israel, and proceeded to kill more than two thousand Albanian captives. | lots of CN tags (3) in one section |
| 1827 – Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand, abducted young heiress Ellen Turner in Cheshire, England, for a forced marriage. | no footnotes |
| 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces engaged Confederate troops in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, fighting to a victory one day later that essentially cemented their control in Missouri. | single source |
| 1887 – The North Carolina General Assembly established North Carolina State University, today the largest university in North Carolina, as a land grant institution. | refimprove section |
| 1912 – Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen announced that he had successfully reached the South Pole during the Antarctic expedition of 1910–11. | refimprove sections; Expedition article featured on December 14 |
| 1914 – Prince Wilhelm of Wied began his short reign as sovereign prince of the newly independent state of Albania. | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| Franz Miklosich |d|1891| | refimprove section |
| E. Pauline Johnson |d|1913 | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 321 – Emperor Constantine I decreed that Sunday, the day honoring the sun god Sol Invictus (disc pictured), would be the Roman day of rest.
- 1277 – Bishop Étienne Tempier promulgated a condemnation of 219 heretical propositions that were being discussed at the University of Paris.
- 1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: Napoleon's army forced Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov's Russian troops to withdraw from the Chemin des Dames, but French casualties exceeded Russian losses.
- 1850 – United States senator Daniel Webster delivered a speech advocating compromise on slavery, which proved to be unpopular with abolitionists in his home state.
- 1900 – The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first ship to send a wireless telegraph message to an onshore receiver.
- 1936 – Nazi German forces re-occupied the demilitarized Rhineland, violating both the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties that were signed after World War I.
- 1945 – World War II: At the beginning of the Battle of Remagen, Allied forces unexpectedly captured the Ludendorff Bridge, which possibly hastened the war's conclusion.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam began Operation Truong Cong Dinh to sweep the area surrounding the Mekong Delta town of Mỹ Tho to root out Viet Cong forces in the area.
- 1985 – The charity single "We Are the World" by the supergroup USA for Africa was released, and went on to sell more than 20 million copies.
- 2009 – The Kepler space telescope (depicted), designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, was launched.
- 2009 – Dissident Irish republican campaign: Two off-duty British Army soldiers were shot dead by Real IRA paramilitaries outside Massereene Barracks in Antrim, Northern Ireland.
- Born/died: | Heraclianus |d|413| Ewald Christian von Kleist |b|1715| Boris Kustodiev |b|1878| Harriet Jacobs |d|1897| Tom Acker |b|1930| Viv Richards |b|1952| Nicolas Dupont-Aignan |b|1961| Nicola Willis |b|1981| Cool Papa Bell |d|1991
Notes
- Compromise of 1850 appears on January 29, so Daniel Webster should not appear in the same year
March 7: Feast day of Saints Perpetua and Felicity (Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism)
Police attacking civil rights activists outside Selma, Alabama
- 1573 – A peace treaty brought the Ottoman–Venetian War to an end, ceding Cyprus from the Republic of Venice to the Ottoman Empire.
- 1871 – José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, began a four-year premiership as Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil, the longest in the state's history.
- 1941 – The German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappeared with 45 men on board.
- 1965 – Unarmed civil rights activists marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, were attacked by police (pictured) on "Bloody Sunday".
- 2021 – A series of four explosions at a military barracks in Bata, Equatorial Guinea caused at least 107 deaths.
- Maurice Ravel (b. 1875)
- Masako Katsura (b. 1913)
- Mochtar Lubis (b. 1922)
- Divine (d. 1988)