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What happened in history on this day: March 7?
On March 7 in ...
- 1801 - Massachusetts enacts first state voter registration law.
- 1825 - Richard Rush takes office as Treasury Secretary.
- 1847 - US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico.
- 1854 - Charles Miller patents first US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes.
- 1862 - At Pea Ridge, Arkansas, US Brigidier General Samuel Curts' Army of the Southwest of about 12,000 troops battle Confederate Major General Sterling Price's force of about 7000 and Brigidier General Benjamin McCulloch's 8700, both under command of Major General Earl Van Dorn. McCulloch is killed by a bullet to the heart, then his next-in-command Brigadier General James McIntosh is also killed.
- 1865 - Battles round Kinston, North Carolina.
- 1870 - Cincinnati Red Stockings, first professional baseball team, begin 8-month tour of Midwest and East.
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell's application for a patent for the telephone is approved and officially issued.
- 1889 - William Windom begins second term as Treasury Secretary.
- 1911 - US sends 20,000 troops to Mexican border.
- 1917 - First jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step", recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden, New Jersey.
- 1918 - US President Woodrow Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal.
- 1925 - American Negro Congress organizes.
- 1926 - First transatlantic telephone call (London - New York).
- 1932 - Riots at Ford factory in Dearborn, Michigan, kills 4.
- 1938 - The US signs reciprocal trade treaty with Czechoslovakia.
- 1941 - Third largest snowfall in New York City, New York history (18.1 inches).
- 1942 - First cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee.
- 1942 - USS Shark submarine listed as presumed lost due to unknown cause.
- 1945 - US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen, Germany, crosses Rhine.
- 1946 - British and American governments jointly announce the total score of enemy submarine kills during the war. Total enemy submarine losses from all causes: 996. Germany lost 781, Italy lost 85, and Japan lost 130.
- 1955 - In Los Angeles, California, the 7th Annual Emmy Awards are presented.
- Best Actor Starring in a Regular Series: Danny Thomas for Make Room for Daddy
- Best Actress Starring in a Regular Series: Loretta Young for Letter to Loretta
- Best Audience Participation, Quiz or Panel Program: This Is Your Life and What's My Line?
- Best Children's Program: Lassie
- Best Daytime Program: House Party
- Best Dramatic Program: The United States Steel Hour
- Best Female Singer: Dinah Shore
- Best Individual Program of the Year: Disneyland
- Best Male Singer: Perry Como
- Best Mystery, Action, or Adventure Program: Dragnet
- Best News Reporter or Commentator: John Daly
- Best Situation Comedy: Make Room for Daddy
- Best Sports Program: Cavalcade of Sports
- Best Supporting Actor in a Regular Series: Art Carney for The Jackie Gleason Show
- Best Supporting Actress in a Regular Series: Audrey Meadows for The Jackie Gleason Show
- Best Variety Program: Disneyland
- Best Western or Adventure Series: Stories of the Century
- Most Outstanding New Personality: George Gobel.
- 1962 - Launch of OSO 1, first astronomy satellite (solar flare data).
- 1965 - A group of 600 demonstrators from Selma, Alabama, march on the capital city of Montgomery to protest their disenfranchisement of voting rights and the earlier killing of a black man, Jimmie Lee Jackson, by a state trooper.
- 1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1967 - Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa begins eight-year jail sentence at Lewisburg Federal Prison for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted December 23, 1971).
- 1974 - Monitor (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
- 1975 - US Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate.
- 1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1977 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets US President Jimmy Carter.
- 1981 - First homicide at Disneyland, 18-year old is stabbed to death.
- 1983 - TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV.
- 1989 - Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, North West North America, Greenland).
- 1989 - In Geneva, Switzerland, the Geneva international auto show is held, over eleven days. Chevrolet introduces the Corvette ZR-1 and LT5 engine.
- 1990 - Three passengers killed and 162 injured as subway train derails in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 1990 - H Wayne Huizenga buys half Joe Robbie Stadium and 15 percent of Miami Dolphins for US$30 million.
- 1994 - 8th American Comedy Awards: Carrot Top wins.
- 1994 - US Navy issues first permanent order assigning women on combat ship.
- 1994 - Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
- 1995 - New York becomes 38th state to have the death penalty.
- 1998 - The Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan is fined for burning a cross in his garden and infringing air regulations in California.
- 2000 - George W. Bush and Al Gore emerge victorious in the Republican and Democratic caucuses and primaries of the United States presidential election.
- 2008 - The US Federal Reserve promises to provide up to US$200 billion in temporary loans to banks and bond-market dealers.
- 2008 - A dozen tornadoes cause much damage in northern Florida and southern Georgia. Cars are flipped, trees and power poles knocked down, homes and businesses damaged, and two people are killed.
- 2009 - NASA launches from Cape Canaveral in Florida the unmanned Kepler telescope to orbit the Sun to search for Earth-like planets with the potential to host life.
Births on March 7
- 1837 - Birth of Henry Draper in Virginia, USA; astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter) (dies 1882).
- 1886 - Birth of Raymond Largay in Wisconsin, USA; actor (April in Paris, Variety Girl).
- 1914 - Birth of Morton DaCosta in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; director (Island of Love, Music Man).
- 1917 - Birth of Davis Roberts in Mobile, Alabama, USA; actor (Mr Johnson - Boone).
- 1930 - Birth of James Broderick in Charleston, New Hampshire, USA; actor (Brenner - Brenner, Doug - Family).
- 1938 - Birth of Homero Blancas in Houston, Texas, USA; PGA golfer (1972 Phoenix Open).
- 1939 - Birth of Marion Marlowe in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; singer (Arthur Godfrey and Friends).
- 1942 - Birth of Michael Eisner in Mount Kisko, New York, USA; CEO (Walt Disney Company).
- 1945 - Birth of John Heard in Washington, DC, USA; actor (Cat People, Cutter's Way, CHUD).
- 1947 - Birth of Donna Loren in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; singer/actress (Beach Blanket Bingo).
- 1947 - Birth of Lewis J Stadlen in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (John - Benson, Savages, Windy City).
- 1947 - Birth of Richard Lawson in Loma Linda, California, USA; actor (Eddie - The O'Neills).
- 1950 - Birth of Franco Harris; NFL fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers).
- 1950 - Birth of Mark Pinter in Decorah, Iowa, USA; actor (Karl - Behind the Screen, Another World).
- 1953 - Birth of Kathleen Sullivan in Pasadena, California, USA; newscaster (E!).
- 1959 - Birth of Thomas Edward Lehman in Austin, Minnesota, USA; PGA golfer (1994 Memorial Tournament).
- 1960 - Birth of Joe Carter in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA; outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays).
- 1961 - Birth of Mary Beth Evans in Pasadena, California, USA; actress (Katherine - General Hospital, Kayla - Days of Our Lives).
- 1962 - Birth of Taylor Dayne [Leslie Wunderman], on Long Island, New York, USA; vocalist ("I'll Always Love You").
- 1964 - Birth of Amy Baltus in Bloomington, Indiana, USA; WPVA volleyball player (Nationals-13th-1992).
- 1968 - Birth of Jeff Kent in Bellflower, California, USA; infielder (New York Mets).
- 1969 - Birth of Anne Marie Lauck in Rochester, New York, USA; marathon runner (Olympics-10th-1996).
- 1969 - Birth of Brian Jamieson in Livingston, New Jersey, USA; rower (Olympics-silver-1996).
- 1970 - Birth of Jacquelyn Doucette; Miss Massachusetts-USA (1996).
- 1970 - Birth of James Calvin Spivey in Schiller Park, Illinois, USA; mile runner.
- 1970 - Birth of Kathy Gedney in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; WPVA volleyball player (US Open-25th-1994).
Deaths on March 7
- 1862 - At Pea Ridge, Arkansas, US Brigidier General Samuel Curts' Army of the Southwest of about 12,000 troops battle Confederate Major General Sterling Price's force of about 7000 and Brigidier General Benjamin McCulloch's 8700, both under command of Major General Earl Van Dorn. McCulloch is killed by a bullet to the heart, then his next-in-command Brigadier General James McIntosh is also killed.
- 1862 - William Slack, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle.
- 1964 - Franz Alexander, Hungarian/US psycho analyst, dies at age 73.
- 1967 - American actor/singer Nelson Eddy dies at age 65 in hospital in Miami, Florida, after suffering a stroke while performing onstage at the Doral Country Club in Miami the previous day.
- 1985 - Robert W Woodruff, CEO (Coca-Cola), dies at age 95.
- 1986 - Jacob K Javits, American politician (Senator-Republican-New York), dies in Palm Beach, Florida at age 81.
- 1988 - Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead], American actor (Hairspray, Polyester, Pink Flamingos), dies in Los Angeles, California at age 42 (born 1945).
- 1993 - Death of Earl Wrightson of heart failure at age 76; American singer, actor (The At Home Show, Pinafore).
- 1997 - Death of Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912).
- 1999 - Death of Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (born 1918).
- 1999 - Death of Stanley Kubrick, American film director and producer (born 1928).
- 2017 - Death of Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born American Nobel physicist (born 1922).
- 2023 - Death of Ian Falconer at age 63 of kidney failure in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA; author and illustrator (Olivia children's book series).
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