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This day in history: 7 March

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Key facts

239 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 7 March.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2024: Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust, the first time someone has been found guilty for causing a death on a movie set.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Blessed Leonid Feodorov (Russian Greek Catholic Church)

Christian feast day: March 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa

Christian feast day: Perpetua and Felicity

Christian feast day: Siméon-François Berneux (part of The Korean Martyrs)

Christian feast day: Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart

Maritime Day in Slovenia

Events

2024Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust, the first time someone has been found guilty for causing a death on a movie set.

2024Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming its 32nd member.

2021At least 108 die and 615 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.

2009Massereene Barracks shooting: The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Trou

2007Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 people.

2007Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.

2006The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.

1989Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.

1986Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.

1971Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.

1965Aeroflot Flight 542 crashes in the Yermakovsky District, killing all 31 aboard.

1965Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.

1951Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, outside a mosque in Tehran.

1951Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.

1951Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 307 crashes in Lynnhurst, Minneapolis, killing 15 people.

1945World War II: The American 9th Armored Division unexpectedly captures an intact bridge over the Rhine.

1941World War II: Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace.

1931The Parliament House of Finland is officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.

1921The short-lived socialist Labin Republic is proclaimed.

1902Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, defeat the British at the Battle of Tweebosch.

1876Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".

1850Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.

1826Shrigley abduction: 15-year old Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future figure in the establishment of colonies in South Australia and New Zealand.

1814Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.

1799Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.

1573A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.

1277The University of Paris issues the last in a series of condemnations of various philosophical and theological theses.

1138Konrad III von Hohenstaufen is elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin.

681The Third Council of Constantinople deposes patriarch Macarius I of Antioch.

161Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.

Born on this day

2007Kiyan Anthony, American basketball player

2000Rasmus Sandin, Swedish ice hockey player

2000Sebastian Schwaighofer, Austrian politician

1998Amanda Gorman, American poet and activist

1997Dylan Strome, Canadian ice hockey player

1997Taher Mohamed, Egyptian footballer

1996Liam Donnelly, Northern Irish footballer

1996Pablo López, Venezuelan baseball player

1995Aboubakar Kamara, French footballer

1995Haley Lu Richardson, American actress

1995Jerome Binnom-Williams, English footballer

1994Chase Kalisz, American swimmer

1994Jake Layman, American basketball player

1994Jordan Pickford, English footballer

1992Bel Powley, English actress

1991Ian Clark, American basketball player

1990Jeff Withey, American basketball player

1987Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player

1986Ryan Ciminelli, American bowler

1985Cameron Prosser, Australian swimmer

1984Brandon T. Jackson, American actor and comedian

1984Jacob Lillyman, Australian rugby league player

1984Mathieu Flamini, French footballer

1984Steve Burtt Jr., American-Ukrainian basketball player

1983Manucho, Angolan footballer

1980Eric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player

1980Laura Prepon, American actress

1979Rodrigo Braña, Argentine footballer

1977Paul Cattermole, English singer and actor (died 2023)

1977Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player and coach

1975Audrey Marie Anderson, American actress and model

1975T. J. Thyne, American actor

1974Facundo Sava, Argentine footballer and manager

1974Jenna Fischer, American actress

1974Tobias Menzies, English actor

1973Jason Bright, Australian race car driver

1973Jay Duplass, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1973Sébastien Izambard, French tenor and producer

1972Craig Polla-Mounter, Australian rugby league player

1971Matthew Vaughn, English director and producer

Died on this day

2026Jamie Dunn, Australian actor, radio and television host (born 1950)

2025D'Wayne Wiggins, American musical artist (born 1961)

2024Steve Lawrence, American actor and singer (born 1935)

2019Dick Beyer, American professional wrestler (born 1930)

2017Lynne Stewart, American attorney and activist (born 1939)

2016Adrian Hardiman, Irish lawyer and judge (born 1951)

2016Leonard Berney, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberator (born 1920)

2015F. Ray Keyser, Jr., American lawyer and politician, Governor of Vermont (born 1927)

2015G. Karthikeyan, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1949)

2015Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese author and illustrator (born 1935)

2014Ned O'Gorman, American poet and educator (born 1929)

2013Claude King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1923)

2013Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1922)

2013Peter Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (born 1947)

2006Gordon Parks, American photographer, director, and composer (born 1912)

2005Debra Hill, American screenwriter and producer (born 1950)

2005John Box, English production designer and art director (born 1920)

2000Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (born 1914)

1999Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (born 1918)

1999Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)

1997Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)

1993Eleanor Sanger, American television producer (born 1929)

1993J. Merrill Knapp, American musicologist (born 1914)

1993Josef Steindl, Austrian economist (born 1912)

1993Martti Larni, Finnish writer (born 1909)

1993Tony Harris, South African cricketer (born 1916)

1991Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (born 1903)

1988Divine, American drag queen and film actor (born 1945)

1988Ülo Õun, Estonian sculptor (born 1940)

1987Karl Leichter, Estonian musicologist and academic (born 1902)

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