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This Day in History: March 7


March 7: What Happened on This Day in History (Elementary Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

  1. 321 - Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
  2. 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
  3. 1985 - The song "We Are the World" receives its international release.
  4. 2007 - The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected
  5. 2009 - The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.
  6. Famous Birthdays: Nicéphore Niépce (French inventor, invented photography), John Herschel (English mathematician and astronomer), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (Austrian physician, Nobel Prize laureate), Betty Holberton (American engineer and programmer), David Baltimore (American biologist, Nobel Prize laureate)

For famous birthdays and other daily events in history, visit our Daily Dose Activities.

Click Here for Yesterday in History: March 6

Click Here for Tomorrow in History: March 8

For more history resources on Internet 4 Classrooms, visit our Social Studies and History index. For Pre K-8th Grade Level History and Social Studies Resources, visit our Grade Level Index.

 

 

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