March 7: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school 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. 1277 - Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
3. 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
4. 1900 - The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
5. 1912 - Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
6. 1936 - World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
7. 1965 - Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.
8. 1985 - The song "We Are the World" receives its international release.
9. 2007 - The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected
10. 2009 - The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.
11. 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)

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