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Daily Trivia - March 7
Births189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
1481 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
1556 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)
1671 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
1678 - Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (d. 1736)
1687 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760)
1693 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
1715 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)
1715 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755)
1730 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d. 1807)
1765 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (d. 1833)
1788 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
1792 - John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
1837 - Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
1841 - William Rockhill Nelson, founder of Kansas City Star and patron of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (d. 1915)
1850 - Tomáš Masaryk, first President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)
1857 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1940)
1872 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
1875 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
1878 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)
1887 - Heino Eller, Estonian composer (d. 1970)
1902 - Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)
1904 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (d. 1942)
1908 - Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
1926 - Alan Sues, American comedian and actor
1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
1933 - Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
1934 - Willard Scott, American television broadcaster
1938 - David Baltimore, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1938 - Janet Guthrie, American race car driver
1940 - Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d. 1979)
1940 - Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker, American evangelist
1942 - Michael Eisner, American film studio executive
1944 - Stanley Schmidt, American editor
1944 - Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (1997)
1945 - John Heard, American actor
1945 - Arthur Lee, American musician (Love)
1946 - Peter Wolf, American musician (J Geils Band)
1947 - Richard Lawson, American actor
1947 - Walter Röhrl, German race car driver
1949 - Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
1950 - Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
1950 - Franco Harris, American football player
1952 - Ernie Isley, American guitarist (The Isley Brothers)
1952 - Lynn Swann, American football player
1952 - Viv Richards, West Indies cricketer
1955 - Tommy Kramer, American football player
1956 - Bryan Cranston, American actor
1958 - Alan Hale, American astronomer
1958 - Rik Mayall British actor
1960 - Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player
1963 - Bill Brochtrup, American actor
1963 - Denyce Graves, American singer
1964 - Bret Easton Ellis, American writer
1964 - Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedian
1965 - Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
1968 - Jeff Kent, American baseball player
1971 - Rachel Weisz, British actress
1971 - Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
1973 - Ray Parlour, English footballer
1974 - Jenna Fischer, American actress
1977 - Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer
1980 - Laura Prepon, American actress
1980 - Anthony Ocana, Dominican composer & guitarist
1984 - Mathieu Flamini, French football (soccer) player
1990 - Abigail and Brittany Hensel, conjoined twins of the dicephalic type
Deaths322 BC - Aristotle, philosopher (b. 384 BC)
161 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)
308 - Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr
851 - Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
1226 - William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader
1274 - Thomas Aquinas, Italian scholastic philosopher (b. 1225)
1578 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b. 1515)
1625 - Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
1724 - Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
1767 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (b. 1680)
1778 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (b. 1720)
1810 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750)
1904 - Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (b. 1828)
1932 - Aristide Briand, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)
1954 - Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
1957 - Wyndham Lewis, British author and painter (b. 1882)
1967 - Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
1974 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
1975 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895)
1975 - Ben Blue, Canadian actor (b. 1901)
1976 - Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893)
1981 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
1986 - Jacob Javits, American politician (b. 1904)
1988 - Divine, American actor (b. 1945)
1991 - Cool Papa Bell, baseball player (b. 1903)
1995 - Paul-Émile Victor, French explorer (b. 1907)
1997 - Rabbi Emanuel Bronner, German-American soap magnate and philosopher (b. 1908)
1997 - Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
1999 - Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (b. 1918)
1999 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (b. 1928)
2000 - Charles Gray, British actor (b. 1928)
2000 - Jack Sanford, baseball player (b. 1929)
2002 - Doris Allen, American psychologist (b. 1901)
2004 - Paul Winfield, American actor (heart attack) (b. 1941)
2006 - Ali Farka Touré Malian musician (b. 1939)
2006 - Gordon Parks, famed Life photographer (b. 1912)
2006 - John Junkin, British radio, television and film comedy performer and scriptwriter (b. 1930)
Events161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire.
321 - Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire
1798 - The French army enters in Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic.
1799 - Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1814 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Craonne.
1815 - Napoleon I of France meets troops of the Fifth Regiment sent by Louise XVIII at Grenoble, and convinces them to join him on his march to Paris.
1827 - Brazil marines sail up the Rio Negro (Argentina) and attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina. They are defeated by the local citizens.
1827 - Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
1848 - The Great mahele (land division) is signed in Hawaii.
1850 - United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Pea Ridge - Union forces led by General Samuel Curtis defeat Confederate troops under General Earl Van Dorn at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,464).
1887 - First school in Albanian language opens in the city of Korca, Albania.
1911 - Revolution in Mexico.
1912 - Roald Amundsen first announces to the world that his expedition has reached the South Pole, though they had arrived on December 14, 1911.
1918 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.
1936 - World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1945 - World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany and begin to cross.
1947 - The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War.
1950 - Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
1951 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - In Korea, United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1965 - In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed Bloody Sunday.
1968 - Vietnam War: The First Battle of Saigon begins.
1969 - Golda Meir elected as the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
1973 - The ultimately disappointing Comet Kohoutek is discovered by Luboš Kohoutek.
1983 - The Nashville Network (TNN) begins broadcasting.
1984 - The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua.
1987 - Mike Tyson adds the WBA World Heavyweight boxing championship to his WBC one when he beats James Smith after a 12-round fight in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1988 - Colombia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1989 - The State Council of the People's Republic of China declares martial law in Lhasa, Tibet.
1994 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
1996 - The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed.
1997 - The Notorious B.I.G., iconical hip hop artist, was assassinated in Los Angeles.
2002 - Opening of The IX Paralympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.
2002 - The Network Against Prohibition forms in Darwin, Australia.
2005 - Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for women's voting rights in Kuwait.
2006 - BBC News premieres its podcast NewsPod, the first internet-only BBC podcast.
HolidaysAlbania — Teacher's Day
Catholicism — Feast day of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas, patron saint of married women
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