What are the important events that happened on March 7? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 7: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 7 is the 67th day of the year 2016 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 299 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 23, 2016 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,457,308,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexacontaheptagon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 327 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 1,172 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 7 Historical Events
- 321 –Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
- 1827 –Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
- 1876 –Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
- 1914 –Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
- 1945 –World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen.
- 1951 –Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
- 1986 –Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
- 2006 –The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
- 2007 –The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
Who were born on March 7?
- 189 –Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
- 1715 –Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)
- 1944 –Zhiuli Shartava, Georgian politician and the Head of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia (d. 1993)
- 1945 –John Heard, American actor
- 1946 –Daniel Goleman, American author and psychologist
- 1965 –Cameron Daddo, Australian actor
- 1967 –Ai Yazawa, Japanese manga artist
- 1974 –Facundo Sava, Argentine footballer
- 1985 –Andre Fluellen, American football player
- 1990 –Choi Jong Hun, South Korean guitarist, leader in F.T. Island
Who died on March 7?
- 1578 –Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b. 1515)
- 1724 –Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
- 1778 –Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)
- 1913 –Emily Pauline Johnson, Native Canadian poet (b. 1861)
- 1932 –Aristide Briand, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- 1967 –Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
- 1981 –Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
- 1988 –Robert Livingston, American film actor (b. 1904)
- 1999 –Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (b. 1918)
- 2006 –Ali Farka Touré, Malian musician (b. 1939)
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