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 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 299 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 23, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 474,936 hours 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.
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 328 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 4,094 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 7 Historical Events
- 161 –Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
- 1827 –Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
- 1850 –Senator Daniel Webster gives his “Seventh of March” speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
- 1900 –The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
- 1912 –Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
- 1914 –Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
- 1936 –World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
- 1994 –Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
- 2009 –The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.
Who were born on March 7?
- 1730 –Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d. 1807)
- 1908 –Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
- 1909 –Léo Malet, French writer (Nestor Burma) (d. 1996)
- 1944 –Zhiuli Shartava, Georgian politician and the Head of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia (d. 1993)
- 1946 –Daniel Goleman, American author and psychologist
- 1960 –Joe Carter, American baseball player
- 1965 –Steve Beuerlein, American football player
- 1969 –Shin Ae Ra, Korean actress and radio DJ
- 1986 –Ben Griffin, Australian soccer player
- 1990 –Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
Who died on March 7?
- 413 –Heraclianus, Roman usurper
- 1724 –Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
- 1943 –Alma Moodie, Australian classical violinist (b. 1898)
- 1949 –Francis Dodd, English artist (b. 1874)
- 1957 –Wyndham Lewis, British author (b. 1882)
- 1965 –Louise Mountbatten, Swedish queen (b. 1889)
- 1967 –Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
- 1984 –Paul Rotha, English director (b. 1907)
- 1997 –E. H. Bronner, German-American soap magnate (b. 1908)
- 2005 –John Box, British film production designer and art director (b. 1920)
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