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 66^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 299 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 22, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 483,696 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 ‘hexacontahexagon’ 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 347 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 4,459 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 7 Historical Events

• 238 –
  Roman subjects in Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor.
• 1876 –
  Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
• 1900 –
  The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
• 1902 –
  Second Boer War: In the Battle of Tweebosch, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war
• 1945 –
  World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen.
• 1968 –
  Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
• 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.
• 2009 –
  The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.

Who were born on March 7?

• 1678 –
  Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (d. 1736)
• 1866 –
  Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidopterist (d. 1922)
• 1917 –
  Lee Young, American jazz drummer and singer (d. 2008)
• 1927 –
  James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982)
• 1938 –
  Janet Guthrie, American race car driver
• 1965 –
  Jack Armstrong, American baseball player
• 1968 –
  Denis Boucher, Canadian baseball player
• 1973 –
  Jason Bright, Australian racing driver
• 1977 –
  Paul Cattermole, British singer, actor and member of pop group S Club
• 1990 –
  Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins

Who died on March 7?

• 1274 –
  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Philosopher (b. 1225)
• 1724 –
  Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
• 1975 –
  Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895)
• 1981 –
  Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
• 1991 –
  Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1999 –
  Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (b. 1918)
• 1999 –
  Stanley Kubrick, American film director (b. 1928)
• 2000 –
  Charles Gray, British actor (b. 1928)
• 2004 –
  Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
• 2006 –
  Ali Farka Touré, Malian musician (b. 1939)