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 66th 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.
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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 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.
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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.
- 1886 –The City of Lábrea in Amazonas, Brazil is founded. Today, the town is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Lábrea.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1985 –The song “We Are the World” has its international release.
- 2009 –The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.
- 2009 –The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since The Troubles.
Who were born on March 7?
- 1678 –Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (d. 1736)
- 1866 –Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidopterist (d. 1922)
- 1914 –John Rodney, American actor
- 1917 –Lee Young, American jazz drummer and singer (d. 2008)
- 1922 –Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)
- 1927 –Henri Landwirth, Belgian-American hotelier and philanthropist
- 1945 –Bob Herbert, American journalist
- 1951 –Francis Rocco Prestia, American musician (Tower of Power)
- 1969 –Warrel Dane, American singer (Nevermore)
- 1984 –Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
Who died on March 7?
- 413 –Heraclianus, Roman usurper
- 1226 –William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader
- 1625 –Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
- 1942 –Lucy Parsons, American anarchist, communist and labor organizer (b. 1853)
- 1952 –Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)
- 1967 –Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
- 1974 –Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
- 1978 –Steve Bilko, American baseball player (b. 1928)
- 1995 –Paul-Émile Victor, French explorer (b. 1907)
- 1999 –Stanley Kubrick, American film director (b. 1928)
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