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, 28,496,160 minutes 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
- 1799 –Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
- 1827 –Brazil marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1912 –Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
- 1936 –World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
- 1965 –Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.
- 1986 –Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
Who were born on March 7?
- 1693 –Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
- 1915 –Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician (d. 2000)
- 1922 –Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)
- 1925 –Rene Gagnon, American Marine shown in photograph of the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1979)
- 1942 –Michael Eisner, American film studio executive
- 1944 –Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (d. 1997)
- 1949 –Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
- 1955 –Anupam Kher, Indian actor
- 1980 –Éric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1985 –Thomas Erak, American guitarist
Who died on March 7?
- 851 –Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
- 1226 –William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader
- 1578 –Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b. 1515)
- 1778 –Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)
- 1943 –Alma Moodie, Australian classical violinist (b. 1898)
- 1983 –Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
- 1997 –Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
- 2000 –Charles Gray, British actor (b. 1928)
- 2006 –Gordon Parks, photographer (b. 1912)
- 2010 –Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian-American supercentenarian (b. 1895)
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