Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Today is the 66th day of 2026. There are 299 days left in this year.
Notable Events
1850
In a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.
1876
Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone.
1911
The United States sent 20,000 troops to the Mexican border in the wake of the Mexican Revolution.
1926
The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York City and London.
1936
Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.
1945
During World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge.
1965
A march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.
1975
The Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
1981
Anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman, whom they accused of being a CIA agent.
1994
The Supreme Court ruled that parodies that poke fun at an original work can be considered "fair use" that doesn't require permission from the copyright holder.
1996
Three U.S. servicemen were convicted in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl and sentenced by a Japanese court to up to seven years in prison.
Notable Births
1849
Horticulturist Luther Burbank was born in Lancaster, Mass.
1875
Composer Maurice Ravel was born in Cibourne, France.
Notable Deaths
1999
Movie director Stanley Kubrick, whose films included "Dr. Strangelove," "A Clockwork Orange" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70.