Today In History
Today is Thursday, March 7, the 67th day of 2024. There are 299 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in what became known as “Bloody Sunday.”
ON THIS DATE
› 1876: Alexander Graham Bell received a U.S. patent for his telephone.
› 1911: President William Howard Taft ordered 20,000 troops to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the Mexican Revolution.
› 1926: The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations took place between New York and London.
› 1936: Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.
› 1975: The U.S. Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required twothirds of senators present.
› 1994: The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a parody that pokes fun at an original work can be considered “fair use.”
› 2005: President George W. Bush nominated John Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, an appointment that ran into Democratic opposition, prompting Bush to make a recess appointment.
› 2013: The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test; a furious Pyongyang threatened a nuclear strike against the United States.
› 2020: Health officials in Florida said two people who had tested positive for the new coronavirus had died; the deaths were the first on the East Coast attributed to the outbreak.
› 2022: The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine deepened as Russian forces intensified their shelling and food, water, heat and medicine grew increasingly scarce in what the country condemned as a medievalstyle siege by Moscow to batter it into submission.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
International Motorsports Hall of Famer Janet Guthrie is 86. Rock singer Peter Wolf is 78. Rock musician Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum) is 78. Actor Bryan Cranston is 68. Actor Donna Murphy is 65. Actor Nick Searcy is 65. Actor Mary Beth Evans is 63. Author E.L. James is 61. Author Bret Easton Ellis is 60. Comedian Wanda Sykes is 60. Actor Rachel Weisz is 54. Actor Peter Sarsgaard is 53. Actor Jenna Fischer is 50. Actor Tobias Menzies is 50. Actor Sarayu Blue is 49. Bluegrass singer-musician Frank Solivan is 47. Actor Laura Prepon is 44. Actor Bel Powley is 32. Poet and activist Amanda Gorman is 26. Actor Giselle Eisenberg (TV: “Life in Pieces”) is 17.