This day in history
Today is Thursday, March 7, the 67 th day of 2024. There are 299 days left in the year.
Birthdays: International Motorsports Hall of Famer Janet Guthrie is 86. Rock singer Peter Wolf is 78. Rock musician Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum) is
78. R&B singer-musician Ernie Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 72. Rock musician Kenny Aronoff (BoDeans, John Mellencamp) is
71. Author E.L. James is 61. Author Bret Easton Ellis is 60. Actor Peter Sarsgaard is 53. Actor Jay Duplass is 51. Classical singer Sebastien Izambard (Il Divo) is 51. Poet and activist Amanda Gorman is 26.
▶In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a US patent for his telephone.
▶In 1911, President William Howard Taft ordered 20,000 troops to patrol the US-Mexico border in response to the Mexican Revolution.
▶In 1916, Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) had its beginnings in Munich as an airplane engine manufacturer.
▶In 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations took place between New York and London.
▶In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.
▶In 1945, during World War II, US forces crossed the Rhine at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge.
▶In 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff ’s posse in what became known as “Bloody Sunday.”
▶In 1975, the US Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
▶In 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, having just finished editing “Eyes Wide Shut.”
▶In 2005, President George W. Bush nominated John Bolton to be US ambassador to the United Nations, an appointment that ran into Democratic opposition, prompting Bush to make a recess appointment.
ºIn 2013, the UN 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.
▶In 2017, the Indianapolis Colts released injured quarterback Peyton Manning, who went on to play for the Denver Broncos.
▶In 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.
▶In 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 medieval-style siege by Moscow to batter it into submission.