DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Tuesday, March 7, the 66th day of 2023. There are 299 days left in the year. On this date in:
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.
1916: Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) had its beginnings in Munich, Germany, as an airplane engine manufacturer.
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.
1945: During World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine at Remagen, Germany,
using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge.
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 came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”
1975: The U.S. Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds 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.” (The ruling concerned a parody of the Roy Orbison song “Oh, Pretty Woman” by the rap group 2 Live Crew.)
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.”
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.
2016: Peyton Manning announced his retirement after 18 seasons in the National Football League.
2020: Health officials in Florida said two people who had tested positive for the new coronavirus had died.
Actor Daniel J. Travanti (“Hill Street Blues”) is 83. Bassist Chris White of The Zombies is 80. Singer Peter Wolf of The J. Geils Band is 77. Keyboardist Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum is 77. Guitarist Ernie Isley of The Isley Brothers is 71. Actor Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”) is 67. Actor Donna Murphy
(“Mercy Street,” “Murder One”) is 64. Actor Nick Searcy (“Justified”) is 64. Actor Mary Beth Evans
(“Days of Our Lives”) is 62. Singer Taylor Dayne
is 61. Actor Bill Brochtrup (“Major Crimes,” “NYPD Blue”) is 60. Opera singer Denyce Graves is 59. Comedian Wanda Sykes is 59. Actor Jonathan Del Arco (“Major Crimes”) is 57. Drummer Randy Guss of Toad the Wet Sprocket is 56. Actor Rachel Weisz is 52. Actor Peter Sarsgaard (“Kinsey,” “Garden State”) is 52. Actor Jay Duplass (“The Mindy Project”) is 50. Singer Sebastien Izambard of Il Divo is 50. Singer Hugo Ferreira of Tantric is 49.