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Birthdates which occurred on March 07:
1602 Kano Tanju Japanese painter (palaces, portraits)
1659 Henry Purcell English organist/composer (Dido & Aeneas)
1693 Clement XIII [Carlo Rezzonico], Pope (1758-69)
1707 Stephen Hopkins (Governor-RI) signed Declaration of Independence
1799 Frantisek L Celakovsky Czechoslovakian poet (national anthem, folk song)
1827 Henry DeLamar Clayton Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
1831 John Bratton [Old Reliable], US physician/Confederate Brigadier General
1832 Orlando Metcalfe Poe Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1837 Henry Draper Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter)
1849 Luther Burbank Lancaster MA, horticulturist
1850 Tomás G Masaryk Czechoslovakia, Father/President of Czechoslovakia (1918-35)
1866 Paul Ernst writer
1904 Reinhard Heydrich German/Nazi Governor (Bohemen/Moravia (Lidice))
1914 Morton DaCosta Philadelphia PA, director (Island of Love, Music Man)
1930 Anthony Armstrong-Jones [Earl of Snowdon] London England, photographer
1934 Willard Scott weather forecaster (Today Show)
1938 Janet Guthrie race car driver, 1st woman to race in Indy 500
1940 Daniel J Travanti Kenosha WI, actor (Frank Furillo-Hill St Blues)
1942 Michael Eisner Mount Kisko NY, CEO (Walt Disney)
1942 Paul Preuss US, sci-fi author (Medusa Encounter, Starfire)
1942 Tammy Faye Bakker gospel singer/ex-wife of Jim Bakker (PTL)
1944 Townes Van Zandt musician (Poncho & Lefty)
1946 Matthew Fisher London, rock keyboardist (Procol Harum)
1946 Peter Wolf rock singer (J Giels Band-Centerfold, Freeze Frame)
1950 Franco Harris NFL fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1952 Ernie Isley US vocalist/guitarist (It's Your Thing, Heat is On)
1952 Lynn Swann NFL receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)/sportscaster
1960 Ivan Lendl Czechoslovakia, tennis pro (US Open 1985-87)

Deaths which occurred on March 07:
322 -BC- Aristotle dies
0161 Antoninus Pius [Titus Aurelius], emperor of Rome (138-61), dies at 74
1040 Harold I King of England (1035-40), dies
1111 Bohemund I of Tarente French ruler of Antioch, dies
1274 St Thomas Aquinas Italian thelogian dies at 48
1724 Innocent XIII [Michelangiolo dei Conti], Pope (1721-24), dies at 68
1862 Ben McCulloch US Confederate Brigadier-General (KIA), dies at 50
1862 John Baillie McIntosh US General-Major (Union Army), dies at 32
1862 William Slack US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle
1941 Günther Prien German commandant (U-47), dies in battle
1945 Adolf Bartels German writer/racist, dies at 82
1951 Ali Razmara Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated
1959 Hinsdale Smith developer of roll-down auto windows, dies at 88
1968 Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31(1st man in space)
1985 Victor W Farris inventor of paper milk carton, etc, dies
1986 Jacob K Javits (Senator-Republican-NY), dies in Palm Beach FL at 81
1988 Robert Livingston actor (Lone Ranger), dies at 83 of emphysema

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 PAGE GORDON L.---PALO ALTO CA.
[REMAINS RETURNED 1989, REMAINS IDENTIFIED 04/30/98]
1966 SMITH HAROLD VICTOR---BRIDGEPORT IL.
[REMAINS IDENTIFIED 05/2000]
1966 WRIGHT JERDY A. JR.---RANDOLPH AFB TX.
[REMAINS RETURNED 6/21/88 ID 9/29/89]
1967 MILLER ROBERT L.---SALINAS CA.
1970 GATES ALBERT H. JR.---EAST GREENBUSH NY.
1971 ARD RANDOLPH J.---WEST PENSACOLA FL.
1971 BURNETT SHELDON J.---PELHAM NH.
1972 HOWELL CARTER A.---FAYETTEVILLE NC.
1972 RUSCH STEPHEN A.---LAMBERTVILLE NJ.
1973 ACKLEY JAMES W.
1973 DRIVER CLARENCE N.---RIVERSIDE CA.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
1138 Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king
1530 King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church
1573 Turkey & Venice signs peace treaty
1644 Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies
1778 Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
1801 Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
1843 1st Catholic Governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
1847 US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
1850 Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
1851 Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends
1854 Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
1857 Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Generals McCulloch & McIntosh killed
1865 Battles round Kinston NC
1870 Cincinnati Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest & East
1872 -8º F in Boston MA
1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1896 Gilbert & Sullivan's last operette "Grand Duke" premieres in London
1900 Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees
1900 Stanley Cup: Montréal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 games
1902 Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal
1906 Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor
1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announced that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
1911 US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
1911 Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma CA, patents coin-operated locker
1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
1917 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step", recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ
1918 President Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal
1921 Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt
1926 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-New York)
1927 Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan
1932 Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn MI, kills 4
1933 Game of "Monopoly" invented
1935 Saar incorporated into Germany
1936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
1937 Bucharin, Jagoda & Rykov pushed out of CPSU in USSR
1939 Glamour magazine begins publishing
1939 Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"
1940 Ray Steele beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champion
1941 3rd largest snowfall in New York NY history (18.1")
1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta
1942 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
1943 General-Major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia
1945 Cologne taken by allied armies
1945 US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine
1945 Yugoslavia government of Tito forms
1951 Ezzard Charles wins 15-round heavyweight decision against Jersey Joe Walcott
1954 Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competition
1955 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas & Loretta Young
1955 Baseball commissioner Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter
1955 Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
1959 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 Mkm) in a jet (MC Garlow)
1962 Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio
1965 Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" premieres in New York NY
1967 Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence at Lewisburg Federal Prison for defrauding the union & jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)
1969 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1971 Egypt refuses to renew the Suez ceasefire
1973 Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
1974 "Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras NC
1975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
1976 Morocco & Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria
1977 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
1977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter
1979 Warren Giles & Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
1981 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
1983 TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV
1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
1986 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
1988 Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E Sullivan Award
1989 Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses"
1989 Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland)
1994 ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
1994 Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia
1994 US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
1996 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
1997 5 sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life
1997 After a week of embarrassing disclosures about White House fund raising, President Clinton told a news conference, "I'm not sure, frankly," whether he'd also made calls for campaign cash. But he insisted that nothing had undercut his pledge to have the highest ethical standards ever.
1997 A U.S. veto killed an otherwise unanimous UN Security Council resolution condemning new Jewish settlements in Arab East Jerusalem.

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

California : Burbank Day/Bird & Arbor Day (1849)
Laos : Veteran's Day
US : Drug and Alcohol Awareness Week Begins
US : Federal Employees Recognition Week Begins
US : Help Someone See Week Begins
US : National Procrastinators Week Ends(Oh well maybe next year)
National Poetry Month

Religious Observances
Anglican, Lutheran, Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Perpetua & her companions, martyrs
old Roman Catholic, Lutheran : Commemoration of St Thomas Aquinas, confessor/dr [or 1321]
Jewish : Purim (feast of Lot) (Adar 14, 5753 AM)

Religious History
1638 Controversial colonial churchwoman Anne Hutchinson, 47, and nineteen other exiles from the Massachusetts Bay Colony settled in Rhode Island, at the site of modern Portsmouth.
1782 Ohio Territory militiamen began a two_day massacre of the Moravian Indian town of Gnadenhutten (modern New Philadelphia, Ohio). In all, 96 Christian Indians of the Delaware tribe were slaughtered, in retaliation for Indian raids made elsewhere in the Ohio Territory.
1802 In Washington, D.C., the first Baptist church was organized with six charter members. Their first pastor Obadiah Brown was hired five years later, and Brown remained in that pulpit while involving himself in every important local Baptist program for the next 43 years!
1825 Birth of Alfred Edersheim, English biblical scholar. Converted to Christianity from Judaism before age 20, Edersheim later published "The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah" (1883A90), a Christian classic still in print!
1867 Birth of Peter Cameron Scott, founder of the Africa Inland Mission. In 1895, Scott led the first band of missionaries to reach Kenya. He died in Africa the following year, at 29, of blackwater fever. Over 700 AIM missionaries have since followed in Scott's footsteps.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"If you continually give you will continually have."

Rules For Diet...
If you eat something and no one sees you eat it, it has no calories.

New State Slogans...
Connecticut: Like Massachusetts, Only The Kennedy's Don't Own It Yet.

Astounding Fact # 817,993,736,612...
Almonds and pistachios are the only nuts mentioned in the Bible.