Today in History - March 7
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322BCE Mar 7, Aristotle (d.322
BCE)
died. His writings included treatises on logic, metaphysics, ethics,
politics, rhetoric and natural sciences. He first described language
in
terms of subject and predicate 322BCE Mar 7,
Aristotle (d.322 BCE) died. His writings included treatises on
logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, rhetoric and natural sciences.
He first described language in terms of subject and predicate as
well as parts of speech. Aristotelian logic is based on a small
number of unambiguous constructs, such as, "if A, then B": the truth
of one implies the truth of another. This celebrated rule gives
Aristotelian reasoning the power to establish facts through
inference. The constructs also included A=A, representing that every
entity is equal to itself. He defined politics as the science of the
sciences that looks after well-being. His writings included “De
Generatione Animalum.” His "Historia Animalium" was later translated
by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson." "Hope is a waking dream." The opening
of his “Metaphysics” began: “All men by nature desire to know.”
(V.D.-H.K.p.44,45)(I&I, Penzias, p.73)(Hem.,
1/96, p.11)(LSA, Spg/97, p.6)(EEE, p.12)(AP, 8/9/98)(WSJ, 9/30/98,
p.A16)(NH, 12/98, p.10)(SFC, 8/13/02, p.A13)
161 CE Mar 7, Marcus Aurelius became emperor on
the death of Antoninus Pius [Titus Aurelius], age 74, at Lorium.
Antoninus ruled from 138-161.
(HN, 3/7/99)(MC, 3/7/02)
1040 Mar 7, Harold I, King of
England (1035-40), died.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1274 Mar 7, Thomas Aquinas
(48), Italian theologian, saint, died.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1530 Mar 7, King Henry VIII's
divorce request was denied by the Pope. Henry then declared that he,
not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1574 Mar 7, John Wilbye,
composer, was born.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1644 Mar 7, Massachusetts
established 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1659 Mar 7, Henry Purcell,
English organist, composer (Dido & Aeneas), was born.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1663 Mar 7, Tomaso Antonio
Vitali, composer, was born.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1695 Mar 7, In Britain John
Trevor (1637-1717), the speaker of the House of Commons office, was
found guilty of accepting a bribe of 1000 guineas (equivalent to
around £1.6 million in 2009) from the City of London to aid
the passage of a bill through the house. He was expelled from the
House of Commons, a move which he initially resisted on the ground
of ill-health, but retained his judicial position until his death.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Trevor_(speaker))
1696 Mar 7, English King
William III departed Netherlands.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1707 Mar 7, Stephen Hopkins,
signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1715 Mar 7, Ewald Christian von
Kleist, German lyric poet (Der Freuhling), was born.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1765 Mar 7, Joseph N. Niepce
(d.1883), French lithographer, inventor (photography), was born.
Photo etching was invented by Joseph Nicephore Niepce early in the
19th century. He also invented photography. His partner, L.J.M.
Daguerre, perfected Niepce's process and popularized daguerreotypes
as the first commercial photographs.
(V.D.-H.K.p.273)(I&I, Penzias, p.114)(MC,
3/7/02)
1774 Mar 7, A 2nd Boston tea
party was held.
(SFEC,11/23/97, Par p.14)
1774 Mar 7, The British closed
the port of Boston to all commerce.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1778 Mar 7, Capt. James Cook
1st sighted the Oregon coast and named Perpetua Cape in honor of St.
Perpetua’s Day.
(SSFC, 9/21/08, p.E7)
1785 Mar 7, Alessandro Manzoni,
poet, novelist (Betrothed), was born in Italy.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1799 Mar 7, Napoleon captured
Jaffa, Palestine, and his men massacred more than 2,000 Albanian
prisoners. [see Mar 26]
(HN, 3/7/99)
1804 Mar 7, John Wedgwood,
founder (Royal Horticulture Society), died.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1824 Mar 7, Meyerbeer's opera
"Il Crociati in Egitto," premiered in Venice.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1835 Mar 7, HMS Beagle returned
from Concepcion to Valparaiso.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1838 Mar 7, Soprano Jenny Lind
("the Swedish Nightingale") made her debut in Weber's opera Der
Freischultz.
(HN, 3/7/01)
1844 Mar 7, Anthony Comstock,
anti-vice "crusader,” was born in New Canaan, Ct.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1847 Mar 7, U.S. General Scott
occupied Veracruz, Mexico. Pres. Polk decided to attack the heart of
Mexico. He sent Gen. Winfield Scott, who landed at Veracruz and with
his troops hacked their way to Mexico City. [see Mar 9]
(HFA, '96, p.48)(HN, 3/7/98)
1849 Mar 7, Luther Burbank
(d.1926) American Horticulturist was born in Lancaster, Mass. “For
those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their
prejudices once in a while.”
(AP, 3/7/98)(AP, 4/26/98)
1849 Mar 7, The Austrian
Reichstag was dissolved.
(HN, 3/7/99)
1850 Mar 7, Tomas Masaryk,
Pres. of Czech (1918-35), was born to a Slovak father and
Czech-German mother in the small town of Hodonin in South Moravia,
very close to what is now the border with Slovakia.
(http://archiv.radio.cz/english/czechs/5-1-00.html)
1850 Mar 7, In a three-hour
speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of
1850 as a means of preserving the Union.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1854 Mar 7, Charles Miller
patented the 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1862 Mar 7, Confederate forces
surprised the Union army at the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas,
but the Union was victorious. [see Mar 6]
(HN, 3/7/99)
1862 Mar 7, In the second day
of the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Generals McCulloch and McIntosh
perished.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1865 Mar 7-10, Battles were
fought around Kingston, NC.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1872 Mar 7, Piet Mondrian
(d.1944), Dutch abstract painter, was born. He was born in
Amersfoort, near Amsterdam. His two principal styles date from
before and after 1907. His Red Tree in 1908 reflects the stance of a
Van Gogh. In 1911 he went to Paris and quickly changed his
style in response to Cubism. He emigrated to New York in 1940. His
Broadway Boogie Woogie was done in 1942-1943. He was labeled as a
degenerate by the Nazis and was sent to New York to continue
working. He went through a number of styles i.e. fauvist,
neoimpressionist Dutch landscapes, to total abstractions in a manner
of his own that he called neoplasticism. He was a pioneer of
abstract painting.
(WSJ, 6/6/95, p.A-14)(WSJ, 10/3/95, p.A-18)(SFC,
10/4/97, p.E1)(HN, 3/7/98)
1874 Mar 7, The opera “I
Lituani,” by Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886) premiered at Milan’s La
Scala with great success. The libretto was based on Adam
Mickiewicz's long epic poem Konrad Wallenrod. The opera was about
the incursions of the Teutonic Knights against the pagan
Lithuanians.
(www.lituanus.org/1991_2/91_2_09.htm)
1875 Mar 7, Composer Maurice
Ravel was born in Cibourne, France.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1876 Mar 7, US Patent #174,465
was issued to Alexander Graham Bell (d.1924) for his telephone. In
2008 Seth Shulman authored “The Telephone Gambit,” the story behind
Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 telephone patent. Shulman made a case
that Bell stole the critical technology for making the telephone
work from Elisha Gray, who had filed his own papers just hours after
Bell.
(SFEM, 1/11/98, p.12)(HN, 3/7/98)(AP,
3/7/98)(WSJ, 1/16/08, p.D10)
1887 Mar 7, Helen Parkhurst,
educator, was born. She developed a technique later known as the
Dalton Plan.
(HN, 3/7/01)
1896 Mar 7, Gilbert and
Sullivan's last operetta "Grand Duke," premiered in London.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1901 Mar 7, Blacks were found
to be still enslaved in certain parts of South Carolina.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1904 Mar 7, Reinhard Heydrich,
German SS Leader and Architect of the "final solution," was born.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1904 Mar 7, The Japanese bombed
the Russian town of Vladivostok.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1907 Mar 7, Rolf Jacobsen,
Norwegian poet, was born.
(HN, 3/7/01)
1908 Mar 7, Anna Magnani,
Italian actress (Awakening, Roma), was born in Rome.
(AP, 3/7/08)
1908 Mar 7, Cincinnati Mayor
Mark Breith stood before city council and announced that, "women are
not physically fit to operate automobiles."
(MC, 3/7/02)
1911 Mar 7, The United States
sent 20,000 troops to the Mexican border in the wake of the Mexican
Revolution.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1912 Mar 7, Roald Amundsen
announced the discovery of the South Pole. [see Dec 14-15, 1911]
(MC, 3/7/02)
1912 Mar 7, French aviator,
Heri Seimet flew non-stop from London to Paris in three hours.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1916 Mar 7, French Defense
Minister Joseph Gallieni resigned from his position.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1918 Mar 7, Pres. Wilson
authorized US Army's Distinguished Service Medal.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1918 Mar 7, Finland signed an
alliance treaty with Germany.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1920 Mar 7, The Bolsheviks
opened major offensive on the Polish front.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1921 Mar 7, Red Army under
Trotsky attacked the sailors of Kronstadt.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1925 Mar 7, The Soviet Red Army
occupied Outer Mongolia.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1926 Mar 7, The first
successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place,
between New York City and London.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1927 Mar 7, A Texas law that
banned Negroes from voting was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1927 Mar 7, Earthquake
measuring 8 on Richter scale struck Tango, Japan.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1930 Mar 7, Lord Snowdon,
[Anthony Armstrong-Jones], photographer, was born in London.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1932 Mar 7, Riots at Ford
factory in Dearborn, Michigan, killed 4.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1932 Mar 7, Aristide Briand
(b.1862), 11-time premier of France (Nobel 1926), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristide_Briand)
1933 Mar 7, George Darrow added
some copyrighted art work to the board game Monopoly and began
selling it commercially in Philadelphia. He sold it to Parker
Brothers in 1934. The game had originally been patented in 1904 as
the Landlord’s Game by Elizabeth J. Magie. In Oct 1929 Ruth Hoskins
brought a version to Atlantic City, refined the rules and street
names. It was later introduced to George Darrow.
(HN, 3/7/98)(WSJ, 2/3/05,
p.W12)(http://richard_wilding.tripod.com/history.htm)
1935 Mar 7, In an effort to
reduce street noise, the city of New York revoked the licenses of
all organ grinders .
(HNQ, 7/25/98)
1935 Mar 7, Malcolm Campbell
set an auto speed record of 276.8 mph in Florida.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1935 Mar 7, Saar was
incorporated into Germany.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1936 Mar 7, Adolf Hitler
ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the
Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.
(AP, 3/7/98)(HN, 3/7/98)
1939 Mar 7, Guy Lombardo and
Royal Canadians made the 1st recording of "Auld Lang Syne."
(MC, 3/7/02)
1941 Mar 7, British troops
invaded Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
(MC, 3/7/02)
1941 Mar 7, 50,000 British
soldiers landed in Greece.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1941 Mar 7, Gunther Prien,
German U-boat commander and war hero (U-47), died in battle.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1942 Mar 7, Michael Eisner, CEO
(Walt Disney), was born in Mt. Kisko, NY.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1942 Mar 7, Tamara Faye
LaValley (d.2007) was born in International Falls, Minn. She later
married fellow bible college student Jim Bakker. Together they
established a Christian talk variety show, the PTL Club, which
collapsed in 1987 amid a sex and money scandal.
(SSFC, 7/22/07, p.B7)
1942 Mar 7, Japanese troops
landed on New Guinea.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1942 Mar 7, 15 Mk-VB Spitfires
reached Malta.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1944 Mar 7, Japan began an
offensive in Burma.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1944 Mar 7, Emanuel Ringelblum
(b.1900), Jewish historian, died in the Warsaw ghetto. He is known
for his “Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto,” “Notes on the Refugees in
Zbąszyn” chronicling the deportation of Jews from the town of
Zbąszyń, and the so-called Ringelblum's Archives of the Warsaw
Ghetto. In 2009 Samuel D. Kassow authored “Who Will Write our
History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto.
(Econ, 3/14/09,
p.84)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Ringelblum)
1945 Mar 7, During World War
II, U.S. 9th Armored Division crossed the Rhine River at Remagen,
Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge. This
marked the 1st incursion of Allied forces into Germany.
(AP, 3/7/98)(SFC, 4/9/03, p.A16)
1945 Mar 7, Cologne was taken
by allied armies.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1945 Mar 7, In Yugoslavia the
Communist government of Tito formed.
(MC, 3/7/02)(AP, 10/20/02)
1951 Mar 7, Lillian Hellman's
"Autumn Garden," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1951 Mar 7, U.N. forces in
Korea under General Matthew Ridgeway launched Operation Ripper, an
offensive to straighten out the U.N. front lines against the
Chinese.
(HN, 3/7/99)
1951 Mar 7, Shah Ali Razmara of
Iran was assassinated.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1952 Mar 7, The U.S. signed a
military aid pact with Cuba.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1955 Mar 7, Baseball
Commissioner Ford Frick said he favors legalization of spitter.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1955 Mar 7, Mary Martin was
"Peter Pan" televised.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1959 Mar 7, "Bells Are Ringing"
closed at Shubert Theater in NYC after 925 performances.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1959 Mar 7, Arthur Cecil Pigou
(b.1877), English economist, died. His major work, “Wealth and
Welfare” (1912, 1920), brought welfare economics into the scope of
economic analysis. He was known for his work in many fields
and particularly in welfare economics. Pigou advocated taxation as a
way to combat the side effects associated with certain activities.
Pigovian taxes, taxes used to correct negative externalities, are
named in his honor.
(Econ, 11/11/06,
p.85)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Cecil_Pigou)
1959 Mar 7, Hinsdale Smith
(88), developer of roll-down auto windows, died.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1960 Mar 7, Ivan Lendl, tennis
pro (US Open 1985-87), was born in Czechoslovakia.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1961 Mar 7, Max Hymans (60), WW
II resistance fighter, head of Air France, died.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1965 Mar 7, A march by some 600
civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state
troopers and posse under Sheriff Jim Clark (d.2007). The Black
community of Marion, Ala., marched to protest the earlier killing of
a demonstrator by a state trooper. John Lewis, later US
Representative, led the march and was hit in the head by a state
trooper.
(AP, 3/7/98)(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A9)(SFC, 11/27/99,
p.C3)(Econ, 6/16/07, p.99)
1966 Mar 7, Charles de Gaulle
said he would pull France out of NATO's integrated military command.
French military personnel stepped down from their positions in NATO
on July 1.
(www.charles-de-gaulle.org/article.php3?id_article=181)
1967 Mar 7, The Los
Angeles-based Doors made their 2nd trip to SF and performed for a
mid-week engagement at the Matrix ahead of a weekend performance at
the Avalon. Peter Abrams, co-owner of the Matrix, recorded the show
with a recently installed tape recorder.
(SFC, 11/17/08, p.E1)(http://tinyurl.com/mxky7j)
1967 Mar 7, Clark Gesner's
musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown” premiered in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_a_Good_Man,_Charlie_Brown)
1967 Mar 7, Convicted Teamster
boss Jimmy Hoffa began an eight-year prison term at Lewisburg
Federal Prison in Pennsylvania for defrauding the union and jury
tampering. The sentence was commuted by President Nixon Dec 23,
1971.
(HN, 3/7/98)(www.moldea.com/One-9.html)
1967 Mar 7, Alice B. Toklas
(b.1877), the life partner of writer Gertrude Stein, died In Paris,
France. Her work included “The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook” (1954). In
2007 Janet Malcolm authored “Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_B._Toklas)(WSJ, 9/25/07, p.D6)
1968 Mar 7, The First Battle of
Saigon, begun on Jan 30 as part of the Tet Offensive, ended.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Saigon)
1972 Mar 7, Republican Richard
Nixon won the New Hampshire primary over Paul McCloskey 67.6 to
19.8%. Democrat Edmund Muskie won over George McGovern 46.4 to
37.1%.
(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.A19)(http://tinyurl.com/5dndxk)
1973 Mar 7, Pres. Nixon invited
Thomas Pappas, a Greek-American businessman, to the oval office to
thank him for money that was used to buy the silence of the
Watergate burglars.
(SFC,11/1/97, p.A3)(http://tinyurl.com/3nxt8d)
1973 Mar 7, Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman (1920-1975), a leader of the Bangladeshi independence
movement and first prime minister of Bangladesh, won a landslide
victory in the country's first general elections. Rahman and the
Awami League won elections.
(SFC, 6/12/96,
p.E3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladeshi_general_election%2C_1973)
1973 Mar 7, Dr. Lubos Kohoutek,
Czech astronomer, used a double exposure and discovered the comet
Kohoutek then 370 million miles from earth.
(NG, Aug., 1974,
p.223)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Kohoutek)
1974 Mar 7, Duke Univ. and the
North Carolina Department of Archives and History announced the
discovery of the Civil War ship USS Monitor.
(http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/monitor01/finding/finding.html)
1975 Mar 7, The US Senate
revised its filibuster rule "cloture vote," allowing 60 senators to
limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required
two-thirds (67) of senators present.
(AP, 3/7/98)(Econ, 5/21/05, p.30)
1977 Mar 7, Israeli PM Yitzhak
Rabin met with Pres. Carter in Washington.
(www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/documents/campdavid25/campdavid25_photos.phtml)
1977 Mar 7, Ali Bhutto's
Pakistan People's Party won elections.
(www.storyofpakistan.com/articletext.asp?artid=A142)
1979 Mar 7, Voyager 1 reached
Jupiter.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1981 Mar 7, Anti-government
guerrillas in Colombia executed kidnapped American Bible translator
Chester Allen Bitterman, whom they accused of being a CIA agent.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1981 Mar 7, Kirill Petrovich
Kondrashin (b.1914), Russian conductor, composer, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiril_Kondrashin)
1983 Mar 7, TNN (The Nashville
Network) began on Cable TV.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_TV)
1983 Mar 7, Igor Markevitch
(b.1912), Ukraine-born conductor, composer, died in Antibes.
(http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/665.htm)
1983 Mar 7, In France Claude
Vivier (b.1948), a French-Canadian composer, was found stabbed to
death. A 19-year-old man was convicted of the murder. Vivier left
behind 48 completed scores and part of a 49th. His 1976 "Siddartha"
was a 30 minute orchestral piece written on commission from the CBC
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Vivier).
(SFEC, 1/4/98, DB. p.31)
1985 Mar 7, Victor W. Farris
(75), inventor of paper clip and paper milk carton (1932), died in
Palm Beach, Fla. [see 1824 and Oct 19, 1915]
(www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/bkofdead/obits-fa.htm)
1985 Mar 7, George Schick (76),
Czech conductor (Chicago Symphony), died.
(http://tinyurl.com/ycj6qk)
1985 Mar 7, Robert W. Woodruff
(b.1889), CEO (Coca-Cola), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Woodruff)
1986 Mar 7, Jacob K. Javits
(b.1904), (Sen-R-NY), died in Palm Beach, Fla.
(http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=j000064)
1986 Mar 7, In France thieves
made off with 1.5 million francs in an armored car robbery. In 2007
Jean Pierre Belkalem, a former Cartier employee, was arrested in San
Francisco on charges of aiding and abetting in the robbery.
(SSFC, 4/1/07, p.D3)
1988 Mar 7, Three Israelis were
killed when three Arab gunmen hijacked a commuter bus in the Negev
Desert; the hijackers themselves were killed when Israeli forces
stormed the vehicle.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1988 Mar 7, Divine (born as
Harris Milstead in 1945), female impersonator (Pink Flamingos,
Hairspray), died.
(www.glbtq.com/arts/divine.html)
1988 Mar 7, Robert Livingston
(b.1904), actor (Lone Ranger), died of emphysema. He was born as
Robert Edgar Randall. There were 51 Three Mesquiteers yarns churned
out by Republic Pictures from 1936-1943, and Livingston appeared in
29.
(www.b-westerns.com/living.htm)
1989 Mar 7, US Secretary of
State James A. Baker III met with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard
Shevardnadze in Vienna, Austria. Baker agreed to visit Moscow the
following May to discuss prospects for a summit between Pres. Bush
and Soviet Pres. Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
(AP, 3/7/99)
1989 Mar 7, Britain dropped
diplomatic relations with Iran over Salmon Rushdie's book.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_(novel))
1990 Mar 7, Health and Human
Services Secretary Louis Sullivan announced the US government would
propose a more informative food-labeling system that would require
the disclosure of the fat, fiber and cholesterol content of nearly
all packaged foods.
(AP, 3/7/00)
1991 Mar 7, In the wake of the
allied victory in the Persian Gulf, Secretary of State James A.
Baker the Third left for a tour of the Middle East, seeking to
promote a new Arab-Israeli dialogue.
(AP, 3/7/01)
1991 Mar 7, Iraq continued to
explode oil fields in Kuwait.
(www.parstimes.com/spaceimages/fires-kuwait-2.jpg)
1992 Mar 7, Democrat Bill
Clinton picked up additional victories in the South Carolina primary
and the Wyoming caucuses, while fellow Democrat Paul Tsongas won the
Arizona caucuses. President George H.W. Bush won the Republican
primary in South Carolina.
(AP, 3/7/02)
1992 Mar 7, An Israeli security
chief was killed in a car bomb attack in Ankara, Turkey. Islamic
Jihad claimed responsibility.
(NYT, 10/8/04, p.A12)
1993 Mar 7, Authorities said
David Koresh, the leader of the Branch Davidians, was becoming
irritable and had rejected proposals to end a week-long standoff at
his compound near Waco, Texas.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1994 Mar 7, 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.
(AP, 3/7/99)
1994 Mar 7, The U.S. Navy
issued its first permanent orders assigning women to regular duty on
a combat ship -- in this case, the USS Eisenhower.
(AP, 3/7/99)
1994 Mar 7, At San Quentin
prison officer Timothy Scott shot and killed inmate Mark Adams. In
1998 a federal jury awarded the Adams family $2.3 million following
a trial based on wrongful death.
(SFC, 12/1/98, p.A15)
1995 Mar 7, New York Gov.
George Pataki signed a death penalty bill into law. NY became the
38th state to adopt the death penalty.
(AP, 3/7/00)
1995 Mar 7, In a
near-party-line vote, the House passed, 232-193, a business-backed
measure designed to pressure combatants in lawsuits to settle their
differences short of costly trials.
(AP, 3/7/00)
1996 Mar 7, Bob Dole handily
won the New York Republican primary.
(AP, 3/7/01)
1996 Mar 7, Three US servicemen
were convicted in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl and
sentenced by a Japanese court to six and a-half to seven years in
prison.
(AP, 3/7/01)
1996 Mar 7, The Hubble Space
Telescope photographed the 1st surface photos of Pluto.
(http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1996/09/)
1997 Mar 7, The first
cross-adoption by 2 lesbians whose children were half-sisters took
place in New York. The women had used the same sperm donor for their
children.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A4)
1997 Mar 7, After a week of
embarrassing disclosures about White House fund raising, President
Clinton told a news conference, "I'm not sure, frankly" if he also
had made calls for campaign cash. But he insisted that nothing had
undercut his pledge to have the highest ethical standards ever.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1997 Mar 7, In Australia it was
disclosed that the reputed Aboriginal painter Eddie Burrup was
actually 82-year-old Elizabeth Durack.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A11)
1997 Mar 7, Oxford Univ.
scientists established a blood tie between the 9,000 year-old
skeleton known as Cheddar Man and an English teacher who lived just
half-a-mile from the cave where the bones were found.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A8)
1997 Mar 7, The former Haiti
police chief, Lt. Col. Michel Francois, was arrested in Honduras for
helping to smuggle 33 tons of Columbian drugs through Haiti into the
US. Francois had fled to the Dominican Republic in 1994.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A10)
1997 Mar 7, Japanese PM Ryutaro
Hashimoto was sued by 5 people, because his smoking had violated the
constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1997 Mar 7, In Peru foreign
officials and local journalists confirmed that the police were
digging tunnels to the residence of the Japanese ambassador where
hostages were being held by the Tupac Amaru rebels.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A1)
1997 Mar 7, In Belgrade,
Serbia, students ended 106 days of daily protests after their
rector, Dragutin Velickovic -A Milosevic supporter, resigned.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A12)
1997 Mar 7, In Ecuador the
Supreme Court charged Bucaram with corruption, embezzlement,
nepotism and influence peddling. When ousted Pres. Abdala Bucaram
abandoned the presidential palace in Feb., he walked out with 11
burlap bags allegedly stuffed with $3 million.
(SFC, 3/10/97, p.A9)
1998 Mar 7, Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright, speaking in Rome, said the United States
wouldn't tolerate any more violence in Kosovo, which she blamed on
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
(AP, 3/7/99)
1999 Mar 7, Movie director
Stanley Kubrick, whose films included "Dr. Strangelove," "A
Clockwork Orange" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," died in
Hertfordshire, England, at age 70.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A1)(AP, 3/7/00)
1999 Mar 7, In Austrian state
elections the anti-immigration Freedom Party of Joerg Haider won
42.1% of the vote in Carinthia.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 7, In El Salvador
presidential elections were scheduled. FMLN candidate Facundo
Guardado was expected to lose to ARENA candidate Francisco Flores
(39). Flores and his Republican National Alliance won with about 52%
of the vote.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A12)(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A12)(SFC,
3/9/99, p.B10)
1999 cMar 7, An Antonov 32
Indian air force plane crashed near New Delhi airport killing all 18
onboard and 3 people on the ground.
(WSJ, 3/8/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 7, Ukraine restarted
nuclear reactor No. 3 at Chernobyl following repairs that began Dec
15.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A16)
2000 Mar 7, In Super Tuesday
primaries Republican George W. Bush won 8 states to 4 for John
McCain. Vice Pres. Gore won 14 states with none for Bill Bradley.
(SFC, 3/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 7, The DJIA fell 374
points in its 4th largest decline ever. The Nasdaq composite crossed
the five-thousand mark for the first time before retreating.
(SFC, 3/8/00, p.A19)(AP, 3/7/01)
2000 Mar 7, In Baltimore Joseph
C. Palczynski shot and killed 3 people following a breakup with a
girlfriend. The next night he killed another woman and wounded a
2-year-old boy during an attempted carjacking. On Mar 17 Palczynski
took 3 hostages and held off police for 3 days. He was fatally shot
by police on Mar 21.
(SFC, 3/10/00, p.D3)(SFC, 3/20/00, p.A3)(SFC,
3/22/00, p.A3)
2000 Mar 7, Country singer
Frank “Pee Wee” King died in Louisville, Kentucky, at age 86.
(AP, 3/7/01)
2000 Mar 7, In Kosovo 24
civilians and 16 French peacekeepers were wounded in a street battle
that escalated from a fight between a Serb and Albanian in
Mitrovica.
(WSJ, 3/8/00, p.A1)
2001 Mar 7, Pres. Bush met with
South Korea’s Pres. Kim Dae Jung and said he did not plan to resume
talks with North Korea.
(WSJ, 3/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 7, United States
census 2000 results showed that the Hispanic population at 35.3
million, just above the 34.7 million African Americans.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 7, It was reported
that Bogota, Colombia, Mayor Antanas Mockus called on women to take
a night out and leave men at home to do the chores.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A9)
2001 Mar 7, In Congo soldiers
killed some of the 11 Lebanese nationals detained in the aftermath
of the Kabila assassination.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 7, In Israel Ariel
Sharon took office as the nation’s 11th Prime Minister. He insisted
that Palestinians must reduce violence before he would resume
negotiations for peace.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A9)(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 7, The UN Security
Council imposed an embargo on Liberia’s trade in weapons and
diamonds in an effort to halt arms to rebels in Sierra Leone.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A13)
2001 Mar 7, In Russia an
avalanche on a Siberian highway in the Yermakov district buried some
200 people. At least 2 people died.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 7, In Serbia NATO
soldiers moved into the Kosovo village of Mijak to stem the flow of
arms to Albanian guerrillas in Macedonia.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 7, Pres. Mugabe of
Zimbabwe left Europe after meetings in France and Belgium over the
11,000 troops he has stationed in Congo.
(SFC, 3/9/01, p.D3)
2002 Mar 7, The US House passed
417-3 a bill cutting taxes and extending unemployment benefits.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2002 Mar 7, Brazil’s 4-party
coalition collapsed with the pullout of the Liberal Front Party.
Roseana Sarney (40), Gov. of Maranhao state and PFL presidential
candidate, was involved in a scandal over a consulting firm she
owned with her husband. Sarney called the government investigation a
witch-hunt. Her presidential bid was killed when images of half a
million dollars in banknotes, found at her husband’s office, were
broadcast on television.
(SFC, 3/8/02, p.A13)(SFC, 3/9/02, p.A7)(Econ,
2/27/10, p.43)
2002 Mar 7, In Burma Aye Zaw
Win (54) and 3 adult sons, 4 relatives of former dictator Ne Win,
were arrested and some military officers were dismissed for planning
a coup. Later Ne Win and his daughter were put under house arrest.
Aye Zaw Win and his 3 sons were convicted and sentenced to death Sep
26.
(SSFC, 3/10/02, p.A15)(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A7)(SFC,
9/27/02, p.A11)
2002 Mar 7, In India the death
toll from Hindu-Muslim violence in the region climbed to 665, and
was expected to climb if construction begins Mar 15 on a Hindu
temple in Ayodha.
(WSJ, 3/8/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 7, Irish voters
narrowly rejected an abortion proposal that would have tightened a
near total ban.
(SFC, 3/8/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 7, Venezuela sent some
2,000 troops to its border with Colombia to block fleeing rebels.
(WSJ, 3/8/02, p.A1)
2003 Mar 7, The US and
its allies moved to set March 17 as the final deadline for Saddam
Hussein to prove he has given up his weapons of mass destruction.
(AP, 3/8/03)(SFC, 3/8/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 7, Pres. Bush
invoked economic sanctions against Pres. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe
and dozens of officials of his government on grounds they undermined
the country's democratic institutions.
(AP, 3/7/03)
2003 Mar 7, The US Labor
Dept. reported that US jobs fell 308,000 in Feb.
(SFC, 3/8/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 7, Virtually every
musical on Broadway shut down as musicians went on strike, and
actors and stagehands said they wouldn't cross their picket lines;
the walkout lasted four days.
(SFC, 3/8/03, p.A3)(AP, 3/7/04)
2003 Mar 7, Kazem
al-Sahir (41), Iraqi pop singer with over 30 million records sold,
scheduled a benefit concert at the Berkeley Community Theater. His
US tour was set to raise medical and school supplies for Iraqi
children.
(SSFC, 3/2/03, A28)(SFC, 3/6/03, p.F1)
2003 Mar 7, Jose Marcio Ayres
(49), Brazilian biologist and senior Wildlife Conservation Society
(WCS) biologist, died in NYC. In 1996 he set up the Mamiraua
Sustainable Development Reserve to protect a 4,300 square-mile area
of the Amazon rain forest.
(Econ, 6/19/04, p.77)
2003 Mar 7,
International officials froze assets linked to top Bosnian-Serb war
crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic. A panel of Bosnian and int'l.
judges ordered Bosnia's Serb Republic to pay $2.25 million in
compensation for the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica.
(AP, 3/7/03)(SFC, 3/8/03, p.A7)
2003 Mar 7, In Bulgaria Ilya
Pavlov, owner of the energy and tourism-related company Multigroup
and Bulgaria's richest man, was killed by a sniper in Sofia. Pavlov,
a former wrestler, was instrumental in the demise of the Kremikovtzi
steel plant.
(AP, 10/26/05)(http://tinyurl.com/hju8l)(WSJ,
8/4/08, p.A8)
2003 Mar 7, Heavy snow
set off avalanches along the cease-fire line dividing Kashmir
between India and Pakistan, killing at least 17 people, mostly
soldiers, and stranding hundreds.
(AP, 3/7/03)
2003 Mar 7, Nai Shwe
Kyin (90), a veteran guerrilla leader from Myanmar's Mon ethnic
minority, died. He founded the Mon Freedom League in 1947. He also
helped found the Mon People's Front in 1952 and the New Mon State
Party in 1958. The party signed a cease-fire agreement with
Myanmar's military government in 1995.
(AP, 3/8/03)
2003 Mar 7, In Nigeria
the "Oba," or king, of Lagos Island, Adeyinka Oyekan II (92), died.
Ritual human sacrifice was feared and a week of mourning left
streets deserted.
(AP, 3/14/03)
2003 Mar 7, Pakistan's
Baluchistan provincial home minister said that two sons of
Osama bin Laden, Saad and Hamza bin Laden, were arrested in
southwestern Afghanistan. The report was later proved false.
(AP, 3/7/03)
2003 Mar 7, Mohamed
ElBaradei, UN chief nuclear weapons inspector, expressed frustration
at the quality of US information on Iraqi weapons and charged that
some documents may have been faked.
(SFC, 3/8/03, p.A11)
2004 Mar 7, An investiture
ceremony was held in Concord, N.H., for V. Gene Robinson, the
Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2004 Mar 7, Seattle's mayor
said the city will begin recognizing the marriages of gay employees
who tie the knot elsewhere, although it will not conduct its own
same-sex weddings.
(AP, 3/8/04)
2004 Mar 7, Paul Winfield (62),
an Academy Award-nominated actor who was known for his versatility
in stage, film and television roles, died of a heart attack.
(AP, 3/9/04)
2004 Mar 7, In Austria Joerg
Haider Haider's Freedom Party won 42.4 percent of the vote, compared
to just over 38 percent for the rival Socialists in Carinthia
province.
(AP, 3/8/04)
2004 Mar 7, in China's Muslim
Xinjiang region the No. 2 Mine of the Hami Coal Co. flooded. 25
managed to escape while rescuers worked desperately to save
survivors. Rescue workers saved 15 coal miners trapped in a flooded
shaft, but seven miners were still missing.
(AP, 3/8/04)
2004 Mar 7, In Greece Costas
Karamanlis (47) led the New Democracy party over former Foreign
Minister George Papandreou's Socialists 45.4 percent to 40.6
percent. The result gave New Democracy 165 seats in the 300-member
parliament. The Socialists (Pasok) received 117 seats, Greece's
Communist Party got 12 and the Coalition of the Radical Left won
six.
(AP, 3/8/04)(Econ, 3/13/04, p.51)
2004 Mar 7, In Haiti U.S.
Marines shot and killed one of the gunmen who fired at a huge
demonstration of protesters celebrating the flight from Haiti of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. That raised the toll to six dead
and more than 30 injured in the protest.
(AP, 3/8/04)
2004 Mar 7, In Iraq insurgents
in a car fired rocket-propelled grenades at a police station in
Mosul, and two Iraqi civilians were killed.
(AP, 3/7/04)
2004 Mar 7, Israeli troops
traded heavy gunfire with Palestinians in a raid near Bureij Refugee
Camp, killing 14 Palestinians. Among the dead were 11 militants and
three boys between the ages of 8 and 15, and 81 people were wounded.
(AP, 3/7/04)(AP, 3/8/04)
2004 Mar 7, In central Japan a
helicopter chartered by a TV news station crashed while filming a
highway accident, killing all four aboard,
(AP, 3/7/04)
2004 Mar 7, The Samson, a ferry
carrying 113 people, vanished after it was caught in a cyclone as it
sailed between the Indian Ocean islands of Comoros and Madagascar.
There were 2 survivors. The drownings brought the death toll from
Cyclone Gafilo to 154.
(AP, 3/10/04)(AP, 3/11/04)
2004 Mar 7, Zimbabwean
authorities seized a US-registered cargo plane at Harare carrying 64
"suspected mercenaries" and military equipment. Equatorial Guinea
later said the men were mercenaries from South Africa en route to
stage a coup. Twenty South Africans, 18 Namibians, 23 Angolans, two
Congolese and one Zimbabwean carrying a South African passport were
arrested when their aging Boeing 727 was impounded. Another 15
suspects were arrested in Equatorial Guinea the next day. In 2006
Adam Roberts authored “The Wonga Coup,” an account of the attempted
coup.
(AP, 3/8/04)(WSJ, 3/10/04, p.A1)(AP,
3/10/04)(WSJ, 7/26/06, p.D11)
2005 Mar 7, President Bush
named John R. Bolton (56), undersecretary of state for arms control
and international security, as US ambassador to the UN.
(AP, 3/8/05)(SFC, 3/8/05, p.A10)
2005 Mar 7, Sony Corp. picked
Sir Howard Stringer (63), Welsh-born head of its US operations, to
replace chairman and CEO Nobuyuki Idei.
(WSJ, 3/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 7, United Defense
Industries, maker of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, agreed to merge
with British defense firm BAE Systems in a $4 billion deal.
(SFC, 3/8/05, p.D1)
2005 Mar 7, China said it will
keep controversial exchange-rate controls and hold down industrial
investment this year as it tries to rein in surging growth and
restrain inflation.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 7, An international
human rights group said militiamen and renegade soldiers have raped
and beaten tens of thousands of women and young girls in eastern
Congo, and nearly all the crimes have gone unpunished by the
country's broken judicial system.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 7, In the Dominican
Republic rival gangs fighting for control of a provincial prison set
pillows and sheets ablaze, starting a fire that killed 136 inmates
after rescuers were thwarted by a jammed entrance.
(AP, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 7, It was reported
that Indonesia’s army had killed 30 Aceh separatists over the past
week.
(WSJ, 3/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 7, In Iraq guerrillas
launched a series of attacks that left 33 people dead and dozens
wounded.
(AP, 3/7/05)(SFC, 3/8/05, p.A10)
2005 Mar 7, The presidents of
Lebanon and Syria announced that Syrian forces will pull back to
Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley by March 31, but a complete troop
withdrawal will be deferred until after later negotiations.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 7, Authorities said
Nigerian police have rescued more than 100 children from child
traffickers over the last 3 days, including 56 discovered at a
checkpoint in a frozen food truck.
(Reuters, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 7, Officials in South
Africa's capital voted to rename the city Tshwane, retaining the
name Pretoria for the city center only.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 7, A Turkish alcohol
company ordered the recall of millions of bottles of Turkish liquor
as the death toll from a bootleg version of the drink rose to at
least 17.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2006 Mar 7, The Bush
administration drew a hard line on Iran, warning of "meaningful
consequences" if the Islamic government did not back away from an
international confrontation over its disputed nuclear program.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2006 Mar 7-2006 Mar 8, The NYSE
under John Thain consummated its purchase of Archipelago Holdings,
an electronic trading system partly owned by Goldman Sachs. It began
trading as a for-profit public company, NYSE Group Inc., on Mar 8
under the symbol NYX. Thain was formerly employed by Goldman.
(SFC, 3/7/06, p.C1)(Econ, 5/27/06, p.67)
2006 Mar 7, Gordon Parks (93),
black photographer, writer and film director, died in NY. His
semi-autobiographical novel “The Learning Tree“ became a best seller
in 1963. His films included “Shaft” (1971) and “Leadbelly” (1976).
(SFC, 3/7/06, p.A2)
2006 Mar 7, In Buenos Aires,
Argentina, Mayor Anibal Ibarra was removed from office over
allegations that poor government safety regulation contributed to
the death of 194 people in a December 2004 nightclub fire.
(AP, 3/8/06)
2006 Mar 7, Britain unveiled a
new system for screening immigrants. Entry would depend on points
accumulated in any one of 5 proposed tiers.
(Econ, 3/11/06, p.52)
2006 Mar 7, In Colombia the
70-member La Gaitana company of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC), handed over 63 weapons and a small aircraft during
a ceremony near Alvarado, a town 50 miles west of Bogota.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, Nobel Peace
laureate Oscar Arias was declared Costa Rica's president-elect.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2006 Mar 7, In France
protesters opposed to a government plan to reduce joblessness by
making it easier to fire young workers rallied throughout the
country, disrupting airports, schools and the Paris Metro.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, In Varanasi, India,
explosions rocked a packed railway station and crowded Hindu temple
in Hinduism's holiest city. At least 10 people died in the
explosions at the train station, and five were killed in the blast
at the temple. Five people died overnight in hospitals. Indian
police shot dead Salar, an Islamic militant suspected of links to a
triple bombing. He was found with a pistol and 2.5 kilograms (5.5
pounds) of explosives after he was shot on the outskirts of the
Uttar Pradesh state capital Lucknow, 300 kilometers (190 miles)
north of Varanasi.
(AP, 3/8/06)(AFP, 3/8/06)
2006 Mar 7, A four-year-old
Indonesian boy became the latest suspected human casualty of bird
flu as the virus spread in Nigeria and Poland. A Russian virus
expert warned that a human pandemic was highly likely and told the
government to get ready.
(AFP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, In central
Indonesia a 66-foot-high mountain of sand collapsed onto diggers,
killing at least 11 people in Cipatat village near West Java's
provincial capital of Bandung.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, Iran’s President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the IAEA, the UN nuclear agency, to
compensate Iran for suspending its nuclear activities since 2003.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, Iraq's president
postponed a decision on when to call the new parliament into session
after the dominant Shiite alliance requested a delay to resolve a
deadlock over the composition of the government. Bombings, gunfire
and mortars across Iraq left at least 11 people dead and more than a
dozen wounded.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, A US military
patrol and Iraqi police discovered 18 bodies, many of them
handcuffed and strangled, in an abandoned minibus in Baghdad.
Bombings, mortar blasts and gunfire killed 19 people. Police also
reported finding four bullet-riddled bodies, two with their eyes
gouged out. A US soldier was killed and 4 others wounded by a bomb
explosion in Tal Afar. A US Marine was killed by insurgents in Anbar
province.
(AP, 3/8/06)(SFC, 3/9/06, p.A9)
2006 Mar 7, Iraqi forces
captured Mohammed Hila Hammad Obeidi, also known as Abu Ayman, the
prime suspect in last year's kidnapping of Italian journalist
Giuliana Sgrena. His capture was not announced until April 6 due to
DNA tests to verify his identity.
(AP, 4/6/06)
2006 Mar 7, The Irish Supreme
Court ruled that Brendan "Bik" McFarlane, a legendary Irish
Republican Army figure who in 1983 oversaw the biggest prison
breakout in British history, should stand trial for kidnapping.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, Ehud Olmert, the
acting Israeli premier, pledged a drastic cut in spending on Jewish
settlements in the West Bank.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, Ali Farka Toure
(b.1939), a traditional African musician who won two Grammy Awards,
died in his home in Bamako, Mali, after a long illness.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, Malaysia said it
has lifted a ban on US beef imports in place for more than two
years, to make up for a shortage after it restricted access to
Australian and New Zealand beef.
(AFP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, More than 20,000
union workers marched in downtown Mexico City, accusing the
government of meddling in the affairs of the national miners union
by seeking to oust its leader.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, In Nuevo Laredo,
Mexico, heavily armed assailants killed a state police chief and an
officer and wounded two more officers in a brazen midmorning ambush.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, Hundreds of
communist rebels attacked security bases overnight and bombed
government buildings in eastern Nepal, sparking battles that left at
least 13 people dead.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, The World Bank
announced a $42 million grant to the Palestinian Authority, which
was plunged into a financial crisis by a drop in revenues after the
Islamic militant group Hamas won Palestinian parliament elections in
January.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, In Sweden masked
gunmen crashed through an airport fence at the Landvetter airport
outside Goteborg, held up luggage handlers unloading crates of
foreign currency from an airliner, and left behind a suspicious
package that looked like a bomb.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 7, Venezuela's solidly
pro-Chavez National Assembly gave final approval to changes in the
flag proposed by the socialist president: an eighth star and a
turnabout of the horse that until now has galloped to the right.
(AP, 3/8/06)
2007 Mar 7, At least two people
woke on their way to becoming millionaires. Someone bought a winning
ticket for the record $370 million Mega Millions jackpot in Dalton,
Ga., and another winning ticket was purchased in Woodbine, N.J. Ed
Nabors (52), a Georgia truck driver, stepped forward to claim half
of a $390 million jackpot, the richest lottery prize in US history.
He elected to take his winnings in a lump sum instead of annual
installments, and will get over $80 million after taxes.
(AP, 3/7/07)(AP, 3/8/07)
2007 Mar 7, Sex offender John
Evander Couey was found guilty in Miami of kidnapping, raping and
murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was buried alive.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2007 Mar 7, In NYC 9 people,
including 8 children, died inside their burning Bronx house. Another
child died the next day.
(AP, 3/8/07)(SFC, 3/9/07, p.A8)(SSFC, 3/11/07,
p.A2)(AP, 3/7/08)
2007 Mar 7, In Afghanistan NATO
forces fought Taliban militants in the second day of the alliance's
largest-ever offensive. Mullah Abdul Qassim, a top Taliban commander
in Helmand province told The Associated Press that his group has
4,000 fighters bracing to rebuff NATO's largest-ever offensive in
southern Afghanistan. Suicide bombers are ready, land mines have
been planted and helicopters will be targeted.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, Britain’s House of
Commons voted 337-224 to introduce elections to the House of Lords.
(SFC, 3/8/07, p.A3)
2007 Mar 7, In China a
government directive said all pet dogs will be killed in a district
of the southwestern city of Chongqing as part of an anti-rabies
campaign. Residents of the city's Wanzhou district had until March
15 to hand over their dogs.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, Ecuador’s highest
electoral court voted to dismiss 57 congressmen for allegedly
interfering with a referendum on whether to rewrite the
constitution, in an escalating fight over Ecuador's charter.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, In France a new law
took effect that makes it a crime for anyone, who is not a
professional journalist, to film real-world violence and distribute
the images on the Internet. Critics call it a clumsy effort by
authorities to battle "happy slapping," the youth fad of filming
violent acts, which most often they have provoked, and spreading the
images on the Web or between mobile phones.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, A packed Garuda
Indonesia jetliner crash-landed and erupted in flames at Yogyakarta
airport, killing 22 people trapped inside the burning wreckage. More
than 115 others escaped through emergency exits as black smoke
billowed behind them.
(AP, 3/7/07)(Econ, 3/10/07, p.40)
2007 Mar 7, In Iraq at least 11
Shiite pilgrims were killed by bombs and gunfire as they streamed
toward a Muslim shrine ahead of a weekend holiday. Three American
soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb. An Iraqi TV cameraman
working for a privately owned Shiite station was among 22 people
killed in a car bombing at a police checkpoint in south Baghdad. A
suspected financier of insurgents was captured in Kirkuk province. A
suicide attacker blew himself up in a cafe northeast of Baghdad,
killing 30 people.
(AP, 3/7/07)(AP, 3/8/07)(AP, 3/11/07)(AP, 3/7/08)
2007 Mar 7, In
Indian-controlled Kashmir cable operators said 4 foreign television
channels have been pulled from the air after Islamic militant groups
demanded cable companies stop airing "obscene" shows.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, Israeli troops
raided the Palestinian military headquarters in Ramallah and
arrested 18 fugitives who had sought shelter there.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, The Israeli air
force unveiled its newest unmanned aircraft, saying the plane can
fly longer, faster and higher than any other surveillance aircraft.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, A Nigerian court
cleared Vice President Atiku Abubakar to take part in next month's
presidential poll, overturning a decision by the electoral
commission to disqualify him.
(AFP, 3/8/07)
2007 Mar 7, North Korea
reported that it has slaughtered hundreds of cows and pigs after an
outbreak of foot and mouth disease. The report said the sickened
cows had been imported from Tieling, China.
(AP, 3/8/07)
2007 Mar 7, In Pakistan senior
officials from India and Pakistan wrapped up the first meeting of a
joint panel on counterterrorism set up in September under a peace
process begun in 2004. They pledged to share information and help
each other prevent terrorism. In southwestern Pakistan a bomb
attached to a motorcycle exploded near a vehicle carrying
pro-government tribal elders, killing one of them and wounding 12
others.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, Russian nuclear
energy officials hosted an Iranian delegation for talks on the
construction of a Russian-built plant that has fallen behind
schedule because of what Moscow said were delays in payments by
Tehran.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, In Russia Vladimir
Nikolayev, the mayor of Vladivostok, was ordered arrested amid a
criminal investigation into suspect land deals and embezzlement in
the latest bout of corruption to hit the long-troubled port.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, In Somalia a gunman
shot dead two policemen south of Mogadishu, close to the airport
where hundreds of African Union peacekeepers have begun deploying.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, Han
Myung-sook, South Korea's prime minister, stepped down saying
she would think about running for the nation's top job. Han was the
first woman to hold the government's No. 2 position, although the
job is largely ceremonial in a country where power is concentrated
around the president.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 7, In Timor-Leste a
three-judge panel found Rogerio Lobato, a former interior minister,
guilty of fueling violence a year ago that ultimately led to the
downfall of the government and sentenced him to 7 1/2 years in
prison.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 7, Turk Telekom
blocked access to Google's YouTube video-sharing site after a court
ruling over videos deemed insulting to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the
founder of modern Turkey.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2008 Mar 7, Pres. Bush called
an impromptu new conference to calm fears following news of a 63,000
job loss nationwide in February. The January job loss was 22,000.
The Federal Reserve said it plans to make $100 billion available to
banks in March to ease the credit crises.
(SFC, 3/8/08, p.C1)
2008 Mar 7, US Congressman
questioned ex-corporate CEOs on executive compensation as their
companies lost billions in the subprime debacle.
(SFC, 3/8/08, p.C1)(WSJ, 3/8/08, p.A3)
2008 Mar 7, The IRS said it
will spend nearly $42 million on letters alerting taxpayers to
coming rebates.
(WSJ, 3/8/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 7, Texas oilman David
Chalmers was sentenced to two years in prison after admitting to
paying millions of dollars in kickbacks to Iraq in connection with
the UN oil-for-food program.
(AP, 3/8/08)
2008 Mar 7, David Gale
(b.1921), UC mathematician, died. In 1962 he and UCLA Prof. Lloyd
Shapley proposed a solution to the “stable marriage problem.” The
paper proved a fertile contribution to real cases of “two-sided
matching.”
(WSJ, 3/28/08, p.A6)
2008 Mar 7, Algerian
authorities seized 2 tons of cannabis on the border with Morocco. 2
more tons were seized Mar 3. The total was valued at around 4
million euros.
(AP, 3/9/08)
2008 Mar 7, Captain Paul Watson
of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a protest ship harassing
Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, said he was shot in a
high-seas clash and his crew members pelted with flash grenades,
injuring one. Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith and Japanese
officials insisted only warning devices were fired.
(AFP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 7, Australian
officials said police have rescued 10 South Korean women who were
forced to work in a Sydney brothel by a sex slavery syndicate that
lured them to Australia with promises of legitimate jobs.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 7, The Belarusian
Foreign Ministry said it has demanded that the US ambassador leave
the country and recalled its ambassador in the US over Washington's
economic sanctions against the ex-Soviet nation.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 7, Francis Pym (86),
former Northern Ireland secretary (1973-74) under Edward Heath, died
after a long illness. He also served as former PM Margaret
Thatcher’s foreign secretary during the Falklands War (1982) but was
fired in 1983 and became a Thatcher antagonist.
(AP, 3/8/08)
2008 Mar 7, A flight crew
prevented an apparent attempt to crash a China Southern flight from
Urumqi. Officials later said a Uighur woman attempted to start a
fire on board the flight to Beijing. No passengers were injured. In
northern Hebei province 10 people were killed in a collision between
a bus and a truck loaded with coal.
(AP, 3/9/08)(AP, 3/7/08)(Econ, 3/22/08, p.29)
2008 Mar 7, At a summit in the
Dominican Republic the presidents of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador
agreed to end a bitter dispute triggered by a Colombian cross-border
raid with testy handshakes and an apology.
(AP, 3/8/08)
2008 Mar 7, An official said
Egypt is building a 13-foot high concrete and rock wall interspersed
with watch towers along its narrow boundary with the Gaza Strip to
prevent Hamas militants from breaching the border.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 7, Bombings in the
northern city of Mosul killed at least 4 people and wounded 46. Twin
bombings in the central part of the city killed one person and
injured 14 others. An American soldier was killed during an
operation in Diyala province.
(AP, 3/7/08)(AP, 3/8/08)
2008 Mar 7, Mexican soldiers
seized assault rifles, grenades, marijuana and bulletproof vests
bearing police insignia after a brief shootout in the border city of
Tijuana. Police commander Ricardo Rodriguez was shot dead in a city
plaza by gunmen who opened fire with assault rifles from a moving
car.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 7, Both of Spain's
major political parties called off all election campaigning
nationwide after Isaias Carrasco, a former city councilman, was shot
dead in the Basque region just two days before general elections.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 7, Suspected Kurdish
rebels killed a civilian and took another hostage in a southern
Turkish province near the border with Syria.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2009 Mar 7, President Barack
Obama promised to do "all that's necessary" to boost the economy and
warned, in an opening shot at critics of his budget proposals, that
the country had tough choices ahead.
(Reuters, 3/7/09)
2009 Mar 7, SF Bay Area police
completed a 2-day sweep arresting at least 42 people, all alleged
member of the so-called “Taliban” gang.
(SSFC, 3/8/09, p.A1)
2009 Mar 7, A widow in western
Afghanistan burned herself alive in what relatives called a
desperate move to escape her miserably poor life.
(AP, 3/8/09)
2009 Mar 7, In Algeria 2 people
were killed and five others wounded in an attack on the barracks of
security forces at Tadmait near Tizi Ouzou east of the capital.
(AP, 3/7/09)
2009 Mar 7, The British
government said it will take a majority stake in Lloyds Banking
Group and guarantee toxic assets, leaving only two major British
banks outside the state's control.
(AFP, 3/7/09)
2009 Mar 7, In France a
commuter train slammed into a group of football fans who were
walking on railway tracks in a Paris suburb, killing two youths and
injuring 11 people.
(AFP, 3/8/09)
2009 Mar 7, Iraq's PM Nouri
al-Maliki called for an end to the practice of distributing top
government jobs along religious and ethnic lines, saying the system
leads to weakness and mismanagement.
(AP, 3/7/09)
2009 Mar 7, Suspected IRA
dissidents opened fire on British troops and pizza delivery men at
the entrance to Massereene army barracks in Antrim, west of Belfast,
killing two soldiers and wounding four other people. The attackers
fired on Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar again as they lay wounded
on the ground. A week later 3 men were arrested over the killings.
On March 27 Colin Duffy (41), a prominent dissident republican, was
remanded in custody after being charged with the murders of the two
British soldiers. He was linked to the soldiers' murder by DNA
evidence. On April 2 police arrested a 19-year-old man on suspicion
of gunning down the two British soldiers.
(AP, 3/8/09)(AFP, 3/14/09)(Econ, 3/14/09,
p.59)(AFP, 3/27/09)(AP, 4/2/09)
2009 Mar 7, In Pakistan Taliban
militants reportedly shot down a suspected drone aircraft in a
tribal area bordering Afghanistan. In the northwest a bomb-laden car
exploded as police tried to pull a body from it, killing 7 police
and a bystander. A roadside bombing in Darra Adam Khel killed 3
civilians. A suicide bomber in the Khyber tribal region killed 4
people.
(AFP, 3/7/09)(AP, 3/7/09)(SSFC, 3/8/09, p.A10)
2009 Mar 7, Palestinian PM
Salam Fayyad submitted his resignation, a move that could help pave
the way for an elusive power-sharing deal between Palestinian
moderates and militants.
(AP, 3/7/09)
2009 Mar 7, In Sri Lanka more
than 100 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in two days of fighting as
they tried to break a military stranglehold.
(AFP, 3/8/09)
2010 Mar 7, In the US Academy
Awards the film “The Hurt Locker” triumphed with six prizes and made
Kathryn Bigelow the first woman ever to win the directing Oscar.
Sandra Bullock won as best actress for "The Blind Side"; Jeff
Bridges as best actor for "Crazy Heart"; Mo'Nique as supporting
actress for "Precious: Based on the Novel `Push' by Sapphire"; and
Christoph Waltz as supporting actor for "Inglourious Basterds." The
best documentary feature was won by “The Cove,” an examination of a
bloody dolphin hunt filmed with hidden cameras in Taiji, Japan.
(AP, 3/8/10)(SSFC, 3/14/10, p.A4)
2010 Mar 7, Afghan President
Hamid Karzai made an unannounced visit to the southern town of
Marjah, promising angry elders that he will rebuild the former
Taliban stronghold after a big NATO operation. Scores of Islamist
militants defected and joined the Afghan government as infighting
among rebel groups left dozens dead including civilians. Regional
police spokesman Laal Mohammad Ahmadzai said 11 Hezb-i-Islami
commanders and 68 of their men in Baghlan province had defected to
the government. Over the weekend 3 men in Helmand and Laghman
provinces and 2 children in Kandahar were killed in a wave of bomb
blasts. 3 NATO service members were killed in attacks, one in the
south and two in the east. A roadside bomb blew up a car in the
southwestern province of Badghis killing 10 civilians. Another
civilian died in a separate bomb blast in the same region.
(Reuters, 3/7/10)(AFP, 3/7/10)(AP, 3/8/10)
2010 Mar 7, Sir Kenneth Dover
(89), a distinguished British historian of Greek culture, died. He
gained wider fame by admitting his wish to kill a fellow historian
Trevor Aston (d.1985). His books included commentaries on
Thucydides, Theocritus and Aristophanes; "Ancient Greek Literature"
(1980), "Greek and the Greeks" (1987), "The Greeks and Their Legacy"
(1989), "Greek Popular Morality in the Times of Plato and Aristotle"
(1994), "The Evolution of Greek Prose Style" (1997) and a popular
history, "The Greeks" (1981) written in conjunction with a
television series for the British Broadcasting Corp.
(AP, 3/9/10)
2010 Mar 7, Ethiopia
inaugurated a museum in Addis Ababa in memory of the victims of
former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam's so-called Red Terror purge
which killed tens of thousands in 1977-78.
(AFP, 3/7/10)
2010 Mar 7, In Germany police
said heavy snowfall over the weekend triggered a deadly avalanche
and caused thousands of accidents, leaving at least seven people
dead and dozens more injured.
(AP, 3/7/10)
2010 Mar 7, Iran announced that
it has started a new production line of highly accurate, short range
cruise missiles, which would add a new element to the country's
already imposing arsenal.
(AP, 3/7/10)
2010 Mar 7, Iraq held its 2nd
election since the 2003 ouster of Saddam Hussein. 62% of Iraqis
voted. Insurgents bombed a polling station and lobbed grenades at
voters, killing at least 37 people in 136 attacks aimed at
intimidating those taking part in an election that will determine
whether the country can overcome the sectarian divisions that have
plagued it since the 2003 US-led invasion. PM Nuri al-Maliki, the
Shiite who helped ease Iraq's sectarian strife, soon emerged as a
front-runner in a parliamentary election.
(AP, 3/7/10)(AFP, 3/8/10)(SFC, 3/9/10, p.A3)(SFC,
3/11/10, p.A2)
2010 Mar 7, Jamaica said plans
to open a music museum next year that officials say will feature
rare pieces from the island's music history, such as the sole album
that the late reggae star Bob Marley produced before he gained
international fame.
(AP, 3/7/10)
2010 Mar 7, NATO said it is
suspending the training of Kosovo's security troops after a
military-style parade that broke the force's agreement to focus only
on civil emergencies. An armed honor guard had appeared at a parade
on March 5 marking the 12th anniversary of the killing of the leader
of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
(AP, 3/7/10)
2010 Mar 7, In Nigeria some 500
people, mainly women and children, were allegedly killed in
overnight attacks in the three villages of Dogo Nahawa, Ratsat and
Zot near the city of Jos. Residents and local rights activists
blamed the overnight attack on ethnic Fulani pastoralists. A
military spokesman said security forces have arrested 24 people last
week accused of stealing crude oil and illegally refining it.
Security forces soon detained 95 suspects in the violence.
(AFP, 3/7/10)(AP, 3/8/10)(AFP, 3/9/10)
2010 Mar 7, A skeptical
Palestinian leadership agreed to hold US-mediated peace talks with
Israel for four months, effectively ending a 14-month breakdown in
communications between the two sides.
(AP, 3/7/10)
2010 Mar 7, Philippine marines
killed at least seven al-Qaida-linked militants in a raid on a
coastal hide-out but failed to capture a Malaysian terror suspect
long wanted by Washington.
(AP, 3/7/10)
2010 Mar 7, In Thailand some
3,000 supporters of fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra
demonstrated a week ahead of a crucial mass anti-government protest.
(AFP, 3/7/10)
2010 Mar 7, Togo's top
opposition party said they have proof that the ruling party
committed fraud to win the country's contentious presidential
election and that they will show their evidence in court.
(AP, 3/7/10)
2010 Mar 7, In Yemen Sharif
Mobley, an American al-Qaida prisoner receiving treatment in a
hospital, attacked guards killing one and wounding another, while
trying to escape. He was caught after a chase.
(AP, 3/7/10)(AP, 3/14/10)
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