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 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, 1911].
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen)
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.
(http://richard_wilding.tripod.com/history.htm)(HN, 3/7/98)(WSJ, 2/3/05, p.W12)
1933 Mar 7, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss (1892-1934) dissolved the Austrian parliament. From this point onwards, he governed as dictator by emergency decree with absolute power.
(http://tinyurl.com/m3ag6fn)
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)
1938 Mar 7, California’s San Quentin prison received a new lethal gas chamber to supplant its gallows.
(SSFC, 3/3/13, p.42)
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, The US 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. The bridge was the last of 22 road and railroad bridges over the Rhine still standing after German defenders failed to demolish it. US forces were able to capture the bridge.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remagen)(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)
1965 Mar 7, In San Francisco a mob of teenage boys and girls rampaged through the Mission district following the film “T.A.M.I" featuring James Brown at the Crown Theater at 2555 Mission Street.
(SSFC, 3/8/15, p.42)
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.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladeshi_general_election%2C_1973)(SFC, 6/12/96, p.E3)
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)
1980 Mar 7, US Congress declared today as National Teacher Day for this year only. The National Education Association (NEA) and its affiliates continued to observe Teacher Day on the first Tuesday in March until 1985, when the National PTA established Teacher Appreciation Week as the first full week of May. The NEA Representative Assembly then voted to make the Tuesday of that week National Teacher Day.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachers%27_Day)
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, The film “Desert Hearts," directed by Donna Deitch (b.1945), was released. This was the first feature film to depict a lesbian love story in a generally mainstream vein, with positive and respectful themes. It was based on Jane Rule’s novel “Desert of the Heart" (1964) and became a pinnacle of LGBTQ cinema.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Deitch)(SFC, 9/1/17, p.E5)
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, The US Supreme Court sided with an investor who lost money when he sold shares in Basic Inc because a pending merger was being publicly denied by the company. This led to the established the principle of “fraud-on-the-market."
(http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/485/224/case.html)(Econ, 3/1/14, p.73)
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)
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)
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)
1990 Mar 7, In Ozark, Alabama, Tracey Harris (22) disappeared. A week later, her body was found in a nearby river. Her death was ruled a homicide. In 2016 her husband Carl Harris was arrested for her murder. In 2020 Jeff Beasley, a local friend, pleaded guilty and received a 30-year sentence.
(CBS News, 8/21/21)
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, William Donald Hamilton, an English evolutionary biologist, died. In 2013 Ullica Segerstrale authored “Nature’s Oracle: The Life and Work of W.D. Hamilton."
(Econ, 3/16/13, p.85)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Hamilton)
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. Various of the men who posed as guerrillas later testified that they were not insurgents but rather thieves, indigents and unemployed who were recruited by a jailed former FARC fighter and paid at least $250 each for participating.
(AP, 3/7/06)(AP, 2/10/12)
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 (23) and Patrick Azimkar (21) 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. On Jan 20, 2012, Brian Shivers (46) was found guilty of the shooting and sentenced to at least 25 years in prison. Colin Duffy was cleared. On May 3, 2013, a judge dismissed the forensic evidence against Shivers and ruled he was too feeble to have played a role.
(AP, 3/8/09)(AFP, 3/14/09)(Econ, 3/14/09, p.59)(AFP, 3/27/09)(AP, 4/2/09)(AFP, 1/20/12)(AP, 2/10/12)(AP, 5/3/13)
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)
2011 Mar 7, Pres. Obama cleared the way for new military trials for suspected terrorists at the Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
(SFC, 3/8/11, p.A5)
2011 Mar 7, A US federal judge extended his temporary order banning collection of an $18 billion judgment by the courts in Ecuador against Chevron, saying the oil company could face irreparable harm because it appeared that lawyers for Ecuadoreans who sued over rainforest contamination were going to try to quickly collect the award.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, In Afghanistan a roadside bomb in Jalalabad killed two policemen and wounded another 25 people.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, In Algeria thousands of auxiliary police marched across the country to demand a pay raise, breaking through heavy security to reach parliament in a rare mass show of dissent in the tightly controlled country.
(AFP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, In Bahrain hundreds of members of the Shiite Muslim majority protested outside the US Embassy to appeal for Washington to back their campaign for greater political freedom.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, Two Colombian air force helicopters crashed during a training exercise, killing four Colombian soldiers and a Mexican lieutenant participating in the operation.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, A long-awaited French corruption trial opened with former President Jacques Chirac (78) as the star defendant. Chirac was accused of embezzlement, breach of trust and conflict of interest, based on allegations linked to his tenure as Paris mayor, before he became president from 1995 to 2007.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, French fashion colossus LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton announced that it has agreed to buy Rome-based jeweler Bulgari SpA in a cash-and-shares deal worth euro4.3 billion ($6 billion).
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, India's Supreme Court ruled that in rare cases a terminally ill patient can be removed from life support, a major shift in a country where such acts have long been illegal. It rejected, however, a plea to end the life of a woman who was brain damaged more than 30 years ago.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, In the Ivory Coast the government of the democratically elected president confirmed that rebels allied with their leader had seized control of a nearly 30-mile corridor along the country's border with Liberia following an intense weekend battle.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, Japan's health ministry halted the use of vaccines made by Pfizer Inc and Sanofi-Aventis SA that prevent meningitis and pneumonia following the recent deaths of four children. The deaths happened between March 2 and March 4.
(Reuters, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, Ten Japanese companies said they plan to install electric vehicle chargers at the sites of beverage vending machines across Japan in a cost-cutting tie-up.
(AFP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, Libyan warplanes launched fresh airstrikes on rebel positions around Ras Lanouf, a key oil port, trying to block the opposition fighters from advancing toward Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold in the capital, Tripoli. Pro-Gaddafi security forces bombarded the city of Zawiya from the east and west.
(Reuters, 3/7/11)(AFP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, In Mexico Marisol Valles Garcia (20), recently named police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero, was fired for apparently abandoning her post after receiving death threats. Gunbattles between rival gangs killed 18 people in the northeastern town of Abasolo, Tamaulipas state.
(AP, 3/7/11)(AP, 3/8/11)
2011 Mar 7, In Mexico assailants in Chilpancingo, capital of Guerrero state, doused three government offices with gasoline and set them ablaze. The fire destroyed documents and computer equipment at offices of the health department, the interior department and a federal government health insurance program.
(AP, 3/8/11)
2011 Mar 7, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas travelled to Britain for a one-day visit to discuss the stalled peace process with Israel.
(AFP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, In Puerto Rico a jury convicted Sen. Hector Martinez and island businessman Juan Bravo Fernandez, who owns one of the island's largest security companies, of bribery in a high-profile trial that featured allegations the lawmaker accepted a trip to Las Vegas to see a boxing match in exchange for political favors.
(AP, 3/7/11)(AP, 3/8/11)
2011 Mar 7, Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed claimed victory over the insurgents, and he called for the "final elimination" of al-Shabab, though it was far from clear that the militants have been defeated.
(AP, 3/8/11)
2011 Mar 7, Spanish drivers slowed down under a new speed limit designed to reduce energy use, angering some motorists but pleasing others who say every euro saved helps a nation slammed by Libya's oil chaos and Europe's financial crisis.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, Syrian authorities released Haitham al-Maleh (80), a leading lawyer and human rights activist, just hours after President Bashar Assad issued an amnesty for older prisoners and others convicted of minor crimes.
(AP, 3/8/11)
2011 Mar 7, In Yemen about 2,000 inmates staged a riot at a prison in the Sanaa after taking a dozen guards hostage and joined calls by anti-government protesters for the country's president to step down. In the southern port city of Aden a young protester was critically wounded by a bullet to the head during a rally. 25 protesters were arrested.
(AP, 3/8/11)
2011 Mar 7, A Zimbabwean court freed 38 of 46 people, arrested on Feb 19, who were charged with plotting an Egypt-style uprising against the country's longtime ruler. A magistrate ordered 8 others to face treason charges later this month.
(AFP, 3/7/11)
2012 Mar 7, Apple unveiled a third-generation iPad enhanced with features aimed at keeping it on top of the booming tablet computer market. The new iPad will go on sale March 16 in Canada, France, Germany and the United States at $499, the same price as the previous models, for the most basic iPad featuring wireless connectivity only.
(AFP, 3/8/12)
2012 Mar 7, In Afghanistan 6 British soldiers were killed when a massive explosion hit their armored vehicle, taking the British toll in the war against Taliban insurgents to more than 400. In Uruzgan province 9 policemen were killed by Taliban insurgents after a checkpoint guard allowed them to enter a sleeping area.
(AFP, 3/7/12)(SFC, 3/9/12, p.A3)
2012 Mar 7, In Colombia an accident at a small coal mine, named "El Desespero" (Desperation), killed at least four miners and five others were still missing.
(AP, 3/8/12)
2012 Mar 7, In Egypt the Cairo Criminal Court acquitted policeman Mohammed Abdel-Moneim, who was sentenced to death for shooting 20 protesters on Jan. 28 last year in front of a Cairo police station. The court did not give reasons for its ruling.
(AP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 7, Indian police said they had arrested Syed Mohammed Kazmi (50), an Indian journalist working for an Iranian media organization in connection with a bomb attack last month targeting an Israeli diplomat.
(AP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 7, Iran's state media said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the creation of an Internet oversight agency that includes top military and political figures in the country's boldest attempt to control the web.
(AP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 7, Iranian media reported that Ali Shakouri-Rad, a ranking member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, former lawmaker and a leading reformist from a banned political party has been sentenced to four years in prison for allegedly spreading anti-regime propaganda.
(AFP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 7, In northern Iraq 2 bombs exploded in swift succession killing 13 people near a crowded restaurant in Tal Afar. Separate car bombings in Baghdad killed four people and wounded 14 in a Sunni area of the capital.
(AP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 7, Libyan leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said he would defend national unity "with force" if necessary, after tribal leaders and a political faction declared autonomy for an eastern region.
(AFP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 7, In northern Nigeria gunmen attacked a police station and two banks, killing at least four policemen, amid a wave of violence blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram. A raid was conducted in the northern city of Zaria leading to the arrest of Abu Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the kidnapping of a Briton and an Italian, and five others.
(AFP, 3/8/12)(AFP, 3/14/12)
2012 Mar 7, Qatar’s official QNA news agency reported that the government has promised to invest $2 billion in Sudan, as Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir visited the gas-rich state.
(AFP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 7, In South Africa tens of thousands of protesters marched through 32 towns and cities in a protest by the powerful Cosatu labor body, the latest sign of tensions within the ANC-led government.
(AFP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 7, UN's humanitarian chief Valerie Amos arrived in Syria to try to secure aid for battered protest cities, as tanks and troops headed for a rebel bastion in Idlib. Syria's deputy oil minister, Abdo Husameldin, defected to Turkey. His online video emerged the next day, making him the highest ranking civilian official to abandon the regime since the uprising against President Bashar Assad erupted a year ago.
(AFP, 3/7/12)(AP, 3/8/12)(Econ, 3/10/12, p.60)
2013 Mar 7, A US federal judge ruled unconstitutional a 2011 Idaho law that prohibited abortions after 20 weeks.
(SFC, 3/8/13, p.A6)
2013 Mar 7, In Bangladesh over 100 people were reported killed over the last 3 days by law enforcement agencies under the pretext of controlling violence.
(Econ, 3/9/13, p.49)
2013 Mar 7, British stock market trader Paul Milsom was sentenced to two years in jail, the first sentence to come out of the Financial Services Authority's (FSA) biggest investigation into insider dealing. Milsom, who was a senior equities trader at the investment arm of life insurer Legal & General, was also ordered to pay 245,000 pounds, the total profit he made from insider trading.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, Gogglebox, a British reality show, began airing on Channel 4. The show featured recurring couples, families and friends from around Britain sitting in their homes watching weekly British television shows.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogglebox)
2013 Mar 7, Coalfield Resources said Daw Mill Colliery in Warwickshire, Britain's largest coal mine, will close permanently with the loss of at least 550 jobs due to a fire that has burned ferociously for two weeks.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, Chinese officials castigated the Tibetan Kirti monastery, at the center of a wave of self-immolations, saying it has been inciting the fiery protests. They also indicated that authorities will not relax controls over the region.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, Egyptian policemen protested for a 4th day in several cities across the country, refusing orders to work and accusing officials of trying to politicize the force.
(AP, 3/7/13)(SFC, 3/8/13, p.A2)
2013 Mar 7, Iraq's parliament approved a $118.6 billion national budget after months of wrangling over how much should be allocated to foreign oil companies working in the country's self-ruled northern Kurdish region. Police and health officials said six people were killed and 10 others were wounded in attacks across Iraq.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, A Milan court convicted former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of breach of confidentiality for the illegal publication of wiretapped conversations related to a failed bank takeover in a newspaper owned by his media empire. His brother, Paolo Berlusconi, was convicted of the same charge and sentenced to two years and three months.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, Kuwait government-affiliated newspapers reported that activists Sager al-Hashash and Naser al-Daihani were sentenced to two years and one year for Twitter posts offensive to the country's ruler.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, Dozens of Libyan militiamen stormed the headquarters of a private TV network in Tripoli, looting and smashing equipment before abducting staffers. News editor Sulieman Abu-Azza suspected the attack could have been carried out in retaliation to the network's heavy criticism of the unruly militia and its coverage of assaults against the country's National General Congress.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, Malaysian security forces gunned down 31 Filipino intruders in Borneo, the highest number of casualties in a single day since nearly 200 members of a Philippine Muslim clan took over an entire village last month. At least 60 people, including 8 Malaysian police officers, have been killed in the conflict.
(AP, 3/7/13)(SFC, 3/8/13, p.A2)
2013 Mar 7, A South African police officer allegedly dragged a man from a police vehicle in the second such incident in recent weeks. The officer was later arrested.
(AP, 3/15/13)
2013 Mar 7, Clashes flared between Syrian troops and rebels close to Israeli-controlled territory in the Golan Heights.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, The UN Security Council voted unanimously for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test. North Korea’s Army Gen. Kang Pyo Yong told a crowd of tens of thousands that North Korea is ready to fire long-range nuclear-armed missiles at Washington.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, Venezuela's acting head of state, VP Nicolas Maduro, said that Hugo Chavez's body would be forever displayed inside a glass tomb at a military museum not far from the presidential palace.
(AP, 3/8/13)
2013 Mar 7, Zimbabwe wildlife rangers caught put down three lions that killed two people near a suburb in the northern resort town of Kariba. A lioness and two "sub-adult" cubs between two and three years old were baited into traps and given lethal injections using darts.
(AP, 3/8/13)
2014 Mar 7, In Washington DC the Organization of American States voted to approve a declaration that rejected violence and called for just outcomes for the 21 people the Venezuelan government says have died in weeks of street protests. The OAS also supported the Venezuelan government's attempts to use political dialogue to end the protests. The United States, Panama and Canada voted against the resolution.
(AP, 3/8/14)
2014 Mar 7, US officials said Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael McClendon, accused of secretly photographing and videotaping a dozen women the US Military Academy at West Point, has agreed to a plea bargain that includes a 33-month sentence, loss of pay, reduction in rank to private and a bad-conduct discharge.
(SFC, 3/8/14, p.A6)
2014 Mar 7, The US Centers for Disease Control issued an alert after health authorities in the United States reported that at least 19 women in five states had developed serious mycobacterial wound infections over the previous 12 months following cosmetic procedures in the Dominican Republic such as liposuction, tummy tucks and breast implants.
(AP, 3/31/14)
2014 Mar 7, In Michigan a house covered with stuffed animals and dolls became the latest casualty in a string of suspicious fires at the Heidelberg Project in Detroit.
(SFC, 3/8/14, p.A6)
2014 Mar 7, In Fort Hood, Texas, Army Sgt. 1st Class Gregory McQueen, a coordinator of the post’s sexual assault and harassment program, was charged with 21 counts of pandering, conspiracy and maltreatment of a subordinate.
(SSFC, 3/9/14, p.A9)
2014 Mar 7, In Washington state some 750 detainees at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma went on a hunger strike to protest deportations and conditions at the center.
(SSFC, 3/9/14, p.A9)
2014 Mar 7, Two shipping companies agreed to civil settlements following accusations that they fixed prices of government cargo transportation contracts between the US and Puerto Rico. Sea Star Line LLC agreed to pay $1.9 million and Horizon Lines LLC $1.5 million to settle the cases.
(AP, 3/8/14)
2014 Mar 7, Online retailer Coupons.com, which took coupon clipping to the Web in 1998, raised $168 million in its IPO and rose 88% to close at $30 per share.
(SFC, 3/8/14, p.D1)
2014 Mar 7, Hundreds of British lawyers marched on Parliament to protest legal aid cuts. The government planned to reduce the legal aid budget by $360 million a year through 2019.
(SFC, 3/8/14, p.A2)
2014 Mar 7, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, the cyber arm of Britain's premier defense contractor, published its own research on suspected Russian spyware known as Turla, which it called "snake." The sophisticated piece of spyware has been quietly infecting hundreds of government computers across Europe and the United States in one of the most complex cyber espionage programs uncovered to date.
(Reuters, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Chinese authorities allowed the country's first corporate bond default, inflicting losses on small investors in a painful step toward making its financial system more market-oriented.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Congolese warlord Germain Katanga was convicted of being an accessory to war crimes including murder and pillage - only the second conviction in the 12-year history of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Katanga was convicted as an accessory in the attack on Bogoro village in 2003 that left some 200 civilians dead and many women raped and turned into sex slaves.
(Reuters, 3/7/14)(SFC, 3/8/14, p.A2)
2014 Mar 7, Greek Dr. Costas Kastaniotis (57) was convicted of breaking anti-racism laws for putting up a "Jews not welcome" sign outside his office and given a 16-month suspended sentence. The neurologist denied he was the one to have put up the sign, which was written in German, and said he took it down when it was brought to his attention.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Hundreds of people protested in the streets in Indian-controlled Kashmir over the expulsion of dozens of Kashmiri college students because they cheered for the Pakistani cricket team over India's.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Kenya's president and cabinet agreed to a pay cut as part of austerity measures meant to reduce the government wage bill and free up funds for use in economic development. They called on lawmakers to do the same.
(Reuters, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, An Indian naval officer was killed and "some" dock workers were injured in a gas leak aboard a yet-to-be commissioned naval ship.
(AFP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, In Iraq shelling in Fallujah, held by anti-government fighters for more than two months, and a shooting targeting a local official killed seven people.
(AFP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Mark Karpeles, head of the Tokyo-based Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange, said 200,000 missing bitcoins, valued at $116 million, were found in old format wallets. Some $378 million of bitcoin currency remained missing.
(SFC, 3/22/14, p.C1)
2014 Mar 7, Macedonian police said they have arrested 13 people, including the head of a customs office at the Macedonia-Bulgaria border crossing, on suspicion of participating in a ring smuggling designer clothing from Greece and Bulgaria.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, A Malaysian court sentenced opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to five years in jail on sodomy charges, overturning a 2012 acquittal and throwing his political career into jeopardy.
(AP, 3/7/14)(Econ, 3/15/14, p.40)
2014 Mar 7, Malaysia banned an Ultraman comic book because it uses the word "Allah" to describe the Japanese action hero. The Home Ministry said that the Malay-edition of "Ultraman, The Ultra Power" contained elements that can undermine public security and societal morals.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Mozambican PM Alberto Vaquina says attacks by the opposition party and former rebel movement Renamo have displaced more than 6,000 people in the central parts of the country.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Russia rallied support for a Crimean bid to secede from Ukraine, with Russia's top lawmaker assuring her Crimean counterpart that the region would be welcomed as "an absolutely equal subject of the Russian Federation." Russia said that Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) observers, who were barred from Crimea, had failed to obtain "official invitations" from the Crimean authorities.
(AP, 3/7/14)(AFP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Saudi Arabia identified the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group along with al-Qaida and two Syrian jihadist groups, warning those who join them or support them they could face five to 30 years in prison.
(AP, 3/7/14)(AFP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, A diplomatic source said South Africa has expelled three Rwandan diplomats it says were linked to an attack by gunmen this week on the Johannesburg home of an exiled dissident Rwandan general. Rwanda retaliated by ordering out six South African diplomats.
(Reuters, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, South Africa's under-fire police faced a fresh scandal after footage emerged of uniformed officers punching and kicking a half-naked and unarmed man on a Cape Town street.
(AFP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Syrian warplanes pounded an area near the rebel-held town of Yabrud near the Lebanese border.
(AFP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, In Thailand 6 suspected drug dealers were shot dead during a firefight with Thai security forces who seized illegal amphetamines in the Mae Sai district of northernmost Chiang Rai province.
(AFP, 3/8/14)
2014 Mar 7, A Turkish court ordered the release of former army chief Ilker Basbug from a life sentence.
(Reuters, 3/7/14)
2015 Mar 7, In San Francisco the Chinese New Year Parade ushered in the Year of the Ram.
(SSFC, 3/8/15, p.A12)
2015 Mar 7, In Brazil recent rains led to increased mosquitoes transmitting dengue fever. Since January 224,000 cases were reported to date.
(Econ., 3/28/15, p.42)
2015 Mar 7, In Burkina Faso the 24th pan-African FESPACO wrapped up in Ouagadougou. It featured the screening of "Captaine Thomas Sankara", a flattering 90-minute portrait of the iconoclastic Marxist soldier by Swiss director Christophe Cupelin.
(AFP, 3/8/15)
2015 Mar 7, In Chechnya a man killed in a standoff with police was wanted by police in connection with Nemtsov's killing. When police arrived at an apartment block in Grozny, the man threw one grenade at officers and then blew himself up with a second.
(Reuters, 3/8/15)
2015 Mar 7, Colombia's government and Marxist FARC rebels announced in Cuba that they had reached a deal on demining, a stride forward on a key issue to negotiate peace after decades of conflict. Over 11,000 Colombians have been killed or wounded by mines in the last quarter-century.
(AFP, 3/8/15)(Econ., 3/28/15, p.40)
2015 Mar 7, Egypt Interior Ministry said that Mahmoud Ramadan was executed after being convicted of murder. He was said to be behind the deaths of a young man and a child who were thrown off a roof on July 5, 2013, two days following the ouster of Pres. Morsi.
(AP, 3/7/15)
2015 Mar 7, In Iraq gunmen dressed all in black abducted 31 Shiite men from their homes in eastern Baghdad. Officials said they suspect the kidnapped men were involved in prostitution and criminal activities. Separate attacks in the capital killed 6 people.
(AP, 3/7/15)
2015 Mar 7, Iraqi officials in the northern city of Mosul said that militants with the Islamic State group have begun demolishing the ancient archaeological site of Hatra in a push to rid its territory of symbols it says promote idolatry. In April a video was released showing extremists smashing walls and shooting assault rifles at priceless statues.
(AP, 3/7/15)(SSFC, 4/5/15, p.A7)
2015 Mar 7, In Iraq and Syria US and coalition forces conducted 17 air strikes against Islamic State fighters over the past 24 hours with 6 in Syria and 11 in Iraq.
(Reuters, 3/7/15)
2015 Mar 7, The Israeli navy opened fire on boats off the coast of the Gaza Strip, killing one Palestinian fisherman after four vessels had strayed from a six nautical-mile fishing zone. The Israeli army opened fire after the boats did not heed calls to halt.
(Reuters, 3/7/15)
2015 Mar 7, In Mali militants killed 5 people in a gun attack on a restaurant in Bamako, including 3 Malians, a French citizen and a Belgian security officer with the EU delegation in and around La Terrasse restaurant. The Sahara-based Islamist group al-Mourabitoun, run by leading Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar, claimed responsibility.
(Reuters, 3/7/15)(Reuters, 3/8/15)(AFP, 3/13/15)
2015 Mar 7, In Mali two Arab teenagers were lynched and their bodies burned on in Gao by an angry mob that believed they had planted bombs in the area. They came from a family that supports Bamako against a predominantly Tuareg rebellion in the restive north.
(AFP, 3/11/15)
2015 Mar 7, In Mozambique hundreds of human rights activists and students marched in Maputo demanding justice for the March 3 murder of lawyer Gilles Cistac.
(Econ., 3/14/15, p.52)
2015 Mar 7, Nigeria-based Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, after repeated indications that it was seeking a formal tie-up and a series of Nigerian military successes against the rebels.
(AFP, 3/8/15)
2015 Mar 7, In northeastern Nigeria three bombings in Maiduguri killed 58 people and wounded 139 others.
(AFP, 3/7/15)
2015 Mar 7, In Russia the Investigative Committee, a state body leading the investigation in the Feb 27 murder of Boris Nemtsov, named two men, Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadayev. as suspects.
(Reuters, 3/7/15)
2015 Mar 7, Swedish police began investigating what could be a triple homicide after 3 people were found dead in the country's southwest.
(AP, 3/7/15)
2015 Mar 7, In northeastern Syria Islamic State militants attacked a string of predominantly Christian villages. At least 8 militants were killed in the fighting and an unknown number of Kurds. At least 9 members of Islamic State were killed during infighting near the town of al-Bab after some of them tried to flee over the Turkish border.
(AP, 3/7/15)(Reuters, 3/9/15)
2015 Mar 7, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Syrian army has killed Deeb Hedijan al-Otaibi, an Islamic State commander, in an air strike. 26 Islamic State militants were reported killed in the air strike near the town of Hamadi Omar.
(Reuters, 3/7/15)
2016 Mar 7, The Golden State Warriors won their 45th straight home game, setting a new NBA record previously held by the Chicago Bulls in 1996.
(SFC, 3/8/16, p.B1)
2016 Mar 7, In Atlanta, Georgia, a fire engulfed a boarding house in Atlanta, killing six people.
(AFP, 3/7/16)(SFC, 3/8/16, p.A7)
2016 Mar 7, In Kansas Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino (40) killed a neighbor and 3 other men in Kansas City. He then gunned down another man the next morning at the man's rural home in Missouri. He had been deported in April 2004 because he was in the country illegally, but had re-entered. Serrano-Vitorino was captured on March 9.
(AP, 3/10/16)
2016 Mar 7, The New York Fed put out a brief statement through its Twitter account, saying "Regarding hacking reports, there is no evidence of attempts to penetrate Federal Reserve systems & no evidence Fed systems were compromised."
(AP, 3/9/16)
2016 Mar 7, US regulators asked oil and gas producers in central Oklahoma to restrict wastewater disposal operations to help curb a spike in the number and severity of earthquakes.
(SFC, 3/8/16, p.A7)
2016 Mar 7, Matthew Lane Durham (21), a former missionary from Edmond, Okla., was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison after being convicted of sexually abusing children at an orphanage in Kenya in 2014.
(SFC, 3/8/16, p.A7)
2016 Mar 7, In Australia a man (33) who police say fatally shot one person and wounded two others inside a western Sydney business was found dead inside the building after a six-hour standoff.
(AP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, China’s state media reported that police in the northern city of Baoding have broken up a major toxic waste case that came to light when a restaurant owner died after inhaling poisonous gases coming from his kitchen drain. A parking lot near the restaurant had allowed factories to dump highly toxic waste into its drain pipes for illegal gains.
(AP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, In India a 15-year-old girl was fighting for her life in a New Delhi hospital after being raped and set on fire on the rooftop terrace of her family's home in a village outside the city. Police soon arrested a 20-year-old man and charged him with raping and burning the girl. The girl died on March 9.
(AP, 3/8/16)(AP, 3/9/16)
2016 Mar 7, In India thousands of dead fish washed up on the banks of the polluted Ulsoor Lake in the southern technology hub of Bangalore. Sewage has been flowing into the lake, depleting its oxygen, and has been choked with water hyacinth with no effort by authorities to clear it.
(AP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, Indonesia's anti-graft commission said government agencies have agreed on a plan to combat corruption in the forestry industry that costs the state billions of dollars in lost revenue and is behind fires that pollute Southeast Asia.
(AP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, In Indonesia the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit ended with a call for a ban on products from Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and pledged full support for the "inalienable rights" of the Palestinians. the move was not binding on member states.
(AFP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, Japanese police set up a special unit to oversee efforts to stem what they are describing as a full-fledged "war" between rival organized crime groups. The Yamaguchi-gumi gang based in the western city of Kobe has been rocked by internal strife since late last year following the defection of several top leaders who formed a rival splinter group.
(AFP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, Japanese telecommunications and Internet company SoftBank Group Corp. said it will reorganize into two new 100 percent-owned subsidiaries, with its global investment business separated from its domestic operations.
(AP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, In the Netherlands the Marshall Islands began legal proceedings against India at the International Court of Justice, as part of cases against three of the world's nuclear powers aimed at breathing new life into disarmament negotiations.
(AP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, A Nigerian court charged retired air chief marshal Alex Badeh with a string of corruption charges, in the latest case involving a high-ranking official.
(AFP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, In northwest Pakistan a suicide bomber attacked the entrance to a court, killing 16 people in the town of Shabqadar. A group affiliated with the Pakistani Taliban and calling itself Jamat-ul-Ahrar claimed responsibility.
(AP, 3/7/16)(SFC, 3/8/16, p.A2)
2016 Mar 7, Russia's Defense Ministry said that eight ceasefire violations had been registered in Syria over the past 24 hours.
(Reuters, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, Sri Lanka said it will receive a loan of $1.5 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to boost foreign exchange reserves and avert a balance of payments problem.
(Reuters, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, In northern Syria warplanes bombed a fuel depot in an opposition-held town in Idlib province, killing at least 12 people. The al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front and Islamist group Jund al-Aqsa and others took the village of al-Ais.
(AP, 3/7/16)(Reuters, 3/8/16)
2016 Mar 7, In Tunisia dozens of Islamist fighters stormed through the town of Ben Guerdan near the Libyan border attacking army and police posts in a raid that killed 55 people, including civilians.
(Reuters, 3/7/16)(Reuters, 3/8/16)
2016 Mar 7, Turkey offered the EU greater help to stem a flood of migrants into Europe but demanded more money, faster accession talks and quicker visa-free travel for its citizens in exchange. EU leaders reached a tentative outline for a possible deal with Ankara and hoped to finalize a deal at 2-day summit beginning on March 17.
(Reuters, 3/7/16)(SFC, 3/8/16, p.A4)
2016 Mar 7, In southeastern Turkey 13 Kurdish militants were killed when a firefight broke out in the town of Idil. Two Turkish soldiers were killed in the last 24 hours, one in Idil and the other in Sur, a historic district in Diyarbakir.
(Reuters, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, An official in YPG, the Syrian Kurdish militia, said that Turkey was firing artillery shells at its fighters in northern Aleppo province.
(Reuters, 3/7/16)
2017 Mar 7, The US Justice Department said the Chinese firm ZTE Corp. has agreed to plead guilty and pay the United States $892 million for violating sanctions against Iran. ZTE Corp. had illegally shipped sensitive US-made equipment to Iran.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, WikiLeaks published thousands of documents purportedly taken from the Central Intelligence Agency's Center for Cyber Intelligence, a dramatic release that appears to expose intimate details of America's cyberespionage toolkit.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, In Mississippi a freight train hit a tour bus in Biloxi killing at least four people.
(SFC, 3/8/17, p.A5)
2017 Mar 7, Texas executed Rolando Ruiz was executed for the 1992 contract killing of Theresa Rodriguez (29) orchestrated by her husband and brother-in-law.
(SFC, 3/8/17, p.A5)
2017 Mar 7, Thousands of stranded Afghans and Pakistanis returned home as Pakistan temporarily reopened two main crossings that had been closed last month after a wave of militant attacks.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, In Argentina thousands of banner-waving trade unionists marched through Buenos Aires to protest job losses and inflation.
(Econ, 3/18/17, p.32)
2017 Mar 7, British PM Theresa May sacked Michael Heseltine (83), a senior figure in her Conservative Party, from various advisory roles for rebelling against the government in a Brexit vote in the House of Lords.
(AFP, 3/8/17)
2017 Mar 7, Cambodia’s drug czar said authorities have arrested more than 4,800 people in a two-month-old campaign against drugs and that number could more than double.
(Reuters, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, Europe’s top court ruled that EU member states are not obliged to grant humanitarian visas to people who want to enter their territory to apply for asylum.
(SFC, 3/8/17, p.A3)
2017 Mar 7, A European Union court struck down a 2013 decision by EU regulators to block a planned takeover of Dutch-based package delivery company TNT Express by United Parcel Services Inc.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, In France poachers broke into the Thoiry Zoo overnight and shot a 5-year-old rhinoceros named Vince three times in the head. They used a chain saw to remove the animal's ivory horn.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, Hungary's parliament approved the systematic detention of all asylum-seekers in container camps, in a move that PM Viktor Orban said will make all of Europe safer from terror attacks.
(AFP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, An Indian court sentenced university professor G.N. Saibaba and four others to life imprisonment on charges of belonging to a banned communist rebel group and recruiting others to join them. Saibaba, arrested in 2014, is paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair. He has denied the charges.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, Iraqi government forces fighting to drive Islamic State from western Mosul recaptured the main government building, the central bank branch and the museum where three years ago the militants had smashed statues and artifacts.
(Reuters, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, The Kenyan government ordered striking medical staff to go back to work and said it had withdrawn an offer of a 50 percent pay hike after the workers' union became inflexible in their negotiations.
(Reuters, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) executives, led by two-time Olympic champion Kip Keino, defied the IOC at a meeting and refused to make changes to their constitution.
(AP, 3/9/17)
2017 Mar 7, Kosovo's Pres. Hashim Thaci asked parliament to transform the country's lightly armed security forces into a regular army, a move immediately denounced by Serbian leaders who refuse to recognize Kosovo's independence.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, Lesotho's deputy prime minister said the king has dissolved parliament and will shortly set an election date, days after PM Pakalitha Mosisili lost a confidence vote in the assembly.
(Reuters, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, Libya's eastern parliament voted to withdraw its support for a UN peace deal and Government of National Accord. The body voted to annul its previous acceptance of a presidential council and the UN-backed government currently led by PM Fayez al-Serraj in Tripoli. East Libyan forces carried out a fifth day of air strikes against a rival faction that overran the major oil ports of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf.
(AP, 3/7/17)(Reuters, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, The International Organization for Migration said fighting between rival people-smuggling gangs on Libya's Mediterranean coast has killed 22 people.
(Reuters, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, In Macedonia vandals damaged a museum dedicated to the Albanian alphabet, amid increasing political tension over the official status of the Albanian language in the country. Three parties of the Albanian minority, a quarter of Macedonia's population, demanded that Albanian should become Macedonia's second official language as their price to join in any coalition.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, Cyclone Enawo slammed into Madagascar. The Indian Ocean tropical storm packed winds up to 300 kph (185 mph). At least 38 people were killed and some 50,000 people driven from their homes.
(Reuters, 3/8/17)(SSFC, 3/12/17, p.A4)
2017 Mar 7, Myanmar's government urged ethnic rebel groups to join talks to achieve a nationwide peace agreement even after one of the groups raided a government-controlled town in an attack a day earlier that killed five policemen and five civilians, including a schoolteacher.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, North Korea closed its borders to Malaysians who want to leave the country, spurring Malaysia to issue a retaliatory order and drawing hundreds of ordinary people into an increasingly bitter diplomatic battle over the killing of an exiled member of North Korea's ruling family. 11 Malaysian citizens were prevented from flying home.
(AP, 3/7/17)(Econ, 3/11/17, p.40)
2017 Mar 7, Russia’s Culture Ministry said children under age 16 won't be able to go to the new Disney film "Beauty and the Beast" in Russia because it includes a gay character.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, Senegalese authorities arrested Khalifa Sall, the mayor of the capital Dakar, a potential rival to President Macky Sall (no relation) in elections expected in 2019, on suspicion of embezzling 1.8 billion CFA francs ($2.87 million).
(Reuters, 3/8/17)
2017 Mar 7, In Turkey the top generals of the Turkish, Russian and US military met in Antalya in a bid to step up coordination in Syria and avoid clashes between rival forces in the fight against IS.
(AFP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, A Ukraine judge ordered Roman Nasirov, the country’s top tax official, to be jailed or pay a hefty bail pending his trial for suspected embezzlement.
(Reuters, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, UN Sec.-Gen. Antonio Guterres urged int’l. support to alleviate Somalia’s worsening hunger crisis.
(SFC, 3/8/17, p.A4)
2017 Mar 7, The United Nations said South Africa's withdrawal from the International Criminal Court has been revoked, stalling what would have been the first-ever departure from the tribunal that pursues the world's worst atrocities.
(AP, 3/8/17)
2017 Mar 7, A new United Nations report described South Sudan as teetering on the edge of genocide and experiencing ethnic cleansing, a stark portrayal of a nation whose crises now include famine.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2018 Mar 7, The second winter storm within a week crept into New York and surrounding states. New York's three major airlines reported a total of 1,431 canceled flights, about 40 percent of their normally scheduled flights. The governors of New Jersey and Pennsylvania declared states of emergency.
(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, In Alabama a girl (17) was killed in a shooting at Huffman High School in Birmingham. A male student was also injured. Police the next day said they had one person of interest in custody. On March 9 authorities charged Michael Jerome Barber (17) in the death of Courtlin Arrington.
(SFC, 3/8/18, p.A8)(SFC, 3/9/18, p.A7)(SFC, 3/10/18, p.A6)
2018 Mar 7, Tom Pritzker of the Chicago-based Hyatt Foundation announced that architect and educator Balkrishna Doshi has been awarded the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the first Indian to win architecture's highest honor in its 40-year history.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, William Pulte (b.1932), home builder, died in Naples, Fl. He had founded Pulte Homes in Detroit in 1950 and built his first subdivision, Concord Green, in Bloomfield Hills, Mi., in 1959. In 1995 it became the nation's largest home builder.
(SSFC, 3/11/18, p.C9)
2018 Mar 7, In Afghanistan a suicide bomber in Jalalabad killed three people including Abdul Zahir Haqqani, the local head of the Ministry of Haj and Religious Affairs.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, In Austria an attacker from Afghanistan was detained shortly after the stabbing of a 20-year-old man, also from Afghanistan. Police said the man admitted to stabbing and severely injuring a family of three and a 20-year-old compatriot in Vienna because "he was in a bad, aggressive mood and upset about his life's situation."
(AP, 3/8/18)
2018 Mar 7, British authorities identified said a "very rare" toxic substance was used to poison Sergei Skripal (66) and his daughter, Yulia (33) on March 4.
(AP, 3/8/18)
2018 Mar 7, Queen Elizabeth II welcomed Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as he began a three-day visit to Britain. Britain and Saudi Arabia agreed to strengthen a United Nations inspection regime for ships headed to Yemen in order to ensure that all Yemeni ports remain open to the humanitarian and commercial supplies.
(AP, 3/7/18)(AP, 3/8/18)
2018 Mar 7, In Chechnya at least three people died in a Russian border guard Mi-8 helicopter crash in the North Caucasus mountains.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, The EU's executive branch pointed the finger at Belgium, Cyprus, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta and the Netherlands for "aggressive" tax policies designed to undercut others to attract multinational companies.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, The EU's top court said Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France's far-right National Front, and a party official must repay nearly 600,000 euros ($744,550) to the European Parliament for wages wrongly paid to alleged parliamentary assistants.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, European police said they have smashed an international weapons-smuggling ring operating in at least four countries. Police said the group traded firearms in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, A German court sentenced seven men and one woman to four to 10 years in jail for founding the far-right terrorist “Freital Group" responsible for attempted murder and bomb attacks on refugee shelters and politicians in the former Communist East.
(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, German prosecutors said they have indicted a Vietnamese man (47) on suspicion of espionage and involvement in the kidnap former Vietnamese oil executive Trinh Xuan Thanh and a woman accompanying him in Berlin last year.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, German and Romanian officials raided homes and hotels in both countries to smash an illegal migrant trafficking ring they said was one of the biggest of its kind in Europe.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, Germany's Cabinet agreed to extend six overseas military missions, including its long-running operation in Afghanistan. It will increase the maximum number of troops deployed as part of the international "Resolute Support" mission by 320 to 1,300.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, Germany deported a group of Egyptians to Cairo over violations of residency requirements, including those whose asylum requests were rejected.
(AP, 3/8/18)
2018 Mar 7, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban announced new pre-election handouts to families and pensioners, saying the government would provide heating subsidies and a one-off voucher for food purchases to pensioners.
(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, India said it has imposed new restrictions on trade with North Korea, in line with UN Security Council sanctions slapped on the reclusive country for its nuclear and missile programs.
(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, Air India said Saudi Arabia has given it permission to fly between New Delhi and Tel Aviv over Saudi airspace, ending a 70-year ban and marking a diplomatic shift.
(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, In Iran Maryam Mombeini, the widow of an Iranian-Canadian university professor who died under disputed circumstances in a Tehran prison, was stopped from traveling abroad.
(AP, 3/8/18)
2018 Mar 7, It was reported that between 10,000 and 30,000 Nigerian prostitutes are estimated to be walking Italian streets, often to pay off the debts they incurred to get there.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, Three more members of Macedonia's state anti-corruption commission stepped down because of an unfolding spending scandal. Two other members, including the head of the commission, stepped down earlier this week. The seven-member body now has only two members left.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, In eastern Nigeria rural communities in Taraba state were put on indefinite lockdown as the authorities tried to contain mounting violence between cattle herders and farmers.
(AFP, 3/9/18)
2018 Mar 7, Pakistan's said it has approved India's proposals for exchanges of civilian detainees, in a statement believed to also cover some of those held over the Kashmir conflict.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, In Pakistan 21 students were killed in a drone strike on a seminary near the Bajur tribal region. The son of Taliban Mullah Fazlullah was the among 21 killed by missiles fired by a US drone.
(AP, 3/9/18)
2018 Mar 7, The Philippines' embattled Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno urged Filipinos to stand up against authoritarianism and threats to human rights, in an indirect criticism of the country's volatile leader, who has long called for her removal.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, Poland's parliament voted to approve 15 new members of the judiciary council, all of them proposed by the ruling party and its ally.
(AP, 3/8/18)
2018 Mar 7, Sierra Leone held presidential elections. It was unlikely any one of 16 candidates will receive 55 percent of the vote.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, South Africa's city of Cape Town said that if no rainfall comes then "Day Zero", when the taps are predicted to run dry, would be pushed back to 27 August from July 9, and that the bullet could be dodged completely this year.
(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, In Sri Lanka religious violence flared anew in the central hills despite a state of emergency, with Buddhist mobs sweeping through towns and villages, burning Muslim homes and businesses and leaving victims barricaded inside mosques. Sri Lanka barred social messaging networks including Facebook to stem the violence.
(AP, 3/7/18)(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, In Syria government forces carried out punishing airstrikes against an opposition-held suburb of Damascus. A Hezbollah-run media unit said the Syrian army had taken full control of Beit Sawa village in the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of Damascus.
(AP, 3/7/18)(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani agreed in a phone call to speed up efforts for the implementation of a ceasefire in Syria's eastern Ghouta region.
(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, Turkey's police in the southern city of Adana detained 13 Islamic State suspects, including 12 Syrian nationals, who were allegedly plotting attacks on a number of buildings in the city, including the US Consulate.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2019 Mar 7, US President Donald Trump's special representative for Venezuela pledged that Washington would "expand the net" of sanctions on the South American nation, including more on banks supporting President Nicolas Maduro's government.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, First lady Melania Trump joined Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the State Department to confer international courage awards on 10 women from Bangladesh, Djibouti, Egypt, Ireland, Jordan, Montenegro, Myanmar, Peru, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. The State Department has honored more than 120 women from scores of countries since it created the International Women of Courage Award in 2007.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort (69) was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for tax crimes and bank fraud in a high-profile case stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. This was much less than what was called for under sentencing guidelines.
(AFP, 3/7/19)(AP, 3/8/19)
2019 Mar 7, The US House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism and other bigotry. The one-sided 407-23 vote belied the emotional infighting over how to respond to freshman Rep. lIhan Omar's recent comments suggesting House supporters of Israel have dual allegiances.
(AP, 3/8/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Texas Dan Jenkins (89), the sports writing great and best-selling author whose career covered Ben Hogan to Tiger Woods, died.
(AP, 3/8/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Afghanistan rockets fired at a gathering of the Shi'ite Muslim Hazara minority in Kabul killed at least three people and wounded dozens in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Two insurgents were eventually killed and one person arrested. The death toll in the mortar attack soon rose to 11, while the number of wounded reached almost 100.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)(AP, 3/7/19)(AP, 3/8/19)
2019 Mar 7, FUNAI, Brazil's indigenous affairs agency, said it has sent an expedition to the Amazon region looking for members of the Koruba tribe that has had little or no contact with the outside world to steer them clear of the rival Matis group and avoid a bloody clash of cudgels against arrows.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau defended his government's handling of a political crisis that could dash his chances of winning re-election in October, while admitting some mistakes had been made. Trudeau's Liberal government has been on the defensive for a month over allegations by former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould that officials inappropriately pressured her last year to help construction firm SNC-Lavalin Group Inc avoid a criminal trial.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Chinese tech giant Huawei challenged a US law that would limit its American sales of telecom equipment on security grounds as the company steps up efforts to preserve its access to global markets for next-generation communications.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Comoros Pres. Azali Assoumani reportedly survived an attempt on his life as he crisscrossed the country drumming up support ahead of polls on March 24.
(AFP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Costa Rico judicial police raided Roman Catholic church offices in San Jose, searching for information about two priests accused of sexual abuse.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Medecins Sans Frontières said the battle against Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo is failing because ordinary people do not trust health workers and an overly militarized response is alienating patients and families.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Egypt's the interior ministry said on security forces have killed seven suspected militants in two operations in Giza, across the Nile from central Cairo.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Egyptian actor Amr Waked (45), living in Spain and known for his criticism of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's government, said a military court has sentenced him in absentia to eight years in prison in two separate cases, the latest in a wide-ranging crackdown on dissent and the media in Egypt in recent years.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Ethiopia appealed for $1.3 billion from the international community to assist 8.3 million displaced due to ethnic conflict as well those vulnerable to climate shocks and disease.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, The 28 member states of the European Union all backed a decision on to reject a proposal from the EU executive to add Saudi Arabia to a blacklist of countries suspected of being lax on terrorist financing and money laundering. The decision will force the European Commission to prepare a new list.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, French Catholic cleric, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, was convicted of failing to report allegations of sexual abuse in his diocese and said he would submit his resignation to Pope Francis. The archbishop of Lyon was handed a six-month suspended prison sentence.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Eurostar trains from Paris to London were running up to two hours late and trucks stacked up on the approaches to the Channel port of Calais as French customs officers staged the fourth day of a work-to-rule strike.
(AFP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Germany a regional court judge gave Klaus O. (57) a life sentence after convicting him of attempted murder. He was found guilty of poisoning his co-workers' sandwiches with mercury and other substances between 2015 and 2018.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, A German court sentenced four men for their involvement in running an online child pornography platform to prison sentences from three years and ten months to almost 10 years.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, More than 200 protesters gathered at a Hong Kong university to condemn the expulsion of a student defending free speech, in what was seen as another incremental sign of eroding freedoms in the Chinese-ruled city.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir a civilian was killed and at least 30 others were injured by a grenade blast at a bus station.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Three Indonesian soldiers were killed in a gunbattle with Papuan independence fighters. They were part of a contingent to provide security for military engineers on the trans Papua highway.
(AP, 3/7/19)(AP, 3/8/19)
2019 Mar 7, Iranian naval forces intervened to repel pirates who attacked an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
(AP, 3/8/19)
2019 Mar 7, In northern Iraq Islamic State militants ambushed a bus carrying Shiite Muslim paramilitary fighters, killing six militiamen and wounding 31 others in one of the deadliest attacks in recent months.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Malaysian officials said 35 people, mostly students, have been treated for poisoning after a suspected chemical leak near two schools in Johor state.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Malaysia Mujahid Yusof Rawa, the minister in charge of religious affairs, said the Islamic Affairs Department had set up a unit to monitor writings and communications insulting Islam and Muhammad.
(Reuters, 3/9/19)
2019 Mar 7, In central Mexico at least 25 Central American migrants died when the truck they were traveling in overturned in Chiapas state. 23 of those killed were Guatemalan migrants.
(AP, 3/8/19)
2019 Mar 7, Singapore axed a gig by Watain, a Swedish metal band with Satanic beliefs, whose performances have involved throwing pig's blood onto revelers, just hours before it was due to go ahead.
(AFP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, South Korea's military said it is carefully monitoring North Korean nuclear and missile facilities after the country's spy agency told lawmakers that new activity was detected at a research center where the North is believed to build long-range missiles targeting the US mainland.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Sudan an emergency appeals court overturned prison sentences handed down to eight protesters for participating in demonstrations against President Omar al-Bashir's iron-fisted rule. Scores of protesters, many of them women, rallied in Khartoum, condemning a slew of tough measures imposed by President Omar al-Bashir to end weeks-long demonstrations against his rule.
(AFP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Geneva Volkswagen-owned Bugatti said a one-off Bugatti luxury sports car has been sold for a record 16.7 million euros ($18.9 million).
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In eastern Syria scores of suspected IS members, including foreign fighters, were screened and searched for concealed weapons and explosives after leaving the last pocket of territory held by the Islamic State group.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, A court in Thailand ordered the dissolution of the Thai Raksa Chart Party ahead of this month's general election because it nominated a member of the royal family to be its candidate for prime minister.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko promised life imprisonment for anyone found guilty in alleged military corruption that reportedly includes incumbent Petro Poroshenko.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Geneva three dozen countries, including all 28 EU members, called on Saudi Arabia to release 10 activists and cooperate with a UN-led investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at its Istanbul consulate. This was the first rebuke of the kingdom at the UN Human Rights Council since it was set up in 2006.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Venezuela power went out this afternoon due to a problem at the main hydroelectric plant. The government called the event an act of "sabotage" by ideological adversaries.
(Reuters, 3/8/19)
2020 Mar 7, President Donald Trump hosted Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where the two leaders discussed the US-led effort to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
(Bloomberg, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 7, The number of Americans diagnosed with novel coronavirus is now at least 424, according to a case count by Johns Hopkins Univ. At least 19 people have died in the US in Washington state, California and Florida. There were now more than 101,000 infected worldwide and more than 3,400 deaths.
(Good Morning America, 3/7/20)(AP, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 7, A US Navy sailor stationed at the Naval Support Activity Naples tested positive for novel coronavirus, marking the first positive cause of a US service member in Europe.
(Good Morning America, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Grand Princess Capt. John Smith told passengers that the ship hit by the new coronavirus is headed to the port of Oakland, Ca. The ship carrying more than 3,500 people from 54 countries was expected to dock on March 9. Passengers were quarantined at Travis Air Force Base and many were released on a staggered basis from March 9 to March 13. Two-thirds of the 858 passengers at the base had declined testing. On March 20 seven of the tested passengers were reported positive for the virus.
(AP, 3/8/20)(SSFC, 3/22/20, p.A1)
2020 Mar 7, Hawaii Gov. David Ige said a patient who had traveled aboard a Grand Princess cruise ship in early February became Hawaii's first case of the coronavirus.
(Good Morning America, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 7, Argentina's Ministry of Health said a 64-year-old man has died as a result of the new coronavirus, the first such death in Latin America.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, In China about 70 people were trapped in a collapsed hotel in the city of Quanzhou, in southeastern Fujian Province. The collapsed hotel was used for coronavirus quarantine. 23 people were reported rescued. 23 remained trapped after the collapse of the hotel. 20 people died in the collapse. On March 9 a boy and his mother were rescued. A man was rescued after being trapped for 69 hours. Nine people remained missing.
(Reuters, 3/7/20)(Reuters, 3/8/20)(SFC, 3/11/20, p.A2)(SFC, 3/12/20, p.A2)
2020 Mar 7, Chile said it now had seven confirmed coronavirus cases, up from five.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Costa Rica's Health Ministry confirmed four new cases of coronavirus, in addition to that of a case involving an American woman announced a day earlier. Her husband was among the new cases.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Cyprus riot police used pepper spray to thwart Turkish Cypriot protesters trying to shove their way through a barricaded crossing point in the heart of the ethnically divided island nation's capital.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, In Egypt about 150 tourists and local crew were quarantined on a cruise ship on the Nile river. Officials said coronavirus had been detected in 45 people, including foreign tourists, after a Nile River cruise ship reached the southern city of Luxor.
(AP, 3/7/20)(Reuters, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 7, In France a member of the lower house was diagnosed with the virus and hospitalized. The Health Ministry said that two more people had died from the coronavirus, bringing the total death toll to 11 people. France has now 716 confirmed cases of coronavirus.
(AP, 3/7/20)(Reuters, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Georgia reported a total of 12 cases in the country, 10 linked to Italy, which has Europe's worst outbreak, and the other two linked to Iran. Georgia reported its first case of coronavirus in the end of February.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Germany’s confirmed coronavirus infections rose to 684 from 534 a day earlier.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, In Guyana a protester was shot dead as demonstrators took to the streets after opposition leaders and international observers accused the government of David Granger of rigging this week's presidential election.
(Reuters, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, In Hungary the number of confirmed coronavirus patients increased to five since the first infections were announced on March 4. The government canceled a rally planned for the March 15 national holiday in central Budapest.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, In Iran lawmaker Fatemeh Rahbar (55) died from the coronavirus, the first fatality among 23 infected members of parliament. The death toll from the virus increased to 145 as the number of diagnosed cases grew to 5,823.
(AFP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, People were not permitted to leave or enter Bethlehem, as per a decision made by Israeli and Palestinian authorities after 17 cases of novel coronavirus were confirmed in the city in the last 48 hours. 14 American citizens were being tested and have been quarantined in the Angles hotel in the city of Bethlehem for now.
(Good Morning America, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, In Italy the number of fatalities due to the coronavirus were up 36 to 233, with infections growing to 8,883. Cases have now been confirmed in each of the country's 20 regions, with deaths recorded in eight of them.
(Reuters, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Kuwait recorded 3 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing its infection tally to 61.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Lebanon's PM Hassan Diab said the government will suspend payment on $1.2 billion in loans, marking the country's first-ever default on its sovereign debt.
(SSFC, 3/8/20, p.A4)
2020 Mar 7, Malta reported its first case of coronavirus.
(Bloomberg, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Mexico reported seven instances of coronavirus, up from six.
(Reuters, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 7, Paraguay reported its first case of coronavirus.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Peru announced five new cases of COVID-19 infection, raising the country's total to six.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, The Philippines health department reported the country’s sixth infection. President Rodrigo Duterte agreed to declare a state of national public health emergency after a local transmission of coronavirus.
(Bloomberg, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, In the Philippines a regional commander said troops have killed at least 14 Muslim militants aligned with the Islamic State in Maguindanao province. The Islamic State group claimed militants killed 43 soldiers, but that claim was denied.
(AP, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 7, Qatar reported its 12th case of coronavirus.
(Reuters, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, It was reported that Saudi Arabia has detained three senior Saudi princes including Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the younger brother of King Salman, and Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the king's nephew, for allegedly planning a coup.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, South Korea's coronavirus cases jumped above 7,000, up by 448 from the previous day. The death toll rose by two to 46.
(Reuters, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Spain identified 93 new coronavirus cases, bringing its total to 441.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Spanish police said they have arrested 89 people suspected of belionging to a crime ring that smuggled both migrants and hashish from North Africa to the mainland.
(SSFC, 3/8/20, p.A4)
2020 Mar 7, Syria's Interior Minister Mohammed Khaled Rahmoun said at least 26 Iraqis were among those killed in a Syrian highway accident, in which a fuel truck collided with passenger buses and other cars. Local officials said at least 32 were killed and 77 injured.
(AP, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 7, Ugandans celebrated the Mara Mara peace festival. It drew inspiration from the African Union's declaration of 2020 as the year for “silencing the guns" on a continent that has long faced violence ranging from civil war to ethnic rivalries and rebel insurgencies.
(AP, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 7, In the UAE The number of coronavirus cases rose to 45 from 30.
(Reuters, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Uzbekistan said it will become an observer in the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) before deciding if it wants to become a full member of the trade bloc.
(Reuters, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, In Vietnam all air crew and ground staff working on a Vietnam Airlines’ flight from London to Hanoi on March 1 were being quarantined after a passenger tested positive for coronavirus. The Ministry of Health confirmed three new coronavirus cases, raising the number in the country to 20.
(AP, 3/7/20)(Reuters, 3/7/20)
2021 Mar 7, US Pres. Joe Biden issued an executive order directing federal agencies to take a series of steps to promote voting access.
(SFC, 3/8/21, p.A6)
2021 Mar 7, The US and South Korea announced they've reached an agreement "in principle" on a new cost-sharing plan for the American troop presence on the Korean Peninsula.
(Axios, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, A highly anticipated Oprah Winfrey interview with Prince Harry and his wife Meghan aired on US television. Meghan spoke of feeling suicidal, and accused the royal family of racism, while Harry said his father, Prince Charles, had let him down.
(Reuters, 3/7/21)(Reuters, 3/8/21)
2021 Mar 7, California to date had 3,574,949 cases of coronavirus and 54,131 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 411,036 cases and 5,523 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 28,956,440 with the death toll at 524,463.
(sfist.com, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, It was reported that COVID-19 insurance policies are increasingly joining passports and sunscreen as vacation staples, creating opportunities for insurers as more countries require mandatory coverage in case visitors fall ill from the coronavirus.
(Reuters, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, Austrian authorities said they have suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution while investigating the death of one person and the illness of another after the shots.
(Reuters, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, It was reported that Canada's red-hot housing market has become a bonfire, spurring comparisons to earlier bubbles and prompting calls for cooling measures. But policymakers are standing back, unwilling to intervene for fear of undermining Canada's still-fragile economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Reuters, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, A series of explosions in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 31 people at the Nkoantoma military base in Bata. President Obiang Nguema said the blasts had been caused badly stored dynamite along with stubble burning by nearby farmers. The death toll from the explosions soon rose to 105.
(BBC, 3/8/21)(BBC, 3/10/21)
2021 Mar 7, German lawmaker Nikolas Loebel, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's party, said he will give up his seat in parliament and leave politics after it emerged that his company profited from deals to procure masks early in the pandemic.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman held in an Iranian prison for five years on widely refuted spying charges, ended her sentence. She still faces a new trial and cannot yet return home to London.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, Israel reopened most of its economy as part of its final phase of lifting coronavirus lockdown restrictions, some of them in place since September. Nearly 40% of its population has been immunized in just over two months.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, Italy’s national geophysics and volcanology institute INGV said the powerful explosion of Mt. Etna at 2 a.m. was the 10th such big blast since Feb. 16, when Europe's most active volcano started giving off an impressive demonstration of nature's fire power.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, Police in Myanmar’s ancient former capital, Bagan, opened fire on demonstrators protesting last month’s military takeover, wounding several people. Khin Maung Latt (58), a ward chairman from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party, which was ousted from power in the coup, was found dead in a military hospital this morning by fellow residents of his Pabedan neighborhood.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, Three Palestinian fishermen were killed after a blast ripped through their boat off the Gaza shore, in what appeared to be an explosion caused by a misfired rocket launched by the ruling Hamas militant group.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, In Romania around 3,000 anti-vaccination protesters converged outside the parliament building in Bucharest to demand that lawmakers not make innoculations compulsory.
(SFC, 3/8/21, p.A4)
2021 Mar 7, Russia's organization For Human Rights said in a statement that it was disbanding, citing the inclusion of its leader, Lev Ponomarev, on the Justice Ministry’s list of foreign agents. Ponomarev founded the organization in 1997.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, The Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels in Yemen said that it had launched a new air campaign on the country’s capital and other provinces, in retaliation for missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia. The Houthi-run al-Masirah satellite TV channel reported at least seven airstrikes on Sanaa's districts of Attan and al-Nahda.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, Swiss voters approved a proposal to ban face coverings, both the niqabs and burqas worn by a few Muslim women in the country and the ski masks and bandannas used by protesters.
(AP, 3/7/21)(NY Times, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, The first independent digital banking platform in the United Arab Emirates was launched, a neobank hoping to become a leader in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. Dubai-based YAP partnered with RAK Bank which provides international bank account numbers for YAP users and secures their funds under its own banking license.
(Reuters, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, Pope Francis ended his 3-day tour of Iraq with an open-air Mass before 5,000 faithful in Erbil.
(NY Times, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, In Yemen a fire broke out in a detention center for migrants south of Sanaa, killing at least 45 people, mostly Ethiopian migrants, and injuring more than 170 others. On March 20 Houthi rebels broke their silence on the cause of the fire saying guards fired three tear gas canisters into a crowded hangar in Sanaa, trying to end a protest by the migrants.
(AP, 3/7/21)(AP, 3/13/21)(AP, 3/20/21)
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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 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, 1911].
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen)
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.
(http://richard_wilding.tripod.com/history.htm)(HN, 3/7/98)(WSJ, 2/3/05, p.W12)
1933 Mar 7, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss (1892-1934) dissolved the Austrian parliament. From this point onwards, he governed as dictator by emergency decree with absolute power.
(http://tinyurl.com/m3ag6fn)
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)
1938 Mar 7, California’s San Quentin prison received a new lethal gas chamber to supplant its gallows.
(SSFC, 3/3/13, p.42)
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, The US 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. The bridge was the last of 22 road and railroad bridges over the Rhine still standing after German defenders failed to demolish it. US forces were able to capture the bridge.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remagen)(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)
1965 Mar 7, In San Francisco a mob of teenage boys and girls rampaged through the Mission district following the film “T.A.M.I" featuring James Brown at the Crown Theater at 2555 Mission Street.
(SSFC, 3/8/15, p.42)
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.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladeshi_general_election%2C_1973)(SFC, 6/12/96, p.E3)
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)
1980 Mar 7, US Congress declared today as National Teacher Day for this year only. The National Education Association (NEA) and its affiliates continued to observe Teacher Day on the first Tuesday in March until 1985, when the National PTA established Teacher Appreciation Week as the first full week of May. The NEA Representative Assembly then voted to make the Tuesday of that week National Teacher Day.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachers%27_Day)
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, The film “Desert Hearts," directed by Donna Deitch (b.1945), was released. This was the first feature film to depict a lesbian love story in a generally mainstream vein, with positive and respectful themes. It was based on Jane Rule’s novel “Desert of the Heart" (1964) and became a pinnacle of LGBTQ cinema.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Deitch)(SFC, 9/1/17, p.E5)
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, The US Supreme Court sided with an investor who lost money when he sold shares in Basic Inc because a pending merger was being publicly denied by the company. This led to the established the principle of “fraud-on-the-market."
(http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/485/224/case.html)(Econ, 3/1/14, p.73)
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)
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)
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)
1990 Mar 7, In Ozark, Alabama, Tracey Harris (22) disappeared. A week later, her body was found in a nearby river. Her death was ruled a homicide. In 2016 her husband Carl Harris was arrested for her murder. In 2020 Jeff Beasley, a local friend, pleaded guilty and received a 30-year sentence.
(CBS News, 8/21/21)
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, William Donald Hamilton, an English evolutionary biologist, died. In 2013 Ullica Segerstrale authored “Nature’s Oracle: The Life and Work of W.D. Hamilton."
(Econ, 3/16/13, p.85)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Hamilton)
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. Various of the men who posed as guerrillas later testified that they were not insurgents but rather thieves, indigents and unemployed who were recruited by a jailed former FARC fighter and paid at least $250 each for participating.
(AP, 3/7/06)(AP, 2/10/12)
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 (23) and Patrick Azimkar (21) 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. On Jan 20, 2012, Brian Shivers (46) was found guilty of the shooting and sentenced to at least 25 years in prison. Colin Duffy was cleared. On May 3, 2013, a judge dismissed the forensic evidence against Shivers and ruled he was too feeble to have played a role.
(AP, 3/8/09)(AFP, 3/14/09)(Econ, 3/14/09, p.59)(AFP, 3/27/09)(AP, 4/2/09)(AFP, 1/20/12)(AP, 2/10/12)(AP, 5/3/13)
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)
2011 Mar 7, Pres. Obama cleared the way for new military trials for suspected terrorists at the Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
(SFC, 3/8/11, p.A5)
2011 Mar 7, A US federal judge extended his temporary order banning collection of an $18 billion judgment by the courts in Ecuador against Chevron, saying the oil company could face irreparable harm because it appeared that lawyers for Ecuadoreans who sued over rainforest contamination were going to try to quickly collect the award.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, In Afghanistan a roadside bomb in Jalalabad killed two policemen and wounded another 25 people.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, In Algeria thousands of auxiliary police marched across the country to demand a pay raise, breaking through heavy security to reach parliament in a rare mass show of dissent in the tightly controlled country.
(AFP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, In Bahrain hundreds of members of the Shiite Muslim majority protested outside the US Embassy to appeal for Washington to back their campaign for greater political freedom.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, Two Colombian air force helicopters crashed during a training exercise, killing four Colombian soldiers and a Mexican lieutenant participating in the operation.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, A long-awaited French corruption trial opened with former President Jacques Chirac (78) as the star defendant. Chirac was accused of embezzlement, breach of trust and conflict of interest, based on allegations linked to his tenure as Paris mayor, before he became president from 1995 to 2007.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, French fashion colossus LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton announced that it has agreed to buy Rome-based jeweler Bulgari SpA in a cash-and-shares deal worth euro4.3 billion ($6 billion).
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, India's Supreme Court ruled that in rare cases a terminally ill patient can be removed from life support, a major shift in a country where such acts have long been illegal. It rejected, however, a plea to end the life of a woman who was brain damaged more than 30 years ago.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, In the Ivory Coast the government of the democratically elected president confirmed that rebels allied with their leader had seized control of a nearly 30-mile corridor along the country's border with Liberia following an intense weekend battle.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, Japan's health ministry halted the use of vaccines made by Pfizer Inc and Sanofi-Aventis SA that prevent meningitis and pneumonia following the recent deaths of four children. The deaths happened between March 2 and March 4.
(Reuters, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, Ten Japanese companies said they plan to install electric vehicle chargers at the sites of beverage vending machines across Japan in a cost-cutting tie-up.
(AFP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, Libyan warplanes launched fresh airstrikes on rebel positions around Ras Lanouf, a key oil port, trying to block the opposition fighters from advancing toward Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold in the capital, Tripoli. Pro-Gaddafi security forces bombarded the city of Zawiya from the east and west.
(Reuters, 3/7/11)(AFP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, In Mexico Marisol Valles Garcia (20), recently named police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero, was fired for apparently abandoning her post after receiving death threats. Gunbattles between rival gangs killed 18 people in the northeastern town of Abasolo, Tamaulipas state.
(AP, 3/7/11)(AP, 3/8/11)
2011 Mar 7, In Mexico assailants in Chilpancingo, capital of Guerrero state, doused three government offices with gasoline and set them ablaze. The fire destroyed documents and computer equipment at offices of the health department, the interior department and a federal government health insurance program.
(AP, 3/8/11)
2011 Mar 7, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas travelled to Britain for a one-day visit to discuss the stalled peace process with Israel.
(AFP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, In Puerto Rico a jury convicted Sen. Hector Martinez and island businessman Juan Bravo Fernandez, who owns one of the island's largest security companies, of bribery in a high-profile trial that featured allegations the lawmaker accepted a trip to Las Vegas to see a boxing match in exchange for political favors.
(AP, 3/7/11)(AP, 3/8/11)
2011 Mar 7, Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed claimed victory over the insurgents, and he called for the "final elimination" of al-Shabab, though it was far from clear that the militants have been defeated.
(AP, 3/8/11)
2011 Mar 7, Spanish drivers slowed down under a new speed limit designed to reduce energy use, angering some motorists but pleasing others who say every euro saved helps a nation slammed by Libya's oil chaos and Europe's financial crisis.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 7, Syrian authorities released Haitham al-Maleh (80), a leading lawyer and human rights activist, just hours after President Bashar Assad issued an amnesty for older prisoners and others convicted of minor crimes.
(AP, 3/8/11)
2011 Mar 7, In Yemen about 2,000 inmates staged a riot at a prison in the Sanaa after taking a dozen guards hostage and joined calls by anti-government protesters for the country's president to step down. In the southern port city of Aden a young protester was critically wounded by a bullet to the head during a rally. 25 protesters were arrested.
(AP, 3/8/11)
2011 Mar 7, A Zimbabwean court freed 38 of 46 people, arrested on Feb 19, who were charged with plotting an Egypt-style uprising against the country's longtime ruler. A magistrate ordered 8 others to face treason charges later this month.
(AFP, 3/7/11)
2012 Mar 7, Apple unveiled a third-generation iPad enhanced with features aimed at keeping it on top of the booming tablet computer market. The new iPad will go on sale March 16 in Canada, France, Germany and the United States at $499, the same price as the previous models, for the most basic iPad featuring wireless connectivity only.
(AFP, 3/8/12)
2012 Mar 7, In Afghanistan 6 British soldiers were killed when a massive explosion hit their armored vehicle, taking the British toll in the war against Taliban insurgents to more than 400. In Uruzgan province 9 policemen were killed by Taliban insurgents after a checkpoint guard allowed them to enter a sleeping area.
(AFP, 3/7/12)(SFC, 3/9/12, p.A3)
2012 Mar 7, In Colombia an accident at a small coal mine, named "El Desespero" (Desperation), killed at least four miners and five others were still missing.
(AP, 3/8/12)
2012 Mar 7, In Egypt the Cairo Criminal Court acquitted policeman Mohammed Abdel-Moneim, who was sentenced to death for shooting 20 protesters on Jan. 28 last year in front of a Cairo police station. The court did not give reasons for its ruling.
(AP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 7, Indian police said they had arrested Syed Mohammed Kazmi (50), an Indian journalist working for an Iranian media organization in connection with a bomb attack last month targeting an Israeli diplomat.
(AP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 7, Iran's state media said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the creation of an Internet oversight agency that includes top military and political figures in the country's boldest attempt to control the web.
(AP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 7, Iranian media reported that Ali Shakouri-Rad, a ranking member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, former lawmaker and a leading reformist from a banned political party has been sentenced to four years in prison for allegedly spreading anti-regime propaganda.
(AFP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 7, In northern Iraq 2 bombs exploded in swift succession killing 13 people near a crowded restaurant in Tal Afar. Separate car bombings in Baghdad killed four people and wounded 14 in a Sunni area of the capital.
(AP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 7, Libyan leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said he would defend national unity "with force" if necessary, after tribal leaders and a political faction declared autonomy for an eastern region.
(AFP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 7, In northern Nigeria gunmen attacked a police station and two banks, killing at least four policemen, amid a wave of violence blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram. A raid was conducted in the northern city of Zaria leading to the arrest of Abu Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the kidnapping of a Briton and an Italian, and five others.
(AFP, 3/8/12)(AFP, 3/14/12)
2012 Mar 7, Qatar’s official QNA news agency reported that the government has promised to invest $2 billion in Sudan, as Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir visited the gas-rich state.
(AFP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 7, In South Africa tens of thousands of protesters marched through 32 towns and cities in a protest by the powerful Cosatu labor body, the latest sign of tensions within the ANC-led government.
(AFP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 7, UN's humanitarian chief Valerie Amos arrived in Syria to try to secure aid for battered protest cities, as tanks and troops headed for a rebel bastion in Idlib. Syria's deputy oil minister, Abdo Husameldin, defected to Turkey. His online video emerged the next day, making him the highest ranking civilian official to abandon the regime since the uprising against President Bashar Assad erupted a year ago.
(AFP, 3/7/12)(AP, 3/8/12)(Econ, 3/10/12, p.60)
2013 Mar 7, A US federal judge ruled unconstitutional a 2011 Idaho law that prohibited abortions after 20 weeks.
(SFC, 3/8/13, p.A6)
2013 Mar 7, In Bangladesh over 100 people were reported killed over the last 3 days by law enforcement agencies under the pretext of controlling violence.
(Econ, 3/9/13, p.49)
2013 Mar 7, British stock market trader Paul Milsom was sentenced to two years in jail, the first sentence to come out of the Financial Services Authority's (FSA) biggest investigation into insider dealing. Milsom, who was a senior equities trader at the investment arm of life insurer Legal & General, was also ordered to pay 245,000 pounds, the total profit he made from insider trading.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, Gogglebox, a British reality show, began airing on Channel 4. The show featured recurring couples, families and friends from around Britain sitting in their homes watching weekly British television shows.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogglebox)
2013 Mar 7, Coalfield Resources said Daw Mill Colliery in Warwickshire, Britain's largest coal mine, will close permanently with the loss of at least 550 jobs due to a fire that has burned ferociously for two weeks.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, Chinese officials castigated the Tibetan Kirti monastery, at the center of a wave of self-immolations, saying it has been inciting the fiery protests. They also indicated that authorities will not relax controls over the region.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, Egyptian policemen protested for a 4th day in several cities across the country, refusing orders to work and accusing officials of trying to politicize the force.
(AP, 3/7/13)(SFC, 3/8/13, p.A2)
2013 Mar 7, Iraq's parliament approved a $118.6 billion national budget after months of wrangling over how much should be allocated to foreign oil companies working in the country's self-ruled northern Kurdish region. Police and health officials said six people were killed and 10 others were wounded in attacks across Iraq.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, A Milan court convicted former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of breach of confidentiality for the illegal publication of wiretapped conversations related to a failed bank takeover in a newspaper owned by his media empire. His brother, Paolo Berlusconi, was convicted of the same charge and sentenced to two years and three months.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, Kuwait government-affiliated newspapers reported that activists Sager al-Hashash and Naser al-Daihani were sentenced to two years and one year for Twitter posts offensive to the country's ruler.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, Dozens of Libyan militiamen stormed the headquarters of a private TV network in Tripoli, looting and smashing equipment before abducting staffers. News editor Sulieman Abu-Azza suspected the attack could have been carried out in retaliation to the network's heavy criticism of the unruly militia and its coverage of assaults against the country's National General Congress.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, Malaysian security forces gunned down 31 Filipino intruders in Borneo, the highest number of casualties in a single day since nearly 200 members of a Philippine Muslim clan took over an entire village last month. At least 60 people, including 8 Malaysian police officers, have been killed in the conflict.
(AP, 3/7/13)(SFC, 3/8/13, p.A2)
2013 Mar 7, A South African police officer allegedly dragged a man from a police vehicle in the second such incident in recent weeks. The officer was later arrested.
(AP, 3/15/13)
2013 Mar 7, Clashes flared between Syrian troops and rebels close to Israeli-controlled territory in the Golan Heights.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, The UN Security Council voted unanimously for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test. North Korea’s Army Gen. Kang Pyo Yong told a crowd of tens of thousands that North Korea is ready to fire long-range nuclear-armed missiles at Washington.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 7, Venezuela's acting head of state, VP Nicolas Maduro, said that Hugo Chavez's body would be forever displayed inside a glass tomb at a military museum not far from the presidential palace.
(AP, 3/8/13)
2013 Mar 7, Zimbabwe wildlife rangers caught put down three lions that killed two people near a suburb in the northern resort town of Kariba. A lioness and two "sub-adult" cubs between two and three years old were baited into traps and given lethal injections using darts.
(AP, 3/8/13)
2014 Mar 7, In Washington DC the Organization of American States voted to approve a declaration that rejected violence and called for just outcomes for the 21 people the Venezuelan government says have died in weeks of street protests. The OAS also supported the Venezuelan government's attempts to use political dialogue to end the protests. The United States, Panama and Canada voted against the resolution.
(AP, 3/8/14)
2014 Mar 7, US officials said Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael McClendon, accused of secretly photographing and videotaping a dozen women the US Military Academy at West Point, has agreed to a plea bargain that includes a 33-month sentence, loss of pay, reduction in rank to private and a bad-conduct discharge.
(SFC, 3/8/14, p.A6)
2014 Mar 7, The US Centers for Disease Control issued an alert after health authorities in the United States reported that at least 19 women in five states had developed serious mycobacterial wound infections over the previous 12 months following cosmetic procedures in the Dominican Republic such as liposuction, tummy tucks and breast implants.
(AP, 3/31/14)
2014 Mar 7, In Michigan a house covered with stuffed animals and dolls became the latest casualty in a string of suspicious fires at the Heidelberg Project in Detroit.
(SFC, 3/8/14, p.A6)
2014 Mar 7, In Fort Hood, Texas, Army Sgt. 1st Class Gregory McQueen, a coordinator of the post’s sexual assault and harassment program, was charged with 21 counts of pandering, conspiracy and maltreatment of a subordinate.
(SSFC, 3/9/14, p.A9)
2014 Mar 7, In Washington state some 750 detainees at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma went on a hunger strike to protest deportations and conditions at the center.
(SSFC, 3/9/14, p.A9)
2014 Mar 7, Two shipping companies agreed to civil settlements following accusations that they fixed prices of government cargo transportation contracts between the US and Puerto Rico. Sea Star Line LLC agreed to pay $1.9 million and Horizon Lines LLC $1.5 million to settle the cases.
(AP, 3/8/14)
2014 Mar 7, Online retailer Coupons.com, which took coupon clipping to the Web in 1998, raised $168 million in its IPO and rose 88% to close at $30 per share.
(SFC, 3/8/14, p.D1)
2014 Mar 7, Hundreds of British lawyers marched on Parliament to protest legal aid cuts. The government planned to reduce the legal aid budget by $360 million a year through 2019.
(SFC, 3/8/14, p.A2)
2014 Mar 7, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, the cyber arm of Britain's premier defense contractor, published its own research on suspected Russian spyware known as Turla, which it called "snake." The sophisticated piece of spyware has been quietly infecting hundreds of government computers across Europe and the United States in one of the most complex cyber espionage programs uncovered to date.
(Reuters, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Chinese authorities allowed the country's first corporate bond default, inflicting losses on small investors in a painful step toward making its financial system more market-oriented.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Congolese warlord Germain Katanga was convicted of being an accessory to war crimes including murder and pillage - only the second conviction in the 12-year history of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Katanga was convicted as an accessory in the attack on Bogoro village in 2003 that left some 200 civilians dead and many women raped and turned into sex slaves.
(Reuters, 3/7/14)(SFC, 3/8/14, p.A2)
2014 Mar 7, Greek Dr. Costas Kastaniotis (57) was convicted of breaking anti-racism laws for putting up a "Jews not welcome" sign outside his office and given a 16-month suspended sentence. The neurologist denied he was the one to have put up the sign, which was written in German, and said he took it down when it was brought to his attention.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Hundreds of people protested in the streets in Indian-controlled Kashmir over the expulsion of dozens of Kashmiri college students because they cheered for the Pakistani cricket team over India's.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Kenya's president and cabinet agreed to a pay cut as part of austerity measures meant to reduce the government wage bill and free up funds for use in economic development. They called on lawmakers to do the same.
(Reuters, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, An Indian naval officer was killed and "some" dock workers were injured in a gas leak aboard a yet-to-be commissioned naval ship.
(AFP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, In Iraq shelling in Fallujah, held by anti-government fighters for more than two months, and a shooting targeting a local official killed seven people.
(AFP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Mark Karpeles, head of the Tokyo-based Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange, said 200,000 missing bitcoins, valued at $116 million, were found in old format wallets. Some $378 million of bitcoin currency remained missing.
(SFC, 3/22/14, p.C1)
2014 Mar 7, Macedonian police said they have arrested 13 people, including the head of a customs office at the Macedonia-Bulgaria border crossing, on suspicion of participating in a ring smuggling designer clothing from Greece and Bulgaria.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, A Malaysian court sentenced opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to five years in jail on sodomy charges, overturning a 2012 acquittal and throwing his political career into jeopardy.
(AP, 3/7/14)(Econ, 3/15/14, p.40)
2014 Mar 7, Malaysia banned an Ultraman comic book because it uses the word "Allah" to describe the Japanese action hero. The Home Ministry said that the Malay-edition of "Ultraman, The Ultra Power" contained elements that can undermine public security and societal morals.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Mozambican PM Alberto Vaquina says attacks by the opposition party and former rebel movement Renamo have displaced more than 6,000 people in the central parts of the country.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Russia rallied support for a Crimean bid to secede from Ukraine, with Russia's top lawmaker assuring her Crimean counterpart that the region would be welcomed as "an absolutely equal subject of the Russian Federation." Russia said that Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) observers, who were barred from Crimea, had failed to obtain "official invitations" from the Crimean authorities.
(AP, 3/7/14)(AFP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Saudi Arabia identified the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group along with al-Qaida and two Syrian jihadist groups, warning those who join them or support them they could face five to 30 years in prison.
(AP, 3/7/14)(AFP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, A diplomatic source said South Africa has expelled three Rwandan diplomats it says were linked to an attack by gunmen this week on the Johannesburg home of an exiled dissident Rwandan general. Rwanda retaliated by ordering out six South African diplomats.
(Reuters, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, South Africa's under-fire police faced a fresh scandal after footage emerged of uniformed officers punching and kicking a half-naked and unarmed man on a Cape Town street.
(AFP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, Syrian warplanes pounded an area near the rebel-held town of Yabrud near the Lebanese border.
(AFP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 7, In Thailand 6 suspected drug dealers were shot dead during a firefight with Thai security forces who seized illegal amphetamines in the Mae Sai district of northernmost Chiang Rai province.
(AFP, 3/8/14)
2014 Mar 7, A Turkish court ordered the release of former army chief Ilker Basbug from a life sentence.
(Reuters, 3/7/14)
2015 Mar 7, In San Francisco the Chinese New Year Parade ushered in the Year of the Ram.
(SSFC, 3/8/15, p.A12)
2015 Mar 7, In Brazil recent rains led to increased mosquitoes transmitting dengue fever. Since January 224,000 cases were reported to date.
(Econ., 3/28/15, p.42)
2015 Mar 7, In Burkina Faso the 24th pan-African FESPACO wrapped up in Ouagadougou. It featured the screening of "Captaine Thomas Sankara", a flattering 90-minute portrait of the iconoclastic Marxist soldier by Swiss director Christophe Cupelin.
(AFP, 3/8/15)
2015 Mar 7, In Chechnya a man killed in a standoff with police was wanted by police in connection with Nemtsov's killing. When police arrived at an apartment block in Grozny, the man threw one grenade at officers and then blew himself up with a second.
(Reuters, 3/8/15)
2015 Mar 7, Colombia's government and Marxist FARC rebels announced in Cuba that they had reached a deal on demining, a stride forward on a key issue to negotiate peace after decades of conflict. Over 11,000 Colombians have been killed or wounded by mines in the last quarter-century.
(AFP, 3/8/15)(Econ., 3/28/15, p.40)
2015 Mar 7, Egypt Interior Ministry said that Mahmoud Ramadan was executed after being convicted of murder. He was said to be behind the deaths of a young man and a child who were thrown off a roof on July 5, 2013, two days following the ouster of Pres. Morsi.
(AP, 3/7/15)
2015 Mar 7, In Iraq gunmen dressed all in black abducted 31 Shiite men from their homes in eastern Baghdad. Officials said they suspect the kidnapped men were involved in prostitution and criminal activities. Separate attacks in the capital killed 6 people.
(AP, 3/7/15)
2015 Mar 7, Iraqi officials in the northern city of Mosul said that militants with the Islamic State group have begun demolishing the ancient archaeological site of Hatra in a push to rid its territory of symbols it says promote idolatry. In April a video was released showing extremists smashing walls and shooting assault rifles at priceless statues.
(AP, 3/7/15)(SSFC, 4/5/15, p.A7)
2015 Mar 7, In Iraq and Syria US and coalition forces conducted 17 air strikes against Islamic State fighters over the past 24 hours with 6 in Syria and 11 in Iraq.
(Reuters, 3/7/15)
2015 Mar 7, The Israeli navy opened fire on boats off the coast of the Gaza Strip, killing one Palestinian fisherman after four vessels had strayed from a six nautical-mile fishing zone. The Israeli army opened fire after the boats did not heed calls to halt.
(Reuters, 3/7/15)
2015 Mar 7, In Mali militants killed 5 people in a gun attack on a restaurant in Bamako, including 3 Malians, a French citizen and a Belgian security officer with the EU delegation in and around La Terrasse restaurant. The Sahara-based Islamist group al-Mourabitoun, run by leading Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar, claimed responsibility.
(Reuters, 3/7/15)(Reuters, 3/8/15)(AFP, 3/13/15)
2015 Mar 7, In Mali two Arab teenagers were lynched and their bodies burned on in Gao by an angry mob that believed they had planted bombs in the area. They came from a family that supports Bamako against a predominantly Tuareg rebellion in the restive north.
(AFP, 3/11/15)
2015 Mar 7, In Mozambique hundreds of human rights activists and students marched in Maputo demanding justice for the March 3 murder of lawyer Gilles Cistac.
(Econ., 3/14/15, p.52)
2015 Mar 7, Nigeria-based Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, after repeated indications that it was seeking a formal tie-up and a series of Nigerian military successes against the rebels.
(AFP, 3/8/15)
2015 Mar 7, In northeastern Nigeria three bombings in Maiduguri killed 58 people and wounded 139 others.
(AFP, 3/7/15)
2015 Mar 7, In Russia the Investigative Committee, a state body leading the investigation in the Feb 27 murder of Boris Nemtsov, named two men, Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadayev. as suspects.
(Reuters, 3/7/15)
2015 Mar 7, Swedish police began investigating what could be a triple homicide after 3 people were found dead in the country's southwest.
(AP, 3/7/15)
2015 Mar 7, In northeastern Syria Islamic State militants attacked a string of predominantly Christian villages. At least 8 militants were killed in the fighting and an unknown number of Kurds. At least 9 members of Islamic State were killed during infighting near the town of al-Bab after some of them tried to flee over the Turkish border.
(AP, 3/7/15)(Reuters, 3/9/15)
2015 Mar 7, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Syrian army has killed Deeb Hedijan al-Otaibi, an Islamic State commander, in an air strike. 26 Islamic State militants were reported killed in the air strike near the town of Hamadi Omar.
(Reuters, 3/7/15)
2016 Mar 7, The Golden State Warriors won their 45th straight home game, setting a new NBA record previously held by the Chicago Bulls in 1996.
(SFC, 3/8/16, p.B1)
2016 Mar 7, In Atlanta, Georgia, a fire engulfed a boarding house in Atlanta, killing six people.
(AFP, 3/7/16)(SFC, 3/8/16, p.A7)
2016 Mar 7, In Kansas Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino (40) killed a neighbor and 3 other men in Kansas City. He then gunned down another man the next morning at the man's rural home in Missouri. He had been deported in April 2004 because he was in the country illegally, but had re-entered. Serrano-Vitorino was captured on March 9.
(AP, 3/10/16)
2016 Mar 7, The New York Fed put out a brief statement through its Twitter account, saying "Regarding hacking reports, there is no evidence of attempts to penetrate Federal Reserve systems & no evidence Fed systems were compromised."
(AP, 3/9/16)
2016 Mar 7, US regulators asked oil and gas producers in central Oklahoma to restrict wastewater disposal operations to help curb a spike in the number and severity of earthquakes.
(SFC, 3/8/16, p.A7)
2016 Mar 7, Matthew Lane Durham (21), a former missionary from Edmond, Okla., was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison after being convicted of sexually abusing children at an orphanage in Kenya in 2014.
(SFC, 3/8/16, p.A7)
2016 Mar 7, In Australia a man (33) who police say fatally shot one person and wounded two others inside a western Sydney business was found dead inside the building after a six-hour standoff.
(AP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, China’s state media reported that police in the northern city of Baoding have broken up a major toxic waste case that came to light when a restaurant owner died after inhaling poisonous gases coming from his kitchen drain. A parking lot near the restaurant had allowed factories to dump highly toxic waste into its drain pipes for illegal gains.
(AP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, In India a 15-year-old girl was fighting for her life in a New Delhi hospital after being raped and set on fire on the rooftop terrace of her family's home in a village outside the city. Police soon arrested a 20-year-old man and charged him with raping and burning the girl. The girl died on March 9.
(AP, 3/8/16)(AP, 3/9/16)
2016 Mar 7, In India thousands of dead fish washed up on the banks of the polluted Ulsoor Lake in the southern technology hub of Bangalore. Sewage has been flowing into the lake, depleting its oxygen, and has been choked with water hyacinth with no effort by authorities to clear it.
(AP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, Indonesia's anti-graft commission said government agencies have agreed on a plan to combat corruption in the forestry industry that costs the state billions of dollars in lost revenue and is behind fires that pollute Southeast Asia.
(AP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, In Indonesia the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit ended with a call for a ban on products from Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and pledged full support for the "inalienable rights" of the Palestinians. the move was not binding on member states.
(AFP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, Japanese police set up a special unit to oversee efforts to stem what they are describing as a full-fledged "war" between rival organized crime groups. The Yamaguchi-gumi gang based in the western city of Kobe has been rocked by internal strife since late last year following the defection of several top leaders who formed a rival splinter group.
(AFP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, Japanese telecommunications and Internet company SoftBank Group Corp. said it will reorganize into two new 100 percent-owned subsidiaries, with its global investment business separated from its domestic operations.
(AP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, In the Netherlands the Marshall Islands began legal proceedings against India at the International Court of Justice, as part of cases against three of the world's nuclear powers aimed at breathing new life into disarmament negotiations.
(AP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, A Nigerian court charged retired air chief marshal Alex Badeh with a string of corruption charges, in the latest case involving a high-ranking official.
(AFP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, In northwest Pakistan a suicide bomber attacked the entrance to a court, killing 16 people in the town of Shabqadar. A group affiliated with the Pakistani Taliban and calling itself Jamat-ul-Ahrar claimed responsibility.
(AP, 3/7/16)(SFC, 3/8/16, p.A2)
2016 Mar 7, Russia's Defense Ministry said that eight ceasefire violations had been registered in Syria over the past 24 hours.
(Reuters, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, Sri Lanka said it will receive a loan of $1.5 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to boost foreign exchange reserves and avert a balance of payments problem.
(Reuters, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, In northern Syria warplanes bombed a fuel depot in an opposition-held town in Idlib province, killing at least 12 people. The al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front and Islamist group Jund al-Aqsa and others took the village of al-Ais.
(AP, 3/7/16)(Reuters, 3/8/16)
2016 Mar 7, In Tunisia dozens of Islamist fighters stormed through the town of Ben Guerdan near the Libyan border attacking army and police posts in a raid that killed 55 people, including civilians.
(Reuters, 3/7/16)(Reuters, 3/8/16)
2016 Mar 7, Turkey offered the EU greater help to stem a flood of migrants into Europe but demanded more money, faster accession talks and quicker visa-free travel for its citizens in exchange. EU leaders reached a tentative outline for a possible deal with Ankara and hoped to finalize a deal at 2-day summit beginning on March 17.
(Reuters, 3/7/16)(SFC, 3/8/16, p.A4)
2016 Mar 7, In southeastern Turkey 13 Kurdish militants were killed when a firefight broke out in the town of Idil. Two Turkish soldiers were killed in the last 24 hours, one in Idil and the other in Sur, a historic district in Diyarbakir.
(Reuters, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 7, An official in YPG, the Syrian Kurdish militia, said that Turkey was firing artillery shells at its fighters in northern Aleppo province.
(Reuters, 3/7/16)
2017 Mar 7, The US Justice Department said the Chinese firm ZTE Corp. has agreed to plead guilty and pay the United States $892 million for violating sanctions against Iran. ZTE Corp. had illegally shipped sensitive US-made equipment to Iran.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, WikiLeaks published thousands of documents purportedly taken from the Central Intelligence Agency's Center for Cyber Intelligence, a dramatic release that appears to expose intimate details of America's cyberespionage toolkit.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, In Mississippi a freight train hit a tour bus in Biloxi killing at least four people.
(SFC, 3/8/17, p.A5)
2017 Mar 7, Texas executed Rolando Ruiz was executed for the 1992 contract killing of Theresa Rodriguez (29) orchestrated by her husband and brother-in-law.
(SFC, 3/8/17, p.A5)
2017 Mar 7, Thousands of stranded Afghans and Pakistanis returned home as Pakistan temporarily reopened two main crossings that had been closed last month after a wave of militant attacks.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, In Argentina thousands of banner-waving trade unionists marched through Buenos Aires to protest job losses and inflation.
(Econ, 3/18/17, p.32)
2017 Mar 7, British PM Theresa May sacked Michael Heseltine (83), a senior figure in her Conservative Party, from various advisory roles for rebelling against the government in a Brexit vote in the House of Lords.
(AFP, 3/8/17)
2017 Mar 7, Cambodia’s drug czar said authorities have arrested more than 4,800 people in a two-month-old campaign against drugs and that number could more than double.
(Reuters, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, Europe’s top court ruled that EU member states are not obliged to grant humanitarian visas to people who want to enter their territory to apply for asylum.
(SFC, 3/8/17, p.A3)
2017 Mar 7, A European Union court struck down a 2013 decision by EU regulators to block a planned takeover of Dutch-based package delivery company TNT Express by United Parcel Services Inc.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, In France poachers broke into the Thoiry Zoo overnight and shot a 5-year-old rhinoceros named Vince three times in the head. They used a chain saw to remove the animal's ivory horn.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, Hungary's parliament approved the systematic detention of all asylum-seekers in container camps, in a move that PM Viktor Orban said will make all of Europe safer from terror attacks.
(AFP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, An Indian court sentenced university professor G.N. Saibaba and four others to life imprisonment on charges of belonging to a banned communist rebel group and recruiting others to join them. Saibaba, arrested in 2014, is paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair. He has denied the charges.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, Iraqi government forces fighting to drive Islamic State from western Mosul recaptured the main government building, the central bank branch and the museum where three years ago the militants had smashed statues and artifacts.
(Reuters, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, The Kenyan government ordered striking medical staff to go back to work and said it had withdrawn an offer of a 50 percent pay hike after the workers' union became inflexible in their negotiations.
(Reuters, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) executives, led by two-time Olympic champion Kip Keino, defied the IOC at a meeting and refused to make changes to their constitution.
(AP, 3/9/17)
2017 Mar 7, Kosovo's Pres. Hashim Thaci asked parliament to transform the country's lightly armed security forces into a regular army, a move immediately denounced by Serbian leaders who refuse to recognize Kosovo's independence.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, Lesotho's deputy prime minister said the king has dissolved parliament and will shortly set an election date, days after PM Pakalitha Mosisili lost a confidence vote in the assembly.
(Reuters, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, Libya's eastern parliament voted to withdraw its support for a UN peace deal and Government of National Accord. The body voted to annul its previous acceptance of a presidential council and the UN-backed government currently led by PM Fayez al-Serraj in Tripoli. East Libyan forces carried out a fifth day of air strikes against a rival faction that overran the major oil ports of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf.
(AP, 3/7/17)(Reuters, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, The International Organization for Migration said fighting between rival people-smuggling gangs on Libya's Mediterranean coast has killed 22 people.
(Reuters, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, In Macedonia vandals damaged a museum dedicated to the Albanian alphabet, amid increasing political tension over the official status of the Albanian language in the country. Three parties of the Albanian minority, a quarter of Macedonia's population, demanded that Albanian should become Macedonia's second official language as their price to join in any coalition.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, Cyclone Enawo slammed into Madagascar. The Indian Ocean tropical storm packed winds up to 300 kph (185 mph). At least 38 people were killed and some 50,000 people driven from their homes.
(Reuters, 3/8/17)(SSFC, 3/12/17, p.A4)
2017 Mar 7, Myanmar's government urged ethnic rebel groups to join talks to achieve a nationwide peace agreement even after one of the groups raided a government-controlled town in an attack a day earlier that killed five policemen and five civilians, including a schoolteacher.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, North Korea closed its borders to Malaysians who want to leave the country, spurring Malaysia to issue a retaliatory order and drawing hundreds of ordinary people into an increasingly bitter diplomatic battle over the killing of an exiled member of North Korea's ruling family. 11 Malaysian citizens were prevented from flying home.
(AP, 3/7/17)(Econ, 3/11/17, p.40)
2017 Mar 7, Russia’s Culture Ministry said children under age 16 won't be able to go to the new Disney film "Beauty and the Beast" in Russia because it includes a gay character.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, Senegalese authorities arrested Khalifa Sall, the mayor of the capital Dakar, a potential rival to President Macky Sall (no relation) in elections expected in 2019, on suspicion of embezzling 1.8 billion CFA francs ($2.87 million).
(Reuters, 3/8/17)
2017 Mar 7, In Turkey the top generals of the Turkish, Russian and US military met in Antalya in a bid to step up coordination in Syria and avoid clashes between rival forces in the fight against IS.
(AFP, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, A Ukraine judge ordered Roman Nasirov, the country’s top tax official, to be jailed or pay a hefty bail pending his trial for suspected embezzlement.
(Reuters, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 7, UN Sec.-Gen. Antonio Guterres urged int’l. support to alleviate Somalia’s worsening hunger crisis.
(SFC, 3/8/17, p.A4)
2017 Mar 7, The United Nations said South Africa's withdrawal from the International Criminal Court has been revoked, stalling what would have been the first-ever departure from the tribunal that pursues the world's worst atrocities.
(AP, 3/8/17)
2017 Mar 7, A new United Nations report described South Sudan as teetering on the edge of genocide and experiencing ethnic cleansing, a stark portrayal of a nation whose crises now include famine.
(AP, 3/7/17)
2018 Mar 7, The second winter storm within a week crept into New York and surrounding states. New York's three major airlines reported a total of 1,431 canceled flights, about 40 percent of their normally scheduled flights. The governors of New Jersey and Pennsylvania declared states of emergency.
(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, In Alabama a girl (17) was killed in a shooting at Huffman High School in Birmingham. A male student was also injured. Police the next day said they had one person of interest in custody. On March 9 authorities charged Michael Jerome Barber (17) in the death of Courtlin Arrington.
(SFC, 3/8/18, p.A8)(SFC, 3/9/18, p.A7)(SFC, 3/10/18, p.A6)
2018 Mar 7, Tom Pritzker of the Chicago-based Hyatt Foundation announced that architect and educator Balkrishna Doshi has been awarded the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the first Indian to win architecture's highest honor in its 40-year history.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, William Pulte (b.1932), home builder, died in Naples, Fl. He had founded Pulte Homes in Detroit in 1950 and built his first subdivision, Concord Green, in Bloomfield Hills, Mi., in 1959. In 1995 it became the nation's largest home builder.
(SSFC, 3/11/18, p.C9)
2018 Mar 7, In Afghanistan a suicide bomber in Jalalabad killed three people including Abdul Zahir Haqqani, the local head of the Ministry of Haj and Religious Affairs.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, In Austria an attacker from Afghanistan was detained shortly after the stabbing of a 20-year-old man, also from Afghanistan. Police said the man admitted to stabbing and severely injuring a family of three and a 20-year-old compatriot in Vienna because "he was in a bad, aggressive mood and upset about his life's situation."
(AP, 3/8/18)
2018 Mar 7, British authorities identified said a "very rare" toxic substance was used to poison Sergei Skripal (66) and his daughter, Yulia (33) on March 4.
(AP, 3/8/18)
2018 Mar 7, Queen Elizabeth II welcomed Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as he began a three-day visit to Britain. Britain and Saudi Arabia agreed to strengthen a United Nations inspection regime for ships headed to Yemen in order to ensure that all Yemeni ports remain open to the humanitarian and commercial supplies.
(AP, 3/7/18)(AP, 3/8/18)
2018 Mar 7, In Chechnya at least three people died in a Russian border guard Mi-8 helicopter crash in the North Caucasus mountains.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, The EU's executive branch pointed the finger at Belgium, Cyprus, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta and the Netherlands for "aggressive" tax policies designed to undercut others to attract multinational companies.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, The EU's top court said Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France's far-right National Front, and a party official must repay nearly 600,000 euros ($744,550) to the European Parliament for wages wrongly paid to alleged parliamentary assistants.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, European police said they have smashed an international weapons-smuggling ring operating in at least four countries. Police said the group traded firearms in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, A German court sentenced seven men and one woman to four to 10 years in jail for founding the far-right terrorist “Freital Group" responsible for attempted murder and bomb attacks on refugee shelters and politicians in the former Communist East.
(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, German prosecutors said they have indicted a Vietnamese man (47) on suspicion of espionage and involvement in the kidnap former Vietnamese oil executive Trinh Xuan Thanh and a woman accompanying him in Berlin last year.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, German and Romanian officials raided homes and hotels in both countries to smash an illegal migrant trafficking ring they said was one of the biggest of its kind in Europe.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, Germany's Cabinet agreed to extend six overseas military missions, including its long-running operation in Afghanistan. It will increase the maximum number of troops deployed as part of the international "Resolute Support" mission by 320 to 1,300.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, Germany deported a group of Egyptians to Cairo over violations of residency requirements, including those whose asylum requests were rejected.
(AP, 3/8/18)
2018 Mar 7, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban announced new pre-election handouts to families and pensioners, saying the government would provide heating subsidies and a one-off voucher for food purchases to pensioners.
(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, India said it has imposed new restrictions on trade with North Korea, in line with UN Security Council sanctions slapped on the reclusive country for its nuclear and missile programs.
(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, Air India said Saudi Arabia has given it permission to fly between New Delhi and Tel Aviv over Saudi airspace, ending a 70-year ban and marking a diplomatic shift.
(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, In Iran Maryam Mombeini, the widow of an Iranian-Canadian university professor who died under disputed circumstances in a Tehran prison, was stopped from traveling abroad.
(AP, 3/8/18)
2018 Mar 7, It was reported that between 10,000 and 30,000 Nigerian prostitutes are estimated to be walking Italian streets, often to pay off the debts they incurred to get there.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, Three more members of Macedonia's state anti-corruption commission stepped down because of an unfolding spending scandal. Two other members, including the head of the commission, stepped down earlier this week. The seven-member body now has only two members left.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, In eastern Nigeria rural communities in Taraba state were put on indefinite lockdown as the authorities tried to contain mounting violence between cattle herders and farmers.
(AFP, 3/9/18)
2018 Mar 7, Pakistan's said it has approved India's proposals for exchanges of civilian detainees, in a statement believed to also cover some of those held over the Kashmir conflict.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, In Pakistan 21 students were killed in a drone strike on a seminary near the Bajur tribal region. The son of Taliban Mullah Fazlullah was the among 21 killed by missiles fired by a US drone.
(AP, 3/9/18)
2018 Mar 7, The Philippines' embattled Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno urged Filipinos to stand up against authoritarianism and threats to human rights, in an indirect criticism of the country's volatile leader, who has long called for her removal.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, Poland's parliament voted to approve 15 new members of the judiciary council, all of them proposed by the ruling party and its ally.
(AP, 3/8/18)
2018 Mar 7, Sierra Leone held presidential elections. It was unlikely any one of 16 candidates will receive 55 percent of the vote.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, South Africa's city of Cape Town said that if no rainfall comes then "Day Zero", when the taps are predicted to run dry, would be pushed back to 27 August from July 9, and that the bullet could be dodged completely this year.
(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, In Sri Lanka religious violence flared anew in the central hills despite a state of emergency, with Buddhist mobs sweeping through towns and villages, burning Muslim homes and businesses and leaving victims barricaded inside mosques. Sri Lanka barred social messaging networks including Facebook to stem the violence.
(AP, 3/7/18)(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, In Syria government forces carried out punishing airstrikes against an opposition-held suburb of Damascus. A Hezbollah-run media unit said the Syrian army had taken full control of Beit Sawa village in the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of Damascus.
(AP, 3/7/18)(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani agreed in a phone call to speed up efforts for the implementation of a ceasefire in Syria's eastern Ghouta region.
(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 7, Turkey's police in the southern city of Adana detained 13 Islamic State suspects, including 12 Syrian nationals, who were allegedly plotting attacks on a number of buildings in the city, including the US Consulate.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2019 Mar 7, US President Donald Trump's special representative for Venezuela pledged that Washington would "expand the net" of sanctions on the South American nation, including more on banks supporting President Nicolas Maduro's government.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, First lady Melania Trump joined Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the State Department to confer international courage awards on 10 women from Bangladesh, Djibouti, Egypt, Ireland, Jordan, Montenegro, Myanmar, Peru, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. The State Department has honored more than 120 women from scores of countries since it created the International Women of Courage Award in 2007.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort (69) was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for tax crimes and bank fraud in a high-profile case stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. This was much less than what was called for under sentencing guidelines.
(AFP, 3/7/19)(AP, 3/8/19)
2019 Mar 7, The US House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism and other bigotry. The one-sided 407-23 vote belied the emotional infighting over how to respond to freshman Rep. lIhan Omar's recent comments suggesting House supporters of Israel have dual allegiances.
(AP, 3/8/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Texas Dan Jenkins (89), the sports writing great and best-selling author whose career covered Ben Hogan to Tiger Woods, died.
(AP, 3/8/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Afghanistan rockets fired at a gathering of the Shi'ite Muslim Hazara minority in Kabul killed at least three people and wounded dozens in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Two insurgents were eventually killed and one person arrested. The death toll in the mortar attack soon rose to 11, while the number of wounded reached almost 100.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)(AP, 3/7/19)(AP, 3/8/19)
2019 Mar 7, FUNAI, Brazil's indigenous affairs agency, said it has sent an expedition to the Amazon region looking for members of the Koruba tribe that has had little or no contact with the outside world to steer them clear of the rival Matis group and avoid a bloody clash of cudgels against arrows.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau defended his government's handling of a political crisis that could dash his chances of winning re-election in October, while admitting some mistakes had been made. Trudeau's Liberal government has been on the defensive for a month over allegations by former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould that officials inappropriately pressured her last year to help construction firm SNC-Lavalin Group Inc avoid a criminal trial.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Chinese tech giant Huawei challenged a US law that would limit its American sales of telecom equipment on security grounds as the company steps up efforts to preserve its access to global markets for next-generation communications.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Comoros Pres. Azali Assoumani reportedly survived an attempt on his life as he crisscrossed the country drumming up support ahead of polls on March 24.
(AFP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Costa Rico judicial police raided Roman Catholic church offices in San Jose, searching for information about two priests accused of sexual abuse.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Medecins Sans Frontières said the battle against Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo is failing because ordinary people do not trust health workers and an overly militarized response is alienating patients and families.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Egypt's the interior ministry said on security forces have killed seven suspected militants in two operations in Giza, across the Nile from central Cairo.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Egyptian actor Amr Waked (45), living in Spain and known for his criticism of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's government, said a military court has sentenced him in absentia to eight years in prison in two separate cases, the latest in a wide-ranging crackdown on dissent and the media in Egypt in recent years.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Ethiopia appealed for $1.3 billion from the international community to assist 8.3 million displaced due to ethnic conflict as well those vulnerable to climate shocks and disease.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, The 28 member states of the European Union all backed a decision on to reject a proposal from the EU executive to add Saudi Arabia to a blacklist of countries suspected of being lax on terrorist financing and money laundering. The decision will force the European Commission to prepare a new list.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, French Catholic cleric, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, was convicted of failing to report allegations of sexual abuse in his diocese and said he would submit his resignation to Pope Francis. The archbishop of Lyon was handed a six-month suspended prison sentence.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Eurostar trains from Paris to London were running up to two hours late and trucks stacked up on the approaches to the Channel port of Calais as French customs officers staged the fourth day of a work-to-rule strike.
(AFP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Germany a regional court judge gave Klaus O. (57) a life sentence after convicting him of attempted murder. He was found guilty of poisoning his co-workers' sandwiches with mercury and other substances between 2015 and 2018.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, A German court sentenced four men for their involvement in running an online child pornography platform to prison sentences from three years and ten months to almost 10 years.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, More than 200 protesters gathered at a Hong Kong university to condemn the expulsion of a student defending free speech, in what was seen as another incremental sign of eroding freedoms in the Chinese-ruled city.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir a civilian was killed and at least 30 others were injured by a grenade blast at a bus station.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Three Indonesian soldiers were killed in a gunbattle with Papuan independence fighters. They were part of a contingent to provide security for military engineers on the trans Papua highway.
(AP, 3/7/19)(AP, 3/8/19)
2019 Mar 7, Iranian naval forces intervened to repel pirates who attacked an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
(AP, 3/8/19)
2019 Mar 7, In northern Iraq Islamic State militants ambushed a bus carrying Shiite Muslim paramilitary fighters, killing six militiamen and wounding 31 others in one of the deadliest attacks in recent months.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Malaysian officials said 35 people, mostly students, have been treated for poisoning after a suspected chemical leak near two schools in Johor state.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Malaysia Mujahid Yusof Rawa, the minister in charge of religious affairs, said the Islamic Affairs Department had set up a unit to monitor writings and communications insulting Islam and Muhammad.
(Reuters, 3/9/19)
2019 Mar 7, In central Mexico at least 25 Central American migrants died when the truck they were traveling in overturned in Chiapas state. 23 of those killed were Guatemalan migrants.
(AP, 3/8/19)
2019 Mar 7, Singapore axed a gig by Watain, a Swedish metal band with Satanic beliefs, whose performances have involved throwing pig's blood onto revelers, just hours before it was due to go ahead.
(AFP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, South Korea's military said it is carefully monitoring North Korean nuclear and missile facilities after the country's spy agency told lawmakers that new activity was detected at a research center where the North is believed to build long-range missiles targeting the US mainland.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Sudan an emergency appeals court overturned prison sentences handed down to eight protesters for participating in demonstrations against President Omar al-Bashir's iron-fisted rule. Scores of protesters, many of them women, rallied in Khartoum, condemning a slew of tough measures imposed by President Omar al-Bashir to end weeks-long demonstrations against his rule.
(AFP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Geneva Volkswagen-owned Bugatti said a one-off Bugatti luxury sports car has been sold for a record 16.7 million euros ($18.9 million).
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In eastern Syria scores of suspected IS members, including foreign fighters, were screened and searched for concealed weapons and explosives after leaving the last pocket of territory held by the Islamic State group.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, A court in Thailand ordered the dissolution of the Thai Raksa Chart Party ahead of this month's general election because it nominated a member of the royal family to be its candidate for prime minister.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko promised life imprisonment for anyone found guilty in alleged military corruption that reportedly includes incumbent Petro Poroshenko.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Geneva three dozen countries, including all 28 EU members, called on Saudi Arabia to release 10 activists and cooperate with a UN-led investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at its Istanbul consulate. This was the first rebuke of the kingdom at the UN Human Rights Council since it was set up in 2006.
(Reuters, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 7, In Venezuela power went out this afternoon due to a problem at the main hydroelectric plant. The government called the event an act of "sabotage" by ideological adversaries.
(Reuters, 3/8/19)
2020 Mar 7, President Donald Trump hosted Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where the two leaders discussed the US-led effort to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
(Bloomberg, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 7, The number of Americans diagnosed with novel coronavirus is now at least 424, according to a case count by Johns Hopkins Univ. At least 19 people have died in the US in Washington state, California and Florida. There were now more than 101,000 infected worldwide and more than 3,400 deaths.
(Good Morning America, 3/7/20)(AP, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 7, A US Navy sailor stationed at the Naval Support Activity Naples tested positive for novel coronavirus, marking the first positive cause of a US service member in Europe.
(Good Morning America, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Grand Princess Capt. John Smith told passengers that the ship hit by the new coronavirus is headed to the port of Oakland, Ca. The ship carrying more than 3,500 people from 54 countries was expected to dock on March 9. Passengers were quarantined at Travis Air Force Base and many were released on a staggered basis from March 9 to March 13. Two-thirds of the 858 passengers at the base had declined testing. On March 20 seven of the tested passengers were reported positive for the virus.
(AP, 3/8/20)(SSFC, 3/22/20, p.A1)
2020 Mar 7, Hawaii Gov. David Ige said a patient who had traveled aboard a Grand Princess cruise ship in early February became Hawaii's first case of the coronavirus.
(Good Morning America, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 7, Argentina's Ministry of Health said a 64-year-old man has died as a result of the new coronavirus, the first such death in Latin America.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, In China about 70 people were trapped in a collapsed hotel in the city of Quanzhou, in southeastern Fujian Province. The collapsed hotel was used for coronavirus quarantine. 23 people were reported rescued. 23 remained trapped after the collapse of the hotel. 20 people died in the collapse. On March 9 a boy and his mother were rescued. A man was rescued after being trapped for 69 hours. Nine people remained missing.
(Reuters, 3/7/20)(Reuters, 3/8/20)(SFC, 3/11/20, p.A2)(SFC, 3/12/20, p.A2)
2020 Mar 7, Chile said it now had seven confirmed coronavirus cases, up from five.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Costa Rica's Health Ministry confirmed four new cases of coronavirus, in addition to that of a case involving an American woman announced a day earlier. Her husband was among the new cases.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Cyprus riot police used pepper spray to thwart Turkish Cypriot protesters trying to shove their way through a barricaded crossing point in the heart of the ethnically divided island nation's capital.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, In Egypt about 150 tourists and local crew were quarantined on a cruise ship on the Nile river. Officials said coronavirus had been detected in 45 people, including foreign tourists, after a Nile River cruise ship reached the southern city of Luxor.
(AP, 3/7/20)(Reuters, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 7, In France a member of the lower house was diagnosed with the virus and hospitalized. The Health Ministry said that two more people had died from the coronavirus, bringing the total death toll to 11 people. France has now 716 confirmed cases of coronavirus.
(AP, 3/7/20)(Reuters, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Georgia reported a total of 12 cases in the country, 10 linked to Italy, which has Europe's worst outbreak, and the other two linked to Iran. Georgia reported its first case of coronavirus in the end of February.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Germany’s confirmed coronavirus infections rose to 684 from 534 a day earlier.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, In Guyana a protester was shot dead as demonstrators took to the streets after opposition leaders and international observers accused the government of David Granger of rigging this week's presidential election.
(Reuters, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, In Hungary the number of confirmed coronavirus patients increased to five since the first infections were announced on March 4. The government canceled a rally planned for the March 15 national holiday in central Budapest.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, In Iran lawmaker Fatemeh Rahbar (55) died from the coronavirus, the first fatality among 23 infected members of parliament. The death toll from the virus increased to 145 as the number of diagnosed cases grew to 5,823.
(AFP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, People were not permitted to leave or enter Bethlehem, as per a decision made by Israeli and Palestinian authorities after 17 cases of novel coronavirus were confirmed in the city in the last 48 hours. 14 American citizens were being tested and have been quarantined in the Angles hotel in the city of Bethlehem for now.
(Good Morning America, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, In Italy the number of fatalities due to the coronavirus were up 36 to 233, with infections growing to 8,883. Cases have now been confirmed in each of the country's 20 regions, with deaths recorded in eight of them.
(Reuters, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Kuwait recorded 3 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing its infection tally to 61.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Lebanon's PM Hassan Diab said the government will suspend payment on $1.2 billion in loans, marking the country's first-ever default on its sovereign debt.
(SSFC, 3/8/20, p.A4)
2020 Mar 7, Malta reported its first case of coronavirus.
(Bloomberg, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Mexico reported seven instances of coronavirus, up from six.
(Reuters, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 7, Paraguay reported its first case of coronavirus.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Peru announced five new cases of COVID-19 infection, raising the country's total to six.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, The Philippines health department reported the country’s sixth infection. President Rodrigo Duterte agreed to declare a state of national public health emergency after a local transmission of coronavirus.
(Bloomberg, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, In the Philippines a regional commander said troops have killed at least 14 Muslim militants aligned with the Islamic State in Maguindanao province. The Islamic State group claimed militants killed 43 soldiers, but that claim was denied.
(AP, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 7, Qatar reported its 12th case of coronavirus.
(Reuters, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, It was reported that Saudi Arabia has detained three senior Saudi princes including Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the younger brother of King Salman, and Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the king's nephew, for allegedly planning a coup.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, South Korea's coronavirus cases jumped above 7,000, up by 448 from the previous day. The death toll rose by two to 46.
(Reuters, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Spain identified 93 new coronavirus cases, bringing its total to 441.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Spanish police said they have arrested 89 people suspected of belionging to a crime ring that smuggled both migrants and hashish from North Africa to the mainland.
(SSFC, 3/8/20, p.A4)
2020 Mar 7, Syria's Interior Minister Mohammed Khaled Rahmoun said at least 26 Iraqis were among those killed in a Syrian highway accident, in which a fuel truck collided with passenger buses and other cars. Local officials said at least 32 were killed and 77 injured.
(AP, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 7, Ugandans celebrated the Mara Mara peace festival. It drew inspiration from the African Union's declaration of 2020 as the year for “silencing the guns" on a continent that has long faced violence ranging from civil war to ethnic rivalries and rebel insurgencies.
(AP, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 7, In the UAE The number of coronavirus cases rose to 45 from 30.
(Reuters, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, Uzbekistan said it will become an observer in the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) before deciding if it wants to become a full member of the trade bloc.
(Reuters, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 7, In Vietnam all air crew and ground staff working on a Vietnam Airlines’ flight from London to Hanoi on March 1 were being quarantined after a passenger tested positive for coronavirus. The Ministry of Health confirmed three new coronavirus cases, raising the number in the country to 20.
(AP, 3/7/20)(Reuters, 3/7/20)
2021 Mar 7, US Pres. Joe Biden issued an executive order directing federal agencies to take a series of steps to promote voting access.
(SFC, 3/8/21, p.A6)
2021 Mar 7, The US and South Korea announced they've reached an agreement "in principle" on a new cost-sharing plan for the American troop presence on the Korean Peninsula.
(Axios, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, A highly anticipated Oprah Winfrey interview with Prince Harry and his wife Meghan aired on US television. Meghan spoke of feeling suicidal, and accused the royal family of racism, while Harry said his father, Prince Charles, had let him down.
(Reuters, 3/7/21)(Reuters, 3/8/21)
2021 Mar 7, California to date had 3,574,949 cases of coronavirus and 54,131 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 411,036 cases and 5,523 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 28,956,440 with the death toll at 524,463.
(sfist.com, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, It was reported that COVID-19 insurance policies are increasingly joining passports and sunscreen as vacation staples, creating opportunities for insurers as more countries require mandatory coverage in case visitors fall ill from the coronavirus.
(Reuters, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, Austrian authorities said they have suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution while investigating the death of one person and the illness of another after the shots.
(Reuters, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, It was reported that Canada's red-hot housing market has become a bonfire, spurring comparisons to earlier bubbles and prompting calls for cooling measures. But policymakers are standing back, unwilling to intervene for fear of undermining Canada's still-fragile economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Reuters, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, A series of explosions in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 31 people at the Nkoantoma military base in Bata. President Obiang Nguema said the blasts had been caused badly stored dynamite along with stubble burning by nearby farmers. The death toll from the explosions soon rose to 105.
(BBC, 3/8/21)(BBC, 3/10/21)
2021 Mar 7, German lawmaker Nikolas Loebel, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's party, said he will give up his seat in parliament and leave politics after it emerged that his company profited from deals to procure masks early in the pandemic.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman held in an Iranian prison for five years on widely refuted spying charges, ended her sentence. She still faces a new trial and cannot yet return home to London.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, Israel reopened most of its economy as part of its final phase of lifting coronavirus lockdown restrictions, some of them in place since September. Nearly 40% of its population has been immunized in just over two months.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, Italy’s national geophysics and volcanology institute INGV said the powerful explosion of Mt. Etna at 2 a.m. was the 10th such big blast since Feb. 16, when Europe's most active volcano started giving off an impressive demonstration of nature's fire power.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, Police in Myanmar’s ancient former capital, Bagan, opened fire on demonstrators protesting last month’s military takeover, wounding several people. Khin Maung Latt (58), a ward chairman from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party, which was ousted from power in the coup, was found dead in a military hospital this morning by fellow residents of his Pabedan neighborhood.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, Three Palestinian fishermen were killed after a blast ripped through their boat off the Gaza shore, in what appeared to be an explosion caused by a misfired rocket launched by the ruling Hamas militant group.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, In Romania around 3,000 anti-vaccination protesters converged outside the parliament building in Bucharest to demand that lawmakers not make innoculations compulsory.
(SFC, 3/8/21, p.A4)
2021 Mar 7, Russia's organization For Human Rights said in a statement that it was disbanding, citing the inclusion of its leader, Lev Ponomarev, on the Justice Ministry’s list of foreign agents. Ponomarev founded the organization in 1997.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, The Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels in Yemen said that it had launched a new air campaign on the country’s capital and other provinces, in retaliation for missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia. The Houthi-run al-Masirah satellite TV channel reported at least seven airstrikes on Sanaa's districts of Attan and al-Nahda.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, Swiss voters approved a proposal to ban face coverings, both the niqabs and burqas worn by a few Muslim women in the country and the ski masks and bandannas used by protesters.
(AP, 3/7/21)(NY Times, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, The first independent digital banking platform in the United Arab Emirates was launched, a neobank hoping to become a leader in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. Dubai-based YAP partnered with RAK Bank which provides international bank account numbers for YAP users and secures their funds under its own banking license.
(Reuters, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, Pope Francis ended his 3-day tour of Iraq with an open-air Mass before 5,000 faithful in Erbil.
(NY Times, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 7, In Yemen a fire broke out in a detention center for migrants south of Sanaa, killing at least 45 people, mostly Ethiopian migrants, and injuring more than 170 others. On March 20 Houthi rebels broke their silence on the cause of the fire saying guards fired three tear gas canisters into a crowded hangar in Sanaa, trying to end a protest by the migrants.
(AP, 3/7/21)(AP, 3/13/21)(AP, 3/20/21)
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