What are the important events that happened on March 7? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 7: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 7 is the 67th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 299 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 23, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,709,769,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexacontaheptagon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 328 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,094 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 7 Historical Events
- 238 –Roman subjects in Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor.
- 1277 –Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
- 1799 –Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
- 1876 –Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
- 1886 –The City of Lábrea in Amazonas, Brazil is founded. Today, the town is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Lábrea.
- 1936 –World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
- 1985 –The song “We Are the World” has its international release.
- 2006 –The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
- 2009 –The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.
Who were born on March 7?
- 1909 –Léo Malet, French writer (Nestor Burma) (d. 1996)
- 1915 –Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician (d. 2000)
- 1938 –David Baltimore, American biologist, Nobel laureate
- 1942 –Michael Eisner, American film studio executive
- 1945 –Elizabeth Moon, American author
- 1945 –John Heard, American actor
- 1947 –Helen Eadie, Scottish politician
- 1949 –Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
- 1968 –Jeff Kent, American baseball player
- 1977 –Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby union footballer
Who died on March 7?
- 308 –Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr
- 1625 –Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
- 1778 –Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)
- 1932 –Aristide Briand, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- 1957 –Wyndham Lewis, British author (b. 1882)
- 1974 –Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
- 2000 –Charles Gray, British actor (b. 1928)
- 2005 –Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (b. 1950)
- 2005 –John Box, British film production designer and art director (b. 1920)
- 2010 –Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian-American supercentenarian (b. 1895)
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