03-07-2006, 06:23 AM
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March 7th
1274 ~ Death of Thomas Aquinas, Philosopher.
1850 ~ U.S. Senator Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1875 ~ Birthday of Maurice Ravel, Composer.
1867 ~ Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone (patent # 174,464).
1945 ~ U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, during World War II.
1965 ~ In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully broke up a group of 600 civil rights marchers.
1967 ~ Death of Alice B. Toklas, inspiration for a million brownies.
1969 ~ Golda Meir elected Prime Minister of Israel.
1999 ~ Death of Stanley Kubrick, Film Director.
2004 ~ An investiture ceremony was held for V. Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Church's first openly homosexual bishop.
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