GAMES
1933 Game of "Monopoly" invented.
WAR!
1945 during World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge.
1991 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait.
TERRORISM
1981 anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman, whom they accused of being a CIA agent.
2007 A suicide attacker blew himself up in a cafe northeast of Baghdad, killing 30 people.
DISASTER
2007 Ten people were killed in the Bronx, N.Y., when fire tore through their home.
CIVIL RIGHTS
1965 A march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.
PRONOUNCEMENTS
1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announced that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles".
SPORTS
1955 Baseball commissioner Ford Frick says he favors legalization of the spitter.
PRO WRESTLING
1940 Ray Steele beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champion.
HEALTH NAZIS
1997 5 sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life.
OH NO
1981 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1993 Diff'rent Stroke actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant.
JAZZ
1917 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step", recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ.
LABOR
1932 Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn MI, kills 4.
1967 Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence at Lewisburg Federal Prison for defrauding the union & jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971).
KILLERS
2007 Sex offender John Evander Couey was found guilty in Miami of kidnapping, raping and murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was buried alive.
POLITICS
1850 In a 3-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.
1975 The Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
PATENTS
1854 Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
1876 Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone.
PROGRESS
1926 The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations took place, between New York and London.
JEWS
1977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter.
COMING WAR
1774 British close port of Boston to all commerce.
1936 Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.
1998 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, speaking in Rome, said the U.S. wouldn't tolerate any more violence in Kosovo, which she blamed on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
ASSASSINATION
1951 Ali Razmara Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated.
BORN
1849 horticulturist Luther Burbank was born in Lancaster, Mass.
BIRTHDAYS
Comedian Alan Sues is 82. Photographer Lord Snowdon is 78. TV personality Willard Scott is 74. Auto racer Janet Guthrie is 70. Actor Daniel J. Travanti is 68. Former Walt Disney Co. chief executive officer Michael Eisner is 66. Rock musician Chris White (The Zombies) is 65. Actor John Heard is 62. Rock singer Peter Wolf is 62. Rock musician Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum) is 62. Football Hall of Famer Franco Harris is 58. Football Hall of Famer Lynn Swann is 56. Rhythm-and-blues singer-musician Ernie Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 56. Actor Bryan Cranston is 52. Actress Donna Murphy is 49. Actor Nick Searcy is 49. Tennis Hall of Famer Ivan Lendl is 48. Actor Bill Brochtrup is 45. Opera singer Denyce Graves is 44. Comedian Wanda Sykes is 44. Singer-actress Taylor Dayne is 43. Rock musician Randy Guss (Toad the Wet Sprocket) is 41. Actor Peter Sarsgaard is 37. Actress Rachel Weisz is 37. Classical singer Sebastien Izambard (Il Divo) is 35. Rock singer Hugo Ferreira (Tantric) is 34. Actress Jenna Fischer is 34. Actress Audrey Marie Anderson is 33. Actress Laura Prepon is 28.
DEATH
322 -BC- Aristotle dies.
1959 Hinsdale Smith developer of roll-down auto windows, dies at 88.
1985 Victor W Farris inventor of paper milk carton, etc, dies.
1988 Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead] transvestite actor (Hairspray, Polyester, Pink Flamingos), dies in Los Angeles at 42.
1999 movie director Stanley Kubrick died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70.
March 7, the 67th day of 2008. There are 299 days left in the year.
compiled by Mondoreb
image: northstargeneral
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
* DBKP at Blogger.
Originally posted at DBKP.com - Bigger, Better!.
