Events 1799 - Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. 1848 - The Great Mahele (land division) is signed in Hawaii. 1850 - United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,464). 1912 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole. 1918 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany. 1936 - World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland. 1945 - World War II: American troops seize the bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany and begin to cross. 1951 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - In Korea, United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces. 1965 - In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully brake-up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed "Bloody Sunday." 1968 - Vietnam War: The First Battle of Saigon begins. 1973 - Comet Kohoutek is discovered. 1983 - The Nashville Network (TNN) begins broadcasting. 1987 - Mike Tyson adds the WBA World Heavyweight boxing championship to his WBC one when he beats James Smith after a 12-round fight in Las Vegas, Nevada. 1994 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use. Births 189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman emperor 1746 - André Michaux, French botanist († 1802) 1792 - John Herschel, mathematician, astronomer († 1871) 1849 - Luther Burbank, biologist, botanist 1872 - Piet Mondrian, painter († 1944) 1875 - Maurice Ravel, composer († 1937) 1902 - Heinz Rühmann, actor († 1994) 1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official 1908 - Anna Magnani, actress († 1973) 1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon 1938 - Janet Guthrie, automobile racer 1940 - Rudi Dutschke, student leader († 1979) 1940 - Daniel J. Travanti, actor 1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker, evangelist 1942 - Michael Eisner, President of The Walt Disney Company 1945 - John Heard, actor 1946 - Peter Wolf, musician ("J Geils Band") 1947 - Walter Röhrl, car racer 1960 - Ivan Lendl, tennis player 1964 - Bret Easton Ellis, writer 1972 - Andrew Hurdis, mathematician, scholar Deaths 322 BC - Aristotle, philosopher 161 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor 1932 - Aristide Briand, diplomat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1926) 1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru 1967 - Alice B. Toklas, personality 1988 - Divine, actor 1999 - Stanley Kubrick, film director 2003 - Manfred Durniok, movie producer Holidays and observances Catholicism - Feast day of Ss. Perpetua and Felicity See Also: March 6 - March 8 - February 7 - April 7 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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