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Mar 7, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
On this day in 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention--the telephone.
The Scottish-born Bell worked in London with his father, Melville Bell, who developed Visible Speech, a written system used to teach speaking to the deaf. In the 1870s, the Bells moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where the younger Bell found work as a teacher at the Pemberton Avenue School for the Deaf. He later married one of his students, Mabel Hubbard.
While in Boston, Bell became very interested in the possibility of transmitting speech over wires. Samuel F.B. Morse's invention of the telegraph in 1843 had made nearly instantaneous communication possible between two distant points. The drawback of the telegraph, however, was that it still required hand-delivery of messages between telegraph stations and recipients, and only one message could be transmitted at a time. Bell wanted to improve on this by creating a "harmonic telegraph," a device that combined aspects of the telegraph and record player to allow individuals to speak to each other from a distance.
With the help of Thomas A. Watson, a Boston machine shop employee, Bell developed a prototype. In this first telephone, sound waves caused an electric current to vary in intensity and frequency, causing a thin, soft iron plate--called the diaphragm--to vibrate. These vibrations were transferred magnetically to another wire connected to a diaphragm in another, distant instrument. When that diaphragm vibrated, the original sound would be replicated in the ear of the receiving instrument. Three days after filing the patent, the telephone carried its first intelligible message--the famous "Mr. Watson, come here, I need you"--from Bell to his assistant.
Bell's patent filing beat a similar claim by Elisha Gray by only two hours. Not wanting to be shut out of the communications market, Western Union Telegraph Company employed Gray and fellow inventor Thomas A. Edison to develop their own telephone technology. Bell sued, and the case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld Bell's patent rights. In the years to come, the Bell Company withstood repeated legal challenges to emerge as the massive American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) and form the foundation of the modern telecommunications industry.
Mar 7, 1936: Hitler reoccupies the Rhineland
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany.
The Treaty of Versailles, signed in July 1919--eight months after the guns fell silent in World War I--called for stiff war reparation payments and other punishing peace terms for defeated Germany. Having been forced to sign the treaty, the German delegation to the peace conference indicated its attitude by breaking the ceremonial pen. As dictated by the Treaty of Versailles, Germany's military forces were reduced to insignificance and the Rhineland was to be demilitarized.
In 1925, at the conclusion of a European peace conference held in Switzerland, the Locarno Pact was signed, reaffirming the national boundaries decided by the Treaty of Versailles and approving the German entry into the League of Nations. The so-called "spirit of Locarno" symbolized hopes for an era of European peace and goodwill, and by 1930 German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann had negotiated the removal of the last Allied troops in the demilitarized Rhineland.
However, just four years later, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party seized full power in Germany, promising vengeance against the Allied nations that had forced the Treaty of Versailles on the German people. In 1935, Hitler unilaterally canceled the military clauses of the treaty and in March 1936 denounced the Locarno Pact and began remilitarizing of the Rhineland. Two years later, Nazi Germany burst out of its territories, absorbing Austria and portions of Czechoslovakia. In 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, leading to the outbreak of World War II in Europe.
Mar 7, 1973: Bangladesh's first democratic leader
Sheikh Mujib Rahman, a leader of the Bangladeshi independence movement and first prime minister of Bangladesh, wins a landslide victory in the country's first general elections.
At the end of British rule in the Indian subcontinent in 1947, East Pakistan was declared a possession of Pakistan to the west, despite the fact that the two regions were separated by over 1,000 miles of Indian territory. Although the two Pakistans shared the Islamic religion, significant cultural and racial differences existed between the regions, and by the late 1960s East Pakistan began to call for greater autonomy from West Pakistan. In March 1971, the independent state of Bangladesh was proclaimed and West Pakistani forces were called in to suppress the revolt. An estimated one million Bengalis--the largest ethnic group in Bangladesh--were killed by the Pakistani forces during the next several months, while more than 10 million took refuge in India.
In December 1971, India, which had provided substantial clandestine aid to the East Pakistani independence movement, launched a massive invasion of the region and routed the West Pakistani occupation forces. A few weeks later, Sheikh Mujib was released from a yearlong imprisonment in West Pakistan and returned to Bangladesh to assume the post of prime minister. In March 1973, the Bangladeshi people overwhelmingly confirmed his government in democratic elections, and in the next year Pakistan agreed to recognize the independence of Bangladesh.
Mar 7, 1923: "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" is published
The New Republic publishes Robert Frost's poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening." The poem, beginning with the famous line "Whose woods these are, I think I know. His house is in the village though," has introduced millions of American students to poetry.
Like most of Frost's poetry, "Stopping by Woods" adopts the tone of a simple New England farmer contemplating an everyday site. But Robert Frost was very different from the narrators he created. Long associated with New England and farming, Frost was actually born in California in 1874, where he lived until his father, a journalist, died when he was 11. His mother brought him to Massachusetts, where he graduated as co-valedictorian of his high school class. He attended Dartmouth and Harvard but didn't complete a degree at either school. Three years after high school, he married his fellow high school valedictorian, Elinor White.
Frost tried unsuccessfully to run a New England farm, and the family, which soon included four children, struggled with poverty for two decades. Frost became more and more depressed, perhaps even suicidal, and in 1912 he moved his family to England to make a fresh start. There he concentrated on his poetry and published a collection called A Boy's Will in 1913, which won praise from English critics and helped him win a U.S. publishing contract for his second book, North of Boston (1914). The American public took a liking to the 40-year-old Frost, who returned to the U.S. when World War I broke out and bought another farm in New Hampshire. He continued to publish books and taught and lectured at Amherst, University of Michigan, Harvard, and Dartmouth, and read his poetry at the inauguration of President Kennedy. He also endured personal tragedy when a son committed suicide and a daughter had a mental breakdown. Although Frost never graduated from a university, he had collected 44 honorary degrees before he died in 1963.
Mar 7, 1987: Mike Tyson unifies titles
On March 7, 1987, Mike Tyson defeats James "Bonecrusher" Smith to unify the WBA and WBC heavyweight titles. Already the youngest-ever heavyweight champion after winning the title at just 19 years old the year before, Tyson became the youngest undisputed heavyweight champion in boxing history.
Mike Tyson was born on June 30, 1986, in Brooklyn, New York. He had a troubled childhood in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood, an area known for its poverty and high crime. As a child he often skipped school, spending his time on Brownsville’s streets engaging in petty crimes. Tyson responded violently to his peers’ teasing about his high, lisping voice, which led to several stints in juvenile detention centers. After being expelled from junior high school, Tyson was sent to a reform school near Catskill, New York. It was there that he was discovered by legendary trainer Cus D’Amato, who had coached Floyd Patterson, a two-time heavyweight champion. D’Amato became a father figure to "Iron" Mike, whose own father left his family when Mike was just two years old. D’Amato was a stabilizing force in Tyson’s life: He took the young fighter into his home and dedicated himself to Tyson’s training. D’Amato helped Tyson to focus his aggression and develop the discipline to become a champion.
When Tyson entered the professional ranks at 18, he seemed unstoppable. He won his first 19 fights by knockout, 15 of those coming in the first round. It was during this run that D’Amato died, in November 1985, at the age of 77. D’Amato’s associate Kevin Rooney took over as Tyson’s trainer, and one year later, Tyson beat Trevor Berbick for the WBC heavyweight championship in his first title shot. In 1987, Tyson defeated "Bonecrusher" Smith, although he did not knock him out. This won Tyson the WBA championship, making him the undisputed heavyweight champion.
Over the course of the next year, Tyson defeated four other opponents to retain his title and, in 1988, he knocked out Larry Holmes, the only knockout of Holmes’ 76 fights as a pro. Later that year, Tyson fought Michael Spinks, who was thought to be his toughest competition. After Tyson knocked Spinks unconscious 91 seconds into the first round, boxing fans wondered if anyone could beat "Iron" Mike. By the end of the year, however, Tyson had begun his long downward spiral into sports infamy. His erratic behavior included marrying and divorcing actress Robin Givens (after being accused by her of domestic violence), firing and suing his manager, breaking his hand in an early morning street brawl and two car accidents, one of which was reportedly a suicide attempt. Tyson also fired Kevin Rooney, replacing him with notorious promoter Don King.
Unable to keep his focus on boxing, Tyson lost the heavyweight title after being knocked out by James "Buster" Douglas in a stunning upset on February 11, 1990.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by
co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political
arrangement in the Roman Empire.
321 - Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies
Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
1138 - Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king
1277 - Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological
theses by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris.
1530 - King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the
Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's
church
1560 - Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, N
Africa
1573 - Turkey & Venice signs peace treaty
1621 - John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East
Indies
1633 - Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of
Limburg
1644 - Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature
in colonies
1696 - English king Willem III departs Netherlands
1774 - British close port of Boston to all commerce
1778 - Capt James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina
Bay
1798 - The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman
Republic.
1799 - The Royal Institution of Great Britain founded;
dedicated to scientific research and education.
1801 - Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
1808 - Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De
Janeiro
1814 - Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
1824 - Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto,"
premieres in Venice
Captain/Explorer James CookCaptain/Explorer James Cook 1827
- Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England is
abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New
Zealand.
1835 - HMS Beagle returns from Concepcion to Valparaiso
1843 - 1st Catholic governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of
Maine, takes office
1847 - US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
1848 - In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
1850 - Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
1851 - Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering
Austrian Galicia ends
1852 - Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law
1854 - Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to
stitch buttonholes
1857 - Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official
game, not 9 runs
1862 - Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch &
McIntosh killed
1865 - -10] Battles round Kinston NC
1870 - Cin Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour
of Midwest & East
1872 - -8°F in Boston, MA
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
Inventor Alexander Graham BellInventor Alexander Graham Bell
1876 - Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
1887 - North Carolina State University is founded by the
North Carolina General Assembly.
1896 - Gilbert & Sullivan's last operette "Grand
Duke," premieres in London
1900 - Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, Pres Kruger
flees
1900 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax
Crescents in 2 games
1902 - Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal
1906 - Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for
poor
1908 - Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city
council & announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate
automobiles"
1911 - US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
1911 - Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, CA, patents
coin-operated locker
1912 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
1914 - Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania
1917 - 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step,"
recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor
in Camden NJ
1918 - H Carroll & J McCarthy's musical "Oh,
Look!," premieres in NYC
1918 - Pres Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished
Service Medal
1918 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.
Russian Revolutionary Leon TrotskyRussian Revolutionary Leon
Trotsky 1921 - Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt
1922 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa
Weld Blanchard
1922 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin
Badger
1925 - American Negro Congress organizes
1926 - 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY)
1927 - Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes
Tango, Japan
1930 - Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in
basketball
1932 - Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4
1933 - Game of "Monopoly" invented
1935 - Saar incorporated into Germany
1936 - Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to
Rhineland
1937 - Bucharin, Jagoda & Rykov pushed out of CPSU in
USSR
1939 - Glamour magazine begins publishing
1939 - Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st record
"Auld Lang Syne"
1940 - Mont Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight
game at home
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi
Germany Adolf Hitler 1940 - Ray Steele beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become
wrestling champ
1941 - 3rd largest snowfall in NYC history (18.1")
1941 - 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece
1941 - British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1942 - 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta
1942 - 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
1943 - Gen-major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia
1944 - Japans begins offensive in Burma
1945 - Cologne taken by allied armies
1945 - US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany,
crosses Rhine
1945 - Yugoslavia government of Tito forms
1946 - "Three to Make Ready" opens at Adelphi
Theater NYC for 323 perfs
1946 - Max Frisch' "Santa Cruz," premieres in
Zurich
1947 - The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume
full-fledged Civil War.
1948 - The Dodecanese islands officially become part of
Greece again, ending the Italian rule.
US General George S. PattonUS General George S. Patton 1950
- Ice Pairs Championship at London won by K Kennedy & P Kennedy (USA)
1950 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by
Alena Vrzanova CZE
1950 - Men Figure Skating Championship in London won by
Richard Button (USA)
1951 - Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw
boxing title
1951 - Lillian Hellman's "Autumn Garden,"
premieres in NYC
1953 - Jackie McGlew scores 255* v NZ at Wellington
1954 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1954 - Russia wins title in their 1st international ice
hockey competition
1955 - 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas
& Loretta Young
1955 - Baseball Commish Ford Frick says he favors
legalization of spitter
1955 - Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
1958 - Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958
opener in Buffalo
1959 - "Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert
Theater NYC after 925 perfs
1959 - 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a
jet (MC Garlow)
1959 - West Indies all out 76 v Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal
Mahmood 6-34
Actress Mary MartinActress Mary Martin 1960 - Dutch Builders
strike for CLA
1962 - Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio
1962 - Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare
data)
1965 - Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors
clash in Selma
1965 - Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for NZ after
ton
1965 - Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile
1966 - "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden
Theater NYC for 457 performances
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man,
premieres in NYC
1967 - Teamster pres Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence
for defrauding the union & jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)
1968 - The BBC broadcasts the news for the first time in
color on television.
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 - Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova
& Gorshkov (URS)
1970 - Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina
& Ulanov (URS)
1970 - Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by
Gabriele Seyfert (GDR)
1970 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by
Tim Wood (USA)
1970 - WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, WI (ABC) begins
broadcasting
1971 - Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire
1973 - Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg
Observatory
1973 - Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in
Bangladesh
1974 - "Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) restored at
Cape Hatteras NC
1974 - 1st general striking in Ethiopia
1975 - Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to
limit debate
1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 - Morocco & Mauretania break diplomatic relations
with Algeria
1977 - Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
1977 - Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter
1978 - Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped
1978 - Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot
against Islanders
1978 - Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb
1979 - Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro &
amateur umpires
1979 - Warren Giles & Hack Wilson selected to baseball
Hall of Fame
1981 - "Bring Back Birdie" closes at Martin Beck
Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1981 - 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to
death
1982 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf
Classic
1982 - Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 m indoor
(49.59 sec)
1982 - NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time
1983 - TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV
1984 - The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in
Nicaragua.
1985 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
1986 - South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant &
Limburg ends
NHL all-time top scorer Wayne GretzkyNHL all-time top scorer
Wayne Gretzky 1986 - Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th
assist
1987 - Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000
Test runs
1987 - Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for
heavyweight boxing title
1988 - Howard Stern's 1st pay-per-view "Underpants
& Negligee Party"
1988 - Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E
Sullivan Award
1988 - Colombia becomes a member of the Berne Convention
copyright treaty.
1989 - Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over
Rushdie's book
1989 - Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America,
Greenland)
1990 - 3 passengers killed & 162 injured as subway train
derails (Phila)
1990 - H Wayne Huizenga buys ½ of Joe Robbie Stadium and 15%
of Dolphins for $30m
1991 - Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
1992 - Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200m backstroke
(2:06.78)
1993 - 23rd Easter Seal Telethon raises
1993 - Diff'rent Stroke actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing
a tenant
1994 - 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top wins
Radio shock jock Howard SternRadio shock jock Howard Stern
1994 - Charles Taylor resigns as pres of Liberia
1994 - David Platt appointed captain of English football
team
1994 - US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on
combat ship
1994 - ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white
right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
1994 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in
Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.that parodies of an original work are
generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
1995 - Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record)
1995 - NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
1996 - 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble
Space Telescope)
1996 - British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian
multi-million pound order
1996 - Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000
career assists
1996 - The first democratically elected Palestinian
parliament is formed.
1997 - 11th Soul Train Music Awards
1997 - Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome & Stockholm
are finalists for 2004 Olympics site
1997 - 5 sue Japanese PM Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his
smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life
2004 - New Democracy wins the national elections in Greece.
Anti-apartheid activist and South African President Nelson
MandelaAnti-apartheid activist and South African President Nelson Mandela 2005
- Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for women's
voting rights in Kuwait.
2007 - British House of Commons votes to make the upper
chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
2013 - Hilary Mantel is awarded the 2013 David Cohen Prize
for literature
2013 - UN Security Council approves further North Korean
sanctions for its nuclear testing
0322 BC - Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, died. 1774 - The British closed the port of Boston to all commerce. 1799 - In Palestine, Napoleon captured Jaffa and his men massacred more than 2,000 Albanian prisoners. 1848 - In Hawaii, the Great Mahele was signed. 1849 - The Austrian Reichstag was dissolved. 1850 - U.S. Senator Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a method of preserving the Union. 1854 - Charles Miller received a patent for the sewing machine. 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell received a patent (U.S. Patent No. 174,465) for his telephone. 1901 - It was announced that blacks had been found enslaved in parts of South Carolina. 1904 - The Japanese bombed the Russian town of Vladivostok. 1904 - In Springfield, OH, a mob broke into a jail and shot a black man accused of murder. 1906 - Finland granted women the right to vote. 1908 - Cincinnati's mayor, Mark Breith announced before the city council that, "Women are not physically fit to operate automobiles." 1911 - Willis Farnworth patented the coin-operated locker. 1911 - In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. sent 20,000 troops to the border of Mexico. 1918 - Finland signed an alliance treaty with Germany. 1925 - The Soviet Red Army occupied Outer Mongolia. 1927 - A Texas law that banned Negroes from voting was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. 1933 - CBS radio debuted "Marie The Little French Princess." It was the first daytime radio serial. 1933 - The board game Monopoly was invented. 1935 - Malcolm Campbell set an auto speed record of 276.8 mph in Florida. 1936 - Hitler sent German troops into the Rhineland in violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles. 1942 - Japanese troops landed on New Guinea. 1945 - During World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany. 1947 - John L. Lewis declared that only a totalitarian regime could prevent strikes. 1951 - U.N. forces in Korea under General Matthew Ridgeway launched Operation Ripper against the Chinese. 1954 - Russia appeared for the first time in ice-hockey competition. Russia defeated Canada 7-2 to win the world ice-hockey title in Stockholm, Sweden. 1955 - "Peter Pan" was presented as a television special for the first time. 1955 - Baseball commissioner Ford Frick said that he was in favor of legalizing the spitball. 1955 - Phyllis Diller made her debut at the Purple Onion in San Francisco, CA. 1959 - Melvin C. Garlow became the first pilot to fly over a million miles in jet airplanes. 1965 - State troopers and a sheriff's posse broke up a march by civil rights demonstrators in Selma, AL. 1968 - The Battle of Saigon came to an end. 1971 - A thousand U.S. planes bombed Cambodia and Laos. 1975 - The U.S. Senate revised the filibuster rule. The new rule allowed 60 senators to limit debate instead of the previous two-thirds. 1981 - Anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed the kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman. The guerrillas accused Bitterman of being a CIA agent. 1983 - TNN (The Nashville Network) began broadcasting. 1985 - "Commonwealth" magazine ceased publication after five decades. 1985 - The first AIDS antibody test, an ELISA-type test, was released. 1987 - Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight titleholder when he beat James Smith in a decision during a 12-round fight in Las Vegas, NV. 1989 - Poland accused the Soviet Union of a World War II massacre in Katyn. 1994 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that parodies that poke fun at an original work can be considered "fair use" that does not require permission from the copyright holder. 1994 - In Moldova, a referendum was rejected by 90% of voters to form a union with Rumania. 1999 - In El Salvador, Francisco Flores Pérez of the ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) was elected president. 2002 - A federal judge awarded Anna Nicole Smith more than $88 million in damages. The ruling was the latest in a legal battle over the estate of Smith's late husband, J. Howard Marshall II. 2003 - Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center announced that they had transferred 6.7 gigabytes of uncompressed data from Sunnvale, CA, to Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 58 seconds. The data was sent via fiber-optic cables and traveled 6,800 miles. 2009 - NASA's Kepler Mission, a space photometer for searching for extrasolar planets in the Milky Way galaxy, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. 2012 - The successor to Apple's iPad2 was unveiled.
1850 Daniel Webster gave a three-hour speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850. 1876 Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone. 1936 Adolf Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact when he ordered troops to march into the Rhineland. 1945 During World War II, U.S. troops crossed the bridge at Remagen, the first incursion into Germany by Allied forces. 1965 Peaceful civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma, Ala., are brutally attacked with billy clubs and tear gas by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The event is later called “Bloody Sunday.” 2004 V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire was invested as the first openly gay Episcopal Church bishop. 2005 John R. Bolton was nominated by President Bush to be U.S. ambassador to the UN.
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