Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 7
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March 7: Teacher's Day in Albania
- 161 - Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus succeeded Antoninus Pius to become co-Emperors of the Roman Empire.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Union forces won the Battle of Pea Ridge and cemented their control in Missouri.
- 1936 - Germany re-occupied the demilitarized Rhineland, violating the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties.
- 1950 - The Soviet Union issued a statement denying that German nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs had served as a Soviet spy.
- 1965 - American Civil Rights Movement: Civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama were brutally attacked by police on Bloody Sunday.