Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 7
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March 7: Teachers' Day in Albania
- 161 – Following the death of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus agreed to become co-Emperors in an unprecedented arrangement in the Roman Empire.
- 1799 – Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt: Forces of Napoleon I of France captured Jaffa, present-day Israel, and then proceeded to kill more than two thousand Albanian captives.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces engaged Confederate troops in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, fighting to a victory one day later that essentially cemented their control in Missouri.
- 1936 – Nazi German forces re-occupied the demilitarized Rhineland, violating both the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties that were signed after World War I.
- 1950 – The Soviet Union issued a statement denying that German nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs (pictured) had served as a Soviet spy.