Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 7
This is a list of selected March 7 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1799 – Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt: Forces of Napoleon Bonaparte captured Jaffa, present-day Israel, and proceeded to kill more than two thousand Albanian captives. | refimprove |
| 1827 – Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand, abducted young heiress Ellen Turner in Cheshire, England, for a forced marriage. | Tagged with {{no footnotes}} |
| 1850 – In support of the Compromise of 1850, United States Senator Daniel Webster gave his "Seventh of March" speech, which was so unpopular among his constituency he was forced to resign. | {{prose}} |
| 1912 – Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen announced that he had successfully reached the South Pole during the Antarctic expedition of 1910–11. | Article already featured on December 14 |
| 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. | lead too short |
| 1945 – World War II: In Operation Lumberjack, Allied forces seized the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine in Remagen, enabling them to establish and expand a lodgement on German soil that changed the entire nature of the conflict on the Western Front. | refimprove, cleanup |
| 1950 – The Soviet Union issued a statement denying that German nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs had served as a Soviet spy. | refimprove |
| 1965 – African-American Civil Rights Movement: Civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, were brutally attacked by police on Bloody Sunday. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 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.
- 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.
- 1871 – José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, became Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil, starting a four-year rule, the longest in the state's history.
- 1914 – Prussian William of Wied began his short reign as sovereign prince of the newly independent state of Albania.
- 2009 – The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, was launched.
March 7: Fast of Esther, followed by the beginning of Purim at sunset (Judaism, 2012); Teachers' Day in Albania
- 1277 – Étienne Tempier, Bishop of Paris, promulgated a Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological propositions that were being discussed at the University of Paris.
- 1887 – The North Carolina General Assembly established North Carolina State University (Holladay Hall pictured), today the largest university in North Carolina, as a land grant institution.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam began Operation Truong Cong Dinh to sweep the area surrounding the Mekong Delta town of My Tho to root out Viet Cong forces in the area.
- 1985 – The charity single "We Are the World" by the supergroup USA for Africa was released, and would go on to sell over 20 million copies.
- 2009 – Two off-duty soldiers of the British Army's 38 Engineer Regiment were shot dead by the Real IRA in Antrim town, Northern Ireland.