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| March 7th |
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| About March 7th is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 299 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. Births 1934 - Willard Scott, media personality (The Today Show) 1942 - Tammy Faye Messner, singer, evangelist, entrepreneur 1950 - Franco Harris, Hall of Fame running back 1952 - Lynn Swann, Hall of Fame wide receiver 1974 - Jenna Fischer, actress (The Office) Deaths 1986 - Jacob K. Javits, U.S. Senator (New York) Events 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone. 1887 - North Carolina State University is founded. 1933 - Charles Darrow of Atlantic City, New Jersey receives a copyright on the board game Monopoly. 1965 - "Bloody Sunday" occurs as a group of civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama. 1975 - The United States Senate revises a rule to allow cloture with three-fifths of all elected members instead of the previous two-thirds of members present and voting. 1983 - The Nashville Network (later changed to Spike TV) begins broadcasting. 1985 - The song "We Are the World" is released as a single for charity. 1987 - Mike Tyson beats James Smith to win the World Boxing Association heavyweight championship at the age of 20. 1994 - In Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. the United States Supreme Court establishes that commercial parody can qualify as fair use. |
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