History Events on March 07

The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.

#SS_Kaiser_Wilhelm_der_Grosse

The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.

#Lashkar-e-Taiba

Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.

#Korean_War

Lieyu massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen.

#1987_Lieyu_massacre

Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.

#United_States_Senate

Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".

#Alexander_Graham_Bell

Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.

#Cold_War

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.

#Sheikh_Mujibur_Rahman

Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.

#Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.

#Empire_of_Brazil

The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.

#House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom

Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.

#Selma_to_Montgomery_marches

Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.

#Second_Boer_War

Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.

#Marcus_Aurelius

A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman-Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.

#Ottoman_Empire

World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen.

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Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding M? Tho.

#Vietnam_War

Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.

#Iran

American Civil War: Union forces engage Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.

#American_Civil_War

Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.

#Napoleon

In a mosque in Tehran president Ali Razmara was shot by and Islamic fundamentalists of Fedayan I-Islam.

#Tehran

The Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (MPRS), Indonesia's provisional parliament, revoked Sukarno's mandate as President of Indonesia.

#People's_Consultative_Assembly

Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace.

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Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.

#World_War_II

The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.

The tugboat Thomas Hebert sank off the coast of New Jersey, USA.

Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.

Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.

Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.

Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.