Contents for search

Thursday, April 23, 2015

March - 7 This day in History

March 7 - 1876
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
On this day in 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention–the telephone. The Scottish-born Bell worked in London with his father, Melville Bell, who developed Visible Speech, a written system used to teach speaking to the deaf. In the 1870s... read more »
American Revolution
1777
Five letters pass between Abigail and John Adams »
Automotive
1938
Janet Guthrie, first female Indy 500 driver, born »
Civil War
1862
Battle of Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern), Arkansas »
Cold War
1950
Soviet Union denies Klaus Fuchs served as its spy »
Crime
2002
Defense rests in Andrea Yates trial »
Disaster
1988
Cyclone Bola hits New Zealand »
General Interest
1936
Hitler reoccupies the Rhineland »
1973
Bangladesh's first democratic leader »
1999
Stanley Kubrick dies »
Hollywood
1988
Writers Guild of America strike begins »
2010
Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first female director to win an Oscar »
Literary
1923
"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" is published »
Music
1974
Pearl Bailey and Richard Nixon serenade a White House audience »
Old West
1885
Kansas quarantines Texas cattle »
Presidential
1977
Carter meets with Yitzhak Rabin »
Sports
1987
Mike Tyson unifies titles »
Vietnam War
1966
U.S. jets launch heaviest air raids of the war »
1967
Republic of Korea forces operation launch »
1972
Jets engage in aerial combat »
World War I
1918
Finland signs treaty with Germany »
World War II
1941
British forces arrive in Greece »

No comments: