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.

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  Battle of Pea Ridge
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  Marcus Aurelius
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  Marcus Aurelius
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  Lucius Verus
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  Police officers waiting for demonstrators on Bloody Sunday, 1965
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  Police attack civil rights demonstrators outside Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday
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  Silver leaf disc of Sol Invictus
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  Holladay Hall, North Carolina State University
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  Daniel Webster

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Teachers' Day in Albania	refimprove
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.	Aurelius: refimprove section; Verus: refimprove section
321 – Emperor Constantine I decreed that Sunday, the day honoring the sun god Sol Invictus, would be the Roman day of rest.	neutrality issues
1277 – Étienne Tempier, Bishop of Paris, promulgated a Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological propositions that were being discussed at the University of Paris.	refimprove
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, short
1827 – Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand, abducted young heiress Ellen Turner in Cheshire, England, for a forced marriage.	no footnotes
1912 – Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen announced that he had successfully reached the South Pole during the Antarctic expedition of 1910–11.	refimprove section; Expedition article featured on December 14
1914 – Prussian Prince William of Wied began his short reign as sovereign prince of the newly independent state of Albania.	unreferenced section
2009 – The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, was launched.	unreferenced section

Eligible

• 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.
• 1887 – The North Carolina General Assembly established North Carolina State University, today the largest university in North Carolina, as a land grant institution.
• 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.
• 1965 – African-American Civil Rights Movement: Civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, were brutally attacked by police on Bloody Sunday.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam began Operation Truong Cong Dinh to sweep the area surrounding the Mekong Delta town of Mỹ Tho to root out Viet Cong forces in the area.
• 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.

Notes

• Compromise of 1850 appears on January 29, so Daniel Webster should not appear in the same year

March 7

José Paranhos

• 1573 – A peace treaty brought the Ottoman–Venetian War to an end, transferring Cyprus from Venetian hands to Ottoman control.
• 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 (pictured), became Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil, starting a four-year rule, the longest in the state's history.
• 1945 – World War II: At the beginning of the Battle of Remagen, Allied forces unexpectedly seized the Ludendorff Bridge, possibly hastening the war's conclusion.
• 1985 – The charity single "We Are the World" by the supergroup United Support of Artists for Africa was released, and would go on to sell more than 20 million copies.

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