March 7: A day to remember

On this day in history, March 7th, significant events took place that will always be remembered. From historical battles to impactful moments in pop culture, join us as we take a look at what happened on March 7th. Don't miss this trip down memory lane!

161 Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire
1530 English King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope
1774 King George III charges colonists in Boston with attempting to injure British commerce, paving the way for the closing of the port to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party
1778 Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast at Yaquina Bay
1801 Massachusetts enacts first state voter registration law
1843 1st Catholic governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
1847 US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico
1850 Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850, proposed by Henry Clay to settle issues over slavery between states
1876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US
1887 North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stands before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles”
1918 President Woodrow Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal
1946 Bikini Atoll islanders are evacuated by the US government to make way for a nuclear testing site
1962 Ground-breaking report "Smoking and Health" published by the British Royal College of Physicians, first major report to warn of the dangers of smoking
1962 Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data)
1974 "USS Monitor", Union Ship sunk in 1862 during US Civil War, restored at Cape Hatteras
1975 US Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
1994 ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
1994 The United States Supreme Court rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use
1994 US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
1996 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
2021 NY Governor Andrew Cuomo says "no way I resign' amid accusations of sexual assault and his office concealing nursing home deaths

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