Today in history: March 7
In 1911, President William Howard Taft ordered 20,000 troops to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the Mexican Revolution.
1911: William Howard Taft
In 1911, President William Howard Taft ordered 20,000 troops to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the Mexican Revolution.
1926: Radio-telephone
In 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations took place between New York and London.
1936: Adolf Hitler
In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.
1965: Edmund Pettus Bridge
On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”
1994: Roy Orbison
In 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a parody that pokes fun at an original work can be considered “fair use.”
1999: Stanley Kubrick
In 1999, movie director Stanley Kubrick, whose films included “Dr. Strangelove,” “A Clockwork Orange” and “2001: A Space Odyssey,” died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70, having just finished editing “Eyes Wide Shut.”
2005: George W. Bush
In 2005, President George W. Bush nominated John Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, an appointment that ran into Democratic opposition, prompting Bush to make a recess appointment.
2012: The Indianapolis Colts
The Indianapolis Colts released injured quarterback Peyton Manning, who went on to play for the Denver Broncos.
2016: Peyton Manning
In 2016, Peyton Manning announced his retirement after 18 seasons in the National Football League.
2017: CIA
WikiLeaks published thousands of documents described as secret files about CIA hacking tools the government employed to break into users’ computers, mobile phones and even smart TVs from companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung.
2021: Team LeBron
Team LeBron romped to a 170-150 win over Team Durant in the NBA’s 70th All-Star Game.
2021: Oprah Winfrey
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, their first since they stepped aside from royal duties, Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, spoke of racism and mistreatment from within the royal family; Meghan, who is biracial, said the palace had failed to help her when she had suicidal thoughts, and that a member of the royal family had raised “concerns” about the color of her baby’s skin when she was pregnant with her son, Archie.
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