TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Monday, March 7, the 66th day of 2022.
Today’s highlight in history
On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”
On this date
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a U.S. patent for his telephone.
In 1911, President William Howard Taft ordered 20,000 troops to patrol the U.S.Mexico border in response to the Mexican Revolution.
In 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations took place between New York and London.
In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.
In 1975, the U.S. Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
In 1994,
the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a parody that pokes fun at an original work can be considered “fair use.” (The ruling concerned a parody of the Roy Orbison song “Oh, Pretty Woman” by the rap group 2 Live Crew.)
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.
In 2020, health officials in Florida said two people who had tested positive for the new coronavirus had died; the deaths were the first on the East Coast attributed to the outbreak.
Ten years ago: President Barack Obama, speaking at a Daimler truck plant in Mount Holly, N.C., made his most urgent appeal to date for the nation to wean itself from oil, calling it a “fuel of the past”
and demanding that the United States broaden its approach to energy.
Five years ago: 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.
One year ago: 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 that 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.
Today’s birthdays
International Motorsports Hall of Famer Janet Guthrie is 84. Entertainment executive Michael Eisner is 80. Singer Peter Wolf is 76. Football Hall of Famer Franco Harris is 72. Football Hall of Famer Lynn Swann is 70. Singer-musician Ernie Isley is 70. Actor Bryan Cranston is 66. Actor Donna Murphy is 63. Golfer Tom Lehman is 63. International Tennis Hall of Famer Ivan Lendl is 62. Actor Mary Beth Evans is 61. Singer-actor Taylor Dayne is 60. Author E.L. James is 59. Opera singer Denyce Graves is 58. Comedian-actor Wanda Sykes is 58. Actor Rachel Weisz is 52. Actor Peter Sarsgaard is 51. Actor Jay Duplass is 49. Actor Jenna Fischer is 48. Poet and activist Amanda Gorman is 24.