On this day in history
March 7
American
1876Alexander Graham Bell is granted the telephone patent.
Alexander Graham Bell is granted the telephone patent.
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1965Alabama state troopers beat civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on Bloody Sunday.
Alabama state troopers beat civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on Bloody Sunday.
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World
1936German troops march into the demilitarized Rhineland, Hitler's first great gamble, and France does nothing.
German troops march into the demilitarized Rhineland, Hitler's first great gamble, and France does nothing.
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1274Thomas Aquinas dies in Italy at age 49, leaving the Summa Theologica unfinished.
Thomas Aquinas dies in Italy at age 49, leaving the Summa Theologica unfinished.
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