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Historical events & facts — March 7
What happened on March 7?
On March 7, 1965, 600 African American demonstrators marching from Selma to Montgomery to demand voting rights were brutally beaten by state troopers at Alabama's Edmund Pettus Bridge, in the episode known as "Bloody Sunday". Television images of the attack shocked the nation and precipitated the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell obtained the patent for the telephone — the invention that would transform human communications more radically than any other until the advent of the internet. Three days later, Bell made the first telephone call in history, telling his assistant Watson: "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you". The parentage of the invention remains historically disputed.
On March 7, 1850, US Senator Daniel Webster delivered his Seventh of March Speech in the Senate, supporting the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Law, in an attempt to avert civil war. The speech cost him his reputation in the abolitionist North but postponed the conflict. His stance was condemned by abolitionists, including poet John Greenleaf Whittier in his poem "Ichabod".
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Famous people born on March 7
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was a Czechoslovak statesman, political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1935. He is regarded as the founding father of Czechoslovakia.
Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was a high-ranking SS and police official in Nazi Germany as well as one of the principal architects of the Holocaust. He held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei. Many historians regard Heydrich as one of the most sinister figures within the Nazi regime. Adolf Hitler described him as "the man with the iron heart".
Andy Phillip
Andrew Michael "Handy Andy" Phillip was an American professional basketball player. Born in Granite City, Illinois, Phillip had an 11-year career and played for the Chicago Stags of the Basketball Association of America and the Philadelphia Warriors, Fort Wayne Pistons and Boston Celtics, of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Willard Scott
Willard Herman Scott Jr. was an American weatherman, radio and television personality, actor, narrator, clown, comedian, and author, whose broadcast career spanned 68 years, 65 years with the NBC broadcast network. Scott was notable as a weather reporter on NBC's Today show where he also celebrated US centenarian birthdays and notable anniversaries.
Townes Van Zandt
John Townes Van Zandt was an American singer-songwriter. He wrote numerous songs, such as "Pancho and Lefty", "If I Needed You", "Snake Mountain Blues", "Our Mother the Mountain", "Waitin' Round to Die", and "To Live's to Fly". His musical style has often been described as melancholic and features rich, poetic lyrics.
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