March 7
People born on this day are Pisces.
- 1951
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 307 crashes in Lynnhurst, Minneapolis, killing 15 people.
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Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
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Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
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Aeroflot Flight 542 crashes in the Yermakovsky District, killing all 31 aboard.
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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
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Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
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Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
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The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
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Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
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Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 people.
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Massereene Barracks shooting: The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.
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Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming its 32nd member.
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2000Rasmus Sandin, Swedish ice hockey player
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1999Ronald Araújo, Uruguayan footballer
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1998Amanda Gorman, American poet and activist
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1997Taher Mohamed, Egyptian footballer
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1997Dylan Strome, Canadian ice hockey player
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1996Liam Donnelly, Northern Irish footballer
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1996Pablo López, Venezuelan baseball player
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1995Jerome Binnom-Williams, English footballer
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1995Aboubakar Kamara, French footballer
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1995Haley Lu Richardson, American actress
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1994Chase Kalisz, American swimmer
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1994Jake Layman, American basketball player
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