On This Day in History

March 7

Historical Events

161 Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire.

1530 English King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by Pope Clement VII

The original drawing filed with Thomas Edison's patent application for the telephone

1876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US

1912 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen announces his team was the first to reach the South Pole (located 14 December 1911), 34 days before British explorer Robert Falcon Scott

1936 German dictator Adolf Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles by sending troops into the then demilitarized Rhineland.

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Famous Birthdays

John Herschel 1792 - 1871 James Donnelly 1816 - 1880

Wanda Sykes 60th Birthday   Amanda Gorman 26th Birthday

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Famous Deaths

Cool Papa Bell 1903 - 1991 Stanley Kubrick 1928 - 1999

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Telephone Invention Dispute? That Rings a Bell

There was fierce competition among 19th Century inventors to come up with a working telephone. Alexander Graham Bell won and was granted a patent on this day.

Race to Invent the Telephone