Editing Worldpedia:Selected anniversaries/March 7 (section)

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* [[321]] – Emperor [[Constantine the Great|Constantine&nbsp;I]] decreed that Sunday, the day honoring the sun god '''[[Sol Invictus]]''' ''(disc pictured)'', would be the Roman day of rest.
* [[1277]] – Bishop [[Étienne Tempier]]<!--not bold, refimprove--> promulgated '''[[Condemnations of 1210–1277|a condemnation]]''' of 219 [[Heresy|heretical]] propositions that were being discussed at the [[University of Paris]].
* [[1814]] – [[War of the Sixth Coalition]]: [[Napoleon]]'s army forced [[Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov]]'s Russian troops '''[[Battle of Craonne|to withdraw]]''' from the [[Chemin des Dames]], but French casualties exceeded Russian losses.
* [[1850]] – United States senator '''[[Daniel Webster]]''' delivered a speech advocating compromise on slavery, which proved to be unpopular with [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionists]] in his home state.
* [[1900]] – The German [[ocean liner]] '''{{SS|Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse}}'''<!--[[SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse]]--> became the first ship to send a [[Wireless telegraphy|wireless telegraph]] message to an onshore receiver.
* [[1936]] – Nazi German forces '''[[Remilitarization of the Rhineland|re-occupied]]''' the demilitarized [[Rhineland]], violating both the [[Treaty of Versailles]] and the [[Locarno Treaties]] that were signed after [[World War&nbsp;I]].
* [[1945]] – [[World War II|World {{nowrap|War II}}]]: At the beginning of the '''[[Battle of Remagen]]''', Allied forces [[Operation Lumberjack|unexpectedly captured]]<!--not bold, needs expansion--> the [[Ludendorff Bridge]]<!--not bold, refimprove-->, which possibly hastened the war's conclusion.
* [[1968]] – [[Vietnam War]]: The United States and South Vietnam began '''[[Operation Truong Cong Dinh]]''' to sweep the area surrounding the [[Mekong Delta]] town of [[Mỹ Tho]] to root out [[Viet Cong]] forces in the area.
* [[1985]] – The [[Charity record|charity single]] "'''[[We Are the World]]'''" by the supergroup [[USA for Africa]] was released, and went on to sell more than {{nowrap|20 million}} copies.
* [[2009]] – The '''[[Kepler space telescope]]''' ''(depicted)'', designed to discover [[Terrestrial planet|Earth-like planets]] orbiting other stars, was launched.
* [[2009]] – [[Dissident Irish republican campaign]]: Two off-duty British Army soldiers '''[[Massereene Barracks shooting|were shot dead]]''' by [[Real Irish Republican Army|Real IRA]] paramilitaries outside [[Massereene Barracks]] in [[Antrim, County Antrim|Antrim]], Northern Ireland.
* Born/died: | '''[[Heraclianus]]'''<!--Roman usurper--> |d|413| '''[[Ewald Christian von Kleist]]'''<!--German poet--> |b|1715| '''[[Boris Kustodiev]]'''<!--Russian painter--> |b|1878| '''[[Harriet Jacobs]]'''<!--American writer--> |d|1897| '''[[Tom Acker]]'''<!--American baseball player--> |b|1930| '''[[Viv Richards]]'''<!--Antiguan cricketer--> |b|1952| '''[[Nicolas Dupont-Aignan]]'''<!--French politician--> |b|1961| '''[[Cool Papa Bell]]'''<!--American baseball player--> |d|1991