March 7

Today in History
• 1138 - Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king
• 1530 - English King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope
• 1560 - Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, North Africa
• 1633 - Prince Frederick Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg
• 1644 - Massachusetts establishes 1st two-chamber legislature in colonies
• 1778 - Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast at Yaquina Bay
• 1801 - Massachusetts enacts first state voter registration law
• 1843 - 1st Catholic governor in U.S., Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Alexander Graham Bell Day
• Dolyatra
• Lailatul Barat Starts
• National Cereal Day
• National Flapjack Day
• Plant Power Day
• Sock Monkey Day
• Suriname Phagwah

Birthdays
• 189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor
• 1671 - Rob Roy, Scottish folk hero and outlaw
• 1693 - Clement XIII, Carlo Rezzonico, Pope, 1758 - 1769
• 1707 - Stephen Hopkins, politician US Declaration of Independence signer
• 1762 - Sebastiaan C. Nederburgh, director-general, East Indies Company
• 1765 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor of photography
• 1792 - John Herschel, astronomer and photographer who invented the blueprint
• 1849 - Luther Burbank, American horticulturist