March 7 in History

Historical Events on March 7

1573 A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman-Venetian War (1570-73) and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.

1799 Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.

1862 American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.

1902 Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.

1936 Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.

1950 Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.

1951 Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.

1968 Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.

1989 Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.

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Famous Birthdays on March 7

1875 Maurice Ravel

1904 Reinhard Heydrich

1938 David Baltimore

1987 Hatem Ben Arfa

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Famous Deaths on March 7

161 Antoninus Pius

1274 Thomas Aquinas

1949 Bradbury Robinson

1999 Stanley Kubrick

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