On this day...

1644 Massachusetts establishes first two-chamber legislature in colonies
1774 British close port of Boston to all commerce
1778 Captain James Cook first sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
1801 Massachusetts enacts first state voter registration law
1808 Portugal's regent Don Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro
1843 First Catholic governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
1847 US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico
1848 In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
1850 Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
1854 Charles Miller patents first US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1908 Cincinnati mayor says woman aren't physically fit to operate an auto
1911 US sends 20,000 troops to Mexican border
1911 Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, CA, patents coin-operated locker
1912 Ronald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
1926 First transatlantic telephone call (London-New York)
1927 Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan
1930 Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball
1933 Game of "Monopoly" invented
1936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
1939 Glamour magazine begins publishing
1941 British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1942 First cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
1945 During WW II, US crosses Rhine River
1950 Dick Button wins 3rd consecutive world figure skating championship
1951 Ezzard Charles wins 15-round heavyweight decision against Jersey Joe Walcott
1955 Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
1962 Launch of OSO 1, first astronomy satellite (solar flare data)
1965 Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma
1971 Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire
1981 First homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
1986 Wayne Gretsky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
1987 Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith to win the WBA heavyweight title
1989 Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland)

Birthdays which occurred on March 7th:

1707 Stephen Hopkins, (Governor-RI) signed Declaration of Independence
1765 Joseph Niepce, inventor (photography)
1785 Alessandro Manzoni, Italy, poet/novelist (Betrothed)
1792 John Herschel, Slough, England, astronomer
1849 Luther Burbank, Lancaster Massachusetts, horticulturist
1857 Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Austria, psychiatrist (Nobel 1927)
1872 Piet Mondrian, Holland, abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie)
1875 Maurice Joseph Ravel, Cibourne France, composer (Bolero)
1908 Anna Magnani, Alexandria Egypt, actress (Rose Tattoo, Miracle)
1917 Davis Roberts, Mobile Alabama, actor (Mr. Johnson-Boone)
1924 Kobo Abe, Japan, playwright (Woman, the Dunes)
1930 Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, photographer
1930 James Broderick, Charleston NH, actor (Brenner-Brenner, Doug-Family)
1931 Donald Barthelme, US, writer (Snow White)
1934 Willard Scott, weather forecaster (Today Show)
1938 Homero Blancas, golfer (1965 Rookie of the Year)
1938 Janet Guthrie, race car driver, first woman to race in Indianapolis 500
1939 Marion Marlowe, St. Louis, singer (Arthur Godfrey & Friends)
1940 Daniel J. Travanti, Kenosha Wisconsin, actor (Frank Furillo-Hill St. Blues)
1942 Michael Eisner, Mt. Kisko NY, CEO (Walt Disney)
1942 Tammy Faye Bakker, gospel singer (PTL Club)
1945 John Heard, actor (Cat People, Cutter's Way, C.H.U.D.)
1946 Peter Wolf, rock singer (J. Giels Band-Centerfold, Freeze Frame)
1947 Donna Loren, Boston, singer/actress (Beach Blanket Bingo)
1947 Lewis J. Stadlen, Brooklyn NY, actor (John-Benson, Savages, Windy City)
1950 Franco Harris, NFL fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1952 Lynn Swann, NFL receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1954 Matt Frenette, rocker (Loverboy)
1960 Ivan Lendl, Czechoslovakia, tennis pro
1961 Mary Beth Evans, Pasadena Calif, actress (Kayla-Days of our Lives)
1962 Taylor Dane, Long Island NY, rocker (I'll Always Love You)

Deaths which occurred on March 7th:

322 -BC- Aristotle
1274 St. Thomas Aquinas, Italian theologian, dies at 48
1804 John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society)
1951 Shah Ali Razmara, of Iran, assassinated
1959 Hinsdale Smith, developer of roll-down auto windows, dies at 88
1961 Max Hymans, WW II resistance fighter/Head of Air France, dies at 60
1975 Ben Blue, actor (Accidental Family, Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 73
1979 Guiomar Novaes, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), dies at 84
1981 John Gnagy, artist (Learn to Draw), dies at 73
1983 Robert Bray, actor (Corey-Lassie, Simon-Stagecoach West), dies at 65
1985 George Schick, conductor (Chicago Symphony), dies at 76
1985 Victor W. Farris, inventor of paper milk carton
1988 Robert Livingston, actor (Lone Ranger), dies at 83 of emphysema