March 7th, 1944

Born on March 7th, 1944

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What happened on March 7th?

March 7th, 2009

Dissident Irish republican campaign: Two off-duty British Army soldiers were shot dead by Real IRA paramilitaries outside Massereene Barracks in Antrim, Northern Ireland.

March 7th, 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.

March 7th, 1965

Unarmed civil rights activists marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, were attacked by police (pictured) on "Bloody Sunday".

March 7th, 1945

World War II: At the beginning of the Battle of Remagen, Allied forces unexpectedly captured the Ludendorff Bridge, which possibly hastened the war's conclusion.

March 7th, 1941

The German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappeared with 45 men on board.

March 7th, 1936

Nazi German forces re-occupied the demilitarized Rhineland, violating both the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties that were signed after World War I.

March 7th, 1900

The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first ship to send a wireless telegraph message to an onshore receiver.

March 7th, 1871

José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, began a four-year premiership as Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil, the longest in the state's history.

March 7th, 1850

United States senator Daniel Webster (pictured) delivered a speech advocating compromise on slavery, which proved to be unpopular with abolitionists in his home state.

March 7th, 1814

War of the Sixth Coalition: Napoleon's army forced Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov's Russian troops to withdraw from the Chemin des Dames, but French casualties exceeded Russian losses.

March 7th, 1573

A peace treaty brought the Ottoman–Venetian War to an end, ceding Cyprus from the Republic of Venice to the Ottoman Empire.

March 7th, 0321

Emperor Constantine I decreed that Sunday, the day honoring the sun god Sol Invictus (disc pictured), would be the Roman day of rest.

March 7th, 0681

The Third Council of Constantinople deposes patriarch Macarius I of Antioch.

March 7th, 2007

Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 people.

March 7th, 2006

The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 7th

Born on March 7th, 1944

82

Michael Rosbash

American geneticist and chronobiologist

*March 7th, 1944, Kansas City

82

Ranulph Fiennes

British explorer (born 1944)

*March 7th, 1944, Windsor

52

Townes Van Zandt

American singer-songwriter

*March 7th, 1944, Fort Worth †January 1st, 1997, Nashville

82

Elton Gallegly

American politician

*March 7th, 1944, Huntington Park

78

Indulata Sukla

Indian mathematician

*March 7th, 1944, Baripada †June 30th, 2022, Cuttack

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Born in 1944

81

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

82

Joachim Schimpke

German badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

81

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

82

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

81

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

82

John Rhys-Davies

Welsh actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

82

Gernot Erler

German politician

*May 3rd, 1944, Meissen

82

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Françoise Hardy

French singer, actress, and composer (1944–2024)

*January 17th, 1944, 9th arrondissement of Paris †June 11th, 2024, American Hospital of Paris

81

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

82

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

82

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

82

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

81

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer (1944–2017)

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

82

Nana Akufo-Addo

President of the Republic of Ghana

*March 29th, 1944, Accra

82

Mary Robinson

Former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

*May 21st, 1944, Ballina

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Leap year

Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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