March 7th, 1956

Born on March 7th, 1956

Age in days, weeks and months
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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 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, 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.

March 7th, 1993

The tugboat Thomas Hebert sank off the coast of New Jersey, USA.

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

Born on March 7th, 1956

68

Bryan Cranston

American actor, director, and producer

*March 7th, 1956, Hollywood

68

Tadatomo Yoshida

Japanese politician

*March 7th, 1956, Usuki

68

Brian Baird

United States Congressman

*March 7th, 1956, Chama

68

Helmut Staubmann

Austrian sociologist

*March 7th, 1956, Judenburg

68

Carol Guzy

American photographer

*March 7th, 1956, Pennsylvania

68

Eduardo García Serrano

Spanish journalist

*March 7th, 1956, Madrid

68

Daniel Dorff

American composer

*March 7th, 1956, New Rochelle

62

Andrea Levy

Jamaican-English author

*March 7th, 1956, London †February 14th, 2019

68

Ruud Jan Kokke

Dutch designer, born 1956

*March 7th, 1956, Velp

68

Marsha Cheeks

American politician

*March 7th, 1956, Detroit

68

Kate Valk

American artist

*March 7th, 1956, Spokane

68

Greg Hotham

Canadian ice hockey defenceman

*March 7th, 1956, London

68

Frank Simes

American musician

*March 7th, 1956, Tokyo

68

Enrique Ramos González

Spanish footballer

*March 7th, 1956, Madrid

68

Bob Glazebrook

American football player

*March 7th, 1956, Fresno

68

David Pannick, Baron Pannick

British peer (born 1956)

*March 7th, 1956, Metropolitan Borough of Islington

68

Lennox Alves

Guyanese cricketer

*March 7th, 1956, Suddie

68

Scott Owens

American ice hockey player

*March 7th, 1956, Madison

68

Bobby Harrell

American politician

*March 7th, 1956, Orangeburg

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Who's birthday is on March 7th?

69

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

64

Ivanna Lie

Indonesian badminton player

*March 7th, 1960, Bandung City

27

Bad Gyal

Spanish singer

*March 7th, 1997, Vilassar de Mar

65

Donna Murphy

American actress, singer

*March 7th, 1959, New York City

58

Ludwig Kögl

German footballer

*March 7th, 1966, Penzberg

67

Robert Harris

English novelist (born 1957)

*March 7th, 1957, Nottingham

63

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan

French politician (born 1961)

*March 7th, 1961, 15th arrondissement of Paris

69

Anupam Kher

Indian fim actor, producer, director and teacher

*March 7th, 1955, Shimla

54

Rachel Weisz

British actress

*March 7th, 1970, Westminster

29

Fajar Alfian

Indonesian badminton player

*March 7th, 1995, Bandung City

46

Rebecca Bellingham

New Zealand badminton player

*March 7th, 1978, Auckland

49

Ulrica Persson

Swedish female cross-country skier

*March 7th, 1975, Torsby

38

Kowi Chandra

Badminton player

*March 7th, 1986, Palembang

79

Gerta Keller

American geologist and paleontologist

*March 7th, 1945, Schaan

80

Michael Rosbash

American geneticist and chronobiologist

*March 7th, 1944, Kansas City

72

Alain Bruneel

Member of French National Assembly

*March 7th, 1952, Tourcoing

82

Michael Eisner

American business executive

*March 7th, 1942, New York City

80

Ranulph Fiennes

British explorer (born 1944)

*March 7th, 1944, Windsor

37

Hatem Ben Arfa

French association football player

*March 7th, 1987, Clamart

64

Ivan Lendl

Czech-American tennis player

*March 7th, 1960, Ostrava

Same year
Born in 1956

68

Peter Hook

English musician

*February 13th, 1956, Salford

67

Charles M. Huber

German actor and politician

*December 3rd, 1956, Munich

68

Sheila McCarthy

Canadian actress

*January 1st, 1956, Toronto

67

Stephan Barratt-Due

Norwegian musician

*June 1st, 1956, Oslo

67

Tom Hanks

American actor and film producer (born 1956)

*July 9th, 1956, Concord

67

Theresa May

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019

*October 1st, 1956, Eastbourne

68

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

60

Carrie Fisher

American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)

*October 21st, 1956, Burbank †December 27th, 2016, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

23

Ian Curtis

British musician (1956–1980)

*July 15th, 1956, Stretford †May 18th, 1980, Macclesfield

67

Valgerd Svarstad Haugland

Norwegian politician

*August 23rd, 1956, Kvam Municipality

67

Ulrike Meyfarth

German former high jumper

*May 4th, 1956, Frankfurt

67

Martyn Ware

English musician

*May 19th, 1956, Sheffield

68

Gunnar Brands

German classical archaeologist

*March 30th, 1956, Duisburg

67

Justus Carrière

German actor

*May 16th, 1956, Schwerin

68

Michel Houellebecq

French writer

*February 26th, 1956, Saint-Pierre

62

Minken Fosheim

Norwegian actress (1956-2018)

*March 20th, 1956, Oslo †June 7th, 2018, Oslo

68

Imelda Staunton

English actress (born 1956)

*January 9th, 1956, London

67

Andreas Bornschein

German association football player

*November 29th, 1956, Leipzig

67

Han Jian

Chinese badminton player

*July 6th, 1956, Liaoning

67

Stefan Grüttner

German politician

*December 25th, 1956, Wiesbaden

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Born on March 7th, 1956
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Leap year

Yes: 1956 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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