{"id":207828,"date":"2020-01-01T13:01:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T13:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/day\/march-7\/"},"modified":"2024-01-14T00:27:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T00:27:38","slug":"march-7","status":"publish","type":"otd_day","link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/day\/march-7\/","title":{"rendered":"March 7: Facts & Historical Events On This Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

March 7th observes Plant Power Day and Be Heard Day.

Today marks the 66^{th day of the year. We’re slowly getting through the year, but still have days left in 2025.}

We are going to expose some of the most awesome events and interesting facts for March 7 including advances in technology that changes the course of history and much more.

Did you know that on this day in 1929, the first non-stop flight from America to Asia took place? The route was nonstop from Nome, Alaska to North Cape, Russia.

Keep reading for more fun & interesting facts about March 7^{th in history!\r\n\r\n}

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What memorable events happened on March 7 in history? Keep reading to find out!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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2024\r\n\r\n
Sweden abandoned its 200-year neutrality stance and officially joined NATO.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Sweden became the 32nd member of the military alliance, following Finland, which joined in April 2023. Both nations were prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.\r\n\r\n
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2020\r\n\r\n
A COVID-19 quarantine hotel collapsed in China, leaving 70 people trapped.\r\n\r\n
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2019\r\n\r\n
Queen Elizabeth II published her first post on Instagram.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The queen’s royal debut into the world of Instagram featured an image of a letter penned by famed 19th-century inventor Charles Babbage to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The letter told of a new invention called the Analytical Engine, a mechanical computer.\r\n\r\n
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2009\r\n\r\n
Brazilian soccer athlete Neymar da Silva Santos Jr. started his professional career at just 17 years old.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1996\r\n\r\n
The Hubble Space Telescope captured the first images of the surface of Pluto.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1986\r\n\r\n
US Air Force divers located the Challenger Space Shuttle’s crew cabin at the bottom of the ocean.\r\n\r\n
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On January 28, 1986, the Challenger Space Shuttle broke up just 73 seconds after launching from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. While the crew cabin wasn’t designed to be escapable, the search for it was crucial to recover the seven crew member’s bodies. The crew cabin was found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast from Florida.\r\n\r\n
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1968\r\n\r\n
Newsroom on BBC2 switched to color, making it the first color news in the UK.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Any regional material used was still black and white due to limited access to color facilities.\r\n\r\n
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1965\r\n\r\n
Activists started a 54 mile (87 km) march from Selma to Montgomery.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Up to 600 nonviolent activists marched to enable African American citizens the right to vote. Video footage shows brutal attacks on the protestors, with one protestor, Amelia Boynton, beaten until she was unconscious.\r\n\r\n
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1946\r\n\r\n
Citizens of Bikini Island evacuated for nuclear testing.\r\n\r\n
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167 Micronesian citizens were asked to relocate temporarily so the US Government could test atomic bombs on their homeland. The inhabitants relocated 125 miles away on an uninhabited atoll which they believed to be haunted.\r\n\r\n
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1931\r\n\r\n
Finland’s Parliament House in Helsinki was inaugurated.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Finland held an architectural competition in 1932 to choose the location for the site, with the winner tasked with designing the new building.\r\n\r\n
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1929\r\n\r\n
The first non-stop flight from America to Asia took place.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1914\r\n\r\n
Prince Wilhelm of Wied arrived in Albania to begin his reign as King.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1897\r\n\r\n
Dr. John Kellogg served the world’s first cornflakes.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The doctor believed that a strict diet would benefit his patients at a mental hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan.\r\n\r\n
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1814\r\n\r\n
Napoleon I of France won the Battle of Craonne, stopping Russian and Prussian forces in Northern France.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Famous Births\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
If today’s your birthday, you share this special day with Bryan Cranston! Here are other famous people born on this day.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1974\r\n\r\n
Jenna Fischer\r\n\r\n
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American\r\n\r\n
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$\"Jenna$ \r\n\r\n
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51 years old\r\n\r\n\r\n