Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 7

This is a list of selected March 7 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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  Battle of Pea Ridge
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  Marcus Aurelius
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  Marcus Aurelius
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  Lucius Verus
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  Police officers waiting for demonstrators on Bloody Sunday, 1965
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  Police attack civil rights demonstrators outside Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday
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  José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco
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  Silver leaf disc of Sol Invictus
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  Holladay Hall, North Carolina State University

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
161 – Following the death of Roman emperor Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus agreed to become co-Emperors in an unprecedented arrangement in the Roman Empire.	Aurelius: too intricate; Verus: refimprove section
1799 – Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt: Forces of Napoleon Bonaparte captured Jaffa, present-day Israel, and proceeded to kill more than two thousand Albanian captives.	refimprove, short
1827 – Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand, abducted young heiress Ellen Turner in Cheshire, England, for a forced marriage.	no footnotes
1912 – Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen announced that he had successfully reached the South Pole during the Antarctic expedition of 1910–11.	refimprove section; Expedition article featured on December 14
2009 – The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, was launched.	outdated section

Eligible

• 321 – Emperor Constantine I decreed that Sunday, the day honoring the sun god Sol Invictus, would be the Roman day of rest.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces engaged Confederate troops in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, fighting to a victory one day later that essentially cemented their control in Missouri.
• 1871 – José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, became Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil, starting a four-year rule, the longest in the state's history.
• 1887 – The North Carolina General Assembly established North Carolina State University, today the largest university in North Carolina, as a land grant institution.
• 1914 – Prussian Prince William of Wied began his short reign as sovereign prince of the newly independent state of Albania.
• 1945 – World War II: In Operation Lumberjack, Allied forces seized the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine, enabling them to establish and expand a lodgement on German soil that changed the entire nature of the conflict on the Western Front.
• 1965 – African-American Civil Rights Movement: Civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, were brutally attacked by police (pictured) on Bloody Sunday.
• 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.

Notes

• Compromise of 1850 appears on January 29, so Daniel Webster should not appear in the same year

March 7: Teachers' Day in Albania; National Heroes and Benefactors Day in Belize (2016); Casimir Pulaski Day in Illinois (2016)

Daniel Webster

• 1277 – Étienne Tempier, Bishop of Paris, promulgated a Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological propositions that were being discussed at the University of Paris.
• 1850 – In support of the Compromise of 1850, United States Senator Daniel Webster gave his "Seventh of March" speech, which was so unpopular among his constituency he was forced to resign.
• 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.
• 1985 – The charity single "We Are the World" by the supergroup USA for Africa was released, and would go on to sell over 20 million copies.
• 2009 – Two off-duty soldiers of the British Army's 38 Engineer Regiment were shot dead by the Real IRA in Antrim town, Northern Ireland.

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