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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.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
1799Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt: Forces of Napoleon Bonaparte captured Jaffa, present-day Israel, and proceeded to kill more than two thousand Albanian captives. refimprove
1827Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand, abducted young heiress Ellen Turner in Cheshire, England, for a forced marriage. Tagged with {{no footnotes}}
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. {{prose}}
1912 – Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen announced that he had successfully reached the South Pole during the Antarctic expedition of 1910–11. Article already featured on December 14
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. lead too short
1945World War II: In Operation Lumberjack, Allied forces seized the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine in Remagen, enabling them to establish and expand a lodgement on German soil that changed the entire nature of the conflict on the Western Front. refimprove, cleanup
1950 – The Soviet Union issued a statement denying that German nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs had served as a Soviet spy. refimprove
1965African-American Civil Rights Movement: Civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, were brutally attacked by police on Bloody Sunday. refimprove section

Eligible

March 7: Fast of Esther, followed by the beginning of Purim at sunset (Judaism, 2012); Teachers' Day in Albania

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