7 March

Notable Births

Rasmus Sandin

b. 2000

Swedish ice hockey player (born 2000)

Amanda Gorman

b. 1998

American poet and activist (born 1998)

Taher Mohamed

b. 1997

Egyptian footballer (born 1997)

Dylan Strome

b. 1997

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1997)

Liam Donnelly (footballer)

b. 1996

Northern Irish footballer (born 1996)

Pablo López (baseball)

b. 1996

Venezuelan baseball player (born 1996)

Jerome Binnom-Williams

b. 1995

English footballer (born 1995)

Aboubakar Kamara

b. 1995

Footballer (born 1995)

Haley Lu Richardson

b. 1995

American actress (born 1995)

Chase Kalisz

b. 1994

American swimmer (born 1994)

Jake Layman

b. 1994

American basketball player (born 1994)

Jordan Pickford

b. 1994

English footballer (born 1994)

Bel Powley

b. 1992

British actress (born 1992)

Ian Clark (basketball)

b. 1991

American basketball player (born 1991)

Jeff Withey

b. 1990

American basketball player (born 1990)

Niclas Bergfors

b. 1987

Swedish ice hockey player (born 1987)

Ryan Ciminelli

b. 1986

Steve Burtt Jr.

b. 1984

American-born basketball player (born 1984)

Mathieu Flamini

b. 1984

French footballer (born 1984)

Jacob Lillyman

b. 1984

Australian rugby league footballer

Notable Deaths

Jamie Dunn

d. 2026

Australian television and radio personality (1950–2026)

D'Wayne Wiggins

d. 2025

American musical artist (1961–2025)

Steve Lawrence

d. 2024

American singer and actor (1935–2019)

Dick Beyer

d. 2019

American professional wrestler (1930–2019)

Lynne Stewart

d. 2017

American lawyer

Adrian Hardiman

d. 2016

Irish supreme court judge (1951–2016)

Leonard Berney

d. 2016

British soldier (1920–2016)

G. Karthikeyan

d. 2015

Indian politician (1949–2015)

F. Ray Keyser Jr.

d. 2015

American lawyer and politician (1927–2015)

Yoshihiro Tatsumi

d. 2015

Japanese manga artist

Peter Banks

d. 2013

English guitarist (1947–2013)

Damiano Damiani

d. 2013

Italian screenwriter, film director, actor and writer (1922–2013)

Claude King

d. 2013

American country music singer-songwriter (1923–2013)

Gordon Parks

d. 2006

American photographer, musician, writer and film director (1912–2006)

John Box

d. 2005

British film production designer

Debra Hill

d. 2005

American film producer (1950–2005)

Pee Wee King

d. 2000

American country music songwriter and recording artist (1914–2000)

Sidney Gottlieb

d. 1999

American chemist and spymaster

Stanley Kubrick

d. 1999

American filmmaker and photographer (1928–1999)

Edward Mills Purcell

d. 1997

Nobel prize winning American physicist

On This Day in History

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2024

Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming its 32nd member.

Sweden

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2024

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust, the first time someone has been found guilty for causing a death on a movie set.

Rust shooting incident

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2021

At least 108 die and 615 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.

2021 Bata explosions

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2009

Massereene Barracks shooting: The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.

Massereene Barracks shooting

2007

Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.

Reform of the House of Lords

2007

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

Garuda Indonesia Flight 200

2006

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

Lashkar-e-Taiba

1989

Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.

Iran

1986

Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.

Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

1971

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

1965

Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.

Selma to Montgomery marches

1965

Aeroflot Flight 542 crashes in the Yermakovsky District, killing all 31 aboard.

Aeroflot Flight 542

1951

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 307 crashes in Lynnhurst, Minneapolis, killing 15 people.

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 307

1951

Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.

Korean War

1951

Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, outside a mosque in Tehran.

Ali Razmara