History for March 7

History for March 7 - On-This-Day.com:
Maurice Ravel 1875, Willard Scott 1934 - Television personality ("Today"), Janet Guthrie 1938 - Auto racer 


Daniel J. Travanti 1940 - Actor ("Hill Street Blues"), Tammy Faye Bakker 1942, Peter Sarsgaard 1971 - Actor 


0322 BC - Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, died.


1908 - Cincinnati's Mayor Leopold Markbreit announced before the city council that, "Women are not physically fit to operate automobiles."


1933 - The board game Monopoly was invented.


1935 - Malcolm Campbell set an auto speed record of 276.8 mph in Florida.


1936 - Hitler sent German troops into the Rhineland in violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles.


1987 - Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight titleholder when he beat James Smith in a decision during a 12-round fight in Las Vegas, NV.


2002 - A federal judge awarded Anna Nicole Smith more than $88 million in damages. The ruling was the latest in a legal battle over the estate of Smith's late husband, J. Howard Marshall II.


2003 - Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center announced that they had transferred 6.7 gigabytes of uncompressed data from Sunnvale, CA, to Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 58 seconds. The data was sent via fiber-optic cables and traveled 6,800 miles.