History for March 7

History for March 7 - On-This-Day.com 

Janet Guthrie 1938 - Auto racer

• 0322 BC - Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, died.
• 1850 - U.S. Senator Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a method of preserving the Union.
• 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell received a patent (U.S. Patent No. 174,465) for his telephone.
• 1911 - In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. sent 20,000 troops to the border of Mexico.
• 1933 - The board game Monopoly was invented.
• 1975 - The U.S. Senate revised the filibuster rule. The new rule allowed 60 senators to limit debate instead of the previous two-thirds.