March 7 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for March 7
In the headlines today:

2007	Bill Chinnock, founding member of what would become Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, dies at his Maine home at age 59.
1999	Movie director Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey) dies in England at age 70.
1970	A total eclipse of the sun darkens skies around the world.
1967	The Beatles record harmony vocals and sound effects for Lovely Rita, a song that will ultimately appear on their Sergeant Pepper album, at EMI Studios in London. (photo credit: Capitol Records)
1965	Sweden's Queen Louise dies.
1957	The Suez canal reopens after four months of closure by Egypt.
1955	The TV special Peter Pan, starring Mary Martin, debuts.
1939	Guy Lombardo and his band record Auld Lang Syne, released on the Decca label.
1933	Clarence Darrow invents the game of Monopoly.
1926	The first successful radio-telephone call is placed between New York and London.
1907	The Wild Prairie Rose is chosen as the North Dakota state flower.
1876	Alexander Graham Bell gets a US patent for his telephone.
1870	The first coed grand jury is impaneled in Wyoming.
1831	England's Royal Astronomical Society is incorporated.
1724	Pope Innocent XIII dies.
1530	The Pope refuses King Henry VIII's request for a divorce.
1307	King Edward I of England dies.