Year 1799
Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
MARCH 7
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7 March: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 7 March.
Observances & Special Days
Albania Teacher's Day
Year 1835
Proposal introduced to promote the propagation of European literature and science in India.
Year 1876
Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for a telephone.
Year 1936
World War II, Germany invaded the Rhineland, breaking the Treaty of Versailles.
Year 1987
Former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar became the first batsman to score 10,000 Test runs in Tests.
Year 2006
The Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist organization carried out a bomb blast in Varanasi, India.
Year 2007
The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
Born 1734
Mir Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II, the 2nd Nizam of Hyderabad State.
Born 1765
Nicephore Niepce, a French inventor.
Born 1792
Sir John Herschel, an English polymath.
Born 1849
Luther Burbank, an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science.
Born 1911
Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, an Indian writer, poet, and novelist.
Born 1934
Nari Contractor, a former cricket player.
Born 1945
T. V. Sankaranarayanan, a Carnatic vocalist.
Born 1949
Ghulam Nabi Azad, an Indian politician.
Born 1952
Sir Vivian Richards, West Indies cricketer.
Born 1955
Anupam Kher, an Indian actor.
Born 1969
Sadhana Sargam, an Indian singer.
Born 1973
Arnab Goswami, an Indian journalist, who is the managing director and editor-in-chief of the Republic Media Network.
Died 1647
Dadoji Konddev, He was the teacher of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
Died 1952
Paramahansa Yogananda, an Indian monk, yogi and guru.
Died 1961
Govind Ballabh Pant, an Indian freedom fighter and one of the architects of modern India.
Died 1974
T. T. Krishnamachari, former Indian Finance Minister.
Died 1993
Ezra Mir, an Indian film-maker, known for his documentary films.
Died 2012
Ravi Shankar Sharma, an Indian music director.