Quick glance of 7 March in the pages of History

March 7: Here are the major events that occurred on 7 March….

• 7 March, 161: Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire.
• 7 March, 1814: Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne against combined Russian and Prussian force in northern France
• 7 March, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US.
• 7 March, 1905: Arthur Conan Doyle publishes “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” collection in London after public pressure to revive his famous detective (Feb New York)
• 7 March, 1912: Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole.
• 7 March, 1934: RBirthday of Indian cricket player Nariman Jamshedji Contractor.
• 7 March, 1936: Adolf Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles by sending troops into the Rhineland.
• 7 March, 1955: Anupam Kher, Indian actor and the former Chairman of Film and Television Institute of India was born on this day. He is the recipient of two National Film Awards and eight Filmfare Awards. He has appeared in over 500 films in several languages and many plays.
• 7 March, 1961: Death anniversary of Indian leader Govind Ballabh Pant who was one of the great freedom fighters of India and one of the most prominent leaders of Indian National Congress during the freedom struggle.
• 7 March, 1968: The BBC broadcasts the news for the first time in color on television.
• 7 March, 1973: The Awami League won a huge mandate in the country’s first general election in 1973. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman becomes the first prime minister of Bangladesh winning a landslide victory.
• 7 March, 1994: Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa.
• 7 March, 2006: Bomb blast in Varanasi happened on this day. These blasts happened in the Sankat Mochan Temple and on Varanasi Cantt railway station. The blasts left 28 people dead in their wake and the terrorist group lashkar e Taiba had taken the responsibility for them.
• 7 March, 2017: Kalika Prasad Bhattacharjee, an Indian folk singer and researcher died on this day. He was born and raised in Silchar, Assam. He formed the famous band ‘Dohar’. He died in a street accident in West Bengal.