March 7
Today in America's Present Past
1644 | Massachusetts established the first two-chamber legislature.
1707 | Founder Stephen Hopkins was born.
1799 | Violence broke out during “Fries’s Rebellion.” This was the third of three early tax revolts (following Shays and the Whiskey Rebellion).
1801 | Massachusetts enacted first state voter registration law.
1837 | Astronomer Henry Draper was born.
1843 | Civil Rights: First Catholic governor in the U.S., Edward Kavanagh of Maine, took office.
1846 | Entrepreneur Whitcomb Judson (inventor of the zipper) was born.
1847 | U.S. forces occupied Vera Cruz, Mexico.
1876 | Alexander Graham Bell received a patent (No. 174,465) for the telephone.
1897 | In Battle Creek, Michigan, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg served the first “Corn Flakes” to his patients at the Sanitarium.
1911 | 20,000 U.S. troops arrived at the Mexico-American border.
1932 | Ford Hunger riot in Dearborn, Michigan.
1940 | Poet Edwin Markham died.
1942 | Entrepreneur Michael Eisner was born.
1959 | Entrepreneur Hinsdale Smith died.
1965 | Civil Rights: “Bloody Sunday” occurred in Selma, Alabama, when police attacked civil rights marchers.
1967 | Teamster outlaw Jimmy Hoffa began an 8-year federal prison sentence.
1975 | Congress: U.S. Senate revised the filibuster rule to allow 60 members to limit debate.
1985 | Entrepreneur Victor W. Farris died.
1986 | Politician Jacob Javits died.
1999 | Director Stanley Kubrick died.