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Events

• 1573 (453 years ago) A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.
• 1799 (227 years ago) Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
• 1931 (95 years ago) The Parliament House of Finland is officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace.
• 1951 (75 years ago) Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
• 1971 (55 years ago) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
• 1989 (37 years ago) Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
• 2024 (2 years ago) Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming its 32nd member.

Births

• 1693 (333 years ago) Clement XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1769)
• 1785 (241 years ago) Alessandro Manzoni, Italian author and poet (died 1873)
• 1792 (234 years ago) John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (died 1871)
• 1850 (176 years ago) Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (died 1937)
• 1872 (154 years ago) Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (died 1944)
• 1875 (151 years ago) Maurice Ravel, French pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1937)
• 1956 (70 years ago) Bryan Cranston, American actor, director, and producer
• 1970 (56 years ago) Rachel Weisz, English actress

Deaths

• 161 (1865 years ago) Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (born 86)
• 1274 (752 years ago) Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest and philosopher (born 1225)
• 1724 (302 years ago) Pope Innocent XIII,
• 1932 (94 years ago) Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
• 1954 (72 years ago) Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)
• 1975 (51 years ago) Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and critic (born 1895)
• 1997 (29 years ago) Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)
• 1999 (27 years ago) Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)

All 239 events, births and deaths of March 7