Volume 13 , Issue 10

This Day In History (March 7)

On this day in 1850, in a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.

On this day in 1875, Maurice Ravel, the noted French composer, was born. Following his death on December 28, 1937, his obituary appeared in the Times.

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.

In 1926, The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York City and London.

In 1945, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, during World War II.

On this day in history, March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sheriff's posse. READ the Article   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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