Page 10: Historical Events In March - 07

1953  "Can Can" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 892 performances on this day in history.   

1953  Jackie McGlew scores 255 vs New Zealand at Wellington on March - 07.   

1953  Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by L E Marron, in Chile on March - 07.   

1953  On March - 07 jackie McGlew scores 255* v NZ at Wellington   

1954  On March - 07 french surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu   

1954  On this day in history russia defeated Canada 7-2 to capture the world ice-hockey title in Stockholm, Sweden.   

1954  On this day in history russia wins title in their first international ice hockey competition   

1954  US, Great-Britain & France reject Russian membership in NATO on this day in history.   

1954  On March - 07 babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open   

1955  7th Emmy Awards Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas &Loretta Young on this day in history.   

1955  Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised on this day in history.   

1955  On this day in history uSSR signs peace treaty with France & Great-Britain   

1955  West Europe Union established on March - 07.   

1955  On March - 07 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas & Loretta Young   

1955  Tom Dugan, actor (Pick a Star), dies at 66 on March - 07.   

1955  7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas &Loretta Young on March - 07.   

1956  On March - 07 battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300   

1956  Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett on March - 07.   

1958  On March - 07 commissioning of USS Grayback, first submarine built from keel up with guided missile capability, to fire Regulus II missile.   

1958  Major Howard Johnson, USAF, sets aircraft altitude record in F-104 (Lockheed Starfighter), 27,810 meters on this day in history.   

1958  Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo on this day in history.   

1959  On March - 07 melvin C. Garlow became the first pilot to fly over a million miles in jet airplanes.   

1959  The first aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 Mkm) in a jet (MC Garlow) on this day in history.   

1959  West Indies all out 76 vs Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34 on March - 07.   

1959  On this day in history "Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 925 perfs   

1959  Arthur C Pigou, English economist (Economics of Welfare), dies on March - 07.   

1960  "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances on this day in history.   

1960  "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances on this day in history.   

1960  Dutch Builders strike for CLA on March - 07.   

1960  Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR on this day in history.   

1960  Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship on March - 07.   

1960  On this day in history the birth of Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player   

1960  USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) rescues 4 Russian soldiers from their landing craft 1,000 miles from Midway Island, which was drifting several weeks after their engine failed off Kamchatka Peninsula on March - 07.   

1960  USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy on this day in history.   

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0189  On this day in history birth of publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211)   

1481  Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537) was born on March - 07.   

1543  On March - 07 birth of johan Casimir, count of Rhine (occupied Gent)   

1556  On March - 07 birth of guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)   

1574  On this day in history birth of john Wilbye, composer   

1602  On March - 07 birth of kano Tanju, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits)   

1621  On March - 07 birth of georg Neumark, composer   

1659  Henry Purcell, English organist/composer (Dido & Aeneas) was born on this day in history.   

0161  Antoninus Pius, [Titus Aurelius], emperor of Rome (138-61), dies at 74 on this day in history.   

0203  Death of Perpetua and Felicitas, Christian martyrs (perhaps after 209) on this day in history.   

0308  Death of Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr on March - 07.   

0851  On March - 07 death of nominoe, Duke of Brittany   

1111  Bohemund I of Tarente, French ruler of Antioch, dies on March - 07.   

1226  On this day in history death of william de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader   

1274  On this day in history thomas Aquinas, Italian thelogian/saint, dies at 48   

1305  Gwijde van Dampierre, count of Flanders/count of Namur, dies at 78 on this day in history.