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 this day in history.   

1953  Jackie McGlew scores 255* v NZ at Wellington on this day in history.   

1954  French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu on this day in history.   

1954  Russia defeated Canada 7-2 to capture the world ice-hockey title in Stockholm, Sweden on March - 07.   

1954  Russia wins title in their first international ice hockey competition on March - 07.   

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

1954  Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open on March - 07.   

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  USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great-Britain on March - 07.   

1955  West Europe Union established on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1956  On this day in history battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300   

1956  Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett on this day in history.   

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

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

1958  Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo on March - 07.   

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

1959  Arthur C Pigou, English economist (Economics of Welfare), dies on this day in history.   

1960  On March - 07 "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances   

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

1960  On March - 07 dutch Builders strike for CLA   

1960  On March - 07 leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR   

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 this day in history.   

1960  On March - 07 uSSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy   

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0189  Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211) was born on this day in history.   

1481  On this day in history birth of baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)   

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

1556  On this day in history birth of guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)   

1574  John Wilbye, composer was born on this day in history.   

1602  On this day in history birth of kano Tanju, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits)   

1621  On March - 07 birth of georg Neumark, composer   

1659  On March - 07 birth of henry Purcell, English organist/composer (Dido & Aeneas)   

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

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  Death of Nominoe, Duke of Brittany on this day in history.   

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

1226  Death of William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader on this day in history.   

1274  Thomas Aquinas, Italian thelogian/saint, dies at 48 on this day in history.   

1305  On this day in history gwijde van Dampierre, count of Flanders/count of Namur, dies at 78