MARCH 7TH IN HISTORY!

March 7th in History
1876: Telephone patented by Alexander Graham Bell in the United States
1965: American marines land in South Vietnam
1989: Chinese occupying forces fire on Tibetan monks and civilians
1975: The body of heiress Lesley Whittle is found in a 60ft drain shaft in Staffordshire 52 days after being kidnapped from her home in Shropshire by Donald Nielson, known as the Black Panther.
1969: Queen Elizabeth II opens the new Victoria Line on London Underground.
1965: America sends the first official combat troops to Vietnam.
1941: World War II: British troops invade Italian-held Ethiopia.
1936: German leader Adolf Hitler continues German expansion by re-occupying the Rhineland.
1918: Bolshevik Party changes its name to the Russian Communist party.
1917: The all-white Original Dixieland Jazz Band release the world's first jazz record.
1900: In London, fire destroys the roof of Buckingham Palace.
1897: John and Bill Kellogg give their first cornflake cereal to patients at a sanitorium.
1838: 'Swedish nightingale' Jenny Lind makes her operatic debut in Stockholm.
1804: Foundation of British and Foreign Bible Society.
1960: Czech tennis player Ivan Lendl.
1950: Viv Richards, West Indies cricketer.
1944: Explorer Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.
1917: Reginald Maulding, British politician.
1881: Ernest Bevin, British Labour Party politician.
1802: Sir Edwin Landseer, painter and sculptor.
1802: Maurice Ravel, French composer.
1999: Film director Stanley Kubrick, who shocked the world with A Clockwork Orange, dies at his home in Britain, aged 70. Also directed 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove, Spatacus and Full Metal Jacket. A virtual recluse, he lived near Harpenden in Hertforshire.
1809: French balloon pioneer Jean Pierre Blanchard.

March 7th birthdays
1875: Maurice Ravel, French composer
1952: William Boyd, British writer
1960: Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player