On March 7, 1573, the Peace of Constantinople ended war between Turkey and Venice.
In 1875 composer Maurice Ravel was born in Cibourne, France.
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 and London.
In 1932 four men died as 3,000 men rioted for jobs at the Ford Motor Co. plant in Detroit.
In 1936 Germany invaded the Rhineland.
In 1945, in World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, after a fight for the Ludendorff bridge.
In 1965 Alabama state troopers used tear gas in Selma to break up a civil rights march to Montgomery.
In 1974 John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson and G. Gordon Liddy were indicted in the 1971 break-in at the office of the former psychiatrist of Defense Department analyst Daniel Ellsberg, who had leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times.
In 1975 the U.S. Senate voted to revise its filibuster rule, allowing 60 votes to limit debate in most cases instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
In 1986 former Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.) died in Palm Beach, Fla., at 81.
In 1991 Baseball Hall of Famer James “Cool Papa” Bell, once considered the fastest man in the Negro Leagues, died in a St. Louis hospital at 87.
