On This Day for March 7 - Attack on civil rights protesters in Selma, Alabama, Janet Guthrie is featured, and more

Created: 2020-03-07 11:02 Updated: 2020-03-07 11:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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March 07

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

1938

Janet Guthrie

FEATURED EVENT

1965

Attack on civil rights protesters in Selma, Alabama

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2010: American director Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director, for The Hurt Locker (2008). [ Test your knowledge of famous firsts for women .]

1999: American director and writer Stanley Kubrick—whose iconic films are characterized by a cool, formal visual style, meticulous attention to detail, and a detached, often ironic pessimism—died in England. [ Take our quiz about Stanley Kubrick .]

1952: West Indian cricketer Viv Richards, who earned the nickname “Master Blaster” as arguably the finest batsman of his generation, was born in Antigua. [ Discover how well you know cricket .]

Mondrian, Piet: Composition in White, Black, and Red

1872: Painter Piet Mondrian—who was an important leader in the development of modern abstract art and is known for works that possess a formal purity that embodies his spiritual belief in a harmonious cosmos—was born in Amersfoort, Netherlands. [ Test your knowledge of famous artists, painters, and architects .]

1850: U.S. Senator Daniel Webster spoke out in favour of the Compromise of 1850 (enacted in September), a series of moderate measures that addressed the question of slavery in U.S. territories.

John Herschel, detail of pencil drawing by H.W. Pickersgill; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

1792: English astronomer Sir John Herschel, a successor to his father, Sir William Herschel, in the field of stellar and nebular observation and discovery, was born.

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1956

Bryan Cranston
American actor

1904

Reinhard Heydrich
German Nazi official

1872

Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter

1958

Rik Mayall
British actor and comedian

1875

Maurice Ravel
French composer