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Events on March 7

• 1080 Pope Gregory VII once again imposed the ban of excommunication on the German King Henry IV in the Investiture Controversy, after having lifted it three years earlier in Canossa. At the same time, he declared the counter-king Rudolf of Rheinfelden the legitimate German king.
• 1876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his invention of the telephone, but must use ideas from his competitor Elisha Gray to implement it; he filed his patent application two hours before Gray did.
• 1897 The physician John Harvey Kellogg serves cornflakes for the first time to a patient in his sanatorium in Battle Creek, Michigan, having invented them together with his brother Will Keith Kellogg.
• 1916 The assets of the insolvent Gustav Otto Flugmaschinenwerke are merged with Rapp Motorenwerke to form Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW). In 1922, Bayerische Motorenwerke (BMW) emerge from it.
• 1936 In violation of the Locarno Treaties and the Treaty of Versailles, parts of the German Wehrmacht advance into the demilitarized Rhineland. The occupation of the Rhineland is Hitler's second breach of the Treaty of Versailles after the introduction of universal conscription.
• 1946 In the Soviet occupation zone, the Free German Youth (FDJ) is founded.
• 1965 The radio program Sonntagsrätsel mit Hans Rosenthal makes its debut on RIAS 1. Originally, the program is planned only for a short time, in order to determine the number of RIAS listeners in the GDR with the help of a prize competition.
• 1971 The WDR airs the first episode of the humorous and factual stories for novice television viewers, which will bear the title The Show with the Mouse from January 1972 onward.
• 1976 The Austrian ski jumper Toni Innauer sets a world record with a jump of 176 meters in Oberstdorf.
• 1988 The band Depeche Mode performs its only concert in the GDR at the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in Berlin.
• 2004 The “long Oskar,” a high-rise office building of the Sparkasse in Hagen, is blown up. It was the largest structure of its kind in Europe to have been blown up up to that point.
• 2018 The Higher Regional Court of Dresden sentences eight members of the right-wing terrorist “Freital Group” to severe prison sentences for bomb attacks on asylum shelters and assaults on supporters of refugees.

Born on March 7

• 1850 Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech philosopher, writer and politician
• 1872 Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter
• 1902 Heinz Rühmann, German actor
• 1921 Franz Mack, German entrepreneur
• 1933 Hannelore Kohl, German businesswoman and philanthropist
• 1940 Rudi Dutschke, German sociologist and student leader
• 1960 Ivan Lendl, Czechoslovak-American tennis player
• 1960 Siegfried Wentz, German track and field athlete
• 1970 Rachel Weisz, British actress
• 1980 Laura Prepon, American actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „7. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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