Today is Monday, March 7, the 67th day of 2016. There are 299 days left in the year.
1644 — Massachusetts establishes first two-chamber legislature in colonies
1774 — British close port of Boston to all commerce
1778 — Captain James Cook first sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
1801 — Massachusetts enacts first state voter registration law
1847 — U.S. General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
1850 — Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
1851 — Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends
1876 — Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1900 — Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in two games