Today is Thursday, March 7, the 66th day of 2013. There are 299 days left in the year.
1530 ― King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church
1857 ― Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
1876 ― Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1917 ― First jazz record “Dixie Jazz Band One Step,” recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden, N.J.
1936 ― Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
1945 ― Yugoslavia government of Tito forms
1962 ― Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio
1989 ― Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses”
1994 ― ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
1996 ― First surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)