On this day in history.

[Iriana]

1778 - Capt James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay

 

[J. A.]

March 7, 1999: Stanley Kubrick, American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor, dies.


Wikipedia

 

[Richard Brown]

7th March 2013, I posted the next challenge on the where in the world thread

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[scifan57]

March 7, 1876; Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.

 

[scifan57]

March 7, 1999; The American filmmaker, Stanley Kubrick dies in Hertfordshire, England, at the age of 70. His most famous film was 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely regarded as the best science fiction movie ever made.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/

 

[J. A.]

Arch 7, 1999; The American filmmaker, Stanley Kubrick dies in Hertfordshire, England, at the age of 70. His most famous film was 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely regarded as the best science fiction movie ever made.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/

You invented a new month.;-)
I posted his death before, but yours is more accurate.

 

[Richard Brown]

7th March 2013, Kenny Ball trad jazzman died aged 82.

Kenny Ball, Acker Bilk and Chris Barber were 3 mainstay trad jazz band leaders in the 1950s and 1960s. Many of their albums were under the Golden Guinea label.

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[J. A.]

March 8, 1618 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion

 

[J. A.]

March 9, 1959 – Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.

 

[scifan57]

March 9, 1862; the U.S.S. Monitor battles the C.S.S. Virginia in Hampton Roads, Virginia.

This was the first time two iron armored ships met in battle.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USSMonitor1862.2.ws.jpg



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CSSVirginia1862.2.ws.jpg

 

[J. A.]

March 10, 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."

 

[Richard Brown]

March 11, 2011. An underwater earthquake triggered a tsunami off the N.E. coast of Japan. The tsunami was of catastrophic proportions.

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[J. A.]

March 11, 1950: Bobby McFerrin, American vocalist and conductor, is born.

 

[scifan57]

March 11, 1818; Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is published. It was written by the then 21 year old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

 

[J. A.]

March 12, 1993; Blizzard - snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. It lasts for 30 hours