Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 7
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This is a list of selected March 7 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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- 161 – Following the death of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus agreed to become co-Emperors in an unprecedented arrangement in the Roman Empire.
- 1277 – Étienne Tempier, Bishop of Paris, promulgated a Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological propositions that were being discussed at the University of Paris.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces engaged Confederate troops at the Battle of Pea Ridge in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, fighting to a victory one day later that essentially cemented their control in Missouri.
- 1945 – World War II: In Operation Lumberjack, Allied forces seized the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine in Remagen, enabling them to establish and expand a lodgement on German soil that changed the entire nature of the conflict on the Western Front.
- 1950 – The Soviet Union issued a statement denying that German nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs (pictured) had served as a Soviet spy.
