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March 7 - the day in history
On this day in 1942, the British evacuated Rangoon during World War Two.
Today is March 7, the sixty seventh day of the year.
There are 298 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1917 - The world's first jazz record, "The Dixie Jazz Band One Step", recorded by Nick LaRocca's Original Dixieland Jazz Band, was released by RCA Victor in Camden, New Jersey, US.
1918 - The Bolsheviks changed their name to the Russian Communist Party.
1932 - French Prime Minister Aristide Briand, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926, died. He pioneered the idea of a United States of Europe.
1936 - Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by re-occupying the Rhineland demilitarised zone.
1942 - The British evacuated Rangoon during World War Two. The Japanese entered the city the next day.
1945 - The U.S. 9th Armoured Division captured the key bridge over the Rhine at Remagen in Germany, which helped shorten World War Two.
1951 - Iranian Prime Minister Ali Razmara was assassinated by a religious fanatic in a mosque in Tehran.
1973 - The government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman won a landslide victory in Bangladesh's first general election.
1989 - Iran broke off diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.
1994 - African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela rejected a demand by white right-wingers for a separate homeland in South Africa, saying it would never happen in his lifetime.
1998 - A military appeal court sentenced former SS captain Erich Priebke to life imprisonment for his role in Italy's worst World War Two atrocity, the massacre at the Ardeatine Caves.
1999 - Stanley Kubrick, film director of 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange, died aged 70.
2000 - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced a major study on overhauling the organisation's peacekeeping operations.
2001 - U.S. drugmaker Merck said it would cut the price of two AIDS drugs in developing countries and make no profit on their sale.
2002 - Irish voters defeated the government and Roman Catholic Church in a referendum proposal to eliminate a loophole in Ireland's tough laws against abortion.
2004 - In Madagascar, the Samson, a ferry cruising 90 miles (150 km) north of Mahajanga, sank during Cyclone Gafilo, killing at least 115 people.
