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.
