March 7
| 322 BC | The Greek philosopher Aristotle dies.Le grand philosophe grec Aristote (384–322) sur la respirationdoi:10.1016/j.pneumo.2015.03.011 | |
| 161 | On the death of Antoninus at Lorium, Marcus Aurelius becomes emperor. | |
| 1838 | Soprano Jenny Lind (“the Swedish Nightingale”) makes her debut in Weber’s opera Der Freischultz. | |
| 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone. | |
| 1906 | Finland becomes the third country to give women the right to vote, decreeing universal suffrage for all citizens over 24, however, barring those persons who are supported by the state. | |
| 1927 | A Texas law that bans Negroes from voting is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. | |
| 1933 | The board game Monopoly is invented. | |
| 1933 | The film King Kong premieres in New York City. | |
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In Brief
Real King Kong may have been brought down by fruit
Gigantopithecus, a 3-metre-tall ape that lived during the stone age, may have been driven to extinction by eating fruit that contained little nourishment
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| 1872 | Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter, leader of the movement known as “de Stijl.” http://www.academia.edu/1900248/Mondrians_abstraction_chrysalis_or_colony_A_psychoanalytic_and_feminist_reading | |
| 1875 | Maurice Ravel, composer (“Bolero”). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNjZQwsF9PI | |
