On this day: March 7

POSTED: 10:20 AM Mar 04 2013 UPDATED: 11:00 PM Mar 06 2013

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The board game Monopoly is born, Glamour begins publishing, a civil rights march in Selma, Ala., ends in violence, and Kathryn Bigelow makes Oscar history, all on this day.

OTD March 7 - telephone patent — 1 / 34

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1876: Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for what he calls an "Improvement in Telegraphy," which established the principle of the telephone.

OTD March 7 - telephone patent

OTD March 7 - John Harvey Kellogg

OTD March 7 - Monopoly

OTD March 7 - Willard Scott

OTD March 7 - Rhineland

OTD March 7 - Glamour

OTD March 7 - Tammy Faye Bakker

OTD March 7 - Michael Eisner

OTD March 7 - Townes Van Zandt

OTD March 7 - Franco Harris

OTD March 7 - Bryan Cranston

OTD March 7 - Joe Carter

OTD March 7 - Ivan Lendl

OTD March 7 - Taylor Dayne

OTD March 7 - Bret Easton Ellis

OTD March 7 - Wanda Sykes

OTD March 7 - Selma Bloody Sunday

OTD March 7 - Alice Toklas

OTD March 7 - Rachel Weisz

OTD March 7 - Peter Sarsgaard

OTD March 7 - Jenna Fischer

OTD March 7 - Coal Miner's Daughter

OTD March 7 - We Are The World

OTD March 7 - space shuttle Challenger

OTD March 7 - Licensed to Ill

OTD March 7 - Divine

OTD March 7 - Cool Papa Bell

OTD March 7 - Supreme Court

OTD March 7 - Magic Johnson

OTD March 7 - Stanley Kubrick

OTD March 7 - Gordon Parks

OTD March 7 - Kepler telescope

OTD March 7 - Kathryn Bigelow

OTD March 7 - Charlie Sheen

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