At the moment is Saturday, March 7, the 66th day of 2026. There are 299 days left within the yr.
At the moment in historical past:
On March 7, 2010, filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow turned the primary lady to win the Academy Award for Greatest Director, taking the prize for “The Harm Locker.”
Additionally on this date:
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell acquired a U.S. patent for his phone.
In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the demilitarized Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties.
In 1965, a march by over 500 civil rights demonstrators was violently damaged up on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama; state troopers and a sheriff’s posse fired tear fuel and beat marchers with batons in what turned often called “Bloody Sunday.”
In 1975, the U.S. Senate revised its filibuster rule, permitting 60 senators to restrict debate generally, as an alternative of the beforehand required two-thirds of senators current.
In 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court docket unanimously dominated {that a} parody that pokes enjoyable at an authentic work might be thought of “honest use.” (The ruling involved a parody of the Roy Orbison tune “Oh, Fairly Lady” by the rap group 2 Stay Crew.)
In 2024, film armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was discovered responsible of involuntary manslaughter in reference to the 2021 deadly taking pictures of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin throughout a rehearsal on the set of the Western movie “Rust.” (Gutierrez-Reed served an 18-month jail sentence and was launched in 2025.)
At the moment’s birthdays:
- Corridor of Fame auto racer Janet Guthrie is 88.
- Actor Daniel J. Travanti is 86.
- Leisure government Michael Eisner is 84.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Lynn Swann is 74.
- R&B musician Ernie Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 74.
- Actor Bryan Cranston is 70.
- Tennis Corridor of Famer Ivan Lendl is 66.
- Singer Taylor Dayne is 64.
- Writer Bret Easton Ellis is 62.
- Comic Wanda Sykes is 62.
- Actor Rachel Weisz is 56.
- Actor Peter Sarsgaard is 55.
- Actor Jenna Fischer is 52.
- Actor Tobias Menzies is 52.
- Actor Laura Prepon is 46.
- Poet Amanda Gorman is 28.
