历史上的今天:03月07日

Today's Highlight in History:
On March seventh, 1850, in a three-hour speech to the US Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed¹ the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.
On this date:
In 1849, horticulturist Luther Burbank was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts.

In 1875, composer Maurice Ravel was born in Cibourne, France.

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone.

In 1911, the United States sent 20,000 troops to the Mexican border as a precaution in the wake of the Mexican Revolution.

In 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York and London.

In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby² breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact³.

In 1945, during World War Two, US forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge.

In 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.

In 1975, the Senate revised its filibuster⁴ rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously⁵ required two-thirds of senators present.

In 1994, the Supreme⁶ Court ruled that parodies⁷ that poke⁸ fun at an original work can be considered "fair use" that doesn't require permission from the copyright holder⁹.

Ten years ago: Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan announced the government would propose a more informative¹⁰ food-labeling system that would require the disclosure of the fat, fiber¹¹ and cholesterol¹² content of nearly all packaged foods.

Five years ago: New York Governor George Pataki signed a death penalty bill into law. In a near-party-line vote, the House passed, 232-to-193, a business-backed measure designed to pressure combatants in lawsuits¹³ to settle their differences short of costly¹⁴ trials.

One year ago: Movie director Stanley Kubrick, whose films included "Dr. Strangelove," "A Clockwork Orange" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70.