Today is Monday, March 7, the 66th day of 2011. There are 299 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight:
On March 7, 1911, President William Howard Taft ordered 20,000 troops to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the Mexican Revolution.
On this date:
In 1850, in a speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone.
In 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations took place between New York and London.
In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, breaking the Treaty of Versailles and Locarno Pact.
In 1960, Jack Paar returned as host of NBC’s “Tonight Show,” nearly a month after walking off in a censorship dispute with the network.
In 1975, the U.S. Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
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