Today in history Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone,1876

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March 7th

LEAD STORY

Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone,1876

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Five letters pass between Abigail and John Adams, 1777

AUTOMOTIVE

Janet Guthrie, first female Indy 500 driver, born, 1938

CIVIL WAR

Yankees clash with Rebels at the Battle of Pea Ridge, 1862

COLD WAR

Soviet Union denies Klaus Fuchs served as its spy, 1950

CRIME

Defense rests in Andrea Yates trial, 2002

DISASTER

Cyclone Bola hits New Zealand, 1988

GENERAL INTEREST

Hitler reoccupies the Rhineland, 1936

Bangladesh's first democratic leader, 1973

Stanley Kubrick dies,1999

HOLLYWOOD

Writers Guild of America strike begins, 1988

Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first female director to win an Oscar,2010

LITERARY

"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" is published, 1923

MUSIC

Pearl Bailey and Richard Nixon serenade a White House audience, 1974

OLD WEST

Kansas quarantines Texas cattle, 1885

PRESIDENTIAL

Carter meets with Yitzhak Rabin, 1977

SPORTS

Mike Tyson unifies titles,1987

VIETNAM WAR

U.S. jets launch heaviest air raids of the war, 1966

Republic of Korea forces operation launch, 1967

Jets engage in aerial combat, 1972

WORLD WAR I

Finland signs treaty with Germany, 1918

WORLD WAR II

British forces arrive in Greece, 1941