History in 7th Mar

Battle of Pea Ridge

Union General Samuel R. Curtis leads an outnumbered Federal force at the Battle of Pea Ridge in northwest Arkansas. The two-day battle, also known as the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, confirmed Union control of Missouri and northwest Arkansas. Missouri, a strategic border state, would never again be threatened by a Confederate army.
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'Bloody Sunday' in Selma

Alabama state and local policemen attack civil rights activists with tear gas and clubs as they attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery, the state capital. The attempted march, known as "Bloody Sunday", was organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Vowing to reach Montgomery, the march protested both the disenfranchisement of African-Americans in central Alabama and the police shooting death of Jimmie Lee Jackson.
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Bell patents the telephone

Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell receives U.S. Patent 174465 for the telephone.