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President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Former President George W. Bush, Laura Bush and Representative John Lewis, D-Ga., Lead a new march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 2015 for mark 50 years since the Selma -in Montgomery civil rights marches.

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Former President George W. Bush, Laura Bush and Representative John Lewis, D-Ga., Lead a new march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 2015 for mark 50 years since the Selma -in Montgomery civil rights marches. (Photo: Saul Loeb, AFP / Getty Images)

Today is March 7. On this date in:

1793

During the French Revolutionary Wars, France declared war on Spain.

1850

In a three-hour speech to the United States Senate, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts approved the 1850 compromise as a means of preserving the Union.

1911

President William Howard Taft ordered 20,000 soldiers to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the Mexican Revolution.

1936

Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march to the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.

(1945

During World War II, American forces crossed the Rhine at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff bridge.

1955

The first television production of the musical Peter Pan with Mary Martin was broadcast on NBC.

1965

State soldiers and a detachment of sheriffs violently march by civil rights protesters at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in what was to be known as Bloody Sunday.

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1975

The US Senate has revised its rule of systematic obstruction, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the two-thirds of senators previously required.

nineteen eighty one

Anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed the kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Bitterman, whom they accused of being a CIA agent.

1994

The Navy issued its first standing orders assigning women to regular duties on a combat ship.

2013

The United Nations Security Council unanimously voted for harsh new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test; furious Pyongyang threatened nuclear strike against the United States

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