History for March 7

History for March 7 - On-This-Day.com 

Michael Eisner 1942 - Walt Disney CEO

• 1854 - Charles Miller received a patent for the sewing machine.
• 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell received a patent (U.S. Patent No. 174,465) for his telephone.
• 1908 - Cincinnati's Mayor Leopold Markbreit announced before the city council that, "Women are not physically fit to operate automobiles."
• 1911 - In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. sent 20,000 troops to the border of Mexico.
• 1933 - The board game Monopoly was invented.
• 1936 - Hitler sent German troops into the Rhineland in violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles.
• 1975 - The U.S. Senate revised the filibuster rule. The new rule allowed 60 senators to limit debate instead of the previous two-thirds.