On this day …
March 7, 2018
- In 1850, Sen. Daniel Webster gave a speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a civil war.
- In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for his invention of the telephone.
- In 1965, a group of civil rights marchers was brutally attacked by authorities in Selma, Ala.
- In 1986, U.S. Navy divers located the crew cabin of the Space Shuttle Challenger on the ocean floor.
