March 7: National Cereal Day, Employee Appreciation Day, Middle Name Pride Day, Dress in Blue Day and National Day of Unplugging. 1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his Seventh of March speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone. 1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911. 1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama. 1985 – The song We Are the World receives its international release. 1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses. 2009 – The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched
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