Picture of the Day and B'Days for March 7

Posted March 6, 2009, 10:11 pm in


Today is Saturday, March 7, the 66th day of 2009. There are 299 days left in the year.

On March 7, 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for a revolutionary new invention he calls the telephone.

Willard Scott

On March 7, 1965, a group of 600 civil rights are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama by state troopers wielding billy clubs, tear gas and bull whips. The peaceful marchers only made it six blocks before they were brutally attacked by the officers. Television images of the clash, which was many Americans' first exposure to the situation in the South, roused support for the civil rights movement. The day would come to be known as Bloody Sunday.

On March 7, 1986, just over a month after the space shuttle Challenger exploded on liftoff, divers from the USS Preserver locate the shuttle's crew cabin on the ocean floor.

On March 7, 1989, Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after disagreeing over author Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, "The Satanic Verses."

Today's Birthdays: Film critic Gene Shalit is 77. "The Today Show's" Willard Scott is 75. Former Disney chief Michael Eisner is 67. Football great Franco Harris is 59. Former football player and broadcaster Lynn Swann is 57. Actor Bryan Cranston ("Malcolm in the Middle") is 53. Singer Taylor Dayne is 47. Singer Denyce Graves is 46. Comedienne Wanda Sykes 45.

Picture of the Day: Turtle power! Yes, that's a real dog.  Her owner is groomer Sandy Paws, and she's styled her poodle Meet Cindy (and yes, that's her real name) into everything from a camel to a dragon to a peacock. Here, Meet Cindy channels her inner martial arts skills to become a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Cowabunga!

  


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