AP Highlight in History: On March 7, 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered German troops to march into the Rhineland, breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.
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1850
In a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.
1875
Composer Maurice Ravel was born in Ciboure, France.
1876
Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.
1926
The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York City and London.
1945
U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, during World War II.
1965
State troopers and a sheriff's posse broke up a a march by civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Ala.
Sheriff Jim Clark warns marchers to disperse
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1975
The Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
1996
Three U.S. servicemen were convicted in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawa girl and sentenced by a Japanese court to up to seven years in prison.
2003
A four-day walkout by Broadway musicians began.
2004
V. Gene Robinson was invested in Concord, N.H., as the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop.
2010
Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director for her Iraq War thriller "The Hurt Locker," which won six Oscars, including best picture.
2010
Iraq held an election in which neither the Sunni-backed coalition nor the Shiite political bloc won a majority, spawning an eight-month deadlock and stalling formation of a new government.
2011
Reversing course, President Barack Obama approved the resumption of military trials at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ending a two-year ban.
2011
Charlie Sheen was fired from the sitcom "Two and a Half Men" by Warner Bros. Television following repeated misbehavior and weeks of the actor's angry, often-manic media campaign against his studio bosses.
