March 7 in history: • 1850 – United States senator Daniel Webster (pictured) delivered a speech advocating compromise on slavery, which proved to be unpopular with abolitionists in his home state. → go there • 1900 – The German ocean liner became the first ship to send a wireless telegraph message to an onshore receiver. → go there • 1936 – Nazi German forces re-occupied the demilitarized Rhineland, violating both the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties that were signed after World War I. → go there • 1945 – World War II: At the beginning of the Battle of Remagen, Allied forces unexpectedly captured the Ludendorff Bridge, which possibly hastened the war's conclusion. → go there • 1968 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam began Operation Truong Cong Dinh to sweep the area surrounding the Mekong Delta town of Mỹ Tho to root out Viet Cong forces in the area. → go there Died 1810: Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood Wiki link Died 1931: Akseli Gallen-Kallela Wiki link Born 1956: Bryan Cranston Wiki link Born 1998: Amanda Gorman Wiki link Pictured: Daniel Webster.