TODAY IN HISTORY

Friday, March  07, 2014 AP Highlight in History:  On March 7, 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered German troops into the Rhineland, breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact. SOUND FAMILIAR: UKRAINE 2014?   AP Photo
On this date in: 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 AP Photo 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.		Video HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today's Birthdays: Actress Rachel Weisz turns 43 years old today. AP Photo/Dan Steinberg Name Profession Age Willard Scott TV personality ("Today") 80 Janet Guthrie Auto racer 76 Daniel J. Travanti Actor ("Hill Street Blues") 74 Michael Eisner Former Walt Disney Co. CEO 72 Peter Wolf Rock singer (J. Geils Band) 68 Franco Harris Football Hall of Famer 64 Ernie Isley R&B singer, musician (The Isley Brothers) 62 Lynn Swann Football Hall of Famer 62 Ivan Lendl Tennis Hall of Famer 54 Taylor Dayne Rock singer 52 Wanda Sykes Comedian, actress 50 Jeff Kent Baseball player 46 Peter Sarsgaard Actor 43 Laura Prepon Actress ("That 70s Show") 34 Actress Jenna Fischer ("The Office") turns 40 years old today. AP Photo/Dan Steinberg