7th March

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1530 When King Henry VIII's divorce request was denied by the Pope, Henry declared himself (not the Pope) as the supreme head of the English church.

1671 The birth of Robert Roy MacGregor, usually known simply as Rob Roy, the famous Scottish folk hero and outlaw of the early 18th century.

1778 Explorer Captain James Cook's log reported the sighting of Oregon, on the west coast of the United States. They were the first Europeans to visit Oregon for more than 200 years.

1802 Edwin Henry Landseer, English painter, well known for his paintings of animals, particularly horses, dogs and stags, was born. The best known of Landseer's works, however, are the sculptures of the lions in Trafalgar Square.

1804 John Wedgwood, son of the pottery manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood founded the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society.

1876 The Scottish-born inventor, Alexander Graham Bell, patented the telephone. Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf; factors that profoundly influenced Bell's life's work. Ironically, Bell considered the telephone an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and he refused to have a telephone in his study.

1900 A fire at Buckingham Palace destroyed part of its roof.

1926 The first transatlantic telephone call was made, from London to New York.

1930 The birth of Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon) British aristocrat and former husband of Princess Margaret.

1935 Malcolm Campbell set a land speed record of 276.8 mph in Florida.

1946 Doctors mounted a campaign to oppose the introduction of a National Health Service.

1968 The first news programme in colour was broadcast on BBC2.

1969 Queen Elizabeth II opened the new Victoria Line on London's Underground.

1975 The body of Lesley Whittle, a 17-year-old heiress who had been kidnapped from her Shropshire home 52 days earlier, was found at the bottom of a drain shaft. She had been held for 52 days then strangled by Donald Nielson, known as The Black Panther.

1988 The IRA confirmed that the three people shot dead by security forces in Gibraltar the previous day were members of an active service unit.

1990 The Egyptian Fayed brothers were allowed to keep Harrods despite an official report that branded them liars during their £615m takeover bid of the House of Fraser Stores.

2014 Birmingham city council began investigating an alleged plot to oust headteachers in the city's schools, replacing them with people who would run their schools on 'strict Islamic principles'. The plan, dubbed 'Operation Trojan Horse' claimed that up to four schools in the city had already been taken over.

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