March 7th in History: From Bloody Sunday to the Invention of the Telephone
Today is March 7, 2025, marking the 66th day of the year with 299 days remaining. On this day in history, a significant event occurred in 1965 when a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, known as "Bloody Sunday," was violently disrupted at the Edmund Pettus Bridge by state troopers and a sheriff's posse using tear gas and batons. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone, revolutionizing communication.