History of 7 March
1994 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that parodies that poke fun at an original work can be considered “fair use” that does not require permission from the copyright holder.
1994 – In Moldova, a referendum was rejected by 90% of voters to form a union with Rumania.
1999 – In El Salvador, Francisco Flores Pérez of the ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) was elected president.
2002 – A federal judge awarded Anna Nicole Smith more than $88 million in damages. The ruling was the latest in a legal battle over the estate of Smith’s late husband, J. Howard Marshall II.
2003 – Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center announced that they had transferred 6.7 gigabytes of uncompressed data from Sunnyvale, CA, to Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 58 seconds. The data was sent via fiber-optic cables and traveled 6,800 miles.
2009 – NASA’s Kepler Mission, a space photometer for searching for extrasolar planets in the Milky Way galaxy, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
2012 – The successor to Apple’s iPad2 was unveiled.
Celebrating Birthday Today
- 1981 – Brent Kite, Australian rugby league player
- 1983 – Manucho, Angolan footballer
- 1983 – Sebastián Viera, Uruguayan footballer
- 1984 – Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
- 1984 – Lindsay McCaul, American singer-songwriter
- 1985 – Andre Fluellen, American football player
- 1985 – Cameron Prosser, Australian swimmer
- 1985 – Gerwyn Price, Welsh darts player
- 1986 – Ben Griffin, Australian footballer
- 1987 – Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer
- 1987 – Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1988 – Larry Asante, American football player
- 1991 – Michele Rigione, Italian footballer
- 1995 – Jerome Binnom-Williams, English footballer
- 1995 – Aboubakar Kamara, French footballer, forward
- 1996 – Liam Donnelly, Northern Irish footballer