🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning — it’s Saturday, March 7. Today, we're talking Bloody Sunday, Graham Bell's phone, Neymar, Tarkovsky's Mirror, Stanley Kubrick legacy, and much more — all delivered swiftly, sharply, and with thorough sourcing.
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🚀 Time Machine
-161
Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus jointly succeeded Antoninus Pius, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire.
-321
Constantine I declares that the Solis Invicti (sun-day) is a day of rest for the Roman Empire.
-1530
King Henry VIII's request for a divorce was denied by Pope Clement VII.
-1876
Alexander Graham Bell got a patent for the telephone in the US.
-1912
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen claimed to have reached the South Pole 34 days before British explorer Robert Falcon Scott.
-1936
German dictator Adolf Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles by sending troops into the demilitarized Rhineland.
-1965
During a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, 600 demonstrators were attacked by white state troopers and sheriff's deputies, known as "Bloody Sunday."
-1975
"Mirror," directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and starring Margarita Terekhova and Ignat Daniltsev, was released.
-1999
Stanley Kubrick died shortly after turning in the final cut of Eyes Wide Shut in Hertfordshire, England, at the age of 70.
-2010
Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director for The Hurt Locker, about an American bomb squad in Iraq.
📸 Snapshot
Persian ruler Nasir al-Din Shah's harem with two ladies and a child, late 19th century
🗨️ Last Words
“If I had strength to hold a pen, I would write down how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die.”