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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_7" title="March 7">March 7</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Feast day</a> of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetua_and_Felicity" title="Perpetua and Felicity">Saints Perpetua and Felicity</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholicism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Anglicanism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheranism" title="Lutheranism">Lutheranism</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1277" title="1277">1277</a> – Bishop <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Tempier" title="Étienne Tempier">Étienne Tempier</a> promulgated <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condemnations_of_1210%E2%80%931277" title="Condemnations of 1210–1277">a condemnation</a></b> of 219 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy" title="Heresy">heretical</a> propositions that were being discussed at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Paris" title="University of Paris">University of Paris</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1814" title="1814">1814</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Sixth_Coalition" title="War of the Sixth Coalition">War of the Sixth Coalition</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon</a>'s army forced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Semyonovich_Vorontsov" title="Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov">Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov</a>'s Russian troops <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Craonne" title="Battle of Craonne">to withdraw</a></b> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemin_des_Dames" title="Chemin des Dames">Chemin des Dames</a>, but French casualties exceeded Russian losses.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985" title="1985">1985</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_record" title="Charity record">charity single</a> "<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World" title="We Are the World">We Are the World</a></b>" by the supergroup <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_for_Africa" title="USA for Africa">USA for Africa</a> was released, and went on to sell more than <span class="nowrap">20 million</span> copies.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009" title="2009">2009</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_space_telescope" title="Kepler space telescope">Kepler space telescope</a></b> <i>(depicted)</i>, designed to discover <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_planet" title="Terrestrial planet">Earth-like planets</a> orbiting other stars, was launched.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclianus" title="Heraclianus">Heraclianus</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 413); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Jacobs" title="Harriet Jacobs">Harriet Jacobs</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1897); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viv_Richards" title="Viv Richards">Viv Richards</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1952)</p>