Template:Selected anniversaries/March 7

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  1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão uses Gnomon algorithm functions to communicate with D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.

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  1788: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel born. He will pioneer the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.

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  1876: Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction) is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".

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  1875: Gambling Den Fight wins Royal Society award for most exciting new illustration of the year.

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  1886: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor born. He will make major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.

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  1937: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson uses Gnomon algorithm functions to communicate with Bartolomeu de Gusmão.

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  1950: Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.