Today’s Highlights

On March 7, 1965, a march by over 500 civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama; state troopers and a sheriff’s posse fired tear gas and beat marchers with batons in what became known as “Bloody Sunday.”

On this date

1876: Alexander Graham Bell received a U.S. patent for his telephone.

1936: Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties.

1975: The U.S. Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases.

1994: The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a parody that pokes fun at an original work can be considered “fair use.” (The ruling concerned a parody of the Roy Orbison song “Oh, Pretty Woman” by the rap group 2 Live Crew.)

2010: Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, taking the prize for directing the film “The Hurt Locker.”

2024: Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the shooting incident on the set of the film “Rust” in 2021, which killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Today’s birthdays

Hall of Fame auto racer Janet Guthrie is 87. Entertainment executive Michael Eisner is 83. Football Hall of Famer Lynn Swann is 73. Actor Bryan Cranston is 69. Tennis Hall of Famer Ivan Lendl is 65. Comedian Wanda Sykes is 61. Actor Rachel Weisz is 55.