March 4, 1789 – The first meeting of the new Congress under the U. S. Constitution took place in New York City.
March 5, 1946 – Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, popularizes this post World War II phrase and draws world attention to the division of Europe by the Soviet Union.
March 7, 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his revolutionary new device, the telephone. Sound waves were transferred magnetically through a wire connected from one device to another device causing a diaphragm in the other device to vibrate producing sound in the receiver.
March 7, 1965 – a 600-person civil rights demonstration in Selma, Alabama, ends in violence when marchers are attacked and beaten by white state troopers and sheriff’s deputies. The day’s events became known as “Bloody Sunday” and spurred President Lyndon Johnson to sign into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965.