Today in History.....March 7

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* 1850, in a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union

* 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone

* 1911, the United States sent 20,000 troops to the Mexican border as a precaution in the wake of the Mexican Revolution

* 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York and London

* 1936, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact

* 1945, during World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge

* 1975, the Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present

* 2001, Ariel Sharon was sworn in as Israel's prime minister

* 2005, President Bush nominated John Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. ALSO: The presidents of Syria and Lebanon announced that Syrian forces would pull back to Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley by March 31, but that a complete troop withdrawal would be deferred until after later negotiation