From Historynet: Today in History March 7

161             On the death of Antoninus  at Lorium, Marcus Aurelius  becomes emperor.

322             The Greek philosopher Aristotle  dies.

1774          The British close the port of Boston to all commerce.

1799          In Palestine, Napoleon  captures Jaffa and his men massacre more than 2,000 Albanian prisoners.

1809          Aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard  -- the first person to make an aerial voyage in the New World -- dies at the age of 56.

1838          Soprano Jenny Lind  ("the Swedish Nightingale") makes her debut in Weber's  opera Der Freischultz.

1847          U.S. General Winfield Scott  occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico.

1849          The Austrian Reichstag is dissolved.

1862          Confederate forces surprise the Union army at the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas, but the Union is victorious.

1876          Alexander Graham Bell  is granted a patent for the telephone.

1904          The Japanese bomb the Russian town of Vladivostok.

1906          Finland becomes the third country to give women the right to vote, decreeing universal suffrage for all citizens over 24, however, barring those persons who are supported by the state.

1912          French aviator, Heri Seimet flies non-stop from London to Paris in three hours.

1918          Finland signs an alliance treaty with Germany.

1925          The Soviet Red Army occupies Outer Mongolia.

1927          A Texas law that bans Negroes from voting is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

1933          The film King Kong premieres in New York City.

1933          The board game Monopoly is invented.

1935          Malcolm Campbell  sets an auto speed record of 276.8 mph in Florida.

1936          Hitler  sends German troops into the Rhineland, violating the Locarno Pact.

1942          Japanese troops land on New Guinea.

1951          U.N. forces in Korea under 

General Matthew Ridgeway  launch Operation Ripper, an offensive to straighten out the U.N. front lines against the Chinese.

1968          The Battle of Saigon, begun on the day of the Tet Offensive, ends.

1971          A thousand U.S. planes bomb Cambodia and Laos.

1979          Voyager 1 reaches Jupiter.