On this day: March 7

POSTED: 11:20 AM MST Mar 04, 2013    UPDATED: 12:00 AM MST Mar 07, 2013 

The board game Monopoly is born, Glamour begins publishing, a civil rights march in Selma, Ala., ends in violence, and Kathryn Bigelow makes Oscar history, all on this day.

OTD March 7 - telephone patent
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Library and Archives Canada

1876: Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for what he calls an "Improvement in Telegraphy," which established the principle of the telephone.

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