6 Nations table as it stands after matches played on 7 March 2026
6 Nations table going in to next week's deciding matches. 🏉 #rugby #6Nations
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6 Nations table as it stands after matches played on 7 March 2026
6 Nations table going in to next week's deciding matches. 🏉 #rugby #6Nations
#Italy achieve first-ever win over #England
Italy 23:18 England
#Rugby #6Nations 🏉
Final whistle at Murrayfield.
Scotland 50:40 France
I would not have bet on that scoreline. #Rugby #6Nations
NATO logo
Flag of Sweden
7 March 2024: #Sweden officially joined #NATO, becoming its 32nd member. #History
Queen Elizabeth II at the official opening of the Victoria Line.
7 March 1969: Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Victoria Line on London's Underground in a ceremony at Victoria station. #History #London #TfL
State and local police attacking civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama.
7 March 1965: A group of 600 civil rights marchers was subjected to a brutal attack by state and local police in #Selma, Alabama. #History #USA
German troops occupying the Rhineland.
7 March 1936: German troops reoccupied the demilitarised Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles & the Locarno Accords. #History
7 March 1926: The first 2-way transatlantic telephone call between London and New York. #History #Communications
The patent awarded to Alexander Graham Bell for his "telephone" #OTD in 1876 -
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Alexander Graham Bell
7 March 1876: Alexander Graham Bell received a patent [US Patent 174,465] for an invention he called a "telephone". #History #Communications
Portrait of Anne Boleyn.
Henry would marry Anne Boleyn in a secret ceremony in January 1533. #History #Tudor (3/3)
Henry VIII claimed the title of “Sole Protector and Supreme Head of the Church of England” in February 1531.
The legal processes that would lead to the break with Rome began the following year with the English Parliament's Act in Restraint of Annates (23 Hen. VIII c. 20). #History #Tudor (2/3)
Pope Clement VII
7 March 1530: Pope Clement VII issued a papal bull to Henry VIII forbidding him from marrying again under penalty of excommunication. #History #Tudor
Clement's threat did not work. (1/3)
Bronze bust of Emperor Constantine I
7 March 321: Emperor Constantine I decreed that the dies Solis Invicti (Sun-day) was to be the day of rest in the Roman Empire. #History #Rome
I wonder how many more are still to come?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Final whistle in Dublin:
Ireland 24:17 Wales 🏉 #Rugby #6Nations
6 March 1988: Operation Flavius.
Three Provisional IRA terrorists - part of an Active Service Unit operating from Spain - were shot and killed by members of the SAS in Gibraltar. #History
The wreck of the Townsend Thoresen roll-on roll-off ferry 'Herald of Free Enterprise' just off Zeebrugge in 1987.
6 March 1987: The roll-on roll-off ferry 'Herald of Free Enterprise' capsized just after leaving Zeebrugge. 193 people died. #History
Cortonwood Colliery near Barnsley.
6 March 1984: The United Kingdom 1984–1985 miners' strike began with a walkout of coal miners at Cortonwood Colliery near Barnsley. #History #UK
Alabama Governor, George Wallace
6 March 1965: #Alabama Governor, George Wallace, denounced the planned march from Selma to the state capital as a threat to public safety.
He stated that "There will be no march between #Selma and #Montgomery", and ordered police to "use whatever measures are necessary to prevent a march". #History
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
6 March 1951: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg began in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. #History #USA #1stColdWar
6 March 1945: US forces captured Cologne. #History #WW2
Bayer Aspirin bottle
6 March 1899: The German pharmaceutical company Bayer registered "Aspirin" as a trademark. #History
6 March 1857: The Supreme Court of the United States issued its ruling in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford.
The court held by a majority of 7:2 that the US Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black-African descent.
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The Alamo today
6 March 1836: After a 13 day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the defenders at the Alamo were killed and the fort captured. #History
The 187 "Texas volunteers" who died defending the #Alamo included frontiersman Davy Crockett and Colonel Jim Bowie.
Château Gaillard
6 March 1204: The Siege of Château Gaillard ended in a French victory.
King John of England lost effective control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus of #France. #History #Plantagenet
Statue of the Roman emperor Augustus.
6 March 12 BCE: The Roman emperor #Augustus was named Pontifex Maximus (Chief high priest of the College of Pontiffs in ancient Rome).
After that, the position was subsumed into the position of Emperor. #History #Rome
Happy World Book Day to those who celebrate today (mostly those in the UK and Ireland, if I understand correctly).
Settle back and celebrate with a nice mug of tea and a good book.
Screenshot of pages 56 and 57 of 'Bazhanov and the damnation of Stalin' by Boris Bazhanov.
This is a screenshot of that page from the edition on Internet Archive which should help provide the context for the quote.
