On This Day in History

March 7

March 7 is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 299 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2025
Lottery courier exits New Mexico amid growing scrutiny. A lottery courier has ceased operations in New Mexico following a negative legal opinion from the State Attorney General, making the state the latest flashpoint in the mounting scrutiny of courier services.
2024
Michigan friends playing the same lottery numbers both win big in Powerball. Friends who play together, win together — although in this case maybe not winning the same amount.
2023
$33 million Mega Millions prize claimed after two Mass. players win lottery jackpot weeks apart. One of the winners of two nearly identical Mega Millions jackpots won one week apart in Massachusetts has stepped forward to claim their prize.
2022
Kentucky man arrested days after winning $250,000 lottery prize. A Kentucky Lottery winner's celebration didn't last very long when he was arrested days after scooping up a $250,000 lottery prize.
2018
Mystery NH Powerball lottery winner gets her prize, keeps her privacy — for now. A woman who sued the New Hampshire state lottery commission asking it to allow her to collect the $559.7 million prize she had won without making her name public collected her winnings on Wednesday, lottery officials said, and kept her privacy for now.
2018
Australian man sues lottery for $3.3M ticket discarded decades ago. An Australian man is suing New South Wales Lotteries, saying a store clerk threw away his $3.3 million winning ticket more than two decades ago.
2016
Virginia becomes first state to formally legalize daily fantasy sports. Virginia Monday signed into law the "Fantasy Contests Act," a bill outlining how daily fantasy sport sites like DraftKings and FanDuel can operate legally in the state.
2015
Final share of $564 million Powerball jackpot claimed in Texas. The Powerball jackpot-winning ticket sold in Texas for the historic Feb. 11 drawing has been claimed.
2014
Former live-in girlfriend of NJ $338M Powerball winner to receive nothing. The former live-in girlfriend of a Passaic bodega owner who struck the Powerball jackpot and cashed in on $338 million won't be getting a share of the winnings.
2014
Couple wins $3M jackpot 27 years after wife's numbers last came up. A retired Maine couple has won the state lottery after the same numbers they have played for decades were once drawn before -- but they forgot to buy a ticket.
2013
N.C. bill keeps 'education' in lottery for now. The North Carolina Education Lottery is keeping the "education" in its name -- at least for now.
2013
Baltimore man, 81, loses his home after falling for lottery scam. A Baltimore, Maryland, man gave more than $400,000 to con artists running a lottery scam over the course of six years, and eventually lost his home.
2011
Florida lawmakers pushing for more, bigger casinos. Two state senators announced Friday that they have filed legislation that would allow five Las Vegas-style casino hotels in Florida, spaced across the state.
2011
Canada's Lotto Max now at $81 million in top prizes. For the third straight week, lottery players across Canada will take their chances at a $50 million main jackpot and a rising number of $1 million MaxMillions bonus drawings.
2008
Lottery Post for iPhone earns Apple 'Staff Pick'. Lottery Post, the world's largest community of lottery players, today announced that the new iPhone Edition of its popular Web site was awarded a Staff Pick by Apple.
2008
Powerball lottery jackpot hits $200 million. The Powerball jackpot for Saturday's drawing -- $200 million -- has once again grown large enough to draw new or infrequent players to ticket counters.
2007
Georgia Trucker Claims Half of Record $390 Million Lottery Jackpot. A truck driver from northwest Georgia came forward Wednesday afternoon to claim half of the record $390 million Mega Millions jackpot, the richest lottery prize in U.S. history.
2007
Georgia truck driver gets a piece of lottery history. Ed Nabors, 52, of Rocky Face, Georgia, discovered Wednesday morning that he had won half the record-setting $390 million Mega Millions jackpot in Tuesday night's drawing.
2007
At least 2 lottery winners will split record $370 million jackpot. Ohio Lottery spokeswoman Mardele Cohen says New Jersey and Georgia told the state they sold one winning ticket each for the U.S. record $370 million jackpot.
2005
Virginia lottery director becomes university president. On Thursday, Virginia Lottery director Penelope Ward Kyle was named the next president of Radford University.
2005
Winner of Feb. 12 Powerball lottery prize takes the cash option. A 55-year-old Louisiana lobbyist claimed her winnings Friday in last month's Powerball jackpot, sending her attorney to the lottery office to turn in the winning ticket and accept a lump sum payment worth $23 million.
2005
The Learning Channel profiles big lottery winners. David Edwards, an ex-con from Kentucky who through a stroke of luck moved uptown to a gated community in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, stole the show Sunday in Lottery Homes.
2005
Indiana Ticket Wins $19.9 Million Powerball Lottery Jackpot. A Powerball ticket sold in Elwood, Indiana matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing, entitling the holder to a $19.9 million jackpot, a Hoosier Lottery spokesman said.
2005
Bending the rules wins man $300,000 lottery prize. When a Missouri man broke his agreement with his wife on how many scratch cards he could buy, it turned out to be a winning decision.
2005
Third N.C. lottery bill proposed. Another state lottery bill is in the North Carolina General Assembly. The bill is the third lottery proposal made this year and would not require a vote of the people.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$687 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 8, 2024
2.$536 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2026
3.$511.3 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2024
4.$414 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2019
5.$346.3 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 7, 2018
6.$320.2 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 8, 2025
7.$290 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2018
8.$270 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 7, 2014
9.$233 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 7, 2025
10.€181.07 Million
US$210.57 Million
Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2026
11.$200 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 8, 2008
12.$188 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 7, 2023
13.€167.81 Million
US$182.89 Million
Draw Date
Mar 8, 2022
14.$170 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2010
15.$157 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 8, 2016
16.$154.9 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2021
17.€131.29 Million
US$152.54 Million
Draw Date
Mar 7, 2026
18.€143 Million
US$151.54 Million
Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 7, 2023
19.$150 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2013
20.$148 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2012
21.€118.82 Million
US$141.28 Million
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2021
22.€130 Million
US$140.95 Million
Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 7, 2025
23.€100 Million
US$138.75 Million
Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 7, 2014
24.€110.16 Million
US$136.02 Million
Draw Date
Mar 8, 2018
25.€115.73 Million
US$130.05 Million
Draw Date
Mar 7, 2019

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

2000
Tuesday, Mar 7, 2000
26 years old
1987
Saturday, Mar 7, 1987
39 years old
1985
Thursday, Mar 7, 1985
41 years old
1982
Sunday, Mar 7, 1982
44 years old
1982
Sunday, Mar 7, 1982
44 years old
1980
Friday, Mar 7, 1980
46 years old
1979
Wednesday, Mar 7, 1979
47 years old
1978
Tuesday, Mar 7, 1978
48 years old
1974
Thursday, Mar 7, 1974
52 years old
1972
Tuesday, Mar 7, 1972
54 years old
1967
Tuesday, Mar 7, 1967
59 years old
1966
Monday, Mar 7, 1966
60 years old
1960
Monday, Mar 7, 1960
66 years old
1958
Friday, Mar 7, 1958
68 years old
1958
Friday, Mar 7, 1958
68 years old
1957
Thursday, Mar 7, 1957
69 years old
1957
Thursday, Mar 7, 1957
69 years old
1956
Wednesday, Mar 7, 1956
70 years old
1940
Thursday, Mar 7, 1940
86 years old
(year not provided)
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2024
Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming its 32nd member.
2024
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust, the first time someone has been found guilty for causing a death on a movie set.
2021
At least 108 die and 615 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.
2009
Massereene Barracks shooting: The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.
2007
Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
2007
Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 people.
2006
The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
1989
Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
1986
Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
1965
Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
1965
Aeroflot Flight 542 crashes in the Yermakovsky District, killing all 31 aboard.
1951
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 307 crashes in Lynnhurst, Minneapolis, killing 15 people.
1951
Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1951
Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, outside a mosque in Tehran.
1941
Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace.
1931
The Parliament House of Finland is officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
1921
The short-lived socialist Labin Republic is proclaimed.
1902
Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, defeat the British at the Battle of Tweebosch.
1876
Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
1850
Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1826
Shrigley abduction: 15-year old Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future figure in the establishment of colonies in South Australia and New Zealand.
1814
Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
1799
Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1573
A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman-Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.
1277
The University of Paris issues the last in a series of condemnations of various philosophical and theological theses.
1138
Konrad III von Hohenstaufen is elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin.
681
The Third Council of Constantinople deposes patriarch Macarius I of Antioch.
161
Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.

Births On This Day

2007
Kiyan Anthony, American basketball player
2000
Rasmus Sandin, Swedish ice hockey player
2000
Sebastian Schwaighofer, Austrian politician
1998
Amanda Gorman, American poet and activist
1997
Taher Mohamed, Egyptian footballer
1997
Dylan Strome, Canadian ice hockey player
1996
Liam Donnelly, Northern Irish footballer
1996
Pablo López, Venezuelan baseball player
1995
Jerome Binnom-Williams, English footballer
1995
Aboubakar Kamara, French footballer
1995
Haley Lu Richardson, American actress
1994
Chase Kalisz, American swimmer
1994
Jake Layman, American basketball player
1994
Jordan Pickford, English footballer
1992
Bel Powley, English actress
1991
Ian Clark, American basketball player
1990
Jeff Withey, American basketball player
1987
Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player
1986
Ryan Ciminelli, American bowler
1985
Cameron Prosser, Australian swimmer
1984
Steve Burtt Jr., American-Ukrainian basketball player
1984
Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
1984
Jacob Lillyman, Australian rugby league player
1984
Brandon T. Jackson, American actor and comedian
1983
Manucho, Angolan footballer
1980
Eric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player
1980
Laura Prepon, American actress
1979
Rodrigo Braña, Argentine footballer
1977
Paul Cattermole, English singer and actor (died 2023)
1977
Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player and coach
1975
Audrey Marie Anderson, American actress and model
1975
T. J. Thyne, American actor
1974
Jenna Fischer, American actress
1974
Tobias Menzies, English actor
1974
Facundo Sava, Argentine footballer and manager
1973
Jason Bright, Australian race car driver
1973
Jay Duplass, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1973
Sébastien Izambard, French tenor and producer
1972
Craig Polla-Mounter, Australian rugby league player
1971
Tal Banin, Israeli footballer and manager
1971
Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
1971
Matthew Vaughn, English director and producer
1970
Rachel Weisz, English actress
1968
Jeff Kent, American baseball player
1967
Zheng Haixia, Chinese basketball player and coach
1967
Ruthie Henshall, English actress, singer, and dancer
1966
Terry Carkner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1966
Jeff Feagles, American football player
1965
Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
1964
Bret Easton Ellis, American author and screenwriter
1964
Wanda Sykes, American comedian, actress, and screenwriter
1963
Mike Eagles, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1963
E. L. James, English author
1962
Taylor Dayne, American singer-songwriter and actress
1961
Mary Beth Evans, American actress
1960
Joe Carter, American baseball player
1960
Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player and coach
1960
Jim Spivey, American runner and coach
1959
Tom Lehman, American golfer
1959
Donna Murphy, American actress and singer
1959
Nick Searcy, American actor
1958
Rick Bass, American author and environmentalist
1958
Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2014)
1958
Merv Neagle, Australian footballer and coach (died 2012)
1957
Robert Harris, English journalist and author
1957
Mark Richards, Australian surfer
1956
Bryan Cranston, American actor, director, and producer
1956
Andrea Levy, English author (died 2019)
1954
Eva Brunne, Swedish bishop
1952
William Boyd, British author and screenwriter
1952
Ernie Isley, American guitarist and songwriter
1952
Viv Richards, Antiguan cricketer
1952
Lynn Swann, American football player, sportscaster, and politician
1950
Billy Joe DuPree, American football player
1950
Franco Harris, American football player and businessman (died 2022)
1950
J. R. Richard, American baseball player and minister (died 2021)
1947
Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (died 2013)
1946
Matthew Fisher, English musician, songwriter, and producer
1946
John Heard, American actor and producer (died 2017)
1946
Peter Wolf, American singer-songwriter and musician
1945
Bob Herbert, American journalist
1945
Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 2006)
1945
Elizabeth Moon, American author
1944
Ranulph Fiennes, English soldier and explorer
1944
Townes Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1997)
1943
Billy MacMillan, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2023)
1943
Chris White, English singer-songwriter and bass player
1942
Michael Eisner, American businessman
1942
Tammy Faye Messner, American evangelist, television personality, and talk show host (died 2007)
1940
Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
1938
David Baltimore, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025)
1938
Janet Guthrie, American race car driver
1936
Georges Perec, French author (died 1982)
1934
Gray Morrow, American illustrator and comic book artist (died 2002)
1934
Willard Scott, American television personality and actor (died 2021)
1933
Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and accountant (died 1998)
1933
Ed Bouchee, American baseball player (died 2013)
1930
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer and politician (died 2017)
1930
Robert Trotter, Scottish actor and photographer (died 2013)
1929
Dan Jacobson, South African-English author and critic (died 2014)
1927
James Broderick, American actor and director (died 1982)
1925
Richard Vernon, British actor (died 1997)
1922
Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician and academic (died 2004)
1922
Peter Murphy, English footballer (died 1975)
1922
Andy Phillip, American basketball player and coach (died 2001)
1917
Janet Collins, American ballerina and choreographer (died 2003)
1917
Betty Holberton, American engineer and programmer (died 2001)
1915
Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 2000)
1908
Anna Magnani, Italian actress (died 1973)
1904
Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (died 1969)
1904
Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer and a principle architect of the Holocaust (died 1942)
1904
Kurt Weitzmann, German-American historian and author (died 1993)
1903
Maud Lewis, Canadian folk artist (died 1970)
1902
Heinz Rühmann, German actor (died 1994)
1895
Dorothy de Rothschild, English philanthropist and activist (died 1988)
1888
William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-American journalist (died 1977)
1886
Virginia Pearson, American actress (died 1958)
1886
G. I. Taylor, English mathematician and physicist (died 1975)
1886
Wilson Dallam Wallis, American anthropologist (died 1970)
1885
Milton Avery, American painter (died 1965)
1885
John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, English admiral (died 1971)
1875
Maurice Ravel, French pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1937)
1872
Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (died 1944)
1858
Cecilie Thoresen Krog, Norwegian women's rights pioneer (died 1911)
1857
Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
1850
Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died 1921)
1850
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (died 1937)
1849
Luther Burbank, American botanist (died 1926)
1843
Marriott Henry Brosius, American senator (died 1901)
1841
William Rockhill Nelson, American businessman and publisher, founded The Kansas City Star (died 1915)
1839
Ludwig Mond, German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (died 1909)
1837
Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (died 1882)
1811
Increase A. Lapham, American scientist (died 1875)
1792
John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (died 1871)
1785
Alessandro Manzoni, Italian author and poet (died 1873)
1765
Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography (died 1833)
1730
Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French soldier and politician (died 1807)
1715
Ewald Christian von Kleist, German soldier and poet (died 1759)
1693
Clement XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1769)
1678
Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Superga (died 1736)
1671
Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw (died 1734)
1556
Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and author (died 1621)
189
Publius Septimius Geta, Roman emperor (died 211)

Deaths On This Day

2025
D'Wayne Wiggins, American musical artist (born 1961)
2024
Steve Lawrence, American actor and singer (born 1935)
2017
Lynne Stewart, American attorney and activist (born 1939)
2016
Adrian Hardiman, Irish lawyer and judge (born 1951)
2016
Leonard Berney, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberator (born 1920)
2015
G. Karthikeyan, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1949)
2015
F. Ray Keyser, Jr., American lawyer and politician, Governor of Vermont (born 1927)
2015
Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese author and illustrator (born 1935)
2014
Ned O'Gorman, American poet and educator (born 1929)
2013
Peter Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (born 1947)
2013
Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1922)
2013
Claude King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1923)
2006
Gordon Parks, American photographer, director, and composer (born 1912)
2005
John Box, English production designer and art director (born 1920)
2005
Debra Hill, American screenwriter and producer (born 1950)
2000
Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (born 1914)
1999
Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (born 1918)
1999
Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)
1997
Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)
1993
Tony Harris, South African cricketer (born 1916)
1993
J. Merrill Knapp, American musicologist (born 1914)
1993
Martti Larni, Finnish writer (born 1909)
1993
Eleanor Sanger, American television producer (born 1929)
1993
Josef Steindl, Austrian economist (born 1912)
1991
Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (born 1903)
1988
Divine, American drag queen and film actor (born 1945)
1988
Ülo Õun, Estonian sculptor (born 1940)
1987
Karl Leichter, Estonian musicologist and academic (born 1902)
1986
Jacob K. Javits, American colonel and politician, New York State Attorney General (born 1904)
1983
Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (born 1912)
1982
Ida Barney, American astronomer (born 1886)
1981
Muhammad Zaki Abd al-Qadir, Egyptian journalist and writer (born 1906)
1976
Wright Patman, American politician (born 1893)
1975
Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and critic (born 1895)
1973
Lalo Ríos, Mexican actor (born 1927)
1971
Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (born 1930)
1967
Alice B. Toklas, American writer (born 1877)
1957
Wyndham Lewis, English painter and critic (born 1882)
1954
Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)
1949
Bradbury Robinson, American football player, physician, and politician (born 1884)
1932
Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
1931
Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish artist (born 1865)
1928
Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (born 1851)
1920
Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer and politician, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1866)
1913
Pauline Johnson, Canadian poet and author (born 1861)
1897
Harriet Ann Jacobs, African American Abolitionist and author (born 1813)
1838
Robert Townsend, American spy (born 1753)
1810
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (born 1748)
1809
Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight (born 1753)
1778
Charles De Geer, Swedish entomologist and archaeologist (born 1720)
1767
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, Canadian politician, Colonial Governor of Louisiana (born 1680)
1724
Pope Innocent XIII (born 1655)
1625
Johann Bayer, German lawyer and cartographer (born 1572)
1578
Margaret Douglas, English noblewoman, daughter of Margaret Tudor and Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (born 1515)
1407
Francesco I Gonzaga, ruler of Mantua
1274
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest and philosopher (born 1225)
1226
William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English commander
851
Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
413
Heraclianus, Roman politician and failed usurper
161
Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (born 86)