exact same birthdate as a friend of mine. March 7th... 322 BC - Aristotle, Greek philosopher (b. 384 BC) dies 1798 - The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic. 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,465). 1911 - Revolution in Mexico. 1912 - Roald Amundsen first announces to the world that his expedition has reached the South Pole, though they had arrived on December 14, 1911. 1918 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany. 1996 - The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed. 2006 - Apple Inc. is granted the patent to their revolutionary device, the iPod. (patent # D516,576) Official "Metallica Day" in San Francisco, CA (enacted by Mayor Willie Brown in 1999).