Today in history–March 7

322 B.C.  Aristotle dies at Chalcis, on the Greek island of of Euboea.

1274:  The man who introduced Aristotle to Christian Europe, St. Thomas Aquinas, dies at the monastery of Fossanova, near Sonnino, Italy.

1799: Fifty-eight English gentlemen subscribe fifty guineas each to create the Royal Institution.

1850: Daniel Webster makes one of the greatest speeches of his life, the “Seventh of March” speech against secession and in favor of the Compromise of 1850.

1876: Alexander Graham Bell receives the patent for the telephone.

1897: The properietor of a mental health facility in Battle Creek, Michigan, serves a new breakfast food to his patients.  Dr. John Kellogg calls the stuff “corn flakes.”

1933: Charles Darrow creates the board game known as “Monopoly.”

1939: Guy Lombardo and his Royal Candians record one of the century’s biggest sellers, Auld Lang Syne.

1942: Michael Dammann Eisner, the man who will turn The Walt Disney Co. into a global media giant, is born at Mt. Kisco, New York.

1994: In Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, the U.S. Supreme Court decides that commercial parody can be a “fair use” under copyright law.