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The Hockey Hall of Fame is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dedicated to the history of ice hockey, it is both a museum and a Hall of Fame. It holds exhibits about players, teams, National Hockey League (NHL) records, memorabilia and NHL trophies, including the Stanley Cup. It was established in 1943 under the leadership of James T. Sutherland, and the first class of honoured members was inducted in 1945. It relocated to a former Bank of Montreal building in downtown Toronto in 1993, where it is currently located. An 18-person committee of players, coaches and others meets annually in June to select new honourees. Honoured members are inducted into the Hall of Fame in an annual ceremony held at the Hall of Fame building in November, which is followed by a special "Hockey Hall of Fame Game" between the Toronto Maple Leafs and a visiting team. As of 2007, 238 players, 96 builders and 14 on-ice officials have been inducted. The Hall of Fame has been criticized for focusing mainly on players from the NHL and largely ignoring players from other North American and international leagues. (more...)

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18:50, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

...that "Brave" Admiral Benbow (pictured), celebrated in song, was compensated by the British Treasury after a three month visit by Tsar Peter the Great left his house "entirely ruined"?
...that the establishment of the quaestura exercitus by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I helped to economically secure the lower Danube region?
...that Malheur Reservation in Oregon was set aside for Native Americans in 1872 and opened to European American settlement by Ulysses S. Grant in 1876?
...that the Kapodistrias Museum in Corfu, Greece, donated by Maria Desylla-Kapodistria the first female Greek mayor, was dedicated to the memory of the first Greek governor, Ioannis Kapodistrias?
...that Gamma, a gamma-ray telescope, was launched in 1990, 25 years after it was originally conceived?
...that botanist Henry Lyte's Niewe Herball of 1578 was an English translation of the 1564 Cruydeboeck of Rembert Dodoens printed in Antwerp with the woodcuts of the original edition?
...that Mosida, Utah was a failed planned community whose developers tried to irrigate the desert with water pumped from Utah Lake?

10:38, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

...that after the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, the Loop Retail Historic District (pictured) was Chicago's premier retailing district until it was replaced by commuter suburbs and the Magnificent Mile?
...that Eastern Christians believe that the tomb on the Mount of Olives is the Tomb of Mary?
...that the ten cannons of Fort Guijarros, built in 1797 as the first defensive fortifications for San Diego Bay, California, have been fired in action only twice since?
...that Florence J. Harriman, an American socialite, suffragist, diplomat and author, was credited with arranging for the safe evacuation of members of the Norwegian royal family when Germany invaded Norway in 1940?
...that if all the video games traded at Goozex in 2007 were stacked on top of each other, the resulting pile would reach 2,132 feet (650 m), more than 450 feet (137 m) taller than Taipei 101?
...that Socialist Paulina Veloso, exiled during Pinochet's rule in Chile, has served in the governments of all four post-Pinochet presidents, including holding the cabinet-level presidential Chief of Staff position from 2006 to 2007?

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March 7: Feast day of Saints Perpetua and Felicity (Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism)

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1573 – A peace treaty brought the Ottoman–Venetian War to an end, ceding Cyprus from the Republic of Venice to the Ottoman Empire.
1871 – José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, began a four-year premiership as Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil, the longest in the state's history.
1941 – The German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappeared with 45 men on board.
1965 – Unarmed civil rights activists marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, were attacked by police (pictured) on "Bloody Sunday".
2021 – A series of four explosions at a military barracks in Bata, Equatorial Guinea caused at least 107 deaths.

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False-colour scanning electron micrograph of the coccolithophore Gephyrocapsa oceanica, showing the calcareous coccoliths (plates or scales composed of calcium carbonate) on the surface that give the group its name. Coccolithophores are single-celled algae, protists and phytoplankton found throughout the photic zone of the ocean. This specimen is approximately 8 µm in diameter.

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