Reuters historical calendar - March 7

London, Mar 6 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on March 7 since 1900: 1917 - The world's first jazz record, ''The Dixie Jazz Band One Step'', recorded by Nick LaRocca's Original Dixieland Jazz Band, was released by RCA Victor in Camden, New Jersey.

1936 - Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by re-occupying the Rhineland demilitarised zone.

1945 - The US 9th Armoured Division captured the key bridge over the Rhine at Remagen in Germany, which helped shorten World War Two.

1973 - The government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman won a landslide victory in Bangladesh's first general election.

1989 - Iran broke off diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's novel ''The Satanic Verses''.

1998 - A military appeal court sentenced former SS captain Erich Priebke to life imprisonment for his role in Italy's worst World War Two atrocity, the massacre at the Ardeatine Caves.

2004 - The Rev. Canon V Gene Robinson became the ninth bishop of New Hampshire, four months after his installation as the first openly gay bishop in the US Episcopal Church.

2006 - Gordon Parks, the pioneering black photographer and filmmaker who explored the African-American experience in his work, including landmark movies ''The Learning Tree'' and ''Shaft,'' died aged 93.

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